Iron Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design · 2022
Little Locksmith Toy
by Qiongzhi Qian, Yibo Dai and Linling Shi
- A' Design Award 2022 Iron Winner in Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Ningbo Giant Tiger Co., Ltd
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 16,010
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About Little Locksmith Toy
Little Locksmith is a wooden educational toy for young children. The toy combines five sets of keys and locks, each with a different theme: animals, fruits, weather, marine life and vehicles. Each lock cylinder accepts only one key, so children practise shape and colour recognition. Every lock body has two windows. The top window shows objects linked to the theme, and the bottom window shows a matching scene that changes when a wheel is turned. Five picture books support storytelling, and the locks can be hung on a wall for storage.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- This is an industry-leading wooden educational toy with the combination of five sets of key and lock about different themes. It can not only provide interactive fun for parents and children, but also meet the requirements of children's multiple cognitive training, so as to develop and cultivate their imagination and manipulative ability. Besides, its exquisite appearances can help children understand the world more accurately.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- This product is cleverly designed with distinct animal-related elements at the lock handle, which is consistent with the cute animal shape on the key. The choice of bright colors is matched with contrasting color design, which not only attracts children's attention, but also integrates various cognitive exercises to save users' purchase costs.
- Tags
- Toy for kids
- Production Technology
- It fully combines cognition training and storytelling: the body of each lock has two windows that can be opened, the top window is the objects about the theme, and the bottom window is corresponding scene. For example, a snowflake and snowmen are on the top, while scenes of making snowmen are on the bottom.
- Design Challenge
- More importantly, the appearance of lock can be hung on the wall to perfectly blend into the indoor environment, which is also easy to store in daily life, bringing users a caring experience.
- Project Duration
- The project finished in August 2021 in China
- Operation Flow
- In addition, parents can display different scenes by turning the scroll wheel in the bottom window, so that they can lead their children to find and identify the designated objects in the scene, and also tell them various interesting stories according to five attached picture-books.
- Research
- Reference to children cognitive science
- Inspiration
- This product is inspired by key-switch: the five lock cylinders match keys of different shapes and colors, only the correct key can open it, which helps with the shape and color recognition of children. What's more, the five locks correspond to cognition of animals, fruits, weather, marine life and vehicles, including cognitive exercises for children under 3 years old, which can effectively enlighten and exercise their coordination ability of eye and hand.