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                HOME-MADE TOYS
                     FOR
                GIRLS AND BOYS




               BOOKS BY A. NEELY HALL


  _8vo. Cloth. Illustrated with hundreds of full-page
          and working drawings by the author
                 and Norman P. Hall_


  =THE BOY CRAFTSMAN=           { Price _net_ $ 1.60
                                { Postpaid  1.82

  =HANDICRAFT FOR HANDY BOYS=   { Price _net_ $ 2.00
                                { Postpaid  2.25

  =THE HANDY BOY=               { Price _net_ $ 1.60
                                { Postpaid  1.82


         LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON



[Illustration: FIGS. 287 AND 288. AN AUTO DELIVERY-WAGON BUILT OF
CIGAR-BOXES. (See page 192.)]




                HOME-MADE TOYS
                     FOR
                GIRLS AND BOYS

          Wooden and Cardboard Toys,
        Mechanical and Electrical Toys

             _By_ A. Neely Hall

      _Author of_ "_The Boy Craftsman_",
        "_Handicraft for Handy Boys_",
           "_The Handy Boy_" _Etc._

  With over three hundred illustrations and
  working-drawings by the author and Norman
                  P. Hall


                  BOSTON

         LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.




             COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
        LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD COMPANY
           PUBLISHED, AUGUST, 1915


            _All rights reserved_

      HOME-MADE TOYS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS



                Norwood Press
    J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
            Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.




  _Constructive ideas expel destructive ideas from the juvenile mind._




INTRODUCTORY NOTES


Through the author's handicraft volumes, and magazine and newspaper
articles, thousands of boys and girls who never realized they could make
their own toys, have succeeded in constructing models which would do
credit to Santa Claus' master toy-makers.

The success of this new home industry has suggested the need of a volume
devoted entirely to toy-making, and in HOME-MADE TOYS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS
the author has brought together a large number of the toy ideas from his
former handicraft volumes, and from his articles published in the
_Ladies' Home Journal_, _Woman's Home Companion_, _Good Housekeeping_,
the _Boys' Magazine_, and other publications, and he believes that as
collected and arranged the material will be found a veritable gold-mine
of toy-making information.

Go to any toy store and price the toys similar to those described within
these covers, then estimate if you can how much the other toys you do
not find would cost if manufactured, and you will discover that one
hundred dollars would not cover their value. One splendid thing about
these home-made toys is that the greater part of them require little
more than the pick-up material found at home. Few boys and girls are
given a one hundred dollar assortment of toys at a time, yet any one can
own a collection of this value who is willing to spend the time
necessary to follow the instructions given in this book. Probably,
though, some of the toys will be wanted now, and the others one, two or
three seasons hence, because, you see, the book is an all-the-year-round
handy book with suggestions for every season. Some of the toys will be
of especial interest to boys, yet girls who like what boys like will
enjoy making them also.

Home-made toys are generally longer lived than store toys because the
boy or girl who expends a certain amount of effort producing gives them
better care. Home-made toys have a greater value than boughten ones
because there is as much fun making them as playing with them. Doing
something interesting, getting satisfying results out of the work,
putting an idea into tangible form, and having a toy to show of which it
can be said,