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 ...

Ten years ago, when people came into the Toy Chest in Nashville, Indiana, they would often gravitate toward loud, bright toys and ignore the quieter ones. Back then, “I would get a lot more, ‘Oh, no, ...

You don’t have to be a child to enjoy Seiffen, the magical ‘home of Christmas’ where they’ve been making traditional wooden toys for hundreds of years I feel terrible … I’ve left the children at home ...