Blood Donation Toy Kit
2013
Designer: Ruby Chang, Molly Wei
The aim of the project is for educational purposes to teach children’s awareness of giving blood in hopes that they eventually may become blood donors. In the project, we designed a foldable body-sized toy tool to educate children about health care, blood type and blood donation. The props and storybooks were designed to help instructors interact with children. It also allowed the children to play among themselves to reduce their fear of needles.
The population of young generation blood donator are gradually decreasing in Taiwan. After doing several researches, we found nearly 67% of young had never donated and 77% of donors did not have regular donation habit.
EPE board is chosen for our main body as it is fairly light and durable which is portable and good for carrying around. And for the cover we chose PP board so colours can be printed on and easy for clean and maintain. As below, there are 5 main parts: two PP board as both side’s cover and three EPE board inside and carved some empty create different shapes and as a container for toys and tools.
The materials could be used in various functions and arrangements. Each part of board carries 2-3 features in front and back sides. They are the simplified donation process in order, such as showing the health insurance card, taking the number pin (the pin has a magnet behind, which allows them playing the maze in the end), having health examination, donating blood and sending the blood pack.
We designed a pamphlet for people to read so that they can understand every detail of this toy kit, such as each board’s function with photos descriptions. Thus teachers and staff could follow guidelines and lead children through the role-play exercises. The body also involves four story books for children learning about blood knowledge. Our aim is to let children have positive thoughts toward blood donation and then becomes a donor in the future.