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Brave Thinkers · ages 7-8Focus & Perseverance · with Mika
The Lantern Climb
30 playful missions to help your child practise sticking with a task and finishing manageable challenges. Relight the lamps up Lantern Peaks so the summit beacon can guide travellers over the pass, with Mika as their guide.
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Your choice: The Lantern Climb · 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 lamps up Lantern Peaks so the summit beacon can guide travellers over the pass.
Your child’s part: Your child breaks a big climb into small steps, parks distractions and comes back to the task. Each stretch they finish relights the path, until the beacon shines and the villages beyond the pass can be reached before winter.
Focus and perseverance are about staying with something a little longer, noticing distractions and feeling proud of finishing a manageable challenge.
Why parents might choose it
- Activities get abandoned halfway through
- Distractions pull them away easily
- You want to build patience with harder tasks
Just gentle ideas to help you choose.
The Lantern Climb
Here’s what a mission looks like
The story goal: Relight the lamps up Lantern Peaks so the summit beacon can guide travellers over the pass.
Mission 1 · Quiet Trail
Ages 7-8 · Brave Thinkers
Mika's Flicker
Mika says: “Did you see that? It does it every single time. I look at something else and my lamp goes wobbly.”Mika
- About 10 to 15 min
- Reads the story themselves
- Parent nearby, child leads
- Hidden things
The lamplighter's hut sits where the Quiet Trail begins. Ada the old yak is waiting on the step, and she points her horn up the mountain. Halfway up, the path lamps are dim. At the very top, the summit beacon is completely dark.
"Without the beacon, the post carriers can't cross the pass at night," Ada says. "Letters, medicine, flour for the winter. All of it stops."
The story continues in the mission.
First, a choice: 4 options
- The blue butterfly
- The whistling marmot
- Something shiny in the rocks
- A thought inside Mika's head
On the printed page: Circle the six pulls, then write or draw a fix beside each.
By the end they have: Distraction list started.
You will need: The trail picture on the page · A pencil
- Look at the trail picture slowly, from the bottom of the path to the top.
- Find the six things that pulled Mika's attention. Circle each one, or point and say it.
- For each one, write or draw a fix in the box beside it. A fix can be odd, as long as it might work.
- Give a star to the pull that would get you most.
- Start your own Distraction list on the back of the page with one thing that pulls you.
Smaller step if needed: Find three of the six pulls and choose a fix for one of them.
The grown-up’s part: Let your child search without hints for at least a minute. If they ask, you can say how many are left, not where.
This week, during reading or homework, notice the first thing that pulls your eyes away and add it to your Distraction list.
What it practises: Practise noticing what pulls attention away, and thinking up a fix for each pull.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Lantern Climb 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 Lantern Peaks. 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.
- Quiet Trail · missions 1 to 6
- Steady Steps · missions 7 to 12
- Puzzle Pass · missions 13 to 18
- Long Climb · missions 19 to 24
- Lantern Summit · missions 25 to 30
Activities in this adventure
Puzzles, Memory game, Craft, Movement, Reflection.
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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