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 ...

It's nothing but a number for Ed Higinbotham. For yet another year, the 95-year-old has made and donated hundreds of wooden toys to make sure children across the Commonwealth have something to play ...

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 ...

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 ...

Building wood toys is a classic hobby. This step-by-step wood and wire maze design builds easy wooden toys to make for gifts. Toward the end of the first year of life, a child climbs up on two feet ...

A group of volunteers in Nevada has made 2,000 wooden toys by hand this year for children in need. JD Vance responds to ...

UNIONTOWN — Ed Higin­botham enjoys making children happy but shrugs off any notion he might be Santa. “I love it. I don’t play Santa Claus, but I give the toys to them and they can distribute them,” ...

Two years ago, Robert Greenberg was in his car making a beeline to Buckhead to visit his grandkids, when he heard a radio ad for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite hospital. It was ...

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 ...

Toys are big business; from births and birthdays to seasonal holidays such as Christmas, Kwanza and Hanukkah, children receive a wide variety of toys. If you're crafty with wood and have a passion for ...