Workshop 0248 – 3D food printer

3D-Foodmaker is a new experience.

The 3d foodmaker workshop is a great experience for children. Mimicking fruit, vegetables, or a favourite food such as pizza. The 3D printing pen is a handy tool meant to make your own three-dimensional shapes. The technique is the same as that of the 3D printer. It works like an ordinary pen that you fill with plastic thread called filaments. Users can 'draw' with the molten plastic on a piece of paper as if they were holding a real pen. The molten filament is flexible and easy to work with.

In this creative workshop, you will learn how to print your own 'food' that you can hold. Students choose food they are going to recreate with the 3D printing pens. In doing so, they have to look carefully at the shape, volume, colour and texture of the food. Each student chooses a unique type of food and the aim is to work with the group to print the most varied meal possible in the classroom. Before they can print the food, they will first have to create the design and then choose which 3D printing technique they will use to create everything.

Key objectives by subject area
Cultural education:
35A – Creative making and thinking strategies
35B – Developing creative abilities
36A – Visualising and creating

Digital literacy:
22A – Digital systems
23A – Creating with digital technology

Technical education:
29C – Scientific and technological approaches

Information

Workshop number: 0248

Target group: Primary school groups 5, 6, 7 and 8

Duration: 120 minutes

Number of participants: 30 pupils

Location: At school

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