Five Discovery Cards built on Hey, Capybara! — guess, investigate, compare, befriend and create. Made for little explorers who have just met someone new.
Three clues and nothing else — I love water, I have little ears, I’m a great swimmer. Your child guesses, then draws the guess.
Before readingCapybara, mouse, squirrel and beaver side by side. Pick one, circle what makes it special, and write the question you want answered.
During readingFour feet to compare — capybara, duck, dog, frog. Which are built for swimming, and how can you tell?
During or afterDraw a friend you love spending time with, name one thing that makes you different, and one thing you enjoy doing together.
After readingRead the book together, choose your favourite discovery, then make something from it — a drawing, a story, a coloured page.
After readingAsking their own questions instead of answering ours — and being allowed to not know yet.
Looking closely at a body, a foot, a habitat — and working out what each part is for.
Different, and friends anyway. Card 4 makes that idea something a child says out loud.
Drawing it, colouring it, retelling it — the discovery becomes something the child made.
One email unlocks every printable in this TadaKit — the videos and the book links are open to everyone.
Big questions start with little wonders. Print it, pin it up, and let children fill the cards with the questions nobody could answer yet — then take one down each week and find out together.
Works just as well on a fridge door as on a classroom wall.
Every card ends with one. Pull a spark, ask it, then wait — the pause is where the thinking happens.
What clues helped you make your guess?
One of you is Capybara, who answers only about what a capybara can feel, eat and do. One is the detective with the magnifying glass. Then you swap.
Ten minutes, Cards 2 and 3, and a magnifying glass if you have one.
We build kits around a family’s own story, a school or business programme, or a publisher’s characters — the way this one was built around Capybara.
