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Little Explorers · ages 3-4Focus & 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 · 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 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 3-4 · Little Explorers
Mika's Flicker
Mika says: “Oh! My lamp keeps flickering. Something keeps pulling my eyes away.”Mika
- About 5 to 8 min
- Story read aloud to them
- Parent-led throughout
- Hidden things
Here is Mika the hedgehog. Here is her little lamp. Glow, glow, glow.
Mika walks up the Quiet Trail. A blue butterfly floats by. Mika looks. Flicker, flicker! goes the lamp. A pine cone drops. Plop! Mika looks. Flicker, flicker!
First, a choice: 3 options
- The blue butterfly
- The pine cone that went plop
- The shiny pebble
On the printed page: Circle each thing you find, or just point.
By the end they have: Flicker! added to the toolbox; things found circled on the trail picture.
You will need: This page
- Together, look at the trail picture. Find the blue butterfly and the pine cone.
- Each time you find one, wiggle your fingers like a flickering lamp and shout Flicker!
- Then point back to Mika on the path. Glow, glow, glow!
Smaller step if needed: Find just the butterfly today. The grown-up can point near it first.
The grown-up’s part: Voice Mika. At the meal, look away slowly and obviously so it's easy to catch. Laugh when you're caught.
At one meal today, watch your grown-up: when they look away on purpose, shout Flicker! Then swap.
What it practises: Practise noticing when eyes and ears get pulled away, by spotting the things that pull Mika's eyes away.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Lantern Climb 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 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 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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