Making Whirligigs, Whimsies, & Folk Toys

Making Whirligigs, Whimsies, & Folk Toys
Author: Rodney Frost
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2011-06-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 081174499X

Create unique whirligigs and other moving-part creations, traditional folk toys, and unusual new designs out of wood.

Folk Toys

Folk Toys
Author: Ken Folk
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1998
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780811729208

Showing how to create moveable toys like those in the past, this book has full-size patterns and plans for 19 pull-cord, hand-crank and gravity-operated classic toys. Included are a waddling shorebird, a diving frog, a strutting pig, a creeping crocodile and a scuttling beetle.

Whacky Toys, Whirligigs and Whatchamacallits

Whacky Toys, Whirligigs and Whatchamacallits
Author:
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2002
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780806992860

What makes these charming mechanical marvels spring into action? Cranks, propellers, levers, and other mechanisms trigger a variety of eye-catching movements, from arms that rise and fall to jaws that work up and down. The author reveals his process for designing and creating a series of ingenious toys and objects from wood.

Making Whirligigs & Other Wind Toys

Making Whirligigs & Other Wind Toys
Author: Sharon Pierce
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1985
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780806979809

Provides instructions for making 26 toys that move in the wind.

By Hand

By Hand
Author: Janice Eaton Kilby
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781579902421

"American decorative folk art...never really went away. This is an attractive survey collection of two dozen projects for familiar items, such as samplers, decoys, and copper weathervanes, that have been designed by professional artists. Each type of craft has a historic introduction and is illustrated by photographs of museum and gallery pieces....a handy all-in-one source for public libraries..."--Library Journal.

Making Animated Whirligigs

Making Animated Whirligigs
Author: Anders S. Lunde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780486400495

More than two dozen traditional and original models of the wind-powered toys known as whirligigs appear in this how-to manual. Easy-to-follow instructions, detailed illustrations.

Easy-to-make Wooden Sundials

Easy-to-make Wooden Sundials
Author: Milton Stoneman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 62
Release: 1982-03-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486241416

This guide to making wooden sundials gently leads beginning diallists into sundial lore and construction. Novice craftsmen who can wield a saw, wood-burning pen, matte knife, sandpaper and a few other simple tools can make five different kinds of sundials; plans are flexible and allow for embellishment, alteration, variety of materials. Precalculated templates can be removed from the book and carbon-paper-transferred to wood.

Action Whirligigs

Action Whirligigs
Author: Anders S. Lunde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2011-09-12
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486133753

Easy-to-follow instructions and measured drawings for creating 25 charming little wind-driven toys — from the simple Baking a Pie whirligig to the Woman at the Computer to various weathervanes. For all levels of ability.