There are helicopters and cars, jewelry boxes and grasshoppers on wheels. There are jump ropes with wooden handles and table-top basketball games, where players use plastic spoons to shoot wooden ...

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 ...

Tampa, Florida -- Three days a week, a group of retirees head out to a storage unit in Hudson to work their magic. Many of them spent their lives slaving away behind a desk. Now, they've traded their ...

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 ...

MIDDLEBURY — Santa's helpers have been busy getting toys ready for Christmas Eve. A group of retired volunteers organized their own toy shop in Middlebury to help spread cheer all year. We got a ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CENTENNIAL, Colo. — A metro-area retirement ...

CHICAGO — A classroom on Chicago’s West Side has morphed into a full-on wood toy workshop. The assignment in Peter LeGrand’s Proviso Area for Exceptional Children is to build a toy, with love, for ...

Gary Garberg, owner of Midwest Wooden Toys, met with several volunteers to make wooden cars and trucks for local law enforcement to give to families and kids in need. He said volunteers can make about ...

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 ...

POLK CITY, Fla. -- Each wooden toy that Toys for Tots of Polk County gives out is unique. They’re each made by hand from the hands of prisoners. Ten inmates volunteer to participate in the woodworking ...