These handmade toys and games are meant for little hands to enjoy -- but children can lend a hand with the construction, too.

Kids don't need to pull any strings to find puppets eager to put on a show. In fact, they can make the chatty creatures themselves with paper.

Old blocks are delightfully seaworthy. You and your deckhands can glue, paint, and decorate them, and -- splash! -- you're now the owner of a new boat.

All your young rockstar needs to jam on this guitar is a small matchbox, cardboard, and rubber bands.

Transform a plain cardboard box into a playhouse with curtains, moving scenery, and doors that open and close for each act, then use our animal templates to make puppets.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to build one of these spacecrafts. All you'll need is cardboard, glue, tape, and a big dose of aeronautic creativity.

Young children can't resist miniature appliances -- even when they're made out of cardboard. Create this toy oven using materials found around your home.

Keep kids entertained for hours with this colorful memory game -- complete with a custom holding case.

Engage toddlers and young children for hours with these painted, papier-mache pull toy animals.

In pioneer days, this classic climbing monkey toy would have helped kids learn a valuable life skill: how to milk a cow.

This little piggy (bank) started off at the market as a bleach bottle, but now it serves as a container for kids' pocket change.

Help your budding musician create a banjo using a shoe box, mailing tube, pencils, and rubber bands.

Captivate little ones with these easy-to-make polar bear and muskox shadow puppets.

Kids who make their own portable checkerboard will have a game to play almost anywhere.

Make an adorable pair of boy and girl dolls from simple pairs of gloves.

Flattened metal bottle caps become music makers when affixed to paper plates.

Make a menagerie of felted friends for your little ones.

Clear some floor space and roll out an indoor hopscotch mat made of canvas.

Let kids help design and paint playscapes -- city, country, and home -- for their homemade play table.