A factory supplying toys and games to people young and old is in high gear as the holiday season approaches. Dean Helfer Jr., who runs Channel Craft in Charleroi, said the 40 craftsmen and women have ...

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 ...

Every year, passionate central Ohio woodworkers spend months building thousands of handcrafted toys for central Ohio children ...

The tale of the Tryon Toy Makers is almost like a children's story, a yarn that has been romanticized practically since the enterprise began nearly a century ago, yet remains permanently woven into ...

Ten years ago, when people came into the Toy Chest in Nashville, Indiana, they would often gravitate toward loud, bright toys and ignore the quieter ones. Back then, “I would get a lot more, ‘Oh, no, ...

Wooden toys not only appeal to children for play, but also to adults for home and office decorations. Manufacturing wooden toys is a wonderful home based business opportunity that can be activated for ...

At 100 years old, Harold Yoak continues to show no signs of slowing down, crafting dozens of toys every year from his garage in Garden Grove that would put Santa's workshop to shame. Yoak, a retired ...

Wooden toys for export line shelves at an exhibition room of a local company in Yunhe, Zhejiang province. [Photo/Xinhua] Arriving in Yunhe, a small county in Lishui city, Zhejiang province, you can't ...

The mountains, river and lush green landscape lend a special charm to Chitrakoot, which means hills of many wonders. Chitrakoot is known for its wooden handicraft, toys in particular. Making of wooden ...

As Jay Morris describes how he and a bunch of helpers use chunks of donated wood to create children's toys each Christmas, one of those volunteers interrupts. "Jay, we got a wobbly," neighbor Steve ...