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Star Island · 30 missionsThe Confidence Quest
Brave Thinkers · ages 7-8Confidence · 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.
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Your choice: The Confidence Quest · Brave Thinkers (ages 7-8) · 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: 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 7-8 · Brave Thinkers
Hello, Explorer
Nova says: “I keep asking people what I'm good at. Grandad said that's cheating. You have to decide it yourself.”Nova
- About 12 to 20 min
- Reads the story themselves
- Parent nearby, child leads
- Drawing
Nova is waiting on the last post of the jetty, swinging her legs. Next to her, someone has drawn a small star in chalk. She says she didn't do it.
She hands you a stiff card with a gold edge. Across the top it says Star Island Explorers' Guild. Underneath are three empty boxes: Explorer name. Symbol. One thing I'm good at.
"Grandad gave me mine a week ago," says Nova. She shows you. Her name and symbol are done. The third box is still blank.
First, a choice: 4 options
- The explorer name first
- The symbol first
- The hard box first: one thing I'm good at
- None yet: I'm designing the cape emblem first
On the printed page: Tick the box you start with, then fill in your card.
By the end they have: Explorers' Guild card.
You will need: The explorer card on the page (or any card or stiff paper) · Pencils or pens · A towel or blanket for a cape (optional)
- Pick which box you'll start with.
- Choose an explorer name: your real name, a nickname, or a brand-new one. Write it on the card.
- Design a symbol that means something to you. Draw it in the middle box.
- Fill in the third box with one thing you're good at. Write it or draw it. Small things count: knots, drawing horses, making people laugh.
- Design a cape emblem using your symbol and colour it.
- Sign the back of the card. Then swap cards with Nova (or a grown-up) and read each other's.
Smaller step if needed: Fill in the name and symbol today, and leave the third box for later in the week.
The grown-up’s part: Stay out of the choosing. If asked what they're good at, turn it back: What would your friends say? Then accept whatever they write, however small.
At the next family meal, announce your explorer name and ask everyone to call you by it until bedtime.
What it practises: Practise making your own choices about how you present yourself: an explorer name, a symbol and one thing you are good at.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Confidence Quest for ages 7-8. 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 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.
At ages 7-8 (Brave Thinkers)
Multi-step games, mysteries, problem-solving, short writing, real-world challenges. About 10-20 min (a few up to 25) per mission. Short reading and writing. Grown-up role: parent nearby, child leads.
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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