Learning adventures at home, for ages 5 to 7
Pink Patsy and Bobby Blue, the adventurous teddy hares, turn everyday days into learning adventures. Here are our favourite ideas for home-schooling families: easy to set up, full of imagination, and linked to Key Stage 1.
Imagine • Believe • Create • Succeed
Take a Dream Ticket
1. Take a Dream Ticket
Choose anywhere in the world, or somewhere you dream of. Fill in the Dream Ticket worksheet, find the place on a map or globe, then draw Pink Patsy or Bobby Blue there. Margaret, our illustrator, painted her own Dream Tickets to The Shard and to the dinosaur footprints in Dorset!
Learning: geography, map skills, art and imagination.
There’s no place like home
2. There’s no place like home
Go on a nature walk near home, just like Pink Patsy at Dollis Brook, a short walk from The Redwood Forest. Look and listen: a tree, a duck, a bird singing, the wind in the leaves. Take Pink Patsy or Bobby Blue along, take a photo, and draw a simple map of your route with a key.
Learning: local area, simple maps, plants, animals, seasons and weather.
Write your own story
3. Write your own story
Print the “Pink Patsy and the…” story booklet. Plan a beginning, a middle and an end, then write a few lines and draw a picture on each page. Then colour a star for anything you tried, like a capital letter or a describing word. There’s no wrong way to tell a story!
Learning: writing, reading, sentence building and confidence.
Be an artist
4. Be an artist
Pink Patsy visited the National Gallery and saw Van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers. Look at a famous painting together, talk about the colours, lines and shapes, then paint your own version with Pink Patsy hiding in it.
Learning: art and design, colour, pattern and learning about artists.
Follow the map
5. Follow the map
Open the Follow Pink Patsy Adventure Map together. Click a pin, read the questions, and find out how far each place is from The Redwood Forest. Can you find the furthest trip? Which places are near the sea?
✅ Links to the KS1 curriculum
- English: writing about real events, stories with a beginning, middle and end, capital letters, full stops and describing words
- Geography: naming countries and places, using maps, atlases and globes, compass directions and the local area
- Art and design: drawing and painting to share ideas, colour, pattern and the work of artists
- Science: plants, animals, seasons and weather
Send us your adventure
When your child has finished, send a photo of their drawing or adventure with the form on the Adventure Map page. We check every pin and add it to the map with a gold Dream Ticket pin. First names only, please, and no photos of children’s faces.