Nursery World - D&T in practice: examples

Articulated toys Tubes were cut into into different sizes and joined with fastenings to make puppets, articulated caterpillars and snakes.

Tubes were cut into into different sizes and joined with fastenings to make puppets, articulated caterpillars and snakes.

Photocopier

Children used a large box for the body and attached a hinged lid with masking tape. They wrote numbers on small square cards for control buttons and placed a box inside as a paper tray.

Camera

Small boxes and card tubes were made into a camera. Under supervision, children put a hole in the box with a tapered reamer, enlarged it with scissors, pushed a card tube into place and added a small hole in the back of the box to help the photographer to 'focus'.

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