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The Finnish curriculum encourages schools to include interaction between students in teaching and emphasizes the importance of design and ideation as a part of the handicraft projects. Interaction skills, ideation and design are important 21st century skills that the cur- rent primary school students will need in their working lives. Co-design is defined as a process of design and ideation done in cooperation with others, and it is an activity that combines the most remarkable 21st century skills. The aim of this study is to examine how the students experience the co-design in the context of handicrafts. The previous research has shown that outsourcing of thoughts, further developments and technical design can be challenging for the students. Therefore it is interesting to study the possibilities and challenges of co-design in the context of primary school. The material for the case study was collected in Viikki normal school during the autumn of 2019. A group of 8-graders were selected discretionary as the examinees, for the reason that they studied co-design as part of their handicraft studies. Students answered in three (3) dif- ferent questionnaires about co-design during their study module. The questionnaires were implemented with Google Forms. 16 students took part in the study. The methodology of the study was material-based analysis, where the answers were classified by similarities. This study shows that the definition of co-design is challenging for students to understand in the context of handicraft even though they have practised co-design in other school subjects. In accordance with contradictory expectations towards co-design, students had both positive and negative feelings that affected working. Students felt that cooperation went mainly well, even though it was also the area with the biggest challenges. According to this study co- design is act of multidimensional action where the key points to success are cooperation bet- ween group members, students attitudes and motivation. The challenges of co-design lie in how to make cooperation work properly and how to share resbonsibility between all the group members equally.