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Moonlight Gardens · 30 missionsThe Balance Garden
Growing Minds · ages 5-6Balance · 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 · Growing Minds (ages 5-6) · 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 5-6 · Growing Minds
Ripples in the Pond
Luna says: “Oh! The Feeling Pond shows what's going on inside you. Still water means calm. Little ripples mean a bit busy. Big splashes mean very busy.”Luna
- About 10 to 15 min
- Story read aloud to them
- Guided play, growing independence
- Story choice
Luna zooms down to the pond and lands on a flat stone. Wobble, wobble, she nearly falls in.
She picks up a pebble and drops it. Plop! Rings of ripples spread across the water. Then Luna sees her own reflection. Her feathers are sticking up. Her eyes are very round. The water around her is splashing all by itself.
First, a choice: 3 options
- Watch the ripples until they stop
- One big shake, then sit down
- Smooth her feathers down, slowly
On the printed page: Circle the pond that is like you, then circle what Luna tries.
By the end they have: Pond check card; Pond check added to the toolbox.
You will need: The pond page · A crayon or pencil
- Look at the three pond pictures: still, rippling and splashy.
- Put one hand on your chest and one on your tummy. Sit for a moment and feel.
- Point to the pond that is most like you right now. Every pond is fine.
- Choose what Luna tries for her splashy pond and see what happens.
- Draw a pebble on your pond. Pond check goes in your toolbox!
Smaller step if needed: Just point to a pond for Luna today, and look at your own another time.
The grown-up’s part: Do a pond check yourself first, out loud and honestly. If your child picks splashy, simply say Thanks for telling me.
Do a pond check at breakfast and again at bedtime, and tell your grown-up still, rippling or splashy each time.
What it practises: Practise noticing how your body feels inside right now, using three pond pictures: still, rippling or splashy.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Balance Garden for ages 5-6. 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 5-6 (Growing Minds)
Short missions, drawing, simple puzzles, role-play, real-world challenges. About 10-15 min (a few up to 20) per mission. Optional read-aloud narration. Grown-up role: guided play, growing independence.
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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