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DONT SHOOT PEOPLE OR ANIMALS.

There are many toys in this book that launch objects through the air or shoot objects across the ground. Be extremely careful not to aim at any people or animals. If your want to aim at something, line up some action figures or empty cans.

2018 by Bob Gilsdorf and Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., Square Street, Mount Joy, PA 17552.

Making Inventive Wooden Toys is an original work, first published in 2018 by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc. The patterns contained herein are copyrighted by the author. Readers may make copies of these patterns for personal use. The patterns themselves, however, are not to be duplicated for resale or distribution under any circumstances. Any such copying is a violation of copyright law.

Print ISBN 978-1-56523-948-7

eISBN 978-1-60765-546-6

The Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file with the Library of Congress.

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my awesome wife to thank her for all the support, patience, editing, painting, handmodeling, typing, and loving kindness she gave me to make this book possible. It is also dedicated to my five boys who still continue to inspire me with their ideas and adventures. A special shout-out to Noah for all his work on the exploded diagrams. Finally, this book is dedicated to the next round of kids that are just reaching the toy-maker age.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PROJECTS

Desktop Rockets

Desktop Rocket Launcher

Gumball Aquarium

Dime Launcher

Pocket Gumball Launcher

Ping Ball Explosion

Pay Dirt Gumball Maze

Pay Dirt Joystick

Tornado Box

Bird Poop Splatter-er

Horizontal Wheel-Top Racer

Knocker Shooter

Mouse Across the Floor

Top Launcher

Catapult Castle

Right-Back-Atcha

Cup & Ball (Without the String)

Treasure-Hunt Box

Is It Worth It? Gift Box

Fireball Shield

Worlds Smallest Wooden Toy

Ice Cube Delay Freaker

Palm Reader

Lightning Sword

Gator Snap

Skeleton Fish

Fishing Pole

Secret Drawer Shelf

Water Catapult Room Protector

Antigravity Box

Water Balloon Sneak Attack

Pirate Ship Rock Target

Cog Slam

PREFACE

Have a look at the projects listed in the Contents? Ready to go full steam ahead? Well, theres more! Yes, these are high-octane, exciting, slightly bizarre toys that you build yourself (with some grown-up help to use the power tools), but there is a secret treasure buried deep within each project. However, finding the riches that they hold requires actually making and playing with them. In this book we call it playing whereas scientists and engineers call it experimenting. You have to try out your toy, see what it does, tweak it a little, and observe what happens next. So what treasures will be revealed to the inventor, creator, and maker of each project? These toys each contain real-life lessons in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathaka STEAM.

Science comes to life in these toys, and you actually see the laws of physics right before your eyes. Storing energy sounds mighty complicated, but thats exactly what a rubber band does when it is stretched to launch a catapult or when you wind up a spool of string. Can you store twice the energy with two rubber bands? Theres only one way to find out and its the fun wayjust do it! Does stretching a rubber band further store more energy? That will be obvious when you try it. Stretch it too far and it breaks. Now you have an engineering problem to solve. Engineers basically exploit the laws of physics to make and do useful things.

WARNING: THIS IS NOT YOUR NORMAL PROJECT BOOK!

Inventing toys is a wild, bumpy ride with plenty of experiments and mistakes. For each project, Im going to share some of the ideas I used to start construction. Ill also show you some challenges (aka major failures!) I faced. But I wont be giving you precise steps explaining exactly how to build each toy. Study the illustrations, learn from mistakes, and keep trying, as all great inventors do. The answer will eventually come, and when it does, yelling Awesome! sure feels good. Start creating your own amazing toys!

Build the Top Launcher and youll learn all about the conservation of angular momentum without even having to crack open a physics textbook. A spinning top doesnt sound very high tech until you learn that the exact same principles are used to position satellites in outer space. Of course, engineers like to change the name from spinning top to gyroscope to sound more impressive.

But lets not get bogged down in all the educational stuff, lets just have fun building, decorating, and discovering what fun we can have when we make something by ourselves. That alone is enough for the laws of physics to be stamped into your minds. Let the making begin!

DESKTOP ROCKETS

This project was inspired by my mild disappointment with retractable ballpoint pens. Yes, they are ingenious little contraptions with a clever latching mechanism and a spring-loaded button that prevents large ink spots from growing in your pocket. Wheres the disappointment? Well, have you ever pushed that button down on a desk and then released the pen? Of course you have, everyone has. The pen hops a disappointing inch or so. The kid in me wants the pen to soar at least several feet in the air to the altitude where my imagination can turn it into something spectacular and sound effects can be added. So thats what I set out to accomplisha desktop rocket that would gain some serious altitude and ignite a kids imagination.

MATERIALS

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(2cm x 4cm x 6cm) pine board (aka a chunk of 1"x2")

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