Wow!
What a powerful story of how creative a child's mind can be with play.
This arcade is so cool, he has thought of everything! I love the problem solving of the claw for the toy game, the fun pass codes with the calculators and how the tickets come out the bottom.
New Zealanders are known for their creativity and thinking outside of the box when finding innovative solutions and new ideas. But will this continue if we place emphasis on what we deem important to be successful? We have heard time and time again that to be successful children need to keep hold of their natural creativity, embrace it and extend it to see where it can take them.
Going to ICOT at the beginning of the year one thing I got from it was to give kids time for passion projects.
I thought what about a Number 8 wire afternoon a week? NZers are known for our Number 8 wire thinking and these two videos has re-ignited my spark for this idea. Perhaps the first challenge I set for my class is what they can invent from a cardboard box something that is useable just as Caine's Arcade is.
Isn't it amazing! He's so resourceful and he obviously listens to feedback and works to change his design to suit his customers. What a lucky break that the film maker needed a door handle!
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Have you seen the lion scarer on my blog?? Young boy invents a system to scare lions away from their cattle...
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