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Growing Minds · ages 5-6Courage · with Finn
The Courage Trail
30 playful missions to help your child practise trying unfamiliar things and taking small, healthy risks. Relight the paper lanterns of the Whispering Woods so every animal can get home after dark, with Finn as their guide.
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Your choice: The Courage Trail · 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: Relight the paper lanterns of the Whispering Woods so every animal can get home after dark.
Your child’s part: Your child decides which small brave step to take next, from a footprint trail to a rope bridge. Each step they choose makes a lantern glow, so the evening paths open again and the Lantern Festival can happen.
Courage is trying something unfamiliar while still feeling a bit nervous. It’s not about having no fear, it’s about taking small, safe steps anyway.
Why parents might choose it
- New places or people make your child hesitant
- They say "I can’t" before they’ve tried
- A big change is coming up, like a move or a new school
Just gentle ideas to help you choose.
The Courage Trail
Here’s what a mission looks like
The story goal: Relight the paper lanterns of the Whispering Woods so every animal can get home after dark.
Mission 1 · First Steps Path
Ages 5-6 · Growing Minds
Finn's Wobbly Tail
Finn says: “Not again! Every time I go somewhere new, my tail does this. And my ears go hot. It's so embarrassing.”Finn
- About 10 to 15 min
- Story read aloud to them
- Guided play, growing independence
- Drawing
The gate of the Whispering Woods creaks open. Beyond it, the mossy path goes into the trees, and the trees go into the shadows.
Finn takes one step. Then his tail starts to wobble. Left, right, left, right. He grabs it with both paws, but it keeps wobbling.
First, a choice: 4 options
- In my tummy
- In my legs
- In my hands
- Somewhere else
On the printed page: Colour two places on the body outline.
By the end they have: Body-signal map.
You will need: The body outline on this page (or draw round a hand on scrap paper) · Crayons or pencils
- Look at the body outline on the page. Finn has already coloured his tail and his ears.
- Think of a time you felt a bit wobbly, or imagine one. Where did you feel it?
- Colour two places on your outline where wobbles show up.
- Give the feeling a name or a colour, like fizzy, jelly, prickly or purple. A grown-up can write it for you.
- Show Finn your map and tell him one clue.
Smaller step if needed: Colour one place on Finn's picture instead of your own.
The grown-up’s part: Share one of your own body signals first, in a light way. Accept any place and any word, even a surprising one.
Tell a grown-up about one wobbly moment from this week, a real one or a made-up one for Finn, and where you felt it.
What it practises: Practise noticing where nervous feelings show up in the body, and giving the feeling a name or a colour.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Courage Trail 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 Whispering Woods. 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.
- First Steps Path · missions 1 to 6
- Echo Caves · missions 7 to 12
- Rope Bridge Ridge · missions 13 to 18
- Lantern Hollow · missions 19 to 24
- Bold Peak · missions 25 to 30
Activities in this adventure
Story choices, Movement, Real-world challenge, Treasure hunt, Role-play.
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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