อรกานดา อิศรางกูร ณ อยุธยา. Constructive Modular Playhouse for Child development. Master's Degree(Human-Centered Design). King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. KMUTT Library. : King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, 2009.
Constructive Modular Playhouse for Child development
Abstract:
Parents often search for good toys that can enhance their children's development. Many of them end up with buying
video games, which might contain only entertainment and violence issues. Many constructive toys have an important
role to trigger child's creativity, but they lack other aspects such as gross motor and learning environment.
The aim of this research is to create a constructive large-scale toy, i.e. playhouse that can enhance the children's
development in three aspects - gross motor skill, role-playing and creative/problem solving. The toy was designed
and made from Ethylene Vinyl Acetate consists of 5 parts and containing 89 pieces. It was evaluated through
an experiment with children to see its effectiveness. From the observation with 3 group; 1 boy, 3 girls, and 4 boys
from 5-6 year olds, the playhouse enforces the gross motor skill including hands, legs, and body. The subjects also
created their creative forms empowering their imagination, such as robot, and road. They can construct the complex
configuration of the toy by using their own problem solving skill. In terms ofrole-playing, they used the toy to
create different kinds of playing scenario. This constructive toy promotes the
safety issue and enhances the learning.