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Moonlight Gardens · 30 missionsThe Balance Garden
Future Leaders · ages 9-10Balance · with Luna
The Balance Garden
30 playful missions to help your child practise understanding feelings, rest, play and healthy routines. Help the moon find its rhythm so Moonlight Gardens can rest, play and bloom again, with Luna as their guide.
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Your choice: The Balance Garden · Future Leaders (ages 9-10) · printable PDF + online adventure
This edition is still being written, illustrated and tested. We only sell an edition once all 30 missions are finished in both formats.
Also part of Choose Any 3 ($74.99) and the Complete Collection ($184.99), each for one age level.
The story
The goal: Help the moon find its rhythm so Moonlight Gardens can rest, play and bloom again.
Your child’s part: Your child notices what bodies need, sorts busy moments from calm ones and puts the garden’s scrambled routines back in order. As they do, the night flowers open again and the Moonlight Festival can go ahead.
Balance is knowing what your body and feelings need, whether that’s rest, play, a snack or a calm moment, and building routines that help.
Why parents might choose it
- Bedtime and transitions are a daily battle
- Big feelings arrive quickly and stay a while
- You’d like calmer, more predictable routines
Just gentle ideas to help you choose.
The Balance Garden
Here’s what a mission looks like
The story goal: Help the moon find its rhythm so Moonlight Gardens can rest, play and bloom again.
Mission 1 · Feeling Pond
Ages 9-10 · Future Leaders
Ripples in the Pond
Luna says: “So the plan is that I feel like a firework at dusk and a damp sock at midnight, and I lead both meetings. Brilliant.”Luna
- About 15 to 20 min
- Reads the story themselves
- Self-directed, parent checks in
- Story choice
The Feeling Pond is perfectly flat until Luna sits down beside it. Then the surface starts to slop against the pebbles as if someone has kicked it.
"It does that," says Vesper, hanging upside down from the willow. "The pond copies whoever is next to it. It has been copying you for three nights now, and it is exhausted."
The story continues in the mission.
First, a choice: 4 options
- Dusk is splashy: burn it off with a fast lap of the meadow before the briefing
- Dusk is splashy: use it and run the briefing at full speed
- Midnight is flat: wake it up with cold pond water and a stretch
- Midnight is flat: hand the bed check to someone else tonight
On the printed page: Tick a choice for each of Luna's ponds, then fill in your own two pond checks.
By the end they have: Two pond checks and an action for each.
You will need: Pencil and paper (optional)
- Do a status check right now: is your pond still, rippling or splashy? Write the word, draw the pond, or just decide.
- Add one clue: what told you? Your breathing, your legs, your thoughts, how loud you want to be?
- Pick a second time today that is usually different for you (straight after school, after dinner, before bed) and check again then.
- Compare the two ponds. Same or different? Anything that might explain it?
- For each pond, choose one action that fits it. It can turn energy up, down, or leave it where it is.
- Try one of those actions at the next matching moment and note what happened, in a word or a picture.
Smaller step if needed: Do one status check today and save the second for tomorrow.
The grown-up’s part: Ask about the pond, not about behaviour. If they say splashy, that is information, not a confession.
Do a status check before school and again after school on the same day, and note each pond word on any scrap of paper.
What it practises: Practise checking your own state (still, rippling or splashy) at two different times of day and choosing an action that fits each one.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Balance Garden for ages 9-10. The edition is not yet approved, so wording may change, and the mission’s own illustrations are still to come.
The five-chapter journey
Five places in Moonlight Gardens. Thirty missions. Five stars to collect.
Six missions in each chapter. Finishing a chapter lights up a new star on the map, on paper and on screen.
- Feeling Pond · missions 1 to 6
- Rest Nook · missions 7 to 12
- Play Meadow · missions 13 to 18
- Routine Clocktower · missions 19 to 24
- Calm Lake · missions 25 to 30
Activities in this adventure
Reflection, Movement, Drawing, Story choices, Memory game.
At ages 9-10 (Future Leaders)
Planning, reflection, social scenarios, goal setting, independent online play. About 15-25 min (a few up to 30) per mission. Independent reading. Grown-up role: self-directed, parent checks in.
What’s included
One adventure, two ways to play.
The printable PDF
- Adventure introduction and character pages
- All five chapters and 30 missions, fully illustrated
- Puzzles to circle, match, draw and colour
- Grown-up guidance and answer notes
- Progress map with stars to colour
- Reward stickers to cut out
- Completion certificate
The online adventure
- The same 30 missions as interactive games
- Tap, drag, reveal and choose instead of writing
- Character reactions and completion animations
- Digital stars, badges and a final certificate
- Carry on where you stopped, on any device
- Works on phones, tablets and computers
- Tap alternatives to every drag-and-drop
Paper and screen
Every activity works both ways.
The same mission plays on paper or on screen with the same answer. This is how each activity type changes between the two formats.
| Activity | In the PDF | Online |
|---|---|---|
| Story choice | Circle an answer | Tap an answer |
| Secret code | Draw the symbols | Tap symbols into a lock |
| Matching | Draw lines | Drag or tap pairs |
| Ordering | Number the pictures | Drag or tap into order |
| Hidden things | Colour what you find | Tap the scene |
| Feelings | Colour a face | Tap a face |
| Drawing | Draw in the frame | Draw on screen |
| Real world | Tick the box | Tap “We tried it!” |
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