No long white beard or a stuffy red suit, you could just call Army veteran Wayne Sparks a modern day Santa Claus.

“Why do you like to give stuff to people that you don’t know?” he laughed. “Why not? It makes them happy.”

Making people happy is a motive that has pushed the 71 year old to turn two of his garages into a toy workshop.

Sparks makes the toys himself and donates it to Shriner’s Hospital for Children in Tampa.

“I can see the kids’ faces, cause the lady said whenever kids see the toys on the table, they always go to yours first and that really made my day,” said Sparks.

And despite not feeling his feet and relying on an oxygen tank to breath, Wayne makes 10 wooden toys a day and spends an average of 45 minutes on each.

“It’s just enjoyment, what else you know? I don’t get anything out anything out of this at all no IRS or anything,” said Sparks.

Last year Wayne donated 3,000 toys to Shriner’s hospital and so far this year he’s already sent a thousand. To Sparks, its toys that aren’t wooden parts glued together, but wide smiles in the making.