Jump to content
🎄 🎄 🎄 2024 Custom Ornament Business Kit - Now Available - SALE 50% Off Through Dec. 2nd ×
Ornaments For Charity eBook - Designers Wanted! ​​​​​​​🙏 ×

Toy Makers


Travis

Recommended Posts

I'm curious how many toy makers we have here. Do you make toys on a regular basis? Are they for your kids, grandkids, kids in the neighborhood, charity, or for sale? What's your favorite type of toys to make? Are you making anything for Easter?

 

Post a pic of some of your toys (to post pics from your User Gallery, click "My Media" in the formatting bar then click the "Gallery Images" tab and select your pics to embed in this post.)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

They are really cool! I especially like the astro men.

 

I like making toys and puzzles for children, and do sometimes make them for my grandchildren.

 

I wanted to get into making them to sell (not as a business, but at craft fairs and so on), but the EU laws about safety testing are so prohibitive that I have given up the idea. The worrying thing is that even if something is not sold as a toy, if it is deemed to be attractive to children under the age of 14 then it still needs to be safety tested. :(

Link to comment
Share on other sites

They are really cool! I especially like the astro men.

 

I like making toys and puzzles for children, and do sometimes make them for my grandchildren.

 

I wanted to get into making them to sell (not as a business, but at craft fairs and so on), but the EU laws about safety testing are so prohibitive that I have given up the idea. The worrying thing is that even if something is not sold as a toy, if it is deemed to be attractive to children under the age of 14 then it still needs to be safety tested. :(

 

They're trying to do that with the CPSIA here too. I'm not sure the finals status of the law, but I know it's being fought.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I also enjoy making toys for my grandkids. The older ones like the challenge of puzzles, the younger ones like the toy cars and trucks. Haven't got any pics of the cars/trucks/racers as they disappeared from the shop as soon as they were ready to play with. It's interesting that they play more with the homemade stuff than with any of the commercial toys we have around the house.

 

Will try to pry them away from the kids to get a few pictures of them and I'll post them at that time.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yes, I am a toymaker.

 

The total of rocking horses of 4 sizes-- 2 rideable-- Ride -ons about 65+

Minis-- about 20--

 

Toy trucks, cars, tractors, and even name trains are part of the group. I also make name plates, Letters for room walls etc.

 

Give a lot away, sell some, even have made custom designs, and one of my toys is on permanernt display at Morril Hall NDSU-- Fargo, ND.

 

It is part of an agricultural toy display!

 

http://aeontoys.weebly.com/index.html is my website.

 

Latest project-- commissioned "rocking elephant"

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 5 weeks later...

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...