New Game, Teach Your Monster, Gets Children Excited About Fruit And Vegetables

On the JJ Barnes Blog, I check out a new game for children, Teach Your Monster: Adventurous Eating, that encourages children to get excited about fruit and vegetables.

Being a mum is, in my experience, about 78% about worrying. The rest is thinking about worrying. One of the worries is making sure your children are healthy, and we all know that to be healthy, you have to eat healthy. But children are notorious veg dodgers.

So, I decided to have a look at a new video game from the team at Teach Your Monster, Teach Your Monster: Adventurous Eating, which is designed to get children excited about fruit and vegetables.

Teach Your Monster

Creators of Teach Your Monster To Read, a phonics game that was nominated for a BAFTA, has launched a new game that aims to get kids excited about fruits and vegetables. Teach Your Monster: Adventurous Eating encourages children aged 3 to 6 to try a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, using all 5 of the senses of touch, smell, hearing, sight, and taste, which has been shown to help children develop a better relationship with food over time.

Teach Your Monster, a non-profit organization funded by the charity The Usborne Foundation, found that nearly half of parents stated that they feel like they constantly waste food at mealtimes. Even though parents want their kids to eat a variety of foods, 83% said they ended up cooking the same meals over and over again.

The majority of the parents surveyed reported experiencing mealtime anxiety, with 67% saying they frequently argued with their children and 57% negotiating over how much they would like to eat.

The game’s research also showed that children respond well to upbeat, fun music they can sing along to. Consequently, Teach Your Monster: The celebrated children’s songwriter Simon Panrucker, who is best known for his work on the Cartoon Network shows Clarence and The Fungies, contributed to the writing of several original songs on Adventurous Eating.

Making Fruit And Vegetables Exciting

Teach Your Monster: Adventurous Eating combines fundamental education with top-notch game design aids to directly addressing these obstacles. It is a game for kids that is full of fun and makes eating fruits and vegetables less scary and more exciting. In the game, kids make their own monster and go on a journey with Bub and his friends to learn about different foods using all five of their senses. There are over forty different kinds of fruits and vegetables in the game, including numerous common foods like apples, potatoes, and peas.

“Teach Your Monster: Adventurous Eating is all about getting kids excited about fruit and vegetables and helping them develop a better relationship with food for long-term benefits,” said Antonio Gould, executive director at Teach Your Monster. “The game views fruit and vegetables through the eyes of a child. The more familiar children are with foods, the more likely they are to eat them – and this game develops familiarity around sight, smell, taste, sound, and touch, helping children become a little braver to try new fruit and vegetables.”

About Teach Your Monster

Teach Your Monster is a charitable organization that makes educational educational games for kids. It is funded by The Usborne Foundation. Teach Your Monster is behind the multi grant winning and BAFTA named phonics and understanding game, Teach Your Monster To Read alongside Teach Your Monster: Reading for Fun and Teach Your Monster: Number Skills.

Teach Your Monster collaborates with leading academics to develop educational games that kids love to play over and over again. From numeracy to nutrition, the games help kids tackle a wide range of learning challenges in novel and exciting ways.

The Usborne Foundation

Peter Usborne and his two children, Nicola and Martin, established the Usborne Foundation as a charitable fund to support specific organizations, primarily those that focus on early literacy.

Peter Usborne is the founder and managing director of Usborne Publishing, which is now one of the leading publishers of children’s books in the world. It has made books for young readers one of its most important specialties. For a very long time, Peter has been particularly interested in figuring out how to make use of children’s inherent fascination with computer games.

During her time at Scholastic Inc. in New York, Nicola Usborne was in charge of creating The 39 Clues, a bestselling “transmedia” book-with-online-puzzles series, as well as an educational reading software program for American schools. Martin Usborne has conducted extensive research on children’s games for the development of children’s television shows.

Find more now:

For further information visit www.teachyourmonster.org

Teach Your Monster: Adventurous Eating was released worldwide on 9 January 2023 and is available to download for iOS devices via the Apple App Store, Android devices via Google Play and Kindle devices via Amazon for £2.99.

Children can also play for free via any compatible web browser at Teach Your Monster: Adventurous Eating

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