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by Dwight Urban Bartholomew

Introduction

The pecking chickens toy has been around for at least a century. It is the kind of toy that, once picked up, is difficult to put down.

It's most attractive properties are:

It's manually operated
Requires some hand/eye coordination; i.e., challenging
The chickens dance
Pleasing to the eyes
It makes a rhythmic noise
Percussion reaches into your inner primal mind
It's intriguingly mechanical
"How does it work?"

This web page describes how to make the toy; from it's most basic design to more complex variations. For simplicity, the designs are given without scale or exact measurements.

This Web Page was Last Updated: 11/26/2002
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