Easy-To-Make Old-Fashioned Toys

by Eugene F. Provenzo Jr.

Book Overview

Phantascopes, periscopes, and pinwheels -- all intriguing novelties that captured the imagination of children in America and Europe several generations ago. Now with this well-illustrated how-to book, young and old alike can easily make any one of these and 35 other popular playthings that date back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or earlier.
In addition to fascinating background information on each toy, historians Eugene and Asterie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486259587
• ISBN13: 9780486259581
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Very cool!

This book is really cool! It tells how to make a lot of stuff that kids love, out of simple things you have around the house. Many of them just need paper and scissors; patterns are included but you need to trace them. Scanning them and enlarging would work better but it's hard to lay the book flat enough to get a good copy. I hope if it ever gets reprinted they do so in a spiral-bound form! My son's favorite is the helicopter-parachute made from two strips of paper. You can make it in a jiffy and it works quite well.