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Growing Minds · ages 5-6Focus & 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 · 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 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 5-6 · Growing Minds
Mika's Flicker
Mika says: “Did you see that? My lamp flickers when my eyes wander off. It tells me before I even know.”Mika
- About 10 to 15 min
- Story read aloud to them
- Guided play, growing independence
- Hidden things
The Quiet Trail winds up through tall pine trees. Mika marches in front, her brass lamp swinging on its cord.
Then a blue butterfly drifts past her nose. Mika turns to watch it. Her lamp goes flicker, flicker, and the path goes dark.
"Oh!" Mika spins back round. The lamp glows steady again.
First, a choice: 4 options
- The blue butterfly
- A shiny stone
- A pine cone falling
- A rustling bush
On the printed page: Circle four things that pull Mika's eyes away.
By the end they have: Distraction list: four things circled on the trail picture; Flicker check added to the toolbox.
You will need: The trail picture on this page · A crayon for circling (optional)
- Look at the trail picture together. Mika's path runs up the middle.
- Find four things that could pull Mika's eyes off the path. Circle each one, or point to it.
- Each time you find one, say Flicker check! and put your finger back on the path.
- Choose the one that would pull your eyes most. Tell Mika why.
Smaller step if needed: Find two things, with the grown-up saying warmer or colder.
The grown-up’s part: Go first with a real example of your own, such as: I get pulled away by my phone. Keep it light; noticing is the skill, not staying still.
During one meal or story time today, notice one thing that pulls your eyes away and whisper Flicker check to your grown-up.
What it practises: Practise noticing the moment your eyes and thoughts are pulled away from what you are doing.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Lantern Climb 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 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 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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