Try cutting out a tractor like this.

The work is difficult.

Your loved ones will surely like this craft by placing it in a visible place, for example, on a shelf. To make this craft you will need the following:

Sawing tools.

Preparing your desktop

First of all, you need to prepare your table on which you will work. There should be no unnecessary things on it and every tool should be at hand. Not everyone has their own desktop and has probably already thought about creating one. Making a table is not difficult, but choosing a place for it in the house is difficult. Perfect option- this is an insulated balcony on which you can do crafts at any time. I have already written about preparing the table in a separate article and tried to describe in as much detail as possible the entire process of creating it. If you don't know how to prepare your workplace, then read the following Article. After you have completed the process of creating a table, try to start choosing your future craft.

We choose quality material

The main material is plywood. The choice is always difficult. Each of us has probably encountered such a problem as delamination of plywood from the end part and asked the question, what causes this delamination? Well, of course, this is mainly due to low-quality plywood. If this is not the first time you have picked up a jigsaw, then you can select plywood from the remnants of a previous craft. If you are new to sawing and you don’t have plywood, then buy it at a hardware store. Choosing material for sawing is always difficult. You should always choose plywood carefully, often look at the defects of the wood (knots, cracks) and draw conclusions. The difficulty in choosing plywood lies in the fact that no matter how you guess at its defects and shelf life. For example, you bought plywood, cleaned it, translated the drawing and suddenly it began to delaminate. Of course, this has happened to almost everyone and it’s oh, how unpleasant. So it is better to pay attention when choosing and choose good plywood. I wrote a special Article in which all the principles of choosing plywood are described step by step.

Stripping plywood

We clean our plywood with sandpaper. As you already know, “Medium-grained” and “Fine-grained” sandpaper is used for cleaning plywood when sawing. IN construction stores You've probably seen sandpaper (or sandpaper), and that's what we'll need. In your work you will need “Coarse-grained”, “Medium-grained” and “Fine-grained” sandpaper. Each of them has its own property, but a completely different coating, by which it is classified. “Coarse-grained” sandpaper is used for processing rough plywood, i.e. which has many defects, chips, and cracks.
“Medium-grained” sandpaper is used for processing plywood after “Coarse” sandpaper and has a slight coating. “Fine-grained” or otherwise “Nulevka”. This sandpaper serves as the final process for stripping plywood. It gives the plywood smoothness, and therefore the plywood will be pleasant to the touch. Sand the prepared plywood in stages, starting with medium-grain sandpaper and ending with fine sandpaper. Sanding should be done along the layers, not across. A well-polished surface should be flat, completely smooth, glossy in the light and silky to the touch. How best to prepare plywood for sawing and which sandpaper is best to choose Read here. After stripping, check the plywood for burrs and small irregularities. If there are no visible defects, then you can proceed to the process of translating the drawing.

Translation of the drawing

For me, drawing translation has always been the main process in my work. I will tell you a couple of rules, as well as tips for high-quality translation of a drawing. Many people transfer the drawing onto plywood not only using a pencil and copying, but also using “Black Tape”, glue the drawing to the plywood, then wash off the drawing with water and the markings of the drawing remain on the plywood. In general, there are many ways, but I will tell you about the most common method. To transfer the drawing onto prepared plywood, you must use a copy, a ruler, a sharp pencil and a non-writing pen. Fasten the drawing in plywood using buttons or simply hold it with your left hand. Check if the drawing fits the dimensions. Arrange the clock drawing so that you can use a sheet of plywood as economically as possible. Translate the drawing using not writing pen and rulers. There is no need to rush, because your future craft depends on the drawing.

Drilling holes in the parts

As you have already noticed, the parts contain parts of the grooves that need to be cut out from the inside. To cut out such parts, you need to drill holes in them with help hand drill or, the old fashioned way, make holes with an awl. By the way, the diameter of the hole must be at least 1 mm, otherwise you can damage the elements of the drawing, which, alas, are sometimes difficult to restore. To avoid damaging your work table when drilling holes, you must place a board under the workpiece so as not to damage the work table. It is always difficult to drill holes alone, so ask a friend to help you in your task.

