Ch. 1. Neighborhood shenanigans -- Handcar made of pipe and fittings -- Homemade roller skates -- Ski-skates -- Beginner's helper for roller skating -- Sail for a boy's wagon -- Children's adjustable pushcart -- Skate-wheel scooter -- How to make a cyclemobile -- How to make a flymobile -- Coasting in a sidewalk jeep -- A boy's motor car -- Touring in the auto: the land cruiser -- How to make a trailer for a bicycle -- How to attach a sail to a bicycle -- How to make a ferris wheel -- Backyard merry-go-round for children -- Sailing merry-go-round -- A daddy built backyard slide -- A homemade roller coaster -- Kiddie roller coaster. Ch. 2. Aquatic pursuits for the budding sailor -- How to make a water bicycle -- Build yourself a water sprite -- Feathercraft gives new sport to swimmers -- Buoyant one-man raft -- Making a catamaran raft -- How to make a homemade punt -- How to build a "pushboat" -- Portable foldin boat -- A rowboat goes sailing -- How to build a paddle-wheel boat -- Motorcycle-powered catamaran -- How to make a crusing catamaran -- How to make a canoe -- Speedy kayak with light but sturdy frame -- Boat for your outboard motor -- Model paddle-wheel boats -- Spring-propelled toy boat -- A spring-driven toy boat -- Making a toy water "scooter" -- A toy water plane -- How to make a "swimming johnny" -- How to make a "water skate" -- Building model boat hulls -- Webfoot attachments for swimmers. Ch. 3. Whiz-bang winter sports -- Coasters and chair-sleighs -- Folding chair-sleigh -- Handsled made of pipe and fittings -- The Norwegian ski -- How to make a monorail sled -- An inexpensive bobsled -- A homemade Yankee bobsled -- The toboggan sled -- Making a coasting toboggan -- How to build a toboggansled -- Rudder for a toboggan -- Four-passenger coasting bobsled -- A motorcycle bobsled -- Making skis and ski-toboggans -- A ski sled -- The running sleigh -- Rocker blocks on coaster sleds -- An ice glider -- Skates made of wood -- How to make skating shoes -- The winged skater -- Ice boating -- How to build an ice yacht. Ch. 4. Go-go gadgets and games -- An Austrian top -- Wild top -- Perpetual whirligig -- Musical merry-go-round -- A musical windmill -- Motor-driven entertainer for the baby -- A toy farm tractor -- A toy tractor built with dry cell and motor -- Hopping rabbit and walking duck -- Cattle train in the nursery -- How to make a wiggling pup -- The racing greyhounds -- Regulation size tennis table -- Balloon-powered action toys are amusing -- A miniature fighting tank taht hurdles trenches -- Homemade electric-locomotive model and track system: the motor, the locomotive and cab, the track system. Ch. 5. Science in motion --Hand operated whirling fan -- How to make a windmill -- How to make a miniature windmill -- How to make a stationary windmill -- A power windmill -- Toy sand engine -- How to make a toy steam engine -- A small hydraulic turbine -- An electrical dancer -- Quickly made toy electric motor -- Four toy motors convey basic ideas -- How to make a small electrical motor -- Disk-armature motor -- How to make a small single-phase induction motor -- A simple motor controller.