For Pet Day 2026 our students across the school developed a range of ideas. For our students in Room Two and Room Three, the senior classrooms with Year 7 and Year 8 students there was an overall theme of a 'Fairy Village' of recycled designs and fantastical village designs.
Our students took the opportunity to use these backgrounds for some creativity involving the use of Tinkercad (for its ability to design and create) and specifically the Tinkercad App and their iPads (which have the ability to project an image onto another location or place). There are many examples of this process shown here on this blog which you can click on the link here or use the search bar top right and use the rag AR/VR.
Our students were given a tour of the displays and then asked to select something suitable that wouldn't look completely out of place in the display. We then took our technology to the classrooms display and completed the projection process. This took a few minutes as we had pre-prepared the designs or selected designs that we felt would work well.
One example was the process using the frog from the
main Tinkercad interface. This design has appeared on our blog in the past, as its one of our
giant sized AR/VR figures that we showed off in February of this year.
Once the image had been snapped we weren't quite finished, the AR/VR process produces some creative designs but we have also for a number of years now then used additional apps to further enhance or alter the image that has been created. Pic Collage has been a firm favourite with the ability to take the students image and use a variety of filters and now AR tools to change the image. In the example shown left you can see the screenshot taken by the student in the process of then applying a filter which in this case was the B/W Pencil filter. The student has then selected the frog and re-generated this part of the image so its stands out. From here the final part of the process would be to crop the picture, although as it has been shown here you can see the design page from the Pic Collage app.
This image is another version of the same process - the student has open up the relatively new feature of the AI powered editing process whereby using prompts and writing the picture can undergo further developments and changes.
In this example shown left the frog is visible to the top right of the small pond, which is in a different location to the original as the student was experimenting with the best way to hide or place the frog striking a balance between placing it somewhere were it could be located to having it somewhere which look natural.
The entire process for this was completed in a single block of time which from start to finish was twenty five minutes by a nine year old working under classroom supervision with the teacher. There was no input into the creation or design process as the student was capable and able to complete it themselves.
In the image shown left the student used their creativity with a number of factors - they took a phot of their hand holding a bug, which they then regenerated and used the fairy village as the background.
Again this is a screenshot from the Pic Collage app so you can see how the students have applied the idea and the creativity and how it could be used in the classroom. Obviously this is another example of using the design process that is provided by
Tinkercad and applying it in a sense where a 3D Printed project is not the object - in this case it is the image which can then be used for a variety of purposes such as a display (or a colouring in page that is unique and specific to the students).
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