Though far from being the most extravagant of gifts, these blocks may have been the most colorful. As early as the 1820s, English toy makers cut prints into pieces and glued them onto sets of ...

A nice example of this is Tunbridgeware (produced in Kent, England in the 1800s), wooden box covers adorned with colorful pictures and designs that were created using small pieces of different ...

These DIY wooden blocks were an "all hands in" activity. An adult cut the wood, my big kids sanded, my little kids painted, ... I gave my kids an array of colourful acrylic paints, ...