The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: 159 Games, Toys, Tricks, and Other Amusements
It’s vintage fun! This follow-up to The Boy Mechanic—Popular Mechanics’ collection of can-do ingenuity from the early 1900s—features more than 200 unique toys and games that anyone with a basic tool kit will want to make, plus the unusual and attractive rounded, flexibound format. Charmingly designed to capture that old-fashioned flavor, every imaginative project remains as engaging today as ever, with its appeal fully intact. There’s amusement for little kids, including a toy donkey that nods and wags its tail; a child’s playhouse and a miniature windmill; magic tricks, such as an “X-Ray” pack of cards and mystery coin box; items for the great outdoors, which range from a homebuilt canoe to a diving tower; plus gizmos and gadgets, “scien-terrific” motors and engines, and entertaining objects for an older child to create and play with.

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The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: 159 Games, Toys, Tricks, and Other Amusements
It’s vintage fun! This follow-up to The Boy Mechanic—Popular Mechanics’ collection of can-do ingenuity from the early 1900s—features more than 200 unique toys and games that anyone with a basic tool kit will want to make, plus the unusual and attractive rounded, flexibound format. Charmingly designed to capture that old-fashioned flavor, every imaginative project remains as engaging today as ever, with its appeal fully intact. There’s amusement for little kids, including a toy donkey that nods and wags its tail; a child’s playhouse and a miniature windmill; magic tricks, such as an “X-Ray” pack of cards and mystery coin box; items for the great outdoors, which range from a homebuilt canoe to a diving tower; plus gizmos and gadgets, “scien-terrific” motors and engines, and entertaining objects for an older child to create and play with.

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The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: 159 Games, Toys, Tricks, and Other Amusements

The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: 159 Games, Toys, Tricks, and Other Amusements

The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: 159 Games, Toys, Tricks, and Other Amusements

The Boy Mechanic Makes Toys: 159 Games, Toys, Tricks, and Other Amusements

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Overview

It’s vintage fun! This follow-up to The Boy Mechanic—Popular Mechanics’ collection of can-do ingenuity from the early 1900s—features more than 200 unique toys and games that anyone with a basic tool kit will want to make, plus the unusual and attractive rounded, flexibound format. Charmingly designed to capture that old-fashioned flavor, every imaginative project remains as engaging today as ever, with its appeal fully intact. There’s amusement for little kids, including a toy donkey that nods and wags its tail; a child’s playhouse and a miniature windmill; magic tricks, such as an “X-Ray” pack of cards and mystery coin box; items for the great outdoors, which range from a homebuilt canoe to a diving tower; plus gizmos and gadgets, “scien-terrific” motors and engines, and entertaining objects for an older child to create and play with.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781588166395
Publisher: Hearst
Publication date: 06/01/2007
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

Table of Contents


Foreword     7
Making Magic     9
The Science of Fun     42
The Really Great Outdoors     87
Fun for Little Ones     165
Fun for Older Kids     213
The Toy Workshop     260
Index     266
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