A 10-page, full-colour screen-free bedtime activity pack with a gentle mermaid story, quiet choices, family conversation, story creation, drawing, simple planning and evening reflection.

Resource overview

Mira’s sleepy sea lanterns introduce a calm story-led collection of alternatives to phones, tablets and television before bed. Children can listen to the illustrated story, choose a quiet activity, invent their own bedtime tale, draw a cosy reading place, talk about their day and make a simple evening plan.

Children can point, check, draw, write or talk about their answers. Adults may read the prompts aloud and write down a younger child’s words. Use the complete pack as a family-engagement or home-learning sequence, or select individual pages for reading, speaking, listening, creative writing and screen-free activity folders.

What’s included

The pack includes an illustrated cover, an adult quick-start page, a four-part Sleepy Sea Lanterns story, Pick a Quiet Activity, Create a Bedtime Story, Draw a Cosy Reading Spot, Family Talk Time, My Quiet Activity Plan, My Screen-Free Evening and a Goodnight, Sea Lanterns reflection page.

The download contains 10 full-colour pages in two non-editable PDF formats: A4 and US Letter.

Suitable for

Ages 3–8, with adult read-aloud, discussion and dictation support for younger children and increasingly independent drawing or writing for older children; early years and early primary learners; story time; speaking and listening; family engagement; creative writing; drawing; quiet-time folders and screen-free evenings.

The pages are complete, no-cut activities with no loose cards or tracing tasks. This is an educational story and activity resource; it does not promise sleep, behaviour, medical, therapeutic or emotional outcomes. Colours may vary by printer, paper and screen.

This resource was created with AI support, including artwork.