Sawing parts

There are many rules for cutting, but you need to stick to the most common ones. The first thing you need to do is cut out internal parts, only then according to the outer pattern. There is no need to rush when cutting. The main thing is to always keep the jigsaw straight at a 90-degree angle when cutting. Cut out the parts along the lines you precisely marked. The movements of the jigsaw should always be smooth up and down. Also, do not forget to monitor your posture. Try to avoid bevels and unevenness. If you go off the line while cutting, don't worry. Such bevels and irregularities can be removed using flat files or “coarse-grained” sandpaper.

Rest

When sawing, we often get tired. Fingers and eyes, which are always tense, often get tired. When working, of course, everyone gets tired. In order to reduce the load, you need to do a couple of exercises. You can view the exercises here. Do the exercises several times during work.

Cleaning Parts

You should always clean the parts of a future craft carefully. At the very beginning of the work, you already sanded the plywood with sandpaper. Now you have to do a small part of stripping the plywood. Using medium-grain sandpaper, sand the edges of the parts and the back of the plywood. “Fine-grained” sandpaper is considered the final stage of cleaning parts. It is better to clean the front part of the parts with fine sandpaper. When processing plywood, take your time. You can also use a rounded file, which is convenient for cleaning the inside of the holes. Try to ensure that the parts come out without burrs or irregularities.

Assembly of parts

Assembling the parts of our craft is not so difficult here. In order to implement correct assembly details You need to read the following Article, which describes in detail all the details of the assembly. After the parts are assembled into one common craft without any problems, then start gluing them.

Gluing the parts

The shelf parts must be glued using PVA or titan glue. You don't need to pour a lot of glue. It is better to tie the assembled craft with glue with a strong thread, tighten it and lay it out to dry. The craft glues together in about 10-15 minutes.

Burning out crafts

To decorate our craft with a pattern (for example, along the edges of the craft), you will need an electric burner. It can be very difficult to burn a pattern beautifully. To burn patterns, you must first draw the pattern with a pencil. You can read how to work with an electric burner and add patterns to a shelf here.

Varnishing crafts

If desired, you can transform our craft by covering it with Wood Varnish, preferably colorless. Read how best to varnish a craft. Try to choose a quality varnish. Varnishing is carried out using a special brush “For glue”. Take your time. Try not to leave visible marks or scratches on the craft.

Homemade children's toys were always interesting. Every toy made for a child has the love and energy that was put into it during construction. It’s not for nothing that children sometimes treat seemingly unsightly toys very carefully.
Currently, there are a lot of different colored and beautiful children's toys in stores, so homemade toys are made very rarely. But the hidden meaning in homemade technical toy This is precisely the process of creating a toy, thinking about it, building it with your own hands using a tool. Moreover, this process takes place together with one of the parents or older brothers and sisters, especially when the children are small and cannot work with the instrument independently; this is both a game and a learning process.
Purchased educational toys(like Lego construction sets) are very good, they allow you to assemble many structures, but the weak link is that everything is assembled from ready-made bricks - we simply fasten these bricks together and get the intended structure.
In such a game, the initial elements of creativity disappear - the choice of materials, processing them by hand using all kinds of tools until the required shape is obtained, fastening by necessary means, achieving the required function.
Therefore, a homemade toy is a truly educational toy.
As children, we were forced to build our own toys and equipment for games. Many of them are undeservedly forgotten. Let's try to remember some homemade toys for boys, let them bring joy to children and their parents.

Wooden reel tractor

This tractor is interesting for boys aged 3 - 7 years. It is made from a spool of thread or, as we called it, a spool.
Indentations are carefully cut out on the wooden cheeks of the katon with a sharp knife - this is a prototype of the tread on wheels or hooks on tracks.

Such hooks allow tractor from a reel crawl unhindered on sofas and pillows.
The basis of the engine is rubber. Its length should be slightly longer than the coil. The best rubber is aircraft model; good rubber can be carefully pulled out of ordinary clothing elastic. Such tires give a large power reserve.

