Process

  My approach to the project was to try to make the toys as simple as possible. I didn't want the toys to have to come with instructions because I wanted the children to figure out how to play with it easily. I also didn't want small parts since there's typically a choking hazard associated with such pieces. The challenge was making a toy that children would want to play with, would teach them, and hadn't already been made. It seemed as if every good idea had already been taken. In order to overcome this, I chose to sort of machine gun ideas out with little thought to their viability. This way, my brainstorming would be uninhibited and I could pare the list down later on, rejecting dangerous, non-viable, and already existing ideas.