Rough Visuals - early concepts

This concept is a simple design as its aimed towards 5-7 year olds. From research carried out, I feel that to engage the children, i need to add some sort of interactive element. Here i have done this by creating a simple image on the first page asking 'can you find ... some blackberry's' this would be a generic attribute to all items in the book, keeping it clear, simple and easy to read and understand, with minimal assistance. On the following page i have included flaps where the child has to unfold each one to find where they would find it.

Sticking with including an interactive element, i have created this concept. The first page includes a turning circle where the child can choose what item they would like to forage for. They then have to think where they will find the item and continue to decide what appropriate tools should be used. The following page includes an activity sheet where the child has to draw a picture of the item collected. They then write where they found it and draw what tools they used. I think this concept will build up a good knowledge base of how to forage, it also teaches the child how to learn from any possible mistakes.

Here is another concept which focuses on the instruction element. The design would be in a painted, textured, collage form with nice visuals. Pages are layered from smaller to bigger to include a simple interactive element which embraces the instructional form. The first page shows the image explained above to indicate which item the child needs to forage. The following page suggests how to do this with nice imagery to help this process.