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Star Island · 30 missionsThe Confidence Quest
Little Explorers · ages 3-4Confidence · 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 · Little Explorers (ages 3-4) · 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 3-4 · Little Explorers
Hello, Explorer
Nova says: “I picked red for my cape. All by myself!”Nova
- About 5 to 10 min
- Story read aloud to them
- Parent-led throughout
- Drawing
Toot, toot! A little boat bumps the jetty. Bump!
Nova runs to meet you. Her red cape flaps. Flap, flap!
She holds up a big towel. "Every explorer needs a cape," she says.
First, a choice: 3 options
- Red, like Nova
- Yellow, like the sun
- Blue, like the sea
On the printed page: Point to a colour, then colour the cape.
By the end they have: Coloured explorer cape on the page.
You will need: Crayons in red, yellow and blue (or any three colours) · A bath towel or small blanket
- Your child points to one of the three cape colours on the page.
- Together, colour the big cape on the page in that colour. Big scribbles are perfect.
- The grown-up holds a towel round your child's shoulders like a cape.
- Together, swish the cape and say: I picked it!
Smaller step if needed: Just point to a colour today; the colouring can wait.
The grown-up’s part: Hold the colours out and wait. Count to five in your head before helping. Any colour is fine, even one that isn't on the page.
Wear your towel cape at teatime and say to everyone: I picked this colour!
What it practises: Practise making a small choice about yourself: picking the colour of your own explorer cape from three.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Confidence Quest for ages 3-4. 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 3-4 (Little Explorers)
Picture matching, movement, simple choices, pretend play, storytelling. About 5-10 min (a few up to 12) per mission. No reading needed. Grown-up role: parent-led throughout.
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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