Easy to make toys

[Joe Hillmann]

I am looking for plans for easy to make wooden toys. I recently made a bunch of rubber band guns and my kids love them so now I am looking for other simple to make toys that they might enjoy. One thing I have in mind is a marble run but not quite sure how to go about building it yet.

[Jerome Hanby]

I've seen several example of toy Trebuchets. Here is a link (first one Google tossed up to be honest).

[Shaun Mahood]

You could try the marble machine from woodgears.ca. He's got plans as well.

[Ted Calver]

Joe,
If you have a lathe you could do some tops. My grandson was playing with some battling metal tops that were the craze this Christmas, so I made some wooden pull string tops which actually spun longer than the metal ones. He had a great time with both and was glad when grandpa's tops won the battle.

[Joe Hillmann]

Joe,
If you have a lathe you could do some tops. My grandson was playing with some battling metal tops that were the craze this Christmas, so I made some wooden pull string tops which actually spun longer than the metal ones. He had a great time with both and was glad when grandpa's tops won the battle.

I am actually in the process of building a stand for my lathe right now so that may be one of the first projects I do on it.