Handshouse Studio Toys for Animals participants are delivering a newly designed set of toys for beloved elephants, Ruth and Emily, tomorrow! We are marking the 14th anniversary of this remarkable collaboration and want to share it with the community!
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A team of students from Boston Prep Charter School with their toy observing the monkeys at the Franklin Park Zoo
Toys for.... Animals!
A new group of participants from the Boston Prep Charter School joined the Toys for Monkeys project in collaboration with Handshouse and the Franklin Park Zoo. This unique Handshouse collaboration effectively enriches the lives of many species, human and non-human, who are living together in a shared home at a complex time.
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The “Rainbow Bridge” elephant enrichment toy, one of the 2019 toys designed & built by Massachusetts College of Art & Design Toys for Elephants students
10 Years of Toys for Elephants
This week each year is a special one for Handshouse Studio & the Buttonwood Park Zoo. Students from the Mass College of Art & Design Toys for Elephants class deliver unique enrichment objects they have designed & built during the course of this semester-long Handshouse Studio workshop to Emily & Ruth, Buttonwood Park Zoo’s resident elephants. This week would have marked the 10th consecutive year of designing, building & delivering enrichment objects for these elephants & their managers.
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Mae Kam and Mae Dok strolling past the Toys for Elephants group doing their daily foraging in the natural hills and streams near their home at BEES Elephant Sanctuary.
Toys for Elephants: Thailand 2020
Handshouse Studio traveled with the Toys for Elephants project to Thailand again! A group of 15 people from 5 different colleges from the US and England, traveled together to Thailand this past January to design and build both enrichment objects for Elephants, and tools for elephant keepers to improve life for elephants at BEES Elephant Sanctuary. (continue)
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