… until Shanghai American School celebrates creativity, imagination and fun with the Global Cardboard Challenge, inspired by Caine, of Caine’s Arcade.

(This is our good friend Erin’s son Stanley… already enjoying his own Cardboard Challenge!)

We are asking for your help to make this day a huge success for our students by providing as many recycled materials as you can muster.

Here are the things we need in order of importance:

*Cardboard-the larger and more unusual the better, but EVERYTHING can be useful; toilet rolls, saran rap rolls, posters, tissue boxes.
*Foil, Wrapping Paper, Origami Paper, Poster Paper that can be used to wrap and cover the cardboard and turn it into rocket ships, microwave ovens, doll houses, a building on fire, a hospital, a space ship… you name it
*Pipe-Cleaners, String, Rubber Bands, Toothpicks, Cotton Wool, Cotton Buds
*Old fabric, cloth material that is no longer useful to you, but could be a stage curtain for us, or a ship’s sale, or a cave’s entrance.

Really, we are only limited by our imagination… please don’t send in any valuable items, or things you’d like to see again as we cannot guarantee that, and we’re telling the students that for the most part, they will NOT be able to take anything home with them. Hopefully after this they will be inspired to rebuild some of their favorite cardboard creations over the break…

Please help us to make this day the huge success it promises to be.

As most of you know, the story of why the Global Cardboard Challenge came around begins with a young boy named Caine, who you can read about here on the Imagination Foundation Website.

Quick Facts: taken from here

• Film posted online April 9th
• Film by Nirvan Mullick (@nirvan)
• Total Running Time: 11 minutes
• Total Views: Over 8 million (YouTube + Vimeo + Facebook )
• Over $235,000 raised for Caine’s Scholarship Fund.
• $250,000 Matching Grant from the Goldhirsh Foundation to start the Imagination Foundation
• In first 2 months, over 100 Schools in 9 Countries created cardboard arcades inspired by the film.
• The Imagination Foundation’s 1st annual Global Cardboard Challenge had over 270 Events in 40 Countries.
• Over 135,000 Facebook Fans
• Caine traveled to France & was youngest speaker ever at the Cannes Lions 2012.
• Caine was youngest ever entrepreneur to speak at USC Marshall School of Business