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Create a Toy — Project-Based Learning Unit

Create a Toy — Project-Based Learning Unit

USD 7.50Price

Designing a toy is easy. Designing one a four-year-old will actually play with is the hard part.


Create a Toy is a complete, ready-to-teach project where students invent an original toy for a real user: who it's for, what it does, how it moves, what it costs, and why a kid in a store would pick it up off the shelf. Then they set up a stand at a class toy fair and pitch it.


The skills are hidden inside the fun. Students come up with three ideas and choose their best, sketch and label their design, build a prototype from everyday materials, design the packaging, work with sizes and pricing, and use feedback from the class to make the toy better. An optional push and pull challenge connects the whole project to forces and motion.


No prep. No logins. Just open the slides, print the pages, and teach.


What's inside

  • Presentation slides for every stage, one idea per slide

  • Project Journal: printable student activity pages for every stage, from first idea to the toy fair. Print only the pages you need.

  • A printable toy box net to cut, fold and glue

  • Going Further extensions: toy math, forces at work, a research quest, and an advertising poster

  • An optional hands-on STEM build with six build options

  • A project rubric

  • A complete teacher guide with the full learning sequence


What it covers

Every project builds the same core skills:

  • Generating ideas and choosing between them

  • Justifying decisions

  • Giving and using peer feedback

  • Revising work after feedback

  • Reflecting on the process

  • Presenting to an audience

This project also covers:

  • Design for a real user

  • Forces and motion

  • Hands-on building and testing

  • Measurement and pricing

  • Persuasive writing


How it works

Students move through five stages: Brief, Investigate, Create, Improve, Share. It's the same structure used in every Sherbert Learning project, so your class learns the process once and carries it into the next unit.


Every page and stage is optional. Run a short version over four to six lessons, or stretch it across a term as a Friday afternoon unit. Whole class, small groups, pairs, or solo, it works however you teach.


The details

  • Grades 1–4

  • Low prep: print and go

  • PDF and Powerpoint, instant digital download

  • Single-classroom license


Built by a practicing classroom teacher.

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