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Ages 3 to 10 · four levelsConfidence · with Nova
The Confidence Quest
30 playful missions to help your child practise expressing themselves, making choices and trying new things. Relight the five stars over Star Island so the fishing boats can find their way home again, with Nova as their guide.
Choose their level
$29.99 PDF + online adventureChoose an age level first
Choose your child’s age level above. Each level is a separate edition with its own 30 missions.
Also part of Choose Any 3 ($74.99) and the Complete Collection ($184.99), each for one age level.
The story
The goal: Relight the five stars over Star Island so the fishing boats can find their way home again.
Your child’s part: Your child makes the choices: their own explorer symbol and name, which idea to share, which new thing to try. Each choice brings a dimmed star back to light, and Nova finds her voice beside them.
Confidence is the quiet sense of "I can have a go." It shows up when a child shares an idea, makes a choice or tries something new, even if their voice wobbles a little.
Why parents might choose it
- Your child has big ideas at home but goes quiet in groups
- You’d love them to make small choices without looking to you first
- They’re starting school, a new club or a new class
Just gentle ideas to help you choose.
The Confidence Quest
Here’s what a mission looks like
The story goal: Relight the five stars over Star Island so the fishing boats can find their way home again.
Mission 1 · Brave Beginnings
Ages 5-6 · Growing Minds
Hello, Explorer
Nova says: “My symbol is a star, because I like looking at them. My explorer name is Nova Bright-Paw.”Nova
- About 10 to 15 min
- Story read aloud to them
- Guided play, growing independence
- Drawing
A little boat bumps against the wooden jetty. Nova runs to meet it, her red cape flapping.
"You're here!" She holds out a small card. It's completely blank. "Every explorer on Star Island has an explorer card. It shows your symbol and your explorer name. But nobody can fill it in for you. That's the rule."
First, a choice: 4 options
- A star
- A shell
- A wave
- My own idea
On the printed page: Circle a symbol, or draw your own in the empty bubble.
By the end they have: Explorer card.
You will need: The explorer card on this page (or any scrap of card) · Crayons or pencils · A towel or small blanket
- Choose your symbol from the four, or invent your own.
- Draw it big in the middle of your explorer card.
- Choose an explorer name: your own name, a nickname, or a new one like Nova Bright-Paw. A grown-up can write it for you.
- Choose a colour for your cape emblem and colour it in.
Smaller step if needed: Choose just the symbol today; the name can come later.
The grown-up’s part: Write the name if asked, exactly as your child says it. Keep your own colour ideas to yourself.
Wear a towel or blanket as a cape and announce your explorer name to everyone at home.
What it practises: Practise making small choices about yourself: a symbol, a colour and an explorer name.
Word for word from Mission 1 of The Confidence Quest for ages 5-6. The mission’s own illustrations are still to come.
The five-chapter journey
Five places in Star Island. 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.
- Brave Beginnings · missions 1 to 6
- Voice Valley · missions 7 to 12
- Try-It Mountains · missions 13 to 18
- Kindness Cove · missions 19 to 24
- Shine Summit · missions 25 to 30
Activities in this adventure
Story choices, Puzzles, Movement, Role-play, Real-world challenge, Drawing.
Choose an age level to see how the missions work at that stage, or compare all four on Age levels.
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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