Grow it! We’re excited to share a recent retail line expansion across our children’s outdoor range! At the heart of Green Bean Studios are three core pillars: EARTH ● KIDS ● COMMUNITY. Learning from home · Get the children outdoors · Get the family gardening. Go green and grow your very own Green Bean Plant with our brand new Green Bean’s Bean Pack seeds! The perfect gardening activity to get children involved in outdoor activities. Plant the bean seeds and watch the joy as your very own green bean plant grows! Sow inside from March and plant outdoors from May, with flowers from July to September.
The Green Bean Collection seed range is designed to encourage children into the world of gardening and boost their interest in play, learning and enjoying fun adventures. This educational and interactive seed range is aimed at families and children. Annual Easy to Grow Your Own Outdoor Garden Flower Plants give children their own positive experience by introducing them to some inspiring plants.
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Anita Frost is a multi award-winning author, entrepreneur and the founder of Green Bean Studios®. With an extensive professional background in both child development and business, recognised as an industry leader for innovating eco-toys, designing sound media content and fun learning books. Anita, along with a talented team of professionals, have come together to build a global children's IP entertainment brand which creates precious moments for children and families through retail, animated TV productions and music. As a business woman eager to address some of society’s most important issues, including children’s mental health, the ecological crisis and childhood obesity, Anita wanted to get to the heart of the issue, and began researching the key contributing factors; children are spending less time outdoors, and this is showing a result in an increasing range of behavioural and attainment challenges in children. Green Bean Studios is a global children's IP entertainment brand based in Manchester, UK its first revenue stream was, the Green Bean Collection®, which is a multi-award-winning range of children’s books and ECO toys. The fast growing children’s IP entertainment brand's core pillars are earth, kids and community promoting sustainability, the brand leads forward ways for children to play, learn and go on fun outdoor adventures. Business Professional Background
Honours & Awards We are thrilled to have won several awards over the years of our business growth journey.
We’re excited to be celebrating World Book Day (WBD) 2024 at Green Bean Studios! This year’s theme is ‘Read Your Way’, the idea being that children are more likely to read for pleasure if their choices are championed and make reading more fun. With children’s literacy levels at crisis point and reading for pleasure declining, children are under increasing pressure to spend more time reading and jump through hoops in the education system to improve their literacy skills. Though there is a desperate need for improvement to children’s early years education, forcing children to read books simply to develop literacy skills is not the best approach to help them read for pleasure. Giving children a choice of what to read is a vital part of encouraging a lifelong love of reading. This year’s WBD theme encourages everyone to let go of pressure and expectations to give kids the choice and chance to enjoy reading. Good literacy and a true love of reading will come naturally if we give children the space and choice to read what excites and engages them. There are many different types of writing that may inspire children to love reading without forcing them to read only books that are ‘at their level’ or within their book band as they learn phonics in school. Here are some of the different types of writing and storytelling that can help children discover their own joy of reading:
In formal education in the UK, children work through book bands as they learn phonics, working towards the level of ‘free reading’ – where they can read whatever books they choose. Whilst this system is an important part of helping children learn key skills and develop in literacy, children should not be restricted to only reading books at a set level of complexity. Allowing children to read books which are above or below their current reading level, if they are types of story or writing that they engage with and enjoy, is key to raising the next generation of passionate readers and writers. But it is not just written forms of storytelling which inspire children to read. Author visits and oral storytelling also play an important role in sparking a love of reading and stories during childhood and beyond. In honour of the annual World Book Day celebration, we asked Green Bean Studios team members and our Precious Moments Ambassadors to tell us a favourite story they remember from their childhood that sparked their love of reading. Anita Frost is a multi award-winning author, entrepreneur and the founder of Green Bean Studios®. With an extensive professional background in both child development and business, Anita is recognised as an industry leader for innovating eco-toys, designing sound media content and fun learning books. Anita, along with a talented team of professionals, have come together to build a global children’s IP entertainment brand which creates precious moments for children and families through retail, animated TV productions and music.
Can you tell us a little about your background and the company? Green Bean Studios is a fast growing, global children’s IP entertainment brand based in Manchester, UK. Our first revenue stream was the Green Bean Collection®, a multi-award-winning range of children’s books and ECO toys which promote a love of the outdoors, kick-starts reading skills, and nurtures a love of reading in young children. Our core pillars are earth, kids and community through which we promote sustainability and exciting ways for children to play, learn and go on fun outdoor adventures. Over the past few years, we’ve built on the huge success of our popular collectable children’s book series, which is on sale in Waterstones nationally, by expanding our range of retail offerings year on year. |
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