On one side, a small nail or two is driven into the caton. The rubber band can be hooked at one end onto a nail, or you can place a piece of a match behind the nails - then the rubber motor is fixed exactly in the center, which gives an extra half meter of travel.

In order for the rubber to unwind at a low speed, a muff made of rubber is placed between the support stick (or match) and the cheek of the reel. laundry soap.
Its diameter should be slightly smaller than the diameter of the wheel (so as not to interfere with movement), and its thickness should be about a centimeter. A hole with a diameter of 4-5 mm is made in the center, and a small groove is made for the support match.
You can make a muff from bath soap - it is a little softer, or from a candle or ski wax. How softer material clutch, the stronger it brakes and, consequently, the slower the tractor goes.
The assembly and startup of the tractor is shown in the video.

Such a tractor does not damage anything and does not make any sounds. Only the child himself growls a little when he plays.

Toy "Pinocchio with a ring"

This toy is cut out of 4 mm plywood with a jigsaw.
First, a design is applied to the plywood through a copy, then cut out. The edges are sanded, then everything is painted and varnished. Pinocchio is drilled at the end of the nose small hole and a harsh thread 50-70 cm long is tied. A ring with a diameter of 3-7 cm is tied to the end of the thread.
The ring can also be cut out of plywood or you can find a suitable ready-made one.
Holding Pinocchio's profile in your hand, you need to throw the ring up with a jerk of the thread and put it on your nose. The smaller the diameter of the ring, the more difficult it is to do this.
Several people play at once, trying to score as many successful shots as possible in a certain number of attempts.

Working model of a sailboat

While on vacation near the water in the summer, you can have great pleasure in manufacturing and launching small sailing ships.

To make these, you only need to have a sharp knife with you.
Take a suitable piece of dry wood or, even better, pine bark, which is sometimes found on the banks of a river or lake. A knife is used to plan out the hull of a boat - a flat-bottomed boat with a sharp bow and a rounded stern.
The hull is tested for absence of roll.
Then two cuts are made in the hull - one vertical in the middle of the stern to attach the rudder and another cut with the tip of a knife right in the middle of the hull along the grain to attach the mast.
The mast is made of a round twig, light and durable. One end of the twig is sharpened with a spatula and driven into the cut in the middle of the body with the handle of a knife.
The rudder is cut out of a flat piece of wood with a width approximately the thickness of the boat’s hull and a length of approximately one-third of the length of the hull. The steering wheel is also hammered with a knife into a notch at the stern of the hull, and the steering wheel must be completely immersed in water.
The sail is also cut from birch bark using a knife. At the top and bottom the sails are made round holes, with the help of which the sail is carefully placed tightly onto the mast.
It is possible to equip one mast with several sails.

Sails can be made from plastic bottles, and the body is made of foam.
You can build a frigate by equipping the ship with three masts and a large number of sails. The main thing is that it does not turn over due to the weight of the equipment and tolerates pitching well.
After several buildings, experience comes and the ships keep their course well and gain good speed.
If you have several sailboats, you can organize a small regatta for speed and accuracy. It is very convenient when there is a shallow, enclosed body of water where you can practice launches without fear and without losing ships.

Paper airplanes

A child of 5 - 7 years old can usually easily handle scissors, and he is quite capable of building these schematic flying models of airplanes himself.

The best thing paper airplanes are obtained from postcards - they have good thick paper and suitable sizes. The planes hold their shape well and fly well inside the room.

You can cut out models of all kinds of shapes and designs, you can test a flying wing, make two stabilizers, make wings of various sweeps.

Each form of the model has its own flight characteristics, its own flight speed and its own stability in flight.
When building a flying model, it should be taken into account that all the lines of the aircraft must be perfectly straight, that is, the paper should not be crumpled. The folds of the papers are carefully ironed with a fingernail.

The center of gravity of the model should be on the first third of the wing. The angle of attack of the rear wings should be within 15-20 degrees, it is selected experimentally and then obtained automatically.
A well-gliding, low-speed model should come out of a vertical dive with an outstretched arm and smoothly land on the floor. The airplane, launched upward from the floor, makes a loop and makes a soft landing.

Gymnast on the horizontal bar

The base of the toy is an “H”-shaped frame made of two wooden slats, fastened in the middle with a block.
In the upper part of the frame there are two parallel threads, threaded through the holes in the hands of the gymnast figurine in the “feet up” position.
The gymnast figurine is carved from veneer or other thin material.
The gymnast's arms and legs are hinged to the body using a thin wire.
In the initial state, the gymnast hangs on the threads with his feet down, and the threads to his left and right are twisted 180 degrees.
If you now lightly squeeze the lower ends of the crossbar with your hand, the threads at the top will stretch and the gymnast will do a handstand. If at this moment you release the ends of the crossbar, the gymnast will, by inertia, turn over to the other side and the threads will twist again, only in the other direction.
By changing the strength and sharpness of the presses, you can get very interesting pirouettes of the gymnast.

Ship models with rubber motor

Creation boat models with rubber motor, even a very simple one, is already the process of creating technology. There are already shafts, screws and brackets, there is a lot to think about and create.
The simplest ship model is a wooden boat with a rubber motor.

The hull of the boat is planed from a wooden plank, and a deckhouse is made from a suitable block or piece of foam plastic. Next we build a rubber motor.
To operate the screw, we make a bracket with a tube for the shaft from tin (we hammer down a nail) and bend the ears for fastening. The bracket can be attached with nails or small screws.
We cut the screw out of tinned sheet metal, solder an axis from a paper clip in the middle and bend the propeller blades.
Then we put a bead on the axle as a bearing, insert the axle into the bracket and bend the hook.
We hammer a wire hook for an elastic band in front of the body. The rubber motor is made from aircraft model or fishing rubber. The number of rubber bands is selected experimentally. In the free position, the rubber motor should sag by about half the length of the rubber. The ends of the rubber can be covered with threads by inserting rope loops.
The boat's rudder blade should be positioned directly in the center of the propeller. The axis on which the rudder blade is held must ensure that the steering wheel rotates at least 45 degrees, then the model can be launched in an arc.
To make it easier to wind the rubber motor, instead of a hook in the bow of the body, you can install a bow bracket with a fixed handle.
Using a rubber motor, you can build a submarine that can dive to a depth of up to a meter or even more.

In order for a submarine to submerge while moving, it needs depth rudders and very little positive buoyancy. Two pairs of depth rudders are also made of tin.
To regulate buoyancy we use flat lead weights. We ensure that when afloat, only the deckhouse of the boat is visible from the water. The trim should be zero, that is, the boat should not tip down either bow or stern.
Before adjusting buoyancy, the submarine must be painted, otherwise after several launches the wood will get wet and the submarine will go under water forever.
The longer the body of a ship model with a rubber motor, the greater its power reserve. The power reserve is also affected by the quality of the lead screw.

Boomerang frame

Being in nature, you can make a very simple boomerang in two minutes - a frame of five flat wooden slats 20-25 centimeters long.
To do this, the slats are woven according to the drawing. The structure is held in place by bending the slats.
The frame is taken in the hand by the lower part of the central rail and thrown in a vertical position forward and slightly upward, and, like a real boomerang, it lies on its side and, making a circle, returns back.
If it hits a hard object, it falls apart. It's cool, you can collect it again.

Simple car with an electric motor

The simplest car with an electric motor has wooden frame made of plank or plywood, four wheels in pairs on two axles, no steering, direct transmission - from the engine shaft, which is covered with a rubber tube - directly to rubber wheel car.

The point of such a car is to feel the excitement of construction, see the dynamics and power of the electric motor, and learn the basics of electrical engineering.
The wheels of the model are taken ready-made from a suitable toy, the axles are made from bicycle spokes. The axle mounting brackets are cut out of sheet metal and fastened with self-tapping screws or self-tapping screws.
The electric motor is attached with a bracket to the frame.
It would be better to mount the electric motor on a non-rigid elastic loop bracket, then the grip on the wheel will be more reliable.
The vehicle is powered by double wire(from any low voltage adapter). The batteries and the stop-forward-backward switch are assembled in any plastic box of suitable size.
You can play by simply running behind a car, or you can make a circular track and attach a wire in the center of the circle.
By developing your child’s interest, you can work with him to design the speed controller, steering control, and then he himself will design cool driveable car models and disassemble your favorite car.

Cannon made of two cannons

The children's cannon is assembled from 2 wooden rolls.
One of the ends of the first caton is planed straight, leaving the front sight, at the second end the lower edge is cut to the level of the middle, and a sight cutout is made in the upper part. This will be a gun barrel with stitching.
The second caton is used unchanged. These will be the wheels of the cannon.
You also need a piece of lath 2 cm wide and 4-6 mm thick, about one and a half lengths of the caton. This will be a kind of stop and hook for the cleaning rod.

The most difficult part in the cannon is the ramrod. The part that pushes it should be round and fit into the barrel without friction. The length is slightly shorter than the gun barrel.
Rear part: width - along the width of the stop, height at the top 1-2mm, height at the bottom 2-3mm, but so as not to jam when shooting. All edges in contact with the barrel shield (except for the top to avoid injury) must be steep to prevent jamming. The length of the back part is 2.5-3 cm, on the back side there is a small cutout for an elastic band. Material - birch. Pine is also suitable, but more often falls apart when shooting.
The cannon is assembled using sewing threads.
First, a rubber loop is tightly tied with threads at the ends on both sides. Then we tie the stop and immediately tie the lower caton - the wheels - across, tightly tightening the threads crosswise.
We insert the cleaning rod and put the rubber on the back. The gun is ready.
We shoot peas or whatever we find. We cock the ramrod, hook it to the edge of the stop, load the pea, and place it in the shooting position.
Now, if you press your finger on the top of the shield, the cannon will fire.

Bow and arrows

Bow and arrows are acceptable for playing outside the city because an arrow fired from a bow flies relatively far.
This is not a sports bow, but a distant analogue for playing and training with its own techniques and shooting techniques.
Onions are made from flat piece willow trunk with peel or heather (juniper), which is even better. A piece of trunk 50-100 cm long is selected with the necessary rigidity so that there is enough strength to pull the bow.
The bowstring is made from strong nylon thread. the string is tied at the ends of the bow into cut grooves, and is tied in a relaxed state.
In order to tighten the bowstring, they rest one end of the bow on the ground, bend the bow with the other hand and body and wind the bowstring into the groove to the required tension. Therefore, the groove for winding the bowstring should be made deeper with a channel for tensioning.
The arrow is planed with a knife from a strip split off from a flat piece of wood, precisely split off so that the processing with the knife occurs exactly along the grain. Otherwise, the arrow will be impossible to make.

A thick wooden tip is left in the front of the arrow in the form of a thickening, which is rounded so that the arrow cannot cause much damage.
A shallow groove for the bowstring is cut from the back of the arrow. The shooting technique is the most common, the only thing is that with this design, the grip of the arrow shank is not a sporting one - on the bowstring, but a game grip - with two fingers on the arrow shank.

Simple toy self-propelled tank with electric motor

Using approximately the same technology as for a simple car, you can build toy self-propelled tank. It’s even more interesting to play with such a tank, because it can overcome significant obstacles.

Its speed is low, so it is convenient to work with a wired remote control.
Simple design The tank does not provide for its turns, only movement back and forth.
The design of a tank's transmission is much more complex than that of a car. A multi-stage gearbox made from gears from toy cars is used here. You can choose a suitable ready-made gearbox, or you can assemble a simple gearbox yourself.
First you need to select the gears.
The main running gear is tightly hammered or soldered onto the axle. To fasten the gears, nails are selected required diameter and bitten to the desired length.
Take a suitable rectangular block of strong wood. The position of the gear adjacent to the running gear and, accordingly, the position of the bar are tried on.
Then we work separately with the block. We nail the tried-on gear into the marked place, then we try on and nail the next one.
We press the block with the gearbox against the running gear and fasten it to the tank frame with self-tapping screws.

When hammering a small gear onto an electric motor shaft, the second end of the shaft must be rested against an anvil so as not to break the motor.
We press the electric motor gear to the gearbox and secure it with a clamp.
We select the drive shafts and idlers of the tank from unnecessary cars.
There is a bigger problem with rollers. They can be made from playing plastic checkers.
We drill holes with a diameter of 2.5-3 mm in the centers of the checkers, connect the two checkers with their planes inward, tightly thread a suitable piece of PVC tube into the holes and hammer in the axle. If the dimensions are respected, everything holds up perfectly.
We glue the tracks from a strip of rubber from a bicycle inner tube; we can glue rubber lugs, or we can sew wooden ones from matches. The tracks must fit tightly onto the tank rollers. When scrolling the caterpillar, the drive roller can be rubbed with rosin.
Such tracks sometimes fall off during operation, but this can be corrected by restrictive collars on the sloths. In general, there is complete scope for modernization.
Tank superstructures can be glued together from any suitable material.
If you install a separate gearbox with an electric motor on each tank track, you will get a fully functional model. The axles of the rollers and sloths must be replaced with separate axle shafts for each side.
The control unit will also have to be modified to control two engines.

Today we will return to those times when the lack of toys in stores forced children's imagination to work 300%!

We present to your attention a homemade toy - a tractor made from a spool of thread.

To make a classic tractor, you needed a spool of thread, a piece of candle (used as a sliding bearing), an elastic band from curlers or a piece of a bicycle inner tube (in today's realities, it can be replaced with 5-6 pieces of elastic bands from money folded in half) and paste from a ballpoint pen.

In the photo above you can see a hand-made homemade tractor in a classic version. These are the kind of self-propelled toys we had fun with in the 90s. Back then it was much cooler than a bouquet of teddy bears in these days. We raced homemade toy tractors over the rough terrain of the sandbox (this is what large lugs were required for; they were usually cut out kitchen knives). We competed to see how fast we could overcome the track - so the elastic band had to be quite “powerful”. As they moved, homemade toy tractors overcame various obstacles - hills and ditches dug in the sand, rocky terrain made of small pebbles, and so on.

Competitions could take place all day long! The elastic bands from the curlers did not hold the curl well and could easily break with excessive rotation. Or start “slipping in place.”

If you want to make a homemade tractor toy with your own hands, then look at the video below. There, a teenager tries to recreate the technology of an ancient toy.

As you can see, he does it very poorly. Firstly, the elastic band is too weak. As we have already said - in homemade toy In a tractor, you should use more than one spool of thread, but a bunch of rubber bands at once - this will increase the specific power of the rubber motor.

Secondly, the tractor uses a pencil instead of a light pen paste. It is much heavier and therefore the toy tractor moves at a very slow speed.

Do the same, but use pen paste and 6 money rubber bands folded in half, your tractor will just take off with a slip! If the start is made on sand, then you will be able to observe emissions from under the wheels!

Have fun playing with your homemade toy!

Noflik comments:

Instead of a candle, you can now use a couple of fluoroplastic washers!
It is very slippery, especially with each other, and does not wear out, unlike a candle!

This is a great gift for a little boy 4-5 years old! Moreover, knowing that my dad made the toy, it will be valued much more than the Chinese ones :) I made it myself, with my own hands from scrap material, in the garage. Of course, it is not perfect, but they put all the care into it, which is not the case with ordinary toys. I made it from plywood of different thicknesses.

What was needed:

• plywood
• wooden dowels (as I call them)
• concentrated pva glue
• sandpaper

First of all, we make the wheels. They are made very simply if you have a special attachment for the drill. If not, it will do manual jigsaw with a thin blade. Then you will have to remember the lessons of your labors at school.

We grind the wheels so that the edges are even and smooth.

Two wheels (rear) should be one and a half times larger than the other two (front). We also cut out the body of our future tractor from plywood. Sanding the edges.

We make a hole in the body for the front wheel stand.

We install the wheels on the front axle.

The rear axle is a little more complicated. Need to make a hole seat _ in the middle of a wooden roundel.

This way the axis is recessed a little, which is what we need. Just as in the case of wheels, we also produce a steering wheel with a steering rack. We attach everything with PVA glue.

We install an exhaust pipe from the so-called “wooden dowel”. We clean all surfaces. Ready!

Thank you for your attention!