The game Wheelmino - Food Wheel Domino

The game Wheelmino - Food Wheel Domino, is an adaptation of the traditional Domino and has the goal of teaching, in a fun way, the Food Wheel (the Portuguese version of the American Food Pyramid) to toddlers. It’s the first game created by SIENA and is intended to serve as an educational tool for schools and a amusing game for family and friends. While it is a game, it also presents information on the basics of an healthy diet through food groups, represented through different colors, and ...

The idea came from a need, as a mother, to find games to teach my child about healthy eating. There are games for everything, numbers, shapes, colours, so why not also educational games to teach the little ones about healthy eating? Since then, I thought about adapting traditional games to educational contents on nutrition and food. I am a nutritionist, so this was a small step to create this first game.

The idea is based on creating solutions and tools in the field of nutritional education directed primarily to children and youth starting from 3 years old.

The goals are:

• Redeem healthy habits through reading and educational games;
• Promote knowledge about nutrition within the family environment;
• Develop communication materials to help learn about nutrition in the school environment;
• Convey science-based knowledge about nutrition through simple and engaging language;
• Make information and tools available to continuously improve food quality and safety.

Mission: To promote health through nutritional education.

Vision: To be a benchmark in the field of Nutritional education.

Values: Environmental responsibility and sustainability.

About the author

Mirna Oliveira, Nutritionist, Postgraduate in Clinical and Therapeutical Nutrition, with experience in Public Health, School Feeding and the hotel business. Always had the notion that education is the foundation for a successful future. In pursuit of this goal and new challenges moves from Brazil to Portugal in 2008 with her professional experience in the suitcase.

Despite the ongoing crisis, was not discouraged and completed another advanced degree in Nutrition and Dietetics applied to Sports, and a Training of Trainers course (ToT). Today, at 36, married and mother of two boys (a 3 year-old and a newborn), is still going strong and willing to embrace new projects.

Innovation in nutritional education then appears as a link between the scientific knowledge acquired over 12 years of professional experience, and the knowledge that motherhood brought with it.

Jogo didactico RodaMinó

Budget and due dates

The promoter has already invested some of her own capital to design the game and produce the first prototypes. The project aims to raise 2,000 euros to produce a larger amount of the didactic game RodaMinó in order to be able to meet future orders. In the studies made in the municipalities of Oeiras and Sintra in Portugal (in the outskirts of Lisbon), there are around 20,000 students of pre-school and primary school age in public schools. With the income from the sale of this game, we aim to continue the project of developing other games and teaching tools in the field of Nutritional education including, besides the adaptation of traditional games, the publication of books and materials for people with special needs.

There is some urgency in this project, since orders are starting to come and there are several deadlines associated with manufacturing and the opening of the school year. The sale will be done directly at the schools during interactive nutritional education sessions without additional costs to the schools.

The funds will be applied as follows: 200 € to produce the additional designs and formats by a illustrator; 1,600 € to produce and the game pieces and packaging; 200 € to design and printing of flyers to outreach the project.

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