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Finding toys that are made from natural products and promote fun and imaginative play can be difficult to find and often carry a hefty price tag. That's why stay-at-home mom, Erin Freutchel decided to teach herself how to use a scroll saw and begin making safe, colorful, and irresistible imagination-building toys for her children. Using just a scroll saw, a palm sander, a drill, and with no prior experience, Erin shows through step-by-step instructions, how to make more than 75 charming wooden toy designs with themes like fairytale, farm, and ocean. Also included are instructions on creating natural and non-toxic colorful finishes. These captivating wooden toys will encourage a child's creativity by helping them set a scene with a backdrop, characters, and accessories; the rest is up to them! 184 pages, Softcover, Copyright 2015, ISBN:9781565238732.

Create natural, safe toys
Easy to follow step-by-step instruction
Learn to make natural and non-toxic finishes

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Natural Wooden Toys You Can Make in a Day

Promote imaginative play by giving your children handmade gifts that don’t require batteries. In Erin Freuchtel-Dearing’s book Natural Wooden Toys, she offers plans and instructions for 75 projects that you can make in a day that will stand the test of time. Creatures from the forest, the ocean, the farm and elsewhere dwell within the 184 pages of this softcover edition merely awaiting your decision to create them.

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