# Home-Made Toys for Girls and Boys

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HOME-MADE TOYS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS
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BOOKS BY A. NEELY HALL
8vo. Cloth. Illustrated with hundreds of full-page and working drawings by the author and Norman P. Hall
| THE BOY CRAFTSMAN | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | Price net $1.60 |
| THE BOY CRAFTSMAN | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | Postpaid 1.82 |
| Handicraft for Handy Boys | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | Price net $2.00 |
| Handicraft for Handy Boys | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | Postpaid 2.25 |
| The Handy Boy | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | Price net $1.60 |
| The Handy Boy | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | Postpaid 1.82 |
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON
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Figs. 287 and 288. An Auto Delivery-Wagon Built of Cigar-Boxes. (See page 192.)
HOME-MADE TOYS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS
Wooden and Cardboard Toys, Mechanical and Electrical Toys
By A. Neely Hall
Author of "The Boy Craftsman", "Handicraft for Handy Boys." "The Handy Boy" Etc.
With over three hundred illustrations and working- drawing by the author and Norman P. Hall
BOSTON LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
Copyright, 1915, by LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD COMPANY
Published, August, 1915
All rights reserved
home-made toys for girls and boys
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Constructive ideas expel destructive ideas from the juvenile mind.
INTRODUCTORY NOTES
Through the author’s handicraft volumes, and magazine and newspaper articles, thousands of boys and girls who never realized they could make their own toys, have succeeded in constructing models which would do credit to Santa Claus’ master toy-makers.
The success of this new home industry has suggested the need of a volume devoted entirely to toy-making, and in Home-made Toys for Girls and Boys the author has brought together a large number of the toy ideas from his former handicraft volumes, and from his articles published in the Ladies’ Home Journal, Woman’s Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, the Boys’ Magazine, and other publications, and he believes that as collected and arranged the material will be found a veritable gold-mine of toy-making information.
Go to any toy store and price the toys similar to those described within these covers, then estimate if you can how much the other toys you do not find would cost if manufactured, and you will. discover, that one hundred dollars would not cover their value. One splendid thing about these home-made toys is that the greater part of them require little more than the pick-up material found at home. Few boys and girls are given a one hundred dollar assortment of toys at a time, yet any one can own a collection of this value who is willing to spend the time necessary to follow the instructions given in this book. Probably, though, some of the toys will be wanted now, and the others one, two or three seasons hence, because, you see, the book is an all-the-year-round handy book with suggestions for every season. Some of the toys will be of especial interest to boys, yet girls who like what boys like will enjoy making them also.
​Home-made toys are generally longer lived than store toys because the boy or girl who expends a certain amount of effort producing gives them better care. Home-made toys have a greater value than boughten ones because there is as much fun making them as playing with them. Doing something interesting, getting satisfying results out of the work, putting an idea into tangible form, and having a toy to show of which it can be said, “I made this all myself,”—these are the factors in toy-making so fascinating to boys and girls.
It is no less a child’s nature to want to do that which is most pleasing to him, than an adult’s, so why not encourage this wholesome activity of toy-making to which the child takes as readily as a duck takes to water? It trains the mind to think clearly, the hands to work cleverly, replaces destructive thoughts with constructive ideas, and, in making the boy or girl dependent upon himself or herself for toys, is invaluable in developing resourcefulness.
Recognizing how easily the child’s interest is attracted and held by anything of a building nature, toy manufacturers have placed scores of so-called “construction sets” upon the market, but, though excellent as these outfits are, the toys they form are merely assembled, not really made by the boy or girl, and much of the value of making is lost. Exactly as good models as those assembled with “construction sets” can be made of pick-up materials, as chapters in this book show. In fact, some of the models in the manufacturers’ instrection pamphlets—merry-go-rounds, Ferris wheels and swings—are almost identical with home-made models devised long ago by the author for his readers. Furthermore, there are many, very many toys in Home-made Toys for Girls and Boys which are beyond the limited possibilities of “construction sets.”
A. Ν. Η.
Oak Park, Illinois, May 31, 1915.
LIST OF HALF-TONE ILLUSTRATIONS (In addition to 346 text illustrations)
Figs. 287 and 288. An Auto Delivery-wagon built of Cigar Boxes (Page :
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| Fig. 48. Launching the Toy Motor-boat | Fig. 48. Launching the Toy Motor-boat | Fig. 48. Launching the Toy Motor-boat | Fig. 48. Launching the Toy Motor-boat | Fig. 48. Launching the Toy Motor-boat | Fig. 48. Launching the Toy Motor-boat | Fig. 48. Launching the Toy Motor-boat | Fig. 48. Launching the Toy Motor-boat | 34 |
| Fig. 108. The Buzz-saw whizzes when you twist the Cord | Fig. 108. The Buzz-saw whizzes when you twist the Cord | Fig. 108. The Buzz-saw whizzes when you twist the Cord | Fig. 108. The Buzz-saw whizzes when you twist the Cord | Fig. 108. The Buzz-saw whizzes when you twist the Cord | Fig. 108. The Buzz-saw whizzes when you twist the Cord | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | 72 | 72 |
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| Fig. 114. Whirling the Cricket-rattle makes it Chirp | Fig. 114. Whirling the Cricket-rattle makes it Chirp | Fig. 114. Whirling the Cricket-rattle makes it Chirp | Fig. 114. Whirling the Cricket-rattle makes it Chirp | Fig. 114. Whirling the Cricket-rattle makes it Chirp | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | 76 | 76 | 76 |
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| Fig. 135. A Merry-go-round | Fig. 135. A Merry-go-round | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 |
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| Fig. 160. The Car Completed | Fig. 160. The Car Completed | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | 104 | 104 | 104 | 104 | 104 | 104 |
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| Fig. 220. The Home-made Doll-house | Fig. 220. The Home-made Doll-house | Fig. 220. The Home-made Doll-house | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | 146 | 146 | 146 | 146 | 146 |
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| Fig. 243. The Most Stylish Apartments in Doll Town. | Fig. 243. The Most Stylish Apartments in Doll Town. | Fig. 243. The Most Stylish Apartments in Doll Town. | Fig. 243. The Most Stylish Apartments in Doll Town. | Fig. 243. The Most Stylish Apartments in Doll Town. | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | 166 | 166 | 166 |
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| Fig. 284. An Express-wagon | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 |
| Fig. 285. A Cart. | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 |
| Fig. 289. A Jack-in-the-box | Fig. 289. A Jack-in-the-box | Fig. 289. A Jack-in-the-box | Fig. 289. A Jack-in-the-box | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | 194–195 | 194–195 | 194–195 | 194–195 |
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| Fig. 325. The Home-made Mail-box strapped to the Face of a Door | Fig. 325. The Home-made Mail-box strapped to the Face of a Door | Fig. 325. The Home-made Mail-box strapped to the Face of a Door | Fig. 325. The Home-made Mail-box strapped to the Face of a Door | Fig. 325. The Home-made Mail-box strapped to the Face of a Door | Fig. 325. The Home-made Mail-box strapped to the Face of a Door | Fig. 325. The Home-made Mail-box strapped to the Face of a Door | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | 207 |
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HOME-MADE TOYS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS
HOME-MADE TOYS
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS
This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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