Market Day Exemplars: Bag Tags

 

Challenge: Using creativity, innovation and personalisation students from a Y3/4 classroom create a unique product for our school market day.

Background: One group opted to look at something that they could design, would work with a degree of certainty produce in significant numbers relatively quickly.

The design brief centred around producing personalised tags for bags following the name badge/key ring example that has been featured many times on this blog.  The students thought that by personalising a number of the items with names of local sports teams or generic term that they would be able to create interest in their designs.   They also opted to use 'super' glow-in-the-dark filament as a further example of themselves thinking about something that might be eye catching or a point of difference.

Level of Difficulty: Low.  This is a basic version that requires some tinkering however it is usually the first task that we attempt to allow students to create - it has proven to be a nice simple introductory task for students and we have been able to replicate it since some of the very first prints on this blog ten years ago.   It was also possible to use the Snapmaker printers to complete this task while our newer machine (the Bambu H2D) was able to concentrate on larger or more complicated projects.

Another positive from the process was that the students developed their own template for this design and were able to adapt it to their preorders very easily so once the concept of having the letters sunken into the design was decided on they were just looking at some small additional changes to each design.

Size: There was obvious variation from the different designs a typical square design shown left was 100mm by 100mm with the smaller rectangular designs being reflected in their size.

Cost Profit: Again there was some variation however the basic square designs were determined on a $30.00 NZD basis to be costing $0.80c to produce and were sold for $3.00 making a basic profit of $2.20 per unit.   The vast majority of these units sold.  We did not opt to charge extra for the glow-in-the-dark filament.

Timeframe: Essentially one hour although there was slight variation on the size of the prints.   This was using the Snapmaker printers, using the newer Bambu model we would have expected this to be reduced in half.   Practically the students had the size of these items about right, potentially as a keyring they could have been smaller (about half of the size) as was created by students as general stock items filler to ensure that there were additional items that could be sold.

What we would do differently/next steps for the students: Each of the student groups was developing their own business items and items, while this group met a number of key points that met the brief of this project the students opted for a safe design and process that they knew they could complete and something that we have worked successfully with younger students (as these students are seven and eight years old).  Ideally they could have developed this further.