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Doodle Days of Summer: 3Doodler’s Guide to Creative Adventures

Posted on by Vicki Grisanti

School’s out for the summer! Which means long, sunny days filled with possibility.

Before the kids break out the screens, inspire hands-on creative play with a series of 3D pen projects to encourage skill building and creative exploration.

Drawing and coloring are timeless activities but now kids can take creativity off the page with a 3Doodler 3D pen. Transform your ideas into tangible, three-dimensional masterpieces, letting kids (and adults!) create anything they can imagine.

Jump start summer fun with a few ideas to get those creative gears turning!

Your Summer’s Creative Sidekick

As educators, you know first-hand how important it is to offer options to encourage creative play and reduce summer learning loss. Introducing 3D pens to inspire learning at home, can help in many ways.

How 3D Pens Inspire Learning:

  • Boost STEM Skills (Without Even Knowing It): While doodling away, kids are subtly developing critical skills like spatial reasoning, problem-solving, fine motor control, and even basic engineering concepts. They’ll be designing structures and figuring out how to make them stable without realizing they’re learning!

  • Inspire Imaginative Play: From fantastical creatures to miniature models of dream vacation spots, the possibilities are only limited by what they can dream up. 3D pens offer a unique medium for artistic expression.

  • Portable & Versatile: 3Doodler 3D pens are compact and easy to take anywhere – whether you’re at the beach house, visiting grandparents, or just chilling in the backyard.

  • Instant Gratification: Designing with 3D pens provides an immediate result. Kids can see their ideas take shape right before their eyes, fostering a sense of accomplishment.

Oodles of 3D Pen Doodles

  • 3D pen art: Butterfly on green leaf plant

Ready to get started? Here are some exciting 3D pen project ideas perfect for summer:

Miniature Beach Scenes:

Create tiny palm trees, surfboards, flip-flops, and even little crabs or fish. You can then assemble them on a base to make a personalized beach diorama.
Pro Tip: Use blue filament for waves and clear/translucent for water effects!

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Custom Keychains & Bag Tags:

Design personalized keychains with names, initials, or summer-themed icons like ice cream cones, popsicles, or suns. These make great gifts for friends or mementos of summer adventures!

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Nature-Inspired Art:

“Draw” flowers, butterflies, or even intricate spiderwebs. Go on a nature walk and collect leaves or twigs for inspiration, then replicate them in 3D!

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DIY Room Decor:

Craft unique picture frames to display summer memories. Design small decorative sculptures for shelves or desks, like abstract art pieces or geometric shapes. Create personalized pencil holders or small organizers for their summer reading nook.

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Wearable Wonders:

With adult supervision, create unique earrings or pendants for necklaces. Design fun glasses or headbands for a quirky summer look (think oversized sunglasses or flower crowns!).

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Bust summer boredom and embrace the world of three-dimensional possibility. 3Doodler 3D pens are a gateway to creativity and hours of screen-free fun. So, grab your pens, a rainbow of filaments, and let the summer doodling begin!

What amazing things will you create this summer with your 3D pen? Share your ideas @3Doodler or #3Doodler #WhatWillYouCreate!

DIY Succulent Garden

Posted on by Will Insull

‘Tis the season for pumpkin spice lattes, sweaters, and jumping in leaf piles. Autumn also brings a change in foliage as leaves go from green to orange, red, and eventually different shades of brown.

Colorful 3D pen art - Succulent-filled round pot on a table.

So as the days get shorter and colder, now is as good of a time as any to take stock of our indoor garden situation, which can serve as a refuge from the outside world.

By creating our perfect plant sanctuary of succulents, we can boost our mood and concentration, while also adding some green back into our lives.

Don’t feel like messing with the real thing? Not a problem, we’re here to show you how to upgrade your desk or windowsill by crafting some 3D printed succulents using your 3Doodler 3D pen.

Millennial Succulent Mania – What’s All the Fuss?

The term “house pet” has been used to describe tough, evergreen succulent plants. This term helps shed light on their rise in popularity as plants one must have to make your house a home. 

3D pen art: 3 types of succulents in pots

Succulents store water in their leaves, this gives their leaves a unique shape and feeling. Their leaves tend to be thick and fleshy. Succulents are not cacti but cacti are a type of succulent. Different succulents and cacti genus provide a variety of different colors and textures for a drought-resistant landscape. They thrive in dry, arid climates where most other plants would not survive.

Succulents are a great starter plant as they don’t require that much maintenance and come in many crazy colors and textures. Another amazing quality of succulents is their ability to propagate easily.

Many of these plants can grow new plants using simply a leaf cutting from the mother plant. This is yet another reason succulents are cool, once you buy one you can grow as many as you want.

Upgrade Your Space

Small potted plant on black shelf with 3D pen art

In this week’s tutorial, we’ll walk through how to craft your own 3D printed succulents and pot using your 3Doodler 3D pen.

This cool Doodle will exercise your creativity and fine motor skills as you craft a succulent and a vessel for it to live in. The best part of this project? You can keep adding to it over time, and you won’t have to ever worry about it dying on you.

Don’t forget to share your creations with @3Doodler #3Doodler #WhatWillYouCreate.