Market Day Animals Accessories

 

Challenge: Creation of original accessories to add depth to flexi-animals for market day.

Background: As part of the market day the students are using the Snapmaker printer to create a range of flexi-animals for sale.   The question has been what is the content that the students can create that is original but fits in with style and design of the animal.   Originally the students were looking to manufacture and design a to scale accessory, however following a discussion about the viability of this the students decided to opt for 'comedy' accessories or accessories that were super sized but didn't necessarily stay true to scale, hence the size of the bone shown.     The other item clearly shown here is the dog bowl which is complete with food.  Both are created using Tinkercad - the students were able to identify the items, the theme was related to the animal.   The label was created from logomaker.com and the only other aspect that needs to be explained is the movie or the information.   This was created via a QR code which is on the reverse of the label

Level of Difficulty: Low - student was able to produce the bone and bowl from the basic interface in five minutes and was printed without any adjustment.

Size: The bone was 50mm across, 20mm wide and 10mm high.   These dimensions focussed on producing something not too small.   The food bowl was 25 across and 8mm high.   

Timeframe: Using the Snapmaker twenty minutes from start to finish for each.

What we would do differently/next steps for students: Spray painting and working out a way to add the small details with the print.

The students reasoned that the same accessories for the dog would work with the Tiger, as shown left.   Perhaps something more unique could be designed but overall very happy with the result.