Menstrual Maze: A Toy Exploring Public Engagement in Menstrual Health Education

The purpose of this design is to both explore and address early body literacy education among communities of parents, children, and health educators. Both informed by and designed for community engagement, the Menstrual Maze is a digitally embedded educational toy that aims to engage these communities in menstrual health education. Through playful interaction, the toy steps through the menstrual process, triggering audio and visual feedback at each stage. Building off of early observations, the goal of the Menstrual Maze is to introduce children to concepts of menstruation at an early age and energize wider community support and engagement with such education. We present this project as a design-led effort to address menstrual taboo and explore early education as a public design space.