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Creative Toy Project

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In Semester 1 of Year 10 I had the privilege to work on a creative toy task, which was a task in which my team and I had to design and create a sellable toy for kids under the ages 4-6. Whilst I still haven’t created the toys yet, this was my planning process.

Past Entrepneurship Experience

Entrepneurship is the act of the creating, launching and managing a business. Coming into this class I have experience from $20 boss and Year 7 Christmas Market. These built foundations for the many skills and abilities I wanted to exercise in this course. These skills included collaboration, communication, creativity, self management and problem solving skills.

Strengths and Passions

First Task was to evaluate my strengths and passions which will allow me to develop a clear Idea of possible products and toys I could consider to make. After some quizzes and self reflection, this is the outcome I have got.

My strengths

Passions:

  1. Basketball
  2. Reading
  3. Watching videos online
  4. Swimming(casually)
  5. Music( drums and piano)

Whilst this gave me some development, I was still lost on what product to make so Mr Mayhills guided me to make a vision board.

By connecting my strengths and weaknesses I could develop a clear idea of which products I can strive towards as I will be good and passionate at designing those.

Design thinking process

Implementing a design thinking process was vital in order to devise a creative toy for children. We needed to first apply empathy and put ourselves in a perspective of a 4-6 year old. Doing this we can develop a persona of their wants, needs and desires. To assist with this we have developed a vision board and set-up an interview with Miss Mano(the early childhood learning teacher)

Vision Board

Vision boards are used in the business world in order to overwhelm them with ideas with the hope that one shoots up. After searching on multiple website, this was the outcome.

 

Interview

In order to make a product that customers will enjoy we are going to conduct an interview with early learning care teach Ms Mano in order to gain a better understanding of the toys our consumers will enjoy.

We split into different groups so we could have a large variety of questions. Here is my groups questions

  1. What are the most played with toys in the Early Learning Centre?
  2. What are you hoping the kids will learn via toys ?
  3. What kinds of toys do the teacher encourage the children to play with ?
  4. Can the children share toys effectively. If/when they do, do they enjoy it more?
  5. What are the students favourite topics to learn
  6. What do the kids enjoy the most in the classroom

Where do we go from here?

With plans to complete the interview soon, we should have developed a clear persona of our target audience, the next stage being designing prototypes for toys, further developing the idea we think has the greatest potential, learn our way through the woodwork room and start creating our toys.


Photo of us learning about the woodwork room
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EMPATHY:

Empathy is a complicated word, many people say definitions like walking in people shoes and all those things, but I think it is more than feeling what people feel, I believe that learning empathy is not trying to teach to feel what people are feeling and instead teaching you to act on the situation and do something about it. Yes you might see a homeless man on the road, yes you may have felt for them, but I think in order to live by our college vision, we have to act and reflect. Change doesn’t come from pity, it comes from acting. This is why I feel the christmas appeal is important to take advantage of. So to conclude my thoughts of empathy, don’t be a bystander, don’t just pity and hope that isn’t you, get out and do something about it.

Critical thinking:

I think critical thinking critically and seeing ahead and finding out and discovering about our world. Our recent science unit has taught me how big the universe really is and I now know why critical thinking is important

Responsibility:

I think responsibility is owning up. Don’t see punishment as punishment, see it as a chance to learn something. Recognize your mistakes and learn from them rather than live a lie. That is my take on responsibility

Respect:

Respect is treating people well and what they deserve, yes respect is earned but it is always good to show kindness. The RAP movie we watched connect back to this. One act of random kindness.