Building wood toys is a classic hobby. This step-by-step wood and wire maze design builds easy wooden toys to make for gifts. Toward the end of the first year of life, a child climbs up on two feet ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Scads of hacksaws, chisels, shavers, wrenches and screwdrivers dangle from the walls in Andy Borland's workshop. Bottles of glue teeter on the edge of counters. The chests and ...

Ever consider building easy homemade toys for the holidays? You probably already have the odds and ends necessary to make these three classic playthings. The cab of our hand-cranked crane is formed by ...

Does a man with white hair, a long beard, and who makes toys sound familiar? — -- He has white hair, a long beard and a talent for making toys. Sound like anyone you know? Harold Cote of Norway, ...

Growing up you had your favorite toys and kept them in a special place just for you. Now as an adult you see them in antique and thrift stores, on eBay and other selling sites, and you shout out, “Hey ...

Mike Sullivan and his wife Judy spend their retirement making homemade wooden toys for children. They have been doing this since 2013. Every Christmas these toys are donated to kids in the Coachella ...

Back at last year's Toy Fair, Candylab's collection of MO-TO "Awesome Wood Cars" were retro wooden standouts at a show loaded with high-tech playthings. Now, the team that makes these cool toy cars is ...

For 20 years, Dale Thompson had a wood shop at his home. Over the years, he collected his own set of tools and while he and his wife of 50 years were living in San Francisco in the 1990s, he joined a ...

Most plastics are based on petroleum. A bio-plastic that consists of one hundred percent renewable raw materials helps to conserve this resource. Researchers have now optimized the plastic in such a ...