Challenge: To use
Tinkercad and
scribble to create a unique decoration/cookie cutter.
Background: During Christmas 2025 we had a range of projects that we were working on as the year came to an end. We also wanted to look at projects that students could complete independently and also potentially festive, and this design was made as part of the cookie cutter challenge for our students.
While some students had worked on complex designs including versions that included handles, such as the examples that were shown in these posts. This student is a skilled designer and was able to consistently able to produce creations and prints of the highest quality. This design was deliberately kept as simple as possible by the student - balancing the shape and the viability of the design. This was created in under ten minutes by a seven year old student.
This would be an ideal introductory task for a student starting to work on a 3D Printing challenge. It was completed with an iPad and followed a similar process to some of our earlier design. The student wanted to consider using this design as also a bunting -
hence the reason that it was printed using super glow in the dark PLA.
Level of Difficulty: Low. This would be a basic introductory task for someone with students starting 3D Printing if you are a teacher looking for a first step with 3D Printing this would be a great place to start.
Size: This print was 60mm high, 50mm wide and 10mm thick. This was quite a small design however it could easily be up-scaled to something similar. Resizing would have taken the student just a few seconds to drag and drop the design.
Cost: We made a conscious decision to use the
Bambu H2D printer to complete this task as potentially we would be producing a number of prints (if this would be used as bunting or a decoration). By using the
Bambu inbuilt software we can determine that this print used
6.5g of filament and this was determined to cost $0.16 per produce per unit. It would have been slightly higher had non glow-in-the-dark PLA used.
Timeframe: Twenty minutes using the
Bambu H2D. Had we used one of the schools
Snapmaker the print would have been successful but would have taken twice the time.
What we would do differently/next steps for the students: This was a straight-forward task with a basic simple outcome that was easily completed, although potentially the student could have placed more emphasis on the details involved in the silhouette however this wouldn't necessarily have translated to a better final product.
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