A whole world of learning. Ready to play.

The big street festival is on Saturday and the whole town needs a hand. Pick a friend, visit five places, and learn to count, grow, code, build and make by doing it.

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Free, in the browser, on a phone, tablet or laptop. Nothing to install, no account, no adverts.

Zizi

Who will you play as? Tap a friend.

Three friends to choose from. Zizi comes along whoever you pick.

Ada counts mangoes, puff-puff and toys at the market, and she is the one who notices when a number is wrong.

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Ada

Hi! I'm Ada. I love counting things!

Five places, one festival

The whole town helps. Counting, growing, coding, building and making.

Each place is one subject with three activities. Finish them and that place sends something to the festival square.

Counting: Maths
Growing: Science
Coding: Technology
Building: Engineering
Making: Maths

1
Market StreetMaths
Counting with Mama Bisi
Everyone is selling things for the festival. Children count what each stall needs and check the last number they say.
1. Toy stallWake Uncle Femi's sleeping teddies one at a time and count as you go
2. Mango stallPack the number of mangoes Mama Bisi asks for, then add green ones to make the total
3. Puff-puffShare Aunty Ronke's puff-puff so every plate gets the same
For the festival: A talking drum, a basket of mangoes and a tray of puff-puff.
2
Grandma's FarmScience
Growing with Grandma
Plants and animals live here. Children give a bean what it needs to grow, put a life cycle in order and feed the right animal.
1. Bean gardenWater the droopy bean, move the cloud off the sun, and work out which bean grows best
2. Life cyclesPut the bean, the hen and the butterfly pictures in order, first to last
3. Feeding timeGive the goat, the hen and the rabbit the food each one eats, then sort living from not living
For the festival: Sunflowers, and the animals come too.
3
Computer VillageTechnology
Coding with Sister Ngozi
People come here to fix phones and computers. Children code a robot, find the bug and complete a circuit.
1. Code BoltTap arrows in order, press Go, and Bolt the robot walks to his battery
2. Fix the bugWatch Bolt go wrong, find the arrow that sent him the wrong way and swap it
3. Light it upFill the gap in the wire so electricity goes round the loop and the bulb comes on
For the festival: A music speaker and the fairy lights.
4
Builders' YardEngineering
Building with Engineer Bayo
Engineer Bayo builds things that really work. Children test what floats, build a bridge that holds and find the strongest shape.
1. Float or sinkGuess, then drop each thing in the river, and build a raft that carries Zizi across
2. Bridge builderCount the spaces in the gap and find the plank, or two planks, that fit it
3. Strong shapesBuild a tower to the flag line, then test which frame stays up when the fan blows
For the festival: A boat, a bridge and the stage itself.
5
Adire WorkshopMaths
Making with Aunty Kemi
The tailors are making cloth for the festival. Children continue a stamp pattern, measure ribbon and sort kites by shape.
1. Stamp the clothKeep the pattern going, circle, star, triangle, and spot the stamp that broke it
2. Measure ribbonsLay buttons along a ribbon to measure it, then cut a piece the right length
3. Shape kitesFind the triangles, sort shapes by their sides and make a kite the same on both sides
For the festival: Bunting, a ribbon pole and kites for the sky.

Zizi

The whole town helped. Counting, growing, coding, building and making!

Everything is ready. It's festival time.

Talking drum
Mangoes
Puff-puff
Sunflowers
The hen
The goat
A boat
The stage
Ribbons
Kites

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See it played

Big adventures. Little discoveries.

A short film: the friends at work in their worlds, then the game on a tablet, a phone and a laptop.

Character scenes are animated from the game's own art. Gameplay is recorded from the game. Children's footage is licensed stock from Mixkit.

The screens below are from the game as it is today. It runs in the browser, so the same adventure fits a laptop, a tablet or a phone turned on its side.

Festival Town on a laptop: the town, with Zizi welcoming Ada and the five places to visit — The town, where every adventure starts. Tap a building to go there.

Festival Town on a tablet: Grandma's bean garden, with a watering can and a droopy bean — Grandma's Farm on a tablet: the bean is thirsty.

Festival Town on a phone: Uncle Femi's toy stall, with four sleeping teddies to wake and count — Market Street on a phone: wake the teddies, count as you go.

Try it yourself. One place takes about ten minutes.

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For parents and carers

Made for curious kids. Built so grown-ups can relax.

What is in it, what it asks of a child, and what it does not do.

Learning by doing
Every activity is something to do, not a question to answer: count the mangoes into the basket, give the bean its water, put the arrows in order for the robot.
Five subjects, one story
Counting, growing, coding, building and making. Each world is one subject, and the festival is the reason to visit all five.
Pitched at early primary
Numbers to ten, life cycles, simple sequences, floating and sinking, patterns and measuring. About right for ages 4 to 7.
Help when it's needed
A wrong tap gets a hint, not a buzzer. Zizi counts again with the child, or shows the step, so they can have another go.
Nothing to install, nothing collected
It runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. Progress is saved on the device. There are no accounts and no adverts.
Voiced all the way through
Every line is spoken in clear, simple English, so a child who is not reading yet can play on their own.

For schools and nurseries

Bring Festival Town to your class.

Three short, voiced activities in each of five places, which a class of four to seven year olds can run on tablets or a touchscreen display with no set-up.

Subjects: Maths, science, technology and engineering, three activities each
Session length: One world takes about ten minutes; the whole town about an hour
Runs on: Any browser on a tablet, laptop or classroom display with a touchscreen or mouse
Set-up: None. Open the link, choose a child, play
Data: No accounts, no names, nothing leaves the device

Teacher notes, class sets and a way to see how a class is getting on are not built yet. Join the school list and we will come to you first when they are, and when we run school pilots.

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Festival Town on a classroom tablet, showing the town and its five places

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