Building wood toys is a classic hobby. This step-by-step wood and wire maze design builds easy wooden toys to make for gifts. Toward the end of the first year of life, a child climbs up on two feet ...

More than 750 toys built by inmates at the Marsh Creek Detention Facility in Clayton will be given away to Contra Costa children from 9:30 to 11 a.m. today. It is the 13th year of the giveaway program ...

Dozens of youngsters and some veterans' charities will be on the receiving end of the handiwork of students and staff at Phillipsburg High School. High School teachers, technology students and FFA ...

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Travel building toys sounds like an oxymoron. But building doesn't have to mean Lego or wooden-block edifices that sprawl across a rug. The best building sets for kids today are those that simply ...

Did you know one of your favourite toys as a child had a history worth hundreds of years? Building blocks have always played an important part in education, childhood development, and creative play ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Scads of hacksaws, chisels, shavers, wrenches and screwdrivers dangle from the walls in Andy Borland's workshop. Bottles of glue teeter on the edge of counters. The chests and ...

Some elves are cranking out toys from behind bars this year. Inmates at Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas are building wooden trucks, rocking horses and other toys for children as part of the ...

The joy of building a paper boat with dad. The excitement of holding the same pair of scissors, the small shared silences while making something together. In a world of screen time and busy schedules, ...