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Everyone is amazed by print in place articulation and students are motivated to create their own articulation. This articulated turkey also makes a great table top decoration for the big dinner. This is an advance project for 4th grade and up completed in Tinkercad. Working diligently for an hour a day, students will take about 5 days to complete the project depending on experience. Students will need to download the hinge parts from Thingiverse. Moderate experience or the completion of my

These articulated bats make great Halloween toys and the students love them. Print them in a glow in the dark filament and hang them from the ceiling for Halloween decorations. Students use Tinkercad to design a bat out of basic shapes. Then they download hinge parts and place them carefully into position. Once completed, the bat can be printed without supports in a favorite Halloween color. This will take 3 to 4 hours of class time to complete depending on age and experience. Moderate expe

In this tutorial, students use Tinkercad to create a picture frame for their mother and/or father for their special day. Student use basic shapes to build the picture frame and some letters to label their frame. When finished, students can print their frame and letters, get some assistance in gluing the letters on their frame, and finish it off with 3.5"x5" picture of their choice. The tutorial can be presented to the entire class or printed as an independent work packet. Students 4th grade

Eureka! There really is a Pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow. Advanced designers will tinker with this project for up to 8 hours. Print it in multiple colors and then fill with plastic gold coins or chocolate coins. It makes a great candy dish. This is an advanced project that will practice 21st skills. Display or print this step by step independent work packet. Look for future fun project in my store, The STEM Locker. Please rate and comment on this product.

These snowflake ornament instructions are one of four ornament products in The STEM Locker. These step-by-step instructions help students design the ornament in Tinkercad. You can display the colorful slides to you entire class or create a handout out of the printable slides in the second half of the file. This will take students about 1 hour to complete depending on experience. Printing the snowflake ornament takes approximately one hour. Moderate experience with Tinkercad or the complet

In these step-by-step instructions, students create 3 types of springtime earrings: butterfly earrings, flower earrings, and sun earrings. Students use basic shapes to create the earrings and combine in Tinkercad. Earrings can be printed in multiple colors and the pinchable clasp earring hardware works well to complete the earrings. Student can also decide to make their own springtime designs. The tutorial can be presented to the entire class or printed as an independent work packet. Studen

This Easter basket is an intermediate level Tinkercad project. Use these step-by-step instructions to help improve you students' design skills. You can present the colorful slides to the entire class or print the printable slides for students to complete independently. Students 4th grade and up can complete this project independently after they have completed Tinkercad 3D Printing - A Beginners Guide or have moderate experience with Tinkercad. During this project, students will design a basket

This gift box ornament is designed in Tinkercad using the step-by-step instructions in the download. This is a beginner's level project that will take about 1 hour to complete depending on experience. You can display the colorful slides and walk through the instructions with your class or create a handout with the printable slides. This project prints with supports in about 2 hours. After printing, carefully remove supports with needle nose pliers and flush cutters. You can hang the ornament

These are great Halloween earrings that will compliment any Halloween costume. These step-by-step instructions show students how to design 3 different earrings: Jack-o-Lantern Earrings, Bat Earrings, and Ghost Earrings. This is a beginner to intermediate level project. Earring hardware will need to be purchased in order to complete the earrings. Earring hooks with the pinchable clasp work well. This will take 3 to 4 hours of class time to complete depending on age and experience. Moderate expe

This Christmas tree makes a great table top decoration. Students 4th grade and up will take about 2 hours to complete these step-by-step instructions depending on experience. While working in Tinkercad they will use simple shapes to create a decorated Christmas tree. There will be several color changes needed so that the decorations have color and the two parts fit together like a puzzle. Moderate experience with Tinkercad or the completion of my Tinkercad 3D Printing - A Beginners Guide wil

This 3D reindeer puzzle is designed as a kit card. It can be given as a gift or students can put it together themselves. The instructions are step-by-step and students 4th grade and up can finish this project independently. These instructions will take students about 3 hours to complete and printing takes about 1 hour to print. Students will continue to grow their skills in Tinkercad with this project. Moderate experience with Tinkercad or the completion of my Tinkercad 3D Printing - A Beg

This jack-o-lantern is designed in Tinkercad and also requires a battery powered tea light. This makes a great addition to anyone's Halloween décor. This is typically a two color print, orange and green, but can be printed in any color you wish. Post production is required and a needle nose pliers and flush cutter will be needed. This will take 3 to 4 hours of class time to complete depending on age and experience. Moderate experience or the completion of my Tinkercad 3D Printing - A Beginne

This independent tutorial shows students how to design an articulate butterfly in Tinkercad to celebrate the coming of Spring. Student will use basic shapes to create the butterfly then download hinges pieces and instructed how to place them correctly. You may display the colorful slides to your entire class and guide them through or print the black and white copies as independent packets. Finally, print the butterfly for the students to enjoy. Students 4th grade and up who have completed T

Students use Tinkercad to design a spinning ornament. You can display the step-by-step instructions or print the instructions as an individual packet. It will take students 1 hour to complete this project depending on experience and take 1.5 hours to print. Moderate experience with Tinkercad or the completion of my Tinkercad 3D Printing - A Beginners Guide will help ensure success. Check out a video of the spinning ornament at Grimm3D. In this guide there are three features to give the lea

Your students will love making these "gold-finding" glasses using Tinkercad. I see some of my students wear them all day. It will take beginning designers 1 to 2 hours to complete. Display the instructions or print them as an individual work packet. Students will learn to manipulate shapes to create the lenses of the glasses while becoming proficient in 21st Century Skills. Please rate and comment about this product.

This is a fun and simple St. Patrick's Day design project that will take your beginner designers 1 to 2 hours to create and about a 1 hour print depending on size. Students will learned how to make complex shapes out of simple shapes while sharpening their 21st Century Skills. Instructions can be displayed with the PDF present tool or you may take advantage of the printable version in the back half of the document. Please rate and comment about the product.

These step-by-step instructions feature 2 pair of Christmas glasses. One is a Christmas Tree glasses and the other is a Snowman glasses. Students 4th grade and up love creating these glasses in Tinkercad. It will take about 4 hours for student to complete both pair depending on experience. Students will use the glasses parts provided by Tinkercad and then use simple shapes to create a tree and snowman. Moderate experience with Tinkercad or the completion of my Tinkercad 3D Printing - A Begin

This project is a St. Patrick’s Day themed 3D print project designed in Tinkercad called Project Articulated Shamrock. Students learn to manipulate 3D shapes to create complex models to print on a 3D printer.  This is an intermediate design project that helps students further their design skills.   The slideshow shows students how to build the project in Tinkercad, step-by-step.  The guide may be presented as a whole class walk-through or printed as an individual learning packet. The first half

Project Articulated Easter Egg is an intermediate level Tinkercad project. Use these step-by-step instructions to help improve you students' design skills. You can present the colorful slides to the entire class or print the printable slides for students to complete independently. Students 4th grade and up can complete this project independently after they have completed Tinkercad 3D Printing - A Beginners Guide or have moderate experience with Tinkercad. Throughout the guide, students are g

Students will love these themed glasses. This is a beginner's level project. Students 4th grade and up follow the steps and use basic shapes to create a heart. Then turn the heart into lenses to attach to the glasses parts provided be Tinkercad. This project takes about 1 hour to design and 5 hours to print. Please remind students to take good care of their glasses. Moderate experience with Tinkercad or the completion of my Tinkercad 3D Printing - A Beginners Guide will help ensure succes