Encouraging preschool kids to eat healthy and averting them from developing an unhealthy habit

Healthy eating is crucial for a child’s wellbeing, development, and growth. Children who eat healthy will have a lower risk of developing chronic diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and some cancers as they get older. Moreover, they will feel better and enjoy life more as a result. Children must be physically active and consume the correct quantity of nutrients to balance their energy needs in order to stay healthy and maintain a healthy weight. The impact of junk food is increasing in today’s lifestyle. On analyzing we realized that the age group 3-5 years is being affected the most as a result we choose this user group and age range to find out the problem. The research describes the issues faced by children, parents, and helpers of children at home. The home scenario is chosen as the face the most amount of difficulty and trouble eating at home. With this study, we hope to learn more about the concept and the problems, experiences faced by the children, parents and helpers. We also want the best solution for these kids which will solve this problem and help them live and healthy life. Data collection methods consisting of primary, secondary data collection, mind maps, survey interviews, behavioral models and a proper design research process were used to gather insights and to understand the topic. As a result, important implications, interviews, surveys, design validation, peer review, recommendations and insights were considered in building the final solution. Prior to developing the final solution, many concept sketches and prototypes were developed and numerous improvements were made. The final solution was given the name YumTum. Yum tum is an interactive theme-based board game. In this the kids make their own new path every time they play, the game is competitive which makes the kids want to play and win more. The outcome of this game was that kids started eating the food happily and excitedly without throwing any tantrums which solves the problem of children not eating all the food given to them on their plate and improving their habits and eating experience.