This is a special creative crayon which makes the children use the colors and shapes of fruits to paint. Fruit Crayon is not the traditional crayon. By Fruit Crayon, we paint not just lines, but points, lines and planes. The color of Fruit Crayon is full of unexpected surprises, not just the simple color.
Fruit Crayon makes children exercise every finger and stimulate the children’s sense of colors and shapes. The immediate use of a variety of special strokes makes all paintings are full of surprises!
Challenge
The observation about children shows that only half children can understand characteristics of the object and inference further by the memory. Among the research, 55% of the children unsuccessfully described Apple, and 40% of the children unsuccessfully describe oranges. This means that children lack of basic training about the observation and reasoning.(Research of Basic Learning ability of Preschool Children, Ling-Fen Jhang, 2003)
One of the key milestone of children physical development is - small muscle movement skills. It’s an important stage in the development of small muscles of the 0 to 6 years old children. children can train their small hand muscles by holding or grasping. If children don’t finish this milestone, it will influence the next development.(Sensory Integration and Child Development, Luo Jyun-Ling, 1998)
Learning by drawing
Painting is an important part of children developing. It can arouse the observation, imagination and ability to operate. Most of all, painting can develop good character of children.
Drawing with Fruit Crayon can not only cultivate the ability of observation and response, but also train the muscles of hands. Moreover, Fruit Crayon makes children learn and grow in the joyful atmosphere.
Varity of painting stroke
Fruit shape allows children to draw a variety of different strokes. Strokes are painted in the form of point, line and surface, not just simple line. Fruit shape can stimulate child’s brain which is full of imagination. Hold Fruit shape. Kids! What kind of the paintings will you create?
Painting color change
The color structure of Fruit Crayon is like a true fruit. When the outer color of skin is consumed, the inside color appears in total different color.
Variety of Fruit Crayon
Each fruit has unique colors and shapes, apple is red, banana is a long strip, and kiwifruit is brown skin wrapped up with green flesh.
Just draw with the colors and shapes of fruits!
Experimental model
We heated the pigment and paraffin wax, and try various proportions, then we put it into a simple wood mold to model the sphere shape, making different colors of the ball inside and outside.
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2011 Red Dot Award: Design Concept Best of the Best
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2012 published in magazine "Surface Asia"
