CHILDRENS TOY PROJECT

THE BRIEF

The project requires you to use your creativity to design and create a simple, polymer-based toy for a 5-6-year-old child with mechanical (not electronic) movement or action.

FINDINGS

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES 5-6 YEAR OLDS

  • Develop empathy and awareness of behaviour's impact.

  • Expand vocabulary and sentence structure.

  • Understand space, time, and directions.

  • Build self-confidence and mastery in learning.

  • Key stage for reading, writing, and reasoning.

  • Perform basic math (addition/subtraction).

  • Distinguish fantasy from reality.

  • Improve memory, attention, and impulse control.

DESIGN SPECIFICATION

Aesthetics - Research shows children respond best to blue, pink, yellow, and green. I should prioritise these colours in my product design.

Materials - The material should be polymer-based, as per the brief. HDPE or LDPE are ideal due to their flexibility, toughness, and resistance to corrosion and weather.

Function - The product should entertain 5-6 year olds with a kinetic function, follow colour theory, and meet safety standards.

INITIAL SKETCHING

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SKETCH DEVELOPMENT

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FINAL RENDERS

The final design, a series of removable and replaceable construction toppers that sit on top of a set of tracks. Children are able to chop and change the style of their toy depending on the world they’re trying to build, the first three toppers being a pickup truck, a crane and a bulldozer, all with a mechanical function.

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