Details costumes worn from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century and provides patterns adapting them as dolls' clothes
Full-color diagrams help you make a skyful of amazing flyers, including some with flowing tails, domed wings, box structure, and other features. Learn how to choose the right colors and...
Gustave Baumann was a superb woodcarver, who was captivated by puppet theatre. In the 1930s, Baumann carved a collection of marionettes for plays he wrote about New Mexico's cultural heritage....
Kites Thematic Unit
Taking the position that lost and abandoned toys retain repressed memories of prepubescent trauma and the deep-seated guilt associated with the playing of forbidden games, the photographic team of Davis...
Take a truly technicolour tour of one of the most remarkable construction projects of 2009 in all its architectural glory. British broadcaster, writer and toy 'nut-case' James May lived a...
Say happy birthday to an American legend. Introduced 35 years ago, Barbie is by far the most popular doll ever created. To celebrate, over 100 artists, photographers, fashion designers, illustrators,...
The difference between a good toy and great one is the ability to entertain--and instruct--a child at the same time. The author, a woodworker with a graduate degree in Curriculum...
Gives instructions for making inexpensive toys, hand puppets, marionettes, jumping jacks, and other "paper people" from cut, folded, and molded paper of various kinds.
Controllable kites have been gaining popularity at an extremely rapid rate. Organized competition has spread worldwide. Individual competition started in 1982. Synchronized Team competition started in 1985. World Class competition...
Chinese Kites