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product_id: 21812885
title: "Easy - to - Make Old - Fashioned Toys"
price: "C$3279"
currency: NIO
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 8
url: https://www.desertcart.ni/products/21812885-easy-to-make-old-fashioned-toys
store_origin: NI
region: Nicaragua
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# Easy - to - Make Old - Fashioned Toys

**Price:** C$3279
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- **What is this?** Easy - to - Make Old - Fashioned Toys
- **How much does it cost?** C$3279 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

Phantascopes, periscopes, and pinwheels — all intriguing novelties that captured the imagination of children in America and Europe several generations ago. Now with this well-illustrated how-to book, young and old alike can easily make any one of these and 35 other popular playthings that date back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or earlier. In addition to fascinating background information on each toy, historians Eugene and Asterie Provenzo provide easy-to-follow directions and nearly 300 illustrations. Some objects are simple enough for a 6-year-old to make. Others will challenge older children and adults. You'll be able to turn ordinary soda straws into Pandea Pipes — an ancient musical toy. Perhaps you'll want to construct one of the earliest-known flying toys, the Helicopter-Parachute. With a flashlight, shoebox, and magnifying glass, you can build the fascinating Magic Lantern — used by showmen in an earlier era to conjure up ghosts. Or re-create any of these time-honored educational and entertaining playthings: Thaumatrope, Kite-Ferry, Tumbling Acrobat, Marble Maze, Boomerang, Buzz Saw, Floating Ball, Chromatrope Toys, Flip-Book, Balancing Man, Skyhook, Zoetrope, Moving Slides, Tumbler, Revolving Serpent, Microscope, Paper-Wrestlers, Bullroarer, and many more! Toys can be made with inexpensive materials found in most homes and schools: cardboard, string, tape, straws, scissors, hammer, pins, flashlight, etc. Handy and affordable, this volume is a marvelous book of fun projects — and a delight for anyone interested in toys from the past.

Review: Favorite book! - I hope they keep printing this book. This is one of my favorite books for old time toys. This book is great for any parent who wants to make things with their kids. The instructions are great and easy to follow. Limited supplies are needed to make the contents in this book.
Review: Good book, poor condition - I have no complaint about the quality of the book, but although I knew it was used, I didn’t realize it was so used. I was a little disappointed.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #2,362,554 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #842 in Toy Making #2,203 in Decorative Arts |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 14 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Favorite book!
*by M***R on April 14, 2017*

I hope they keep printing this book. This is one of my favorite books for old time toys. This book is great for any parent who wants to make things with their kids. The instructions are great and easy to follow. Limited supplies are needed to make the contents in this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Good book, poor condition
*by H***M on July 4, 2024*

I have no complaint about the quality of the book, but although I knew it was used, I didn’t realize it was so used. I was a little disappointed.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book
*by B***L on November 5, 2010*

This book has all kinds of good ideas. it also shows you how to make them. you can take from it what you what and leave the rest.

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*Last updated: 2026-05-13*