Toy villages have always been popular playthings with children. This easy-to-assemble model is sure to provide youngsters with hours of stimulating and educational activity as they re-create traditional features of American small-town life.

Specially designed for young children (ages four to ten), the village includes a bell-topped clapboard schoolhouse, a large brown-shuttered home and a smaller shingled house, a large white church with arching stained glass windows, an all-important firehouse complete with hose and ladders, and a brick-faced general store, its striped awning lowered over well-stocked storefront windows. All provide a delightful background for village activities: shopping, working about the firehouse and general store, delivering the mail, playing in the schoolyard, gardening, kite flying and chatting with friends outside church or at home.

Young model builders old enough to use scissors and glue will find the instructions for cutting and folding each building easy to follow (with perhaps a little help from a parent or teacher), while two exploded diagrams provide additional construction help. Youngsters can add their own toy figures, cars, trains, shrubbery and other objects to create their very own charming playtime village.

Original Dover (1987) publication. Introduction and instructions. Exploded diagrams. 6 full-color plates. 16pp. printed one side only. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4. Paperbound.