DESIGN NAME: Birds & Eggs
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Toy Kit
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UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Birds&Eggs creative toy set allow children to create various birds with gathering different stylized body pieces. Designed for children above the age of 5, it is a universal toy that children from different cultural backgrounds learn and discover living animals while also designing their own birds.
Set consists of head, neck, body, wing, tail and feet pieces. There are 24 characteristic bird heads including duck, owl, parrot, pelican and more. Parts are interchangeable and create an option set, which in the end enables creating thousands of bird types.
Children can make abstracted birds by looking at nature and bird images, or they can make their own creation of birds from their imagination. Offering a simple play, the design lets building creatures and transforming them easily. Birds&Eggs are classified according to their sizes. There are seven sizes and each bird fits into the correspondingly sized egg. Therefore children can carry birds in their eggs to play anywhere.
With increased number of pieces, variety and size differentiations are offered in the design. Birds&Eggs offer an explorative play experience with limitless creation possibilities and aims to have a long lifespan. Besides entertaining, the toy has learning purposes that will benefit children's abstraction and 3D thinking/shaping abilities while enhancing their hand skills. With vibrant colors, design is also visually educative.
Birds&Eggs has abstracted part that enables shaping and imitating a wide range of bird species: Woodpecker, vulture, owl, ostrich, flamingo, pigeon, turkey, rooster, crow, eagle, swan, stork, gull, duck, parrot, pelican, penguin and much more birds comes out from Eggs&Birds toy set. The kit consists of 24 pieces of head and neck, 16 pieces of egg/body and 16 pieces of tail, wings and feet. The set can be expanded with extra parts.
Produced from recyclable plastics, Birds&Eggs are a toy kit that is environmentally friendly and safe to play. Also being washable, it is a hygienic set that is apt to international standards.
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ADDED DATE: 2012-02-29 08:09:14
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IMAGE CREDITS: Hakan Gürsu, 2011.
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