If your old ‘convince the grandkids to sit here and crank this handle for three hours’ bucket-style ice cream maker breaks down and you don’t wanna spring for a newfangled electric model, you might be ...

If you decide to try this week’s project and your mother asks what you’re making, tell her, “It’s a yo-yo, Ma.” OK, we apologize, but the chance to make a pun like that one doesn’t come along every ...

HONG KONG (Jan. 26, 1:30 p.m. ET) — The classic American plastic yo-yo is becoming big business in China. With savvy promotion by Chinese toy companies, the market has grown from barely a blip six ...

The classic American plastic yo-yo is becoming big business in China. With savvy promotion by Chinese toy companies, the market has grown from barely a blip six years ago to one of the largest, with ...

BURLINGTON - The Spinning Top Museum, 533 Milwaukee Ave., is offering tours to celebrate the birthday of Donald Duncan the famous yo-yo maker. National Yo-Yo Day tours will be held at 2:30 p.m. today, ...

Got an extra 400 bucks? How about spending it on a yo-yo? A really nice yo-yo, a state-of-the-art, forged-magnesium-alloy, ultralong-spinning yo-yo. Later this year, Duncan Toys, a seller of ...

Saturday was the first time that Kathleen Hankinson, 12, a member of the high-tech generation, had ever played with a toy as low-tech as a yo-yo. It took only a few minutes, however, for Kathleen and ...

When I was in second grade, Duncan, the well-known yo-yo maker, came to my school with a cadre of talented teenagers in tow. They shot the moon, walked the dog, and cats cradled their way into my ...