Toyineer

Printable PDF blueprints for 18 mechanical toys

The Toyineer blueprint pack

Blueprints and illustrated assembly instructions for 18 mechanical toys, in one PDF download. Download them, print them at home and start building today.

Each toy is about one 90-minute sitting when we build the tiers in order, and each sitting ends with a finished toy. All 18 add up to more than 20 hours of building, before any painting and decorating.

Best for Grades 4 to 6 (ages 9 to 12). Older students and adults enjoy the higher tiers.

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Slipwing, Crafting Tier 6

What's in the pack

The files

  • Blueprint PDFs for all 18 toys: 56 pages
  • Illustrated assembly PDFs for all 18 toys: 104 pages
  • A choice of Letter or A4
  • A unique license number on every page

The toys

  • Vanisher hides a small treasure in a trunk whose lid fits so snugly it seems to disappear.
  • Gotcha Box tricks whoever opens it: a puzzling box whose sliding drawer doesn’t do what you expect.
  • Anglewing flaps its wings on flexure hinges: a first flying creature to build.
  • Turtle Taxi carries a tiny passenger in the seat of its shell.
  • Two Tale Pocket Theater switches between two pictures in its window when you tilt the rocker.
  • Mimic Vault guards a secret: lift the creature’s hinged head to find the vault inside.
  • Ghost Drawer holds the drawer in mid air, yet it doesn’t rock or slide out.
  • Boing Beast bounces on springy folded legs and swaps moods with two masks.
  • Bird Bus struts on hinged legs with a saddle for a sturdy rider.
  • Racket Rocker beats a drum: rock the handle and a connecting rod swings the drumstick.
  • Cross Knot Puzzler challenges you to lock its burr pieces into a knot, then get them apart again.
  • Treasure Eater gobbles jewels and coins: a creature-shaped coin bank that stores them in its belly.
  • Clunk Safe locks with a real sliding bolt: a working safe to build.
  • Antic Acrobat bends into poses on jointed arms and legs, with four mood masks to swap.
  • Bug Eyed Talker chatters: work the lever and its mouth snaps open under two bulging eyes.
  • Slipwing sweeps its wings when you work its tail, driven by a double slider-rocker linkage.
  • Magic Box vanishes a stone: shut the drawer and a trap door lifts it into a secret chamber.
  • Wake Up Dragon snaps awake when you rotate its rocker: his eyes open, his ears pop up and he laughs.

What we need at home

  • Printer and paperLetter or A4, printed at 100%
  • A cereal boxor any other thin carton
  • Glueto stick the blueprints to the carton
  • Scissorsto cut the black lines
  • A rulerto fold the red lines

How it works

  1. Print the blueprints

    Print on regular paper at 100% scale. Every blueprint page has a 100 mm bar so we can check the size.

  2. Glue them to a carton

    Glue each sheet onto the printed side of a cereal box or other carton.

  3. Cut the black lines

    Solid black lines are cut lines.

  4. Fold the red lines

    Lay a ruler along each red dashed line and fold against its edge.

  5. Assemble our toy

    Follow the illustrated assembly pages, part by part, until the mechanism moves.