Santa isn’t the only one with elves helping to make Christmas bright. Two University of Wisconsin-La Crosse biology department employees and their helpers have been making wooden toys for local ...

KELLOGG, Minn. — Create with magical thoughts and hum gibberish. It’s the advice one of Santa Claus’ fictional elves shares with a gnome stuck on making useful items rather than the bright, dancing ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — There's something special about being able to give the perfect gift. There's something extra special when the gift is handmade and crafted with love. "When you make something and give ...

Bob Hillman makes traditional toys in his own home wood workshop. "It's been a long slow growth and fueled a lot by eventually joining the Wisconsin Woodworkers Guild." ...

Building wood toys is a classic hobby. This step-by-step wood and wire maze design builds easy wooden toys to make for gifts. Toward the end of the first year of life, a child climbs up on two feet ...

LOCAL KIDS THIS CHRISTMAS. >> LOOK AT THAT. >> INSIDE THE STATE POLICE BARRACKS IN UNIONTOWN, OUR BOXES AND BOXES OF TOYS. THIS IS WHAT A REAL LIFE TOY WORKSHOP LOOKS LIKE. LAST YEAR, WE WENT TO ED’S ...

Learn how to make wood toys with thread spools, simple fasteners, cloth, and wire to make the best pull toys for toddlers that stand the test of time. Christmas (the season of sharing) isn’t really ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Scads of hacksaws, chisels, shavers, wrenches and screwdrivers dangle from the walls in Andy Borland's workshop. Bottles of glue teeter on the edge of counters. The chests and ...

Family: Wife, Sondra; daughter, Amy. My role: I make wooden toys for Wood-to-Wonderful that are donated to kids who are in need. Wood-to-Wonderful was founded by Louise and Doug Brown in 1987 in the ...

CHICAGO — A classroom on Chicago’s West Side has morphed into a full-on wood toy workshop. The assignment in Peter LeGrand’s Proviso Area for Exceptional Children is to build a toy, with love, for ...