The essay presents an interdisciplinary methodology with the creation of optical toys for pedagogical purposes in Design teaching. In digital era, the use of new technologies in classroom favors speculation about what fascinates the students nowadays and what would be useful to their learning. One hypothesis is the recreation of the then-called optical toys, originally created in XVIII-XIXth centuries, considered the forefathers of Animation Cinema. However, there are many challenges to create new material originating from a recent colaborative methodology, instead only rehashing the old models. This thesis is based on Luigi Giussani s educative factors, Bruno Latour s simetry theory and Pier Paolo Pasolini s pedagogy of things, bringing a historical survey of the optical objects and analyzes cases of teaching learning with didatic resources from analogical technologies. It concludes an interdisciplinary case of optical objects producted by students in class.