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    Making Wooden Dinosaur Toys and Puzzles: Jurassic Giants to Make and Play With
    Making Wooden Dinosaur Toys and Puzzles: Jurassic Giants to Make and Play With
    Making Wooden Dinosaur Toys and Puzzles: Jurassic Giants to Make and Play With
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    Making Wooden Dinosaur Toys and Puzzles: Jurassic Giants to Make and Play With

    By Judy Peterson and Dave Peterson

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    Create exciting wooden puzzles and toys of dinosaurs to delight a special child in your life! Thirty-eight original scroll saw patterns cover all of the most popular species, from Velociraptor and Stegosaurus to Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex. Two spectacular puzzle dioramas feature a Maiasaur mama with her babies, and a T-Rex on the attack.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFox Chapel Publishing
    Release dateDec 1, 2018
    ISBN9781607654209
    Making Wooden Dinosaur Toys and Puzzles: Jurassic Giants to Make and Play With
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    Judy Peterson

    A former schoolteacher and librarian, Judy Peterson found her niche in life as a woodworker. She bought her first saw in 1990 and, within the first six months, was cutting and creating her own designs. A winner of many design awards, Judy now sells her puzzles at science fiction convention art shows around the country. Together with her husband, she has written numerous articles for Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts. In her spare time, Judy reads, keeps track of politics on TV, gardens, cooks, turns bowls on her lathe, puts together other people’s flat puzzles, and plays duplicate bridge. Fox Chapel Publishing published their first book, Dinosaur Puzzles for the Scroll Saw, in 2002, and their second and third books, Fantasy & Legend Puzzles for the Scroll Saw, and Animal Puzzles for the Scroll Saw in 2005, Zodiac Puzzles for Scroll Saw Woodworking, and Making Wooden Dinosaur Toys and Puzzles (a revision and expansion of book one). 

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      Making Wooden Dinosaur Toys and Puzzles - Judy Peterson

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      INTRODUCTION

      WHY DINOS?

      I discovered at age 50 that I liked dinosaurs again. I had already designed quite a few puzzles and decided to try my hand at dinosaurs. While this book contains 63 patterns, there are only 27 different dinosaur species represented. That’s because I do more than one version of the better-known dinos. For example, there are five Tyrannosaurus Rex patterns (the Toy Rex, the easy Baby Rex, the intermediate 6-piece version, the advanced 10-piece version, plus the one that appears in a puzzle titled In the Cretaceous, the largest puzzle in the book).

      How complicated should a puzzle be for a preschooler? This question is important to someone who makes puzzles for a living. It’s important to someone who’s making a puzzle for a child, too. The rule of thumb I use is age plus one piece. This varies with the child. The more dexterous the child, and/or the more experience the child has with puzzles, the more complicated the puzzle can be.

      However, if you’d like to create a piece that won’t cause parents any anxiety, you can also cut out a toy version of the puzzle. The toy is almost exactly the same as the puzzle, it just doesn’t break into pieces.

      Many of the dinosaurs in this book are not well known. That’s why we’ve included a little information about each one on the patterns. This is intended to level the playing field for those of you who are making one or more of these puzzles for a child. Chances are good the child will already know about most of them.

      WHY PUZZLES?

      I like puzzles! These days when I’m not making my own puzzles, I’m likely to be doing someone else’s. In 1989 my family and I made our annual trek to a nearby Renaissance Faire. As a souvenir I bought a five-piece rabbit puzzle. While it was attractive, it was not interlocking, so you really couldn’t handle it.

      The first thing I cut out when I brought home my first scroll saw—a wonderful new toy—was a three-piece rabbit. When I began designing my own puzzles, I decided all of them would be interlocking.

      The puzzles in this book reflect that decision I made in 1990: all of these puzzles are interlocking. That means that once you have them in a standing position you can pick them up by any piece and turn them completely around without having them fall apart (but use caution with the Maiasaura). You can, that is, as long as you don’t tip

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