When I was growing up and we lived overseas, my tea-fiend of a Nanny (as in Grandmother not full-time child-carer) used to collect the cards from her PG Tips packets and send them out to us. She would send off for the books that PG Tips produced to secure your cards in, box it all up and ship it out to whichever part of the world we lived in. Having them in my life are one of my clearest childhood memories.
Fast forward thirty years and I realised I could give that same experience to my children. At the beginning of the year, Bear Nibbles starting putting a new collection of cards in their packets. There have always been cards with interesting facts but these new cards were special. They each featured a different country, with some country-related facts, and in each box of Nibbles, there was a smaller box, designed like a suitcase, into which you could put your cards.
My girls were inspired. We collected them voraciously- handily the Bear Yoyo fills the brief for the “healthy snack” required each break time at school- and sorted through them.
And we collected bar codes from each individual packet and, when we had enough, wrote a note to Bear HQ- in the Deep Dark Woods- requesting our World Map. Those Bears are efficient creatures because a package addresses to my small Bears arrived the next day.
It literally sparked so much excitement that we dropped to the hallway floor to complete our map in record time. We carefully matched the Flag of each country from the card with the sticker on the sheet that came with our map, and fixed it in place. Oh my, it was such fun, and now every day we take a look at the different countries and research new facts that Bear hasn’t found. We have been online to enjoy the activities on the bear site and we are so looking forward to the next challenge that Bear has for us.
Thank you Bear for allowing us to create memories whilst also reliving them!
Find out all the details of the Adventure Map on the Bear site.
*Disclosure: this is not sponsored or a review post. I just really really loved the concept. And the fact that it was easy for us to collect the tokens should demonstrate how much my children genuinely love Yoyos. Well done Bear!*
oh what a fab idea. I love this and it would be a great home ed project for us.