by Olivia Wang

One of the themes of our class in this semester is to make Christmas gifts for the kids in the second grade of 青山國小. During the period we have a video chat with kids to understand what they interesting about. We will use the Information that we get to make the first step of design the toy.

Before we talk to them, we designed a few questions. When designing the questions, we tried our best to make the questions tactful. For example, change “What color do you like?” into “What is color of your favorite toy?”, “What color do you have the most of your clothes?” ……the reason why we do that. Is because we hope that kids will not be disturbed by the standard answers and answer the most true answers in their hearts. So the information we get, will be more true and valuable.

After many questions, we knew their favourite colors, animals, cartoons, subjects and things they usually like to do, etc…. We will use this information to determine whether the toys we make should be. First, because the kids reacted enthusiastically to animals, “animals” became our first prerequisite. Then we decided to incorporate Japanese elements into our toys, because in the cartoons the kids answered. Almost all of them are Japanese anime. So we guess they may like Japanese elements and styles. the last prerequisite is that it can’t be a doll that can only be put on the table, because most of the kids like the most toy at home. All of the toys are movable or usable (racing cars, robots, laptops, bicycles…) and their favorite subjects are PE. So we think this toy should be a toy that can interact with kids and that kids can play with.

So through the above points, at the end we want to make a pinball machine or mini bowling ball. We can combine Japanese style and animals to design many different characters for the kids to choose. And for the ball, we can design some special editions balls. like the anime-themed balls that kids like. such as Pokémon's Ball or Dragon Ball, etc…, and then integrate into the environmental protection issues of this semester, to make paper balls, plastic balls ,metal balls, etc., and then roll these balls to the corresponding trash can. So that this toy not only meet the above three conditions, it also allow kids to learn how to protect the environment while having fun.

Back to the beginning. our original intention of making this toy was to make the children happy. so as many as the children have fun. then this design is successful. but if the children can learn from play, it would be great. So we hope to bring more value to children through this design. And this design is also representative our class. It can pass our school's entertaining teaching style to them, so that they can also understand our school atmosphere, so that we can all understand each other better.

by Olivia Wang

這學期我們的主題之一是為二年級的小朋友製作聖誕節禮物。期間我們透過與小朋友們的視訊會議，對他們的喜好有了初步的了解，我們將運用我們所得到的資訊來對禮物進行第一步的發想。

事前，我們設計了幾個問題，在設計問題時，我們盡量將問題變得婉轉，例如，將「你喜歡什麼顏色？」變成「你最喜歡的玩具是什麼顏色？」、「你什麼顏色的衣服最多？」等等。而這麼做的意義在於，我們希望小朋友能夠不受標準答案的干擾，回答出他們心中最真實的答案，如此以來我們所得到的資訊將更加的真實並且具有價值。

經過許多問題後，我們收集到小朋友們喜歡的顏色、動物、卡通、科目和平常喜歡做的事等等回答。我們將用這些資訊來決定我們所製作的玩具應該具備什麼樣的條件。首先，由於小朋友們對於動物的反應特別熱烈，所以「動物」便成為了我們的第一個必備條件，再來我們決定在我們的玩具當中融入日本風的元素，因為在小朋友們回答的卡通中，幾乎全部都是日本的動漫，所以我們猜想他們或許很喜歡日本的元素和風格，而最後一項必備條件便是它不能是一個只能擺著的娃娃，因為大多數的小朋友在家裡最喜歡的玩具都是會動的或是可以用的（賽車、機器人、筆記本、腳踏車……），而且他們最喜歡的科目都是體育，所以我們認為這個玩具應該要是一個可以跟小朋友們互動和能讓小朋友們玩的一個玩具。

所以通過以上幾點，最終我們希望做一個彈珠台或是迷你保齡球，我們打算結合日本風和動物去設計很多隻不同的角色讓小朋友們任選，而球的部分，我們可以設計一些特別版的球，像是小朋友們喜歡的動漫主題的球，例如說寶可夢精靈球或是七龍珠等等……，然後再融入這學期環保的議題，去製作像是紙球、塑膠球、鐵球等各式各樣的球，最後讓這些球滾到相應的垃圾桶去，這樣一來這個玩具不只能夠滿足以上三個條件，也能讓小朋友在玩樂的過程當中學習到如何保護環境。

回到一開始，我們製作這個玩具的初衷是讓小朋友們感到開心，所以只要小朋友們玩得開心，那麼這個設計便是成功的，但如果能讓小朋友從玩樂中學習，那就再好不過了，所以我們希望透過這個設計去帶給小朋友們一些或多或少的價值。同時，這個設計也具有某種代表性，它能將我們學校寓教於樂的上課方式傳遞給他們，讓他們也能夠了解我們的學校氛圍，讓我們都能夠更互相了解彼此。

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