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Heartwood Meadow · 30 missionsThe Kindness Journey
Future Leaders · ages 9-10Kindness & Empathy · with Poppy
The Kindness Journey
30 playful missions to help your child practise noticing feelings, listening and showing care. Bring Heartwood Meadow back into bloom by helping the animals notice each other again, with Poppy as their guide.
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Your choice: The Kindness Journey · Future Leaders (ages 9-10) · 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: Bring Heartwood Meadow back into bloom by helping the animals notice each other again.
Your child’s part: Your child reads the feelings on faces, works out why someone is sad and shows Poppy how to ask before helping. As the animals start noticing each other, the meadow comes back into bloom in time to welcome new neighbours.
Kindness and empathy mean noticing how others feel and choosing to show care. Children practise reading faces, listening and doing small thoughtful things.
Why parents might choose it
- You’d like them to notice when a friend is upset
- Sharing and taking turns are still tricky
- You want kindness to feel natural, not forced
Just gentle ideas to help you choose.
The Kindness Journey
Here’s what a mission looks like
The story goal: Bring Heartwood Meadow back into bloom by helping the animals notice each other again.
Mission 1 · Feelings Garden
Ages 9-10 · Future Leaders
Read the Room
Poppy says: “I know. But look at them. That one's sad. That one's sad. That one is extremely sad.”Poppy
- About 15 to 25 min
- Reads the story themselves
- Self-directed, parent checks in
- Matching
The storm last night did two things. It flattened Granny Daisy's runner beans, and it stripped every label off the flower faces in the Feelings Garden. The labels are scattered across the path like confetti nobody asked for.
This matters, because the Feelings Garden is the first stop on the Vole family's welcome tour. Poppy has been relabelling since breakfast. So far she has used the word sad eleven times.
First, a choice: 4 options
- Disappointed or sad?
- Embarrassed or annoyed?
- Worried or concentrating?
- Fine, or only saying fine?
On the printed page: Draw a line from each face to a label, then write the clue for four pairs.
By the end they have: Relabelled garden page; Read the room added to the field kit.
You will need: The flower face page · A pencil · A mirror (optional)
- Pick the look-alike pair you want to crack first.
- Match all twelve flower faces to the twelve labels on the page. Use pencil, so you can change your mind.
- For four look-alike pairs, write the one clue that tells them apart: eyebrows, mouth, eyes, or where the head is pointing.
- Test it: make both faces from one pair in a mirror, or for someone at home, and see whether they can tell which is which.
- Put a question mark on any face you still aren't sure about. Real faces are often mixed, and a question mark is an answer.
- Draw the Read the room symbol (an ear with three short lines) in your field kit.
Smaller step if needed: Match six faces and crack two look-alike pairs.
The grown-up’s part: If you're asked to pull faces, do them straight, not for laughs. If their match differs from yours, ask what they saw rather than correcting.
In a film or book this week, find a character who says they're fine when they aren't, and name the clue that gave it away.
What it practises: Practise telling apart feelings that look alike on a face, such as disappointed and sad or embarrassed and annoyed, and naming the clue that separates them.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Kindness Journey for ages 9-10. 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 Heartwood Meadow. 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.
- Feelings Garden · missions 1 to 6
- Listening Brook · missions 7 to 12
- Helping Hands Farm · missions 13 to 18
- Gift Glade · missions 19 to 24
- Warm Welcome Village · missions 25 to 30
Activities in this adventure
Reflection, Role-play, Craft, Story choices, Real-world challenge.
At ages 9-10 (Future Leaders)
Planning, reflection, social scenarios, goal setting, independent online play. About 15-25 min (a few up to 30) per mission. Independent reading. Grown-up role: self-directed, parent checks in.
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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