Bike seat for doll.

Celia handed in two toys, that were incidentally both intended to help transport dolls around. Funny that neither of them had stood up to the pressures of the average 6 year old girl playing. Which suggested that maybe girls don’t always play so calmly, and that they might therefore prefer something a bit tougher.

Bent and broken doll pram.

The solution was hidden in the shape of the bike seat. The pram with its wheels was so versatile it could have pulled me in any of a number of directions, but the bike seat was very limited. A limitation, however, can also mean that when you do find the correct answer, it fits so much better.

The shape of the bike seat couldn't really be converted to anything else.

I added a lot of parts to turn the bike seat and the pram into an arc weld for girls, but the shape of the welding mask was the crucial part. The weld itself is a LED torch, slightly re-jigged to push the LED out to the very front, and the blue plastic screen of course shields the very colour emitted by the LED. Celia very quickly got a grip on how to use it and off she went soldering imaginary pipes together.

Didn't need much explaining really.

Object no. 6 & 7