Everybody’s Different: The Appearance Game is aimed at children aged 9 and above. It involves two teams (4-8 players in total) competing to reach the finish line by answering questions and completing activities, which are designed to promote discussion and help players explore their thoughts and feelings around body image, appearance and differences.
It takes 45-60 minutes and can help increase children’s knowledge of appearance-related issues.
The game can be purchased here.
We’d to have your feedback on The Appearance Game – please complete our quick survey here.
“It makes you focus on more important things other than your appearance”
Child in year 5 & 6 class
“I really liked that the board game taught you about people with differences”
Child in year 5 & 6 class
Translated Versions
The board game has been translated and is currently available in Czech and French.
For more information about the Czech version, click here
For more information about the French version, click here
If you are interested in translating the board game into another language, please contact us at CAR@uwe.ac.uk to discuss this.
Research
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Everybody’s Different: The Appearance Game was developed in collaboration with Focus Games, a UK-based educational board game company. During development, we spoke to other experts in appearance psychology, parents, teachers, and children to get feedback and check whether the game was enjoyable and age appropriate. We used their feedback to create the final version of the game. When we tested the game with 9-11-year-olds, we found that they enjoyed playing it and it increased their knowledge of appearance-related issues.
Publications
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Guest, E., Jarman, H., Sharratt, N., Williamson, H., White, P., Harcourt, D., & Slater, A. (2021). ‘Everybody’s different: The Appearance Game’. A randomised controlled trial evaluating an appearance-related board game intervention with children aged 9-11 years. Body Image, 36, 34-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.09.010
Acknowledgements
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The development of Everybody’s Different: The Appearance Game was funded by UWE, Bristol. It was created by members of the Centre for Appearance Research, together with the team at Focus Games.
We thank the VTCT Foundation for funding the study to evaluate the game and the primary schools for taking part.
We also thank Hannah Jarman, Nick Sharratt, Heidi Williamson, Bruna Costa, Beth Herring, Arabella Macrae, Jade Parnell, Harriet Smith, Georgia Treneman-Evans, and Abigail Woodley for their help with the evaluation.
