Imagination Will Move These Toys; Not Batteries

If there’s a special child in your life who likes things that go - especially cars, boats or airplanes - then this trio of do-it-yourself wooden toys will be the first thing out from under the tree Christmas morning and the last thing put away Christmas night. Aside from their classic styling, the best thing about these vehicles is that they don’t need batteries to make them go, just imagination.

A great project for beginning woodworkers, the plan features an old-fashioned car, a steamboat with a paddle-wheel and a sleek biplane. All of the pieces for each toy are traced from full-size patterns, and each project is built mostly from scrap lumber, and odds and ends like spools, ice-cream sticks and dowels, so there’s hardly any expense for materials.

The car measures about 11 inches long by 6 inches wide by 7 inches tall, the steamboat is about 12 inches long by 6 inches wide by 7 inches tall, and the biplane is about 13 inches long with a 12-inch wingspan.

The Wooden Toys plan, No. 632, is $7.95 and includes complete step-by-step directions, full-size traceable patterns and shopping lists and cutting schedules for the car, biplane and steamboat.

A catalog picturing hundreds of do-it-yourself projects is $3.95. Prices include postage and handling. Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery (for rush delivery, add $1 per item up to $3 maximum and allow about one week).

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