Steven Caney’s Handmade Toy Book

By Steven Caney
Published on November 1, 1973
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FIG 1: Possible picture sequences you can draw and use with your movie wheel.
FIG 1: Possible picture sequences you can draw and use with your movie wheel.
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FIG 2: Main disk of movie wheel should look something like this. Center hole is for rotation, off-center hole is for turning the disk. FIG 3: Assembly of wooden version of movie wheel.
FIG 2: Main disk of movie wheel should look something like this. Center hole is for rotation, off-center hole is for turning the disk. FIG 3: Assembly of wooden version of movie wheel.
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A child using the cardboard version of the movie wheel.
A child using the cardboard version of the movie wheel.
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TOP: Cutting a piece of cardboard into a turtle shape. BOTTOM: Cardboard turtles at the starting line.
TOP: Cutting a piece of cardboard into a turtle shape. BOTTOM: Cardboard turtles at the starting line.
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FIG 4: Materials you will need for pea and toothpick construction. FIG 5: Method of building with peas and toothpicks.
FIG 4: Materials you will need for pea and toothpick construction. FIG 5: Method of building with peas and toothpicks.
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Future structural engineer assembles a four story pea and toothpick building.
Future structural engineer assembles a four story pea and toothpick building.

Toys–especially the homemade kind–have a special fascination around Christmas. If the seasonal bug is biting you, Workman Publishing Company has the toy book you need: a fat paperback full of low-cost, do-it-yourself playthings to be made for, with, or by children.

Steven Caney’s Toybook is copyright©1972 by Steven Caney. The following
excerpts are reprinted with the permission of Workman Publishing
Company, Inc.


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