Making toys to distribute to children throughout the area has become a holiday tradition for the Central Indiana Woodworkers.

Santa isn’t the only one with elves helping to make Christmas bright. Two University of Wisconsin-La Crosse biology department employees and their helpers have been making wooden toys for local ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's nothing but a number for Ed Higinbotham. For yet another year, the 95-year-old has made and donated hundreds of wooden toys to make sure children across the Commonwealth have something to play ...

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Scads of hacksaws, chisels, shavers, wrenches and screwdrivers dangle from the walls in Andy Borland's workshop. Bottles of glue teeter on the edge of counters. The chests and ...

The Santa flag flying from the ranch-style home is a signal important work is going on in the workshop out back. It's not the North Pole but rather the Northside of Indy where this secret Santa ...

Family: Wife, Sondra; daughter, Amy. My role: I make wooden toys for Wood-to-Wonderful that are donated to kids who are in need. Wood-to-Wonderful was founded by Louise and Doug Brown in 1987 in the ...