Toy with staggering motion

A toy comprising a vertically disposed, transverse, downwardly opening inverted U-shaped rigid frame having an eye in its central upper portion, a hollow body of soft cellular plastic material mounted on said frame and having a hole registering with said eye, said body being of inverted U-shaped transverse cross section conforming to said frame and being open at its bottom with a skirt portion extending down below said frame, said frame being disposed transversely of said body approximately midway between forward and rear ends of said body and conforming to a median transverse cross section of said body, means securing said body to said frame above the lower ends of said frame while leaving lower ends of said frame free of said body, a rubber band extending between the free lower ends of said frame, a spool having an axial bore through which said rubber band extends whereby said spool is rotatably supported by said rubber band, a string wound around said spool and extending up through said eye of said frame and registering hole in said body and a finger grip on said string above said body, whereby if said toy is held above the floor and released while the finger grip is held, the toy drops to the floor and the string in unwinding from said spool rotates said spool to wind-up said rubber band which thereupon rotates the spool in the opposite direction to propel the toy along the floor.