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Construction Toys

Join our Construction Toys World now to get tutorials on making cool things out of your building blocks and construction sets at home, from K'Nex to LEGOs to Tinkertoys and beyond. If you've built something mechanically awesome, make sure to share the design with the rest of the builders out there!

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May 21, 2011

Korean MOC Pages user Kyoung-bae Na, aka edulyoung, constructed this beautiful LEGO automaton of a winged Pegasus. Maneuvered with a series of mechanical LEGO gears and cranks, watch below as Pegasus ...

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May 3, 2011

Can you feel your inner Dennis the Menace trying to get out? Trying to recreate the early 90s bad boy Bart Simpson look? Watch these videos to learn how to make yourself a slingshot. This slingshot is ...

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May 1, 2011

So very pointless, yet unquestionably spectacular. The best kind of "art" performs no other function than to delight the viewer, and Japanese YouTube user Denha's complex marble machines do just that. ...

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Mar 19, 2011

SuppliesYou will need to have the correct supplies: Hairspray bottle or insect repellent ToothpickSmall birthday candleLighter/matchTape, super glue, or gorilla glue (anything that has strong sticking ...

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Mar 9, 2011

Are you looking to build a cool home science experiement? Why not try out a Stirling engine? Wait, what IS a stirling engine? Well... a Stirling engine is a heat engine operating by cyclic compression ...

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Feb 19, 2011

Making a home-made hash-pipe is easy as you please with this 4 piece 1 minute to make design =) Materials needed are:Empty 2 Liter Coke bottle shot glass shallow bowl or large saucer and scissors or a ...

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Feb 17, 2011

Here at WonderHowTo, we know a good ideogram when we see one! That's why we're so fond of the these LEGO sculptures by Flickr user Empress of Blandings: ...

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Feb 8, 2011

Here's a fun little hack you can try at home with your kids.  The purpose of this tutorial is to teach you how to make this fun toy gun.  It's a very simple and economical project. Tools and Materials ...

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Feb 3, 2011

Mike Doyle's latest LEGO house (perhaps even more hauntingly beautiful than the last) is a Victorian mansion that transcends the material so effectively, the plastic reads like real rotting bricks and ...

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Jan 28, 2011

Paul Yperman, you've got some competition (see previous entry, Star Wars LEGO Droid Ship). 15-year old Sven Junga's LEGO Stargate diorama (including a Daedalus from Stargate Atlantis) is nothing to sh ...