Making Whirligigs, Whimsies, & Folk Toys


Book Description

Create unique whirligigs and other moving-part creations, traditional folk toys, and unusual new designs out of wood.




The Whirligig Maker's Book


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THE WHIRLIGIG MAKER'S BOOK covers everything you need to know to get started in the craft and hobby of making animated whirligigs. Materials, tools, and techniques are detailed and full-size patterns and step-by-step instructions and illustrations are given for making fifteen unique animated whirligigs: Dove; Folk Rooster; Flying Unicorn; Girl Gymnast; Penguins on Teeter-Totter; Dancing Man; Unicycling Roadrunner; Carousel; Kids on Teeter-Totter; Trampoline; Ferris Wheel; Unicyclist; Flying Duck; Acrobats; and Clown. The projects were selected to introduce you to whirligig making and then take you on to an advanced skill level. The Author Jack Wiley earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1968, did exercise physiology teaching and research, and has written fifty published books. Dr. Wiley first became interested in making whirligigs in the late 1980s, and has designed and built hundreds of them since then. THE WHIRLIGIG MAKER'S BOOK is the result of this interest and experience.




How to Make Animated Toys and Whirligigs


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Covers everything you need to know to get started in the craft and hobby of toy and whirligig making and build twenty unique animated projects.




Folk Toys


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Showing how to create moveable toys like those in the past, this book has full-size patterns and plans for 19 pull-cord, hand-crank and gravity-operated classic toys. Included are a waddling shorebird, a diving frog, a strutting pig, a creeping crocodile and a scuttling beetle.




Action Whirligigs


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Easy-to-follow instructions and measured drawings for creating 25 charming little wind-driven toys — from the simple Baking a Pie whirligig to the Woman at the Computer to various weathervanes. For all levels of ability.




Easy-to-Make Whirligigs


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Complete patterns and instructions for 30 charming, wind-driven toys: Signaling Trainman, Flying Puffin, Colonial Dame, many more. Only inexpensive materials and a few tools needed. 113 illustrations.




Making Whirligigs and Other Toys


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Everything you need to know to make an array of whirligigs and other toys that move in the wind!




Making Whirligigs & Other Wind Toys


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Provides instructions for making 26 toys that move in the wind.




Making Animated Whirligigs


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More than two dozen traditional and original models of the wind-powered toys known as whirligigs appear in this how-to manual. Easy-to-follow instructions, detailed illustrations.




How to Make Whirligigs and Whimmy Diddles and Other American Folkcraft Objects


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A step-by-step guide to creating reproductions of American folk-art objects that includes suggestions on the selection of materials and equipment and the techniques of decorating and finishing