Tinker Crate Biomechanical Hand

Tinker Crate Biomechaical Hand Introduction

This Tinker Crate Biomechanical Hand was our second Tinker Crate delivery. Our first month was the Tinker Crate Flashlight. Tinker Crate is a part of the Kiwi Crate Family Brands, which provides educational subscription boxes for children of all ages. Tinker Crate is for children ages 9+. We do these projects with my almost 9-year old Goddaughter Ashley and she couldn’t wait to open the box!

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What is included in the Tinker Crate Biomechanical Hand Box?

This month our box included:

-all the materials needed to make a biomechanical hand
-extensive, yet easy to read instructions, which include pictures
-a TinkerZine magazine which has a bunch of articles and information all about the human hand and prosthetic limbs
-bonus materials to make straw puppets

Here are a few sample pages from the very intriguing TinkerZine:

The unboxing video!

Here is our exciting unboxing video!

Getting to work on this month’s Tinker Crate Biomechanical Hand…

The directions are easy to follow and extensive. They have text and pictures so that there is no confusion or frustration.

The pointer finger is complete!

Here we are testing the index finger:

The rest of the fingers were easy once Ashley got the hang of it. She actually started by putting the foam stickers on the wrong side of the hand template, but she kept it that way because it allowed her to flip the directions and make a left hand instead of right. As a lefty herself, she was happy about that!

The whole hand is complete, now she had to thread the string through the fingers.

Ashley needed a little help putting the right amount of tension on the strings so that the fingers would move properly. Otherwise, she worked quickly and independently with the focus of a scientist.