These are no-cost, private ways to play with the pack's fictional sources. They are invitations, not homework or a request for a family's identity, origin, celebration, photo or address. A child can do the same activity with an educator and the paper visitor. No response is a complete option. Do not upload any real family answer to the public pack.
- Map and question (Days 1–2): together look at the fictional map or hear its linear description. Ask, “Where is STORY MAT on this paper map?” Then let the child ask a question about one printed symbol. Pointing counts.
- Two views (Day 3): read Pip and Ren's fictional cards. Ask, “Which sentence is Pip's? Which is Ren's?” A child may say how they differ without naming a place in their own life.
- Sign tester (Days 6–9): draw a large imaginary BOOK symbol and the words STORY MAT, or dictate them. Put the sign beside the matching place on the invented map. Ask, “Who might this sign be intended to help?” A paper puppet may be the visitor; do not claim a real user test.
- Before/next/after (Day 7): draw three boxes: blank sign, mark added, sign placed. Child orders them and says which source picture showed each step. No printer is needed.
If a family independently wishes to contribute a real place, relationship or celebration: use only the school's approved private consent and safeguarding process. Let the family choose what, if anything, can be shared with whom. The teacher checks attribution, context and privacy; the public pack never presumes or stores that contribution. Country/Place content additionally needs the local cultural-authority gate. The fictional options remain equally valid for children who do not contribute personal material.