Every year the Imagination Foundation hosts a world wide cardboard challenge on October first. The rules are 1. Be creative and 2. Be yourself that's it. This celebration all started with a kid named Caine he created arcade made out of cardboard. He was sometimes embarrassed by his arcade people teased him then, one day a man came in who told everyone about his arcade. He became famous even Jack Black came to his arcade. In class we watched this video and we were inspired to make our arcade. We called it Barnes Arcade we used the launch cycle to help us with this challenge.
First, We look, listened, and learned. We watched Caine’s Arcade and took notes of his process. We looked at what tools he used, and how he made the simple cardboard games. We listened to Mrs.Barnes explain how this created a impact and we learned if you have dreams follow them.
Second, We asked lots of questions such as “Who will we work with?”, “How do we build that?”, and “What will I need.” This helped us with the next step to come up with a plan of who were we going to work with, what were we building, and what we needed to build that. We had 7 groups they were making the Greyhound shooting game, crawfish, da claw, compressor skeeball, skeeball, fireball, and
plinto. This stage was one of the hardest we had to be creative with what we did
Then, we started building. There were many challenges like having to only use light cardboard, only having two days, and working as a group. We had to remember how simple Caine's games were. Many kids used ideas from the video like a basketball game, and claw machines.
Then, We tested it and improved our project. Many project weren’t perfect the first time so they used extra cardboard to create a new part of their games. The Claw Machine had time to make a blindfold, the Basketball game made a ramp, and the pinto game even got to decorate!
Last, we showed it to our audience (kindergarten buddy's) and go into other classrooms with them. They didn't look or work like real games but they still were awesome .Some groups didn't
have that many prizes. My groups teddy bear was stolen by a kindergartener. Many kids won awesome prizes. Like my kindergarten buddy's hands was full with candy, and little toys. It was so much fun. The kindergarteners gave us little thank you notes and drew us pictures. We hope to be doing another project like this soon.
