It's almost Christmas, just a few days before, and Santa has a few new helpers this year.

Students at one middle school in Lexington are creating therapeutic toys for those with cerebral palsy, using woodworking tools, laser engravers, 3-D printers and more to create their products.

We drop by their classroom slash workshop to learn more.

I've learned a lot of new skills on with woodworking and how to make a solution to a new problem that we're tasked with.

We are investigating the career field of creating a prototype so we start from scratch with an idea or a client or a need or problem.

So we started out with a therapeutic toy to help a person that might be having some challenges with cerebral palsy.

And when they look at those challenges, they could have problems with picking things up with the finger dexterity.

It could be hand-eye coordination.

When you reach for something, you keep missing it because you haven't practiced and taught yourself.

So they work through some of these challenges that some others may not have to work with or, you know, have to figure out a solution to make life easier.

So we're trying to make a fun, therapeutic toy for a elementary age kid so that they can start working on those challenges so that once they've accomplished it and mastered life, it can be a lot easier for them.

So for what we are doing, we have a patient that has hand-eye coordination problems.

So we made a game where we have a two paddles with Velcro on each side and we're going to have a ball that they have to throw to a partner.

And with that they will be able to help get their hand in coordination better.

You know, as a prize student, you may have never thought about how easy it is to do some of the things that you do on the everyday.

You know, everyday routine that other people have to actually really think and try hard to make sure that they don't run into that same situation.

So as you start breaking down the movements of using a toy to solve maybe a challenge of risk flexion, just to bend your wrist is something that we all do daily that we take for granted.

But when you start to make a toy that has to have a kid focus on strengthening those muscles, making the brain think to move a certain way.

The eighth grade students are starting to develop in their brain like, Wow, the things in life aren't as easy as it is for me, for everyone else.

So then they start to really buy into the project because we have students at our school that may need some assistive devices.

So they have classes where they share, you know, a classroom, where they see a student maybe working on some of these challenges.

So that eighth grade group is starting to really see that there are people that are designers and working in the profession to be, you know, with occupational therapists to make things better for students and children.

I love to work.

So this project makes real life present for them as a practice.

Now, while this project is only theoretical, Harris hopes one day the students can create products to help real clients and receive real feedback.