Washington Plaza

Hello, I’m sure everyone is having a good time preparing for Halloween. It is a time for excitement and spooky fun. By now you've probably heard of the game Minecraft and you may think it is just another game and a big waste of time but I see it differently. Let me explain...when kids grab a sheet of paper most of the time I see that they draw a house with their family, maybe a swing outside and they try to detail it as best as they can.  Well I've over heard several kids talking about Minecraft and thought I could probably find a free alternative online.

There are several to choose from and the kids really enjoy it.  They can design and build their own structures.  The children like building their own houses and comparing them with the other kids.  It's really fun to engineer and architect in this imaginary 3D virtual world.  The best part is that it is open ended. They may start to build one little room and before you know it, that one little room may develop and expand to a much bigger building snowballing into something huge!!!  Talk about cool creativity.  I think it really takes some wonderful imagination and creativity to play a game like this and not waste time with just another run of the mill video game.  We gotta keep the brain active and this video game definitely accomplishes that.  Games such as these may help to spark the next engineer or architect in the community...here's to making learning fun!