Once a year at the end of term I like to show my class the Youtube clip Caine's Arcade. It shows a 9 year old boy who's arcade went viral after being discovered by a videographer in the States. Caine's creativity and positivity is inspiring, and it feels like some good old fashioned 80's childhood inventing. For the second year in a row my class have absolutely loved the creating, and then the hosting of other classes when they came in to play the games. Two other classes were also inspired to make their own arcade games following the success of ours.
I believe it develops:
- Creativity where children only have cardboard and sellotape to make any type of game they can imagine.
- Collaboration and compromising skills as many of them worked in teams.
- Problem solving and innovation - what to do when something doesn't work they way they imagined
A cure for boredom at home in the holidays!
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