Anita Frost, founder of Green Bean Studios, said: "As we continue our journey to becoming the leading brand in supporting young children’s learning and development, sustainably. “Empowering children to achieve their best, while instilling a love of their environment and world, is at the heart of everything we do. At a time when the world is in turmoil, we want to create opportunities for children to enjoy precious moments with their grown ups, whether indoors with a book or in nature with a kite, and this year’s success is testament to the significance of this approach. “I believe our products can serve as an educational tool to illustrate the importance of sustainable communities, responsible consumption and production. Our work with universities, our conversations with parents and carers, and our engagement with educational professionals, is ensuring the toys, games and entertainment we create truly support children to play, learn, develop and reach their full potential.” The firm anticipates further growth next year, with plans to expand the sales and creative team, launch retail lines into three new territories, and announce a new investment round alongside the unveiling of new eco products and its animated TV series. Green Bean & Friends™
Manchester’s Green Bean Studios has produced a new trailer of its pre-school series, Green Bean & Friends.It’s made the move as it seeks a production partner to take the project into the next phase of development. “The launch of our preschool TV series trailer represents a significant milestone in our journey, as we accelerate our plans for 2024. Our aim has always been to engage and entertain children, families, carers and educators, in an eco-conscious way; one that promotes early years development but also a love of adventure and the great outdoors,” explained author and creator, Anita Frost. “Working with some incredible local talent has enabled us to produce an animation that really brings to life the essence and character of our beloved Green Bean and friends, and truly engages our audiences, from preschool to adult. We now look forward to selecting a partner to develop this into its next phase of production.” The 2D animation features leading character Green Bean and five friends who love to play, learn, and go on fun outdoor adventures together. The series will have an “eco-conscious focus.” Frost collaborated with composer Douglas Black Heaton on the trailer and she added that an “A-List celebrity” had been confirmed as a voiceover artist. The trailer hasn’t been released publicly. Precious Moments Ambassadors
Green Bean Studios’ mission is to create precious moments for children and parents to share through fun adventures. Our Precious Moments Ambassadors campaign has been created for parents, grandparents, and early years educational professionals to work with us and support children to learn, play, and develop confidently.
Is that you, a nature lover, ECO Warrior, Bookworm, or outdoor explorer? We would love to hear your PreciousMoments stories, past or present. Join our Ambassadors – a community who are passionate about enabling our next generation of early years children to learn and develop with confidence. We welcome grandparents, parents, caregivers and early years educational professionals. Come and join our forever journey to give children the best start in life. Here at Green Bean Studios, we focus on achieving this through the following areas: play, fun learning, and exploring the world around us. Become a Precious Moments Ambassador as we make a difference one child at a time. Please submit your details below. We look forward to hearing from you!
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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. 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. |
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