Educational Toys / Consisting Chiefly of Coping-Saw Problems for Children in School and the Home

The book offers step-by-step, practical guidance for parents and teachers to make wooden educational toys with a coping saw, beginning with tools, materials, layout, sawing, fastening, and coloring techniques. It presents detailed working drawings and directions for a wide range of projects — animal figures, rockers and hobby horses, puzzles and balancing toys, mechanical figures, doll furniture, wagons and kites — plus games and apparatus for dexterity and balance. Emphasis is on learning-by-doing: projects are sized and explained for children's abilities, with assembly, finishing, and an appendix on knots and braids to extend constructive skills.