Fried Rice Sandbox Toy

My wife is a counselor who does "play therapy" at a primary school. She has a sand tray and some toys that kids can play with during their sessions. Sometimes she asks me to 3D print things for the kids to play with. For example, I printed this little shovel for the sand tray:

Small Spade/Shovel for plants by Quackulla

a small spade for use with houseplants and such

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One kid really likes trains, so I was asked to 3D print a toy steam train:

Another kid really likes pretending to make fried rice in the sand, so my wife asked if I could 3D print some plastic ingredients and a toy spatula.

I found a few 3D models:

Fried egg - dual extrusion by nglasson

No - I’m not cooking my breakfast on a super hot heat bed. I just happened to have white and yellow loaded on my first dual extrusion configuration, and felt a need to print something “real” after doing some calibration prints to fine tune the second extruder offset. (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:401570). Warning for complete idiots: if you print this thing - don’t eat it. It is plastic - not food. If you want a real 3D printed fried egg you will need to message Will: http://www.thingiverse.com/WillandMrData2/designs. He seems to have the 3D printed food market all stitched up and will sue your pants off if you try to print this and eat it.

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Parametric compartment box with lid by acker

This is the same item as hippiegunnut’s http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:12307, tweaked very slightly with an optional lid added. -- UPDATE 4/13/2013 -- I added a second type of box: now you can use a sliding lid. Prints nicely, with a very steep angle in the lip so no overhang problems. I’m using these as chess boxes, card deck boxes, screw sorters, etc. Still fully parametric, of course. -- UPDATE 5/6/2013 -- Okay, finding a lot of uses for this recently. :) I added a parameter to include a coin slot in the lid. Now it’s a divided piggy bank too! (My 8-year-old son uses it to handle savings, etc. separately.)

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Spatula by tdebest

spatula I printed on its side with base supports only

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The wok model was tricky. I used this tool to convert the OBJ to STL:

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The resulting STL had some errors, so I used this tool to fix them:

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I also added some basic shapes in Bambu Studio (spheres, cylinders, and cubes) to peas, bacon, omelette, and green onions.

Some of these small parts were quite difficult to print. I had to experiement with the support and raft settings, especially for the peas and corn. You can see that I still lost a few.

Here's the finished product:

I had a lot of fun making this. I hope they have fun playing with it!