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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

Some of the wooden toys made this year by the Central Indiana Woodworkers. The organization works all year to make toys for kids in need at Christmastime, and distributed more than 10,000 to different ...

HILLSBORO, Ill. (WAND) - John Rapp started wood-working at a young age. He credited his father's do-it-yourself attitude and his high school shop teachers for his love for the hobby. "It's 100 percent ...

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 ...

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 ...