The Ohmies is an interactive musical health and wellness brand for children three to five years old.
Through The Ohmies, preschoolers will interact with a musical adventure based on a curriculum focusing on movement/physical activity, emotional development and social development. Children will learn to identify their feelings, make friends, resolve conflicts, get along with their siblings, and to deal with anxiety. Moreover, The Ohmies will focus on movement (and physical activity) as another basis for a healthy lifestyle.
The series features Penny Butterfly (age 7) and her little brother, Poogle Caterpillar (age 4), two spirited, fun-loving creatures who live in Ohmland and allow their curiosity to send them off on adventures. Each adventure sends Penny and Poogle to new territory where they encounter new Ohmland friends, who must help them along their way.
While watching The Ohmies, the child viewer is encouraged to participate and play along with the unfolding adventure. In fact, the child’s participation is necessary for the plot to advance. Just when the Ohmies can’t fly high enough on their own the child audience steps in and flies with them, allowing the Ohmies to fly higher and higher. And…ta da! The Ohmies have flown over the gulch! Each movement or physical action that is introduced (mainly inspired by yoga poses) encourages the child audience to move, stretch, dance, and breath. Together with Ohmie friends, Penny and the viewer can learn to slither like Snake, hop far and wide like Grasshopper, and fly like a butterfly!
Penny and Poogle’s sibling relationship, as well as their friendships with the other creatures in Ohmland present a remarkable stage upon which to teach preschoolers about emotional and social development. Throughout The Ohmies, Penny and Poogle (and the others) often face additional challenges brought by their antagonists, The Worries.
The Worries are hapless villains (who look like furry muppets) that come out when The Ohmies feel fear and anxiety. Just like most preschoolers, The Ohmies have fears and anxieties about everyday things such as visiting unfamiliar places and changing routines. When The Ohmies are distressed, The Worries appear! But never fear! After talking it through, everyone will work together to dance or laugh or sing those Worries away!
On every adventure, Penny and Poogle gain skills central to preschoolers, learning about themselves and the world around them. These skills will focus on helping preschoolers to develop positive skills for health and well-being.
Our Vision
To establish The Ohmies as a world-wide entertainment brand recognized for its ability to support parents and cargivers in raising happy, healthy children.
Our Fundamentals
- Good Health = Good Fun
- Being Eco-Friendly is our Eco-Responsibilty
- Embracing people of all colors, shapes and sizes adds vibrancy to our work and fullness to our lives.
- Taking chances, keeping an open mind and trying new things are essential for success.
- Improving ourselves strengthens our community - and strengthening our community improves ourselves.
- Physical and spiritual health are just as important as fiscal wealth.
- Our responsibilty is to always consider the physical, mental and emotional health of the children we serve and provide them with the highest quality products and entertainment.
Our Curriculum
- Movement and Physical Activity • Building Capacity and Awareness of Body’s Potential
- Social Development • Trust and Security
- Emotional Development • Perceiving, Using and Managing Emotions
• Strength through Personal Fitness
• Breathing and Focus
• Optimism
• Cooperation
• Engagement with Others
• Relationship Management
• Self-Management