Climate Dice

We believe that a child’s imagination is a powerful tool in helping them to imagine an alternative, better future. Imagination can help a child to think about what they can do to improve things, giving them a positive mindset and a sense of control in their lives. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.

That’s why we developed Climate Dice. These storytelling dice are a tool that provide  an opportunity to engage children on climate change issues, letting their imaginations explore without boundaries and providing them an opportunity to vocalise their thoughts and feelings.

Not only can the game be played among children, but when played with adults, it also gives young people a chance to voice their thoughts and feelings, whereas before they may feel too shy or intimidated to do so.

First off, we studied every aspect of Climate Dice to ensure the best possible sustainability practices were in place. From design through to the end of the product life-cycle, we ensured we limited waste and only ever used truly sustainable materials.

With that taken care of, we set about considering the different elements of the dice that were necessary for the game to be a success. 

We also wanted to simplify the game as much as possible, so there was no confusion as to what the different images on the dice were. Through extensive research we came up with the best combination of images possible. For example:

Through this simplicity, the game is accessible to young people of all ages and learning abilities. In order for change to happen, inclusivity in all levels of society is crucial.

The Climate Dice game can be played in many different ways, but at its simplest:

• Throw the dice and tell your story using the illustrations on the faces of the dice and your imagination.
   
• Players are in control of the story, and the conversation can go wherever their imagination takes them. There is no such thing as a bad story.
   
• Each player can have their own story (with 6 dice) or players share a set of dice, take turn and gradually adding to the story, together.
   

We understand that sustainability education can be challenging, so we’ve created an educational model that makes it easier to translate complicated sustainability and social issues into entertaining engaging activities, using interactive language.

Our resources are designed to help children imagine an alternative, better future, showing how their daily choices affect the world around them and how they can make a difference through their decisions. Children love what we do because our dreams are closer to theirs, so we work with pupils who – like us – believe that anything that can be imagined is possible.

We have brought on-board ethical and reliable partners to make the perfect product. We  have had two rounds of prototypes and are thrilled with the quality and durability of the final production. With our supply chain tested and complete, the only missing element to the chain is you! 

If you believe in the power of imagination to improve children’s futures, become a backer today. We have Rewards to suit all needs, including offers for distributors. The more backers we can secure, the more free dice sets we will be able to distribute to the schools in remote areas of the world.

Let’s empower children to dream and reimagine a better future. A future they own and live in peace and harmony with everyone on this planet.

We believe we have achieved something amazing and we are very grateful to all the people who have made it possible for us to get here.

We also would welcome your support to spread the word and secure backers so we can turn the dream of Climate Dice into a reality. You can help us by spreading the word on social media. You can find us on all the main social channels @climatedice.

Risks and challenges

We’ve been working in sustainability and edutainment space for years and have been developing ClimateDice for a while. It has successfully completed the prototypes, pilot production process and beta testing of different dice size, different material and printing technologies with a diverse group of testers. We are completely confident that ClimateDice is now ready for mass production. With our current partner, we should be able to produce the sets sold on Kickstarter within 2-3 months after the campaign ends. However, we are well aware there’s always room for improvement, that is why we are still constantly receiving feedback from our testers, improving the product and exploring new ideas for adding new dice to the set as we go! If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to reach us

Reusability and recyclability

All materials used in Climate Dice (including package) are eco-friendly, and quite harmless for the environment, even if they end up in the landfill one day. Climate Dice are made of wood. Packaging is plastic free.

Sustainable materials

We are well aware of the problems caused by plastic. Every piece of plastic we consume stays in the environment for up to hundreds of years. So we’ve decided to eliminate plastic from our Storytelling Dice. For the very same reason Climate Dice is made of wood.