Babar - The water spouting elephant
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A toy elephant that can spray water simply by blowing into it. No moving parts and safe for even the youngest kids.
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Model information
- Source
- Printables
- Category
- Other Toys & Games
- License
- Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial — NoDerivatives
A stomach flu visited the family and when I was bathing the youngest one for the third time in the middle of the night, I realised that we only have one million bath toys and we needed more!
I started thinking about water pressure, and how I would be able to make some sort of a water pistol without the need of adding any moving parts. To use a blowing action was the obvious approach, but then I had to make sure that the youngest one is not going to choke when she forgets the difference between blow and suck…
After one evening of sketching I created a simple model which was able to shoot water while still being safe from the water flowing the wrong way by accident. I decided to model it as an elephant, and with the addition of a simple crown it turned into “Babar” which was one of the favourite characters from my youth 30 years ago! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babar_the_Elephant)
You can read more about it here: https://silfer.works/babar-the-water-spouting-elephant/
Usage:
Printing:
All parts are on the correct orientation already. No supports needed!
Assembly:
Add a drop of superglue on the base of the crown so it doesn’t work itself loose over time.