Art for Kids: How to Make a Scoring Game

Video Transcript

"In this clip we're going to make a scoring game that encourages adding up to see whose got the highest score. For this project, we need some cardboard, a pen, some scissors and a marble. It's based on a castle which we're going to make from cardboard. So the first thing we need is a piece of cardboard, quite long, much narrow at both ends. I'm going to fold this in half with the long ends together, try to get that fairly, fairly neat. Once you've got the long ends together, you can squeeze it at the top and make a fold. Check that it stands up fairly evenly. "Yes that looks find". Now then, along that folded edge, we need to make a little mark about as wide as a finger space. So I'm putting my finger and then mark, a finger and then mark all the way along the folded edge. And then we're going to cut down those spaces with my scissors. So a little cut as a mark, so a little chop and then stop, a chop and a stop. One chop, don't go any further than that, just one chop, all the way along, wherever there is mark, do a little chop. All the way along, we've chop to most stop. Now open the top and we can see the pattern. Now this is why you need the other finger to push. Leave that one standing up and push that one down. One up, push one down. One up, down; up, down; up. Now then, we can see that the pattern's starting to form. Close the top, again, close the top and make sure those down ones are stayed down; don't let them pop up again. And when the folds gone down, you can press it firmly and you've got your castle. Now let me work the doors into the castle. This is important because this is where the scoring goes. I think I'm going to do square doors on my castle that go like that. So all you need to do is, I'm going to do three. You can do more if you want, but three should be enough. Three doors on my castle. I'm not doing back doors, I'm just doing front doors. So where that door edges, cut up and then cut along; then that door will open wide. I think I kind of just do, let's go to the I cannot together, then it won't be too difficult. I'm going to do, you get a 10, if you get the marble to the middle door. If you get to some of the door, let's say 3 and if you get this side door, I think I'll call that one a 5. There's a few different scores on my castle now. If you want to decorate your castle, you can put some bricks on it or some stones on it. Just draw them on to make it look that fancy. And then you need your scoring ramp, your launch ramp. So that's another piece of card and you need to fold up the edges so that your marble can't escape. Fold up one edge, fold the other edge so you've got a shoot. And to make the shoot a little bit higher, I'm going to do a cut and a cut, that's two chop and stop there and a chop and stop there and then fold that flop down. Now that makes it slide. And with any look, we'll see what I can score today. Move that one out of the way, let's see if I can get a ten. I'm aiming down the middle, marble down there; ready, aim, fire. Yes! Out of this score and see who the winner is."