Going on my Children learning solids mission, it was time to show them about model designing.
I brought my notebook into the class, and introduce MilkShape 3D and Pepakura Designer to them. The main goal was to design, unfold and build a tooth paste tube.
They loved all process steps and contribute a lot during designing. The best moment was when they inferred that the tube can be represented as a cylinder with one end ’smashed’.
I was invited once again to teach some 6-7 y.o. children about geometric solids.
We’ve been talking about sphere, cylinder, cone, cube and parallelepiped. I taught them the basics and how to draw/represent them.
Besides, we were focusing on a project where they’ll build a paper dinosaur. I told them about designing and unfolding and how to represent a complex surface using simple solids. E.g.: a dinosaur tail can be split into a cone and some truncated cones. The simply loved the idea!
I’ll tell you more on this story soon. Stay tuned 
There is a lot of information about paper models and where you can download it, but no/little information about the creative process of papertoys.
How to design a papertoy starting from scratch. How to start with creating papertoys.
Matthijs C. Kamstra aka [mck] wrote an interesting article regarding this subject:
How to create your own Papercraft
Now he wrote about the creative process of designing a papertoy:
Papertoy design – the basics
and it starts from the beginning: a cube and how to make a cube into a papertoy.
It seems that people need some help in the creative process.
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