I have been making tree houses since I was very small. My dad loved to help me, and he created some life long memories that I will cherish forever. Buying a ready-built tree house does not have the same effect.. and it costs a heck of a lot more...
Get your bearings with this clever children's toy. There's no better way to bump into a little adventure than the road trip. A few times each year, my mother and stepfather would get in their car for a week of touring Pennsylvania's Amish country....
Whirligig where man continuously tries to crank start an old car. I used 2 brass plates to mount the whirligig on a 5/16 inch diameter threaded rod. The brass plates are 1/8x3/14 by 3 inch each and brass was purchased from mcmaster-carr.
Here\'s a project that looks like a complicated puzzle, but it\'s really all about basic precision. It\'s made from just six identical little hardwood squares, all of them drilled and edge-mitered to fit together perfectly and then cut at the...
This book, like all others in this series, contains material adaptable to the uses of the recreational groups in the Chicago Park District. It is designed primarily as an instruction manual and reference book for those groups. It records for...
The trebuchet is a medieval invention originally designed to lay siege to fortresses and castles. The largest of them could hurl immense stones hundreds of yards. Now you can have one to play with in your own home. The whole device stands about...
An excellent project - great to practice skew chisel skills, show off timber types or simply to use up small scraps of timber. Why not team it with a previous project - the egg cup? See this project in our archive at left.
Rattle is the very first toy which babies get to know, and as such it is a significant tool for the development of the baby. Rattles have been used since the ancient times and at the very beginning they were only in form of balls that rattled when...
