home sweet home

This project looks at ways to get young children involved in actively learning about their surrounding through play. Through my research I found that primary aged children best learn through play as well as feeling as though they are in a safe and comfortable environment. This game focuses on New Zealand's native animals and the habitats in which they live. 

The aim of the game is to collect enough food for each animal in the player's hand and then to return them to their natural habitat. The scavenger cards in the game which act as action cards ask questions of the players about their animals, which if answered correctly allow them to pick up food tokens for their animals. The animal cards have all of the information needed in order to answer these questions. Throughout the game, players are also able to work together to find these answers, as well as trading food tokens and cards which help to build the players social and teamwork skills. 

Throughout the project I created different types of collateral for the game including packaging, playing cards, food tokens, playing tokens, and an instruction book.