A Wobbly Hug
What is your feeling weather?
Pick the weather that feels most like you today.
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Games, colouring and calm
The Mimi Maple Playroom
Read a story. Then step inside it. Little interactive activities inspired by the books: tap, choose, move, colour and breathe, on your own or together with a grown-up.
Psst: balloons are floating past. Tap one to pop it and start your story passport.
Three little classics
Start with a feeling, a kindness and a twirl.
Straight from the pages of A Wobbly Hug, Azalea and Her Gentle Giants and Ballet with Balloonie. Tap a button, read the message together, then try the read-aloud voice.
Azalea and Her Gentle Giants
Pick a kindness challenge
One tiny gentle thing can change somebody's whole day. There is one challenge chosen for today, and plenty more if you want another.
Tap the button for today's challenge.
Ballet with Balloonie
Dance the Balloonie way
There is no wrong way to join in. Tap for your next Balloonie move.
Ready?Your move will appear here.
Want the paper versions? The and the are free printables.
Balloonie and Bamboo
Balloonie's Balloon Pop
No one makes happier balloons than Balloonie, and today they are floating out of the shop on Cherry Blossom Lane. Pop as many as you can in thirty seconds. Works with a mouse, a finger or a stylus.
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Pictures from the books
Story memory match
Every card hides a real page from one of Mimi's books. Turn two at a time and find the matching pairs. When you finish, we will tell you which stories the pictures came from.
Little Moments of Calm
Colour with Mimi
Choose a picture, choose a colour, then tap any little space to fill it. The lines stay put, so you cannot go over them. Take your time. There is no wrong colour for a rose.
Enjoy the Little Things
Line art from Little Moments of Calm, Mimi Maple’s colouring book for grown-ups, and from Little Adventures to Colour, her storybook colouring book for children. Two of these pages, Reading by the window and A bench beneath the trees, are also free to print from the printables shelf.
New · Children's colouring book · Ages 4–8
Little Adventures to Colour
Twenty-two storybook colouring pages starring Azalea, Bamboo, Lita, Balloonie, Harriet the Hat and Confetti: Balloonie's Balloons shop, birthday cake and confetti, a country walk, the little bridge and more. Print