Eugene F. Provenzo,Asterie Baker Provenzo: Easy-to-Make Old Fashioned Toys

Easy-to-Make Old Fashioned Toys


Description

Phantascopes, periscopes, and pinwheels all intriguing novelties that captured the imagination of children in America and Europe several generations ago. Now with this well-illustrated how-to book, young and old alike can easily make any one of these and 35 other popular playthings that date back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or earlier. In addition to fascinating background information on each toy, historians Eugene and Asterie Provenzo provide easy-to-follow directions and nearly 300 illustrations. Some objects are simple enough for a 6-year-old to make. Others will challenge older children and adults. You'll be able to turn ordinary soda straws into Pandea Pipes an ancient musical toy. Perhaps you'll want to construct one of the earliest-known flying toys, the Helicopter-Parachute. With a flashlight, shoebox, and magnifying glass, you can build the fascinating Magic Lantern used by showmen in an earlier era to conjure up ghosts. Or re-create any of these time-honored educational and entertaining playthings: Thaumatrope, Kite-Ferry, Tumbling Acrobat, Marble Maze, Boomerang, Buzz Saw, Floating Ball, Chromatrope Toys, Flip-Book, Balancing Man, Skyhook, Zoetrope, Moving Slides, Tumbler, Revolving Serpent, Microscope, Paper-Wrestlers, Bullroarer, and many more! Toys can be made with inexpensive materials found in most homes and schools: cardboard, string, tape, straws, scissors, hammer, pins, flashlight, etc. Handy and affordable, this volume is a marvelous book of fun projects and a delight for anyone interested in toys from the past. "

When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until Easy-to-Make Old Fashioned Toys free pdf now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret... In an age that mashes internet porn with Tinder and arranged marriage, in an age in which everything (sexuality, gender, consent) seems fluid, what does the landscape of love look like, really? And how are the seismic jolts in the ways we negotiate sex and romance affecting women? In the third book in Samantha Trenoweth's series of essays by contemporary women, contributors ask whether the Tinderverse has killed romance; are women, who are increasingly powerful in all sorts of areas of their lives, more or less empowered in their personal relationships than they were a decade ago; and do women actually have more choices or fewer? Better than Sex assembles impressions of the contemporary love landscape, from outspoken, witty, provocative writers, including Roxane Gay, Zan Rowe, Emily Maguire, Jamila Rizvi, Lucy Le Masurier, Susan Chenery, Rosie Waterland, Fiona McGregor, Rachel Hills, Zoe Norton Lodge, Van Badham and Ann Friedman.


____________________________
Author: Eugene F. Provenzo,Asterie Baker Provenzo
Number of Pages: 272 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 1990
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780486259581
Download Link: Click Here
____________________________

Tags:

download pdf, epub download, mobi, download book, iPad, free ebook, zip,Easy-to-Make Old Fashioned Toys kindle,book review, ebook, download pdf, download torrent, for mac, fb2, facebook, for PC, paperback, Eugene F. Provenzo,Asterie Baker Provenzo free ebook, download epub,epub download Easy-to-Make Old Fashioned Toys by Eugene F. Provenzo,Asterie Baker Provenzo zip,free pdf, iOS, rarkindle, download ebook, ebook pdf, iPhone, pocket, Read online,