Category: Toys & Games

Simple, natural, easy to make, clean looking, and super spinning dreidel tutorial by tali buchler.

A video by EcoArte – Jairo e Margarete

Bo-tito comes assembled and as a kit. The pieces are connected to each other by an elastic multifilament cord for textile use. They Also don’t carry weapons. The average life of it is 400 years, which takes plastic to degrade.

Image search – various makers. Robots with bottles for bodies.

Cheryl shares her method of making lidmen.

Darcy’s son Ewan made a film about how to make a plastic bottle windmill – balancing design. Cool calm competency from a kid.

Plastic bottle Windmill design video with cork and cable tie by Ursula Allen from Switzerland AKA The Recycling Queen

Fabulous selection of robots – each one unique – from the Caps robots blog by Wilis Ramos

Examples of plastic recycled robots by Marcial Vargas from Eco robots.reciclo

Designed by Carla from Trahmagination

Image search – various makers, Robots made mainly from plastic caps.

Tutorial by Guillaume Riesen showing how to make a flexagon out of fabric. Comforting and addictive fiddling – geometry in motion! Includes another set of instructions by a quilter,

Quick video by Archetypal Visual Arts showing how to make a coconut leaf windmill toy.

Instructions how to make a porotaka by Avalon Primary School, New Zealand – flax leaf spinner toy from the Cook Islands.

Instructions by New Zealand Electronic Text Collection – from the Cook Islands

Heavy and durable cubes made from fire hose. Hanging ball for use with big cats and rolling ball for elephants (no chain).
Instructions from Honolulu Zoo Society

Instructions to weave a ball out of fire hose as a heavy duty animal toy by Steven Ok.

A story to describe how to make a windmill toy from coconut palm,
by Marion Healy, Mackay Queensland Australia