Private native candidate · H61–H70 · choose any, skip any · no return to school required.
Choose one card and begin with its tiny making choice. Existing broad paper/board and a familiar suitable tool are enough; no printout or purchase. An agreeing adult can make on the child's direction. Name that help; unmade directions are a plan. Stop, rest, private keeping and another day are always available.
H61 · A welcome page for a pretend bus
Tiny start: “What picture could welcome a pretend bus?” Offer one broad blank area and make/direct one wanted mark. A funny invented bus or an ordinary drawn shape is enough.
Free setup/swap: blank scrap paper with no private information on it and a familiar broad marker; swap for a board and exact adult description. No vehicle, travel, cutting or small pieces.
Child choice: choose the welcome picture, where it goes and whether this is a cover, a whole one-page work or just a first part. Adult asks only “Here, or somewhere else?” and follows the answer; do not supply a correct symbol.
Notice: which mark/place the child chose and which part actually exists. If you fabricated it, name that help; don't guess what another person would understand.
Optional playful end: add an inside picture of a pretend place the bus visits, or keep the welcome page for private pretend play. The child may change the bus into something else. Stop before a second page if wanted. No real travel advice, audience or required words.
H62 · A little quiet-picture collection
Tiny start: “What would you like on a picture page you keep?” Child makes/directs one feature; quiet is a possible purpose, not a promised emotional effect.
Setup/swap: existing paper/board and familiar marking tool; an adult can describe the empty space and draw the exact directed feature. No soft material or touching task is required.
Choice/phrase: child chooses full, sparse, busy, funny or another arrangement. “Leave space, add something, or keep this?” Accept deliberate open space or chance.
Notice: the actual feature and child's preference if offered. A sparse page does not prove calmness, and a busy page does not prove distress.
Optional end: make/direct a different inside picture to keep beside it, or choose one page as the complete private work. Child chooses a resting place for the paper if suitable; no toy or family disclosure needed. Stop/help/later always available, no task to return.
H63 · Impossible weather bulletin
Tiny start: “Invent some weather for a picture.” One curve, stripe or chosen mark can begin it; no real weather observation is needed.
Setup/swap: broad paper or board; familiar marker, or child directions followed by adult drawing and exact description. No outside visit, hot object or water.
Choice/phrase: “What shall we put first?” Child chooses whether the imagined weather is shown on a cover or one complete page, with no required name or feeling. Adult does not add a forecast.
Notice: distinguish visible drawn marks from the child's supplied invented meaning. If meaning isn't offered, the marks still exist; no interpretation is filled in.
Optional funny end: put a pretend umbrella for a drawing or another impossible picture inside. Keep the work private or later show a willing person. Actual weather/safety decisions stay with ordinary family care. Stop/help available; no completion or sharing demand.
H64 · Funny picture fixes
Tiny start: “Draw an invented thing with a funny change.” The child can begin with one wanted line instead of naming a broken thing.
Setup/swap: broad blank paper/board and locally suitable familiar tool, or agreeing adult fabrication. Use drawings only; don't alter furniture, tools, appliances or belongings.
Choice/phrase: “Keep that change, or try another?” Child might choose a stretched handle, a wide pretend cushion or an entirely different feature. No repair is prescribed.
Notice: actual original/new feature only when both traces exist; a single page is not evidence of a revision. Receive a preference without claiming the picture would work physically.
Optional end: make a cover introducing the invented object and an inside showing its funny repurpose. Leave it as one page or a plan if wanted. Child may keep both designs, neither, or stop. Adult operator/help is named; no real repair, audience or correctness score.
H65 · Pattern parade
Tiny start: “Choose one mark for a parade of pictures.” Make/direct the mark on a broad page.
Setup/swap: paper/board, familiar marker; description and adult exact drawing are equal entry options. No cutting, costume, marching, sensory contact or small objects.
Choice/phrase: “Repeat it, change it, or leave one?” Child chooses repetition, deliberate chance, spacing or a different subject. Adult doesn't set a required pattern or count.
Notice: own selection and actual drawn repetition/change. An adult-created series stays adult-created; ask for one child-owned next choice if useful.
Optional playful end: choose one actual page for the cover and a different detail/repetition for inside; imagine pictures parading rather than requiring body movement. Child chooses private keeping or later willing showing. Stop/help/later remain available; no maths or literacy performance test.
H66 · A pretend menu of shapes
Tiny start: “Which shape would you put on an invented menu?” One original mark is enough; a menu here is picture play, not something to eat or buy.
Setup/swap: broad paper/board and suitable familiar marker, or adult drawing from exact child direction. No food, cooking, tasting, money or purchase.
Choice/phrase: “Picture, words, or no words?” Child invents a shape offering, chooses cover placement and may dictate exact optional text; adult scribing is labelled.
Notice: which picture/word/place was the child's choice, and what the adult physically wrote. Do not expect reading or treat picture-only as incomplete.
Optional funny end: an inside page can show a larger version or a ridiculous invented use for the drawn shape. One page can stay complete for the child's purpose. Ask before storing/showing; stop/help/pass available. No factual nutrition, price or real shop claim.
H67 · Label for an imaginary library
Tiny start: “What picture could mark your pretend library?” Child makes/directs a wanted mark on paper. Actual books are unnecessary.
Setup/swap: broad blank area, familiar marking tool or described board/adult fabrication. Avoid private writing on reused paper; no binding, adhesive or moving family belongings.
Choice/phrase: child chooses a local invented label, optional exact words or no words. “Is this how you want it?” Do not call it a universal sign or invent a translation.
Notice: actual mark and supplied purpose, without claiming a viewer knows the meaning. The child can choose another subject instead.
Optional useful-in-play end: make an inside picture of one invented book cover, or keep the label as the complete selected picture work. Decide together where the paper can rest without attaching it to anything. Stop/help/later and private keeping stay available; no personal reading history required.
H68 · A pretend picture post
Tiny start: “What picture would you put in a pretend post?” Draw/direct one chosen feature. No recipient name or real delivery is needed.
Setup/swap: broad paper/board and familiar tool; exact described surface plus agreeing adult drawing if wanted. No envelopes, stamps, addresses, outdoor delivery or upload.
Choice/phrase: “For you, pretend play, or a willing person here?” Child chooses private keeping, imagined posting or an actual local showing. Actual showing needs both people's agreement; either may stop.
Notice: whether a work was made, who presented it and whether an actual recipient received it. A pretend addressee is not an audience; do not invent a reply.
Optional end: make a cover clue and an inside surprise of the child's choice, or keep one page. If a willing person actually views/describes it, their optional real notice can be recorded in words only if welcomed. No correct reply, return to school or public sharing.
H69 · One small picture discovery
Tiny start: “Which part of your picture would you look at more closely?” Make a new wanted mark first if no own picture exists.
Setup/swap: actual own paper/board work and another broad area, or precise descriptions and child-directed adult making. No magnifier, camera, real object sample or fine-detail test.
Choice/phrase: “More of this part, a different part, or keep it?” Child chooses enlarged, repeated, imagined or unchanged detail. Adult follows, without saying enlargement is better.
Notice: actual whole/detail relationship only if both works exist and the child chooses it. A new unrelated picture is equally possible; record its relation as unelicited.
Optional end: arrange the first picture as cover and the new detail inside, or place them differently for a chosen collection. Child may deliberately use the detail as cover instead. Keep privately or later show with permission; stop/help available.
H70 · Make one page, then choose its home
Tiny start: “Make a picture you want to keep, change or put away.” One wanted mark/directive begins the offer.
Setup/swap: broad paper/board and suitable familiar tool, or agreeing adult fabrication on exact child directions. No permanent display, attachment, photograph or required preserved version.
Choice/phrase: “This one, another trial, or later?” Child selects current work, makes another actual trial, or stops. If changing, do not save the first version against the child's wishes.
Notice: literal current feature and choice. If no first trace remains, do not invent a comparison; describe what exists now. Adult help and later suggestions remain separate.
Optional playful/practical end: an inside page can show a drawn pretend resting place for the picture's invented subject, or the actual paper can rest in a locally suitable agreed place. These are different facts. One page/temporary board work/private/pass are valid. No home course completion or outcome return.