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Making Inventive Wooden Toys

27 Wild & Wacky Projects Ideal for STEAM Education

Published by Fox Chapel
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

What does woodworking have to do with physics and fun? You’re about to find out! Making Inventive Wooden Toys is filled with high-octane, exciting, and slightly wacky toys for kids and parents to build together. These creative projects combine ingenuity and woodworking with real-life lessons in science, technology, engineering, art, and math—aka STEAM. Have fun building 27 easy-to-make wooden action toys that can do extraordinary things, like the Desk Top Rocket, the Anti-Gravity Box, the Ping Pong Ball Explosion, the Gator Snap, or the Horizontal Wheel-Top Racer. You’ll find there’s a secret treasure buried deep within each project… as they bring science to life and actually demonstrate the laws of physics right before your eyes!

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Product Details

  • Publisher: Fox Chapel (November 1, 2018)
  • Length: 184 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781565239487

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