Roll up! Roll up! It's carnival time at Invention Squad. What better way to beat off the grey weather than to design a great fair game and play it with your friends? This was definitely the funnest, wackiest session yet. We challenged the kids to make a transportable/foldable set-up and to test it by playing it with their friends and parents. This is cardboard prototyping and design by play- a natural for kid experimenters.
Time for testing. This is a two person pool game, where players battle to pot balls into opposing pockets using cues made out of straws.
This is part of a multi-component racing game. After manoeuvring a ball through a maze, players compete to net baskets. The prize is concealed in a series of pots. Testing allows our young designers to reconfigure and recallbrate their games. Perhaps it's too difficult. Maybe it needs to be sturdier.
In this tossing game, two players aim balls at the progressive targets and their stick moves along the racecourse. Loads of action, lots of laughs.
These workshops are made possible by the Toronto Arts Council.
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