Roll up! Rollup! It's carnival time at Invention Squad. What better way to beat off the winter blues 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.
My favourite (given it's that season) was the Whack-a-louse game. You have 30 tries to bop those pesky critters amongst the curls of hair (don't try this at home) and lucky winners get (drum roll) a Louse Exterminator (LE) certificate and some free shampoo! Love the topical humour in this design.
There were other games on a throwing or shooting theme.
Including this nicely built fixed cross-bow platform.
This is a skittle target game.
Testing a tossing game.
In this well thought out design you have to flick the corks up the ramps and through the holes (avoiding the turning fans at the back). This design could be automated in later prototypes with a turning mechanism to operate the fans.
This was a roller obstacle course.
In this super kinetic recycling scavenger race you sort food from trash with your whacking stick. Careful to balance on your frisbee board along the course. Then wash your fruit for the prize.
Loads of action, lots of laughs.
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