1. The Move It Project Evaluation
I think my design is good and simple and it is rocking very well. the colors are not too scary and they
are not overlapping each other. If the next time we make this project again I would change the colors
and the the movement to rolling. I would use bigger eyes. The movement is rocking. When you tip the
side of the toy to one end and leave it it will rock from side to side while the it is rocking the eyes will
move. The eyes are the good thing about the toy it makes some childish affect on them. The painting is
also dark and light of the same colors. I used the dark and light blue for the ocean and the dark green
was for the body. For the head I used light green.
This is my toy when it was fully completed and ready
for the kids to play with it.
Yes I' am happy with the material I used which is wood. I chose wood because it is safety and you can
smoothen and it can be cut easily. It is also safe because you can easily sand and the rough edges with a
sand paper or with a disk-sander. The next time I do this project I would use use a spring with a block
at back of the turtle which will act as a tail. I will also want to make a rolling toy as it is more popular
among the children. Mine was a little popular at the beginning but as my friends got their toys which
were bigger and had more movements.
This is my toy with a kindergartner playing with it.
Yes the color scheme is just what I excepted because I chose the colors which I chose in my final
design which were Dark green, light green, dark blue and light blue. I chose these colors because they
were the real color and they made it look a little real. The blue colors represented the ocean while the
dark green was the body and the light green was the head. I had dark colors which I think did attracter
much kids to my toy.

2. This is the color scheme I used for my turtle. The arc is
light and dark blue while the body is dark green. The
color of the head is cyan ( greenish – blue).
To complete my project it took me two months. The next time I could do it quicker buy paying more
attention to it and by putting more effort on it. Well yes it would change the cost of manufacture as it
will look better and I would have done more designs or the size would be different it would also have
different movement which would make it a little more attractive.
Yes, it would be easy for a company or a manufacture to set up a production line because its an easy
project and it could be done in minutes if there was assembly line there would be more then one
rocking turtle in one day then in 2 months.
My project is safe and it is not safe. I said that because the eyes could come of and the age group who's
is playing with it will think that it is food and eat it. It is also safe because there are no sharp edges and
the surface are smooth because if it was rough on the surface it might cause some splinters.
The techniques I used for my toy were both hand tool and power tools. The most often hand tool which
I worked with was the coping saw. The coping was very important to me as it could cut curves and it is
easy to handle. The dangerous thing about coping saw was that it could break easily of not handled
carefully. The coping saw was good for me as it was the only tool which could curves tool except the
band saw which we were not allowed to use. I also used power tools like the pedestrian drill. I used it
to make my turtles eye hole. I chose pedestrian drill because it is straight and it does not move and you
can have an accurate pin-point drilled hole. I think next time I would use the same tool as it is very easy
to use.
In this picture I am using a coping saw to cut the drawing that
I drew on the pine wood.

3. My project would be most liked by kids who are 2 - 4 years old because when the kindergardeners
came in they were 4 - 5 years old and they liked toys which were about their size and had more
movements. I think boys would like this toy because they like dark colors and girls would not like it as
they like bright colors. The size is OK for the age group I am making it for because some of them are
shot and some for them are tall.
When I asked my friends what they think of my toy they said that it is good and it has a good shape
with real colors on it. They also said that is rocks pretty food and that the surface was smooth and the
edges were curved with no sharp edges. Some of them said that the colors are too dark and you might
want to change it. They said that because I used dark in most of the parts of they toy.
My rocking toy works perfectly and they changes i might make on th next toy is the movement i
would have more movement in it. Instead of rocking I will make it rolling with wheels on it. I might
also change the colors on it. I would have bright colors on it which would attract the small kids to it.
The wood that we chose is sustainable because it can grow three time in your life time and it is easy to
find. The paint that we chose was acrylic paint which not poisonous if some one drink it or lick it. This
makes us environmentally friendly.