2024 / Educational / Educational Tools: Learning Toys / Professional

Cutting Stones

• Prizes
  Winner in EDUCATIONAL/Educational Tools: Learning Toys
• Company
  Beijing Normal University, China
• Lead Designer
  Lingbo Huang
• Design Team
  Yubin Wang, Chenxi Li, Yunfei Wang

This bionic stone-style crayon for children offers the fun of painting while stimulating their perception and imagination of the natural world. Its unique design sparks curiosity and exploration. Children mimic interactions with real stones, such as stacking and arranging, deepening their understanding of shape and space. The round, textured crayons instinctively switch angles to create varied strokes, transforming into angular shapes and evoking memories of stacking stones. Friction with paper produces diverse cut surfaces, enhancing the painting experience and blending creativity with nature