KELLOGG, Minn. — Create with magical thoughts and hum gibberish. It’s the advice one of Santa Claus’ fictional elves shares with a gnome stuck on making useful items rather than the bright, dancing ...

If you’re in college right now, chances are you spent your childhood playing with the blocks and puzzles from the brand Melissa & Doug. Now, when you step into your university bookstore, it will be ...

CHICAGO — A classroom on Chicago’s West Side has morphed into a full-on wood toy workshop. The assignment in Peter LeGrand’s Proviso Area for Exceptional Children is to build a toy, with love, for ...