Paste Pusher - Extension Task

Watch this Creating a Paste Pusher Video

10 mins

You are going to design a fun Paste Pusher. The Paste Pusher will encourage young children to brush their teeth and also help to avoid wasting toothpaste by throwing away tubes that still have paste left in them.

Your Teacher will provide you with the basic Sketchup file shown bottom right. It has the 'jaws' of the Paste Pusher already drawn but you have to design the 'body' of the paste pusher.

Your Paste Pusher:

Must be fun and interesting to look at.

The Base must be no bigger than 10mm x 50mm.

Should be safe to use and not easily broken.

Resources

To help you work out your Design ideas and to help choose the best one, you are to use the Paste Pusher Design Template.

Your teacher will provide you with this. An image is shown (right) and an A4 PDF version can be downloaded by clicking on the PDF symbol below.

The template will help you to work out the sizes you need to use later on when you draw your design in Sketchup.

Each box is 80 mm x 40 mm and the lines are spaced 10 mm apart.

Examples