US 2017/0061819 A1Published application

Nutrition Education Game For Children

OwnerPatricia R. Addie-Gentleinventor

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Abstract

The disclosed board game is designed to teach children basic nutrition principles in a fun-filled way. The game is designed to be played by a minimum of five players and/or teams. The game board depicts a fictional community where players have the task of planting nutritional foods in each of five gardens so as to provide nourishment to various sectors of the community. Players acquire colorful magnetic fruit and vegetable tokens to plant in their assigned gardens by correctly answering nutrition-related questions asked by a game facilitator. The first player or team to collect and plant all seven of the fruit and vegetable colors is the winner of the game. The object of the game is to enhance knowledge and understanding of the principles of personal nutrition, daily food consumption and meal planning.

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A method of playing a nutrition education board game, for five players ranging in age from five years to ten years, comprising the steps of:

a) providing a board having a game playing surface, said surface imprinted with the layout of a small fictitious community, said community including a school, a post office, a hospital, a grocery store, a police station, seven streets named for weather phenomenon, and five community gardens, the community gardens comprising a metallic surface;
b) providing for the selection of five individual players between the ages of five years and ten years of age to compete in playing the nutrition education board game:
c) assigning a specific community garden to each player;
d) providing at least forty (40) magnetized game tokens representing a variety of different-colored fruits and vegetables, said game tokens displaying six different colors:
e) providing a “Pilot Rainbow” puppet-like game piece which engages in the proper watering and care of the food tokens planted in the community gardens;
f) providing a plurality of laminated game cards, each card imprinted with a question, below which is imprinted with a plurality of choices of answers, said question relating to human nutrition, food categories, crop cultivation, and food selection;
g) providing a game facilitator who maintains custody and control of said fruit and vegetable tokens, the laminated game cards, and whose game function is to
h) providing each player with a battery-powered buzzer or clacker which is used to notify the facilitator of a possible correct answer;
j) providing that the facilitator verbalize a question of the players, said question imprinted on one of said laminated cards, and further, said question querying each player's knowledge of a certain area of human nutrition;
j) giving to the player being the first to press a game buzzer in anticipation of answering a question, the opportunity to respond to the facilitator's question;
k) players that are familiar with the correct answer responding to the question asked by the facilitator and being the first to give the correct response;
l) awarding a specifically requested color fruit or vegetable token to the player which gives the correct response to a question read from one of said laminated cards;
m) requiring that the player having requested and received a specific fruit or vegetable token, plant said fruit or vegetable token in the player's garden;
n) repeating steps i) through m) until such time as one player has planted fruit and/or vegetable tokens containing all six of the colors defining the game;
o) declaring the player that first plants fruits and/or vegetables containing all the six colors of the community in his/her garden as winner of the game.

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A method of playing a nutrition education board game, for five teams of players ranging in age from five years to ten years, comprising the steps of:

a) providing a board having a game playing surface, said surface imprinted with the layout of a small fictitious community, said community including a school, a post office, a hospital, a grocery store, a police station, seven streets named for weather phenomenon, and five community gardens, the community gardens comprising of a metallic surface;
b) providing for the selection of fifteen individual players between the ages of 5 years and 10 years three of which will be placed on one of five teams, to compete in playing the nutrition education board game;
c) providing at least forty (40) magnetized game tokens representing a variety of different-colored fruits and vegetables, said game tokens displaying six different colors;
d) providing a “Pilot Rainbow” puppet-like game piece which engages in the proper watering and care of the food tokens planted in the community gardens;
e) providing a plurality of laminated game cards, each card imprinted with a question, below which is imprinted with a plurality of choices of answers, said question relating to human nutrition, food categories, crop cultivation, and food selection;
f) providing a game facilitator who maintains custody and control of said fruit and vegetable tokens, the laminated game cards, and whose game function is to ask of the teams a question imprinted upon a randomly selected game card;
g) assigning a specific community garden to each team;
h) providing each player with a battery-powered buzzer or clacker which is used to notify the facilitator of a possible correct answer;
i) providing that the facilitator verbalize a question of the teams, said question imprinted on one of said laminated cards, and further, said question querying each team's knowledge of a certain area of human nutrition;
j) giving to the team being the first to press the game buzzer the opportunity to respond to the facilitator's question;
k) teams that are familiar with the correct answer responding to the question asked by the facilitator and being the first to give the correct response;
l) awarding a specifically requested color fruit or vegetable token to the team which gives the correct response to a question read from one of said laminated cards;
m) requiring that the team having requested and received a specific fruit or vegetable token, plant said fruit or vegetable token in the team's garden;
n) repeating steps i) through m) until such time as one team has planted fruit and/or vegetable tokens containing all six of the colors defining the game;
o) declaring the player or team that first plants fruits and/or vegetables containing all the six colors of the community in its garden as winner of the game.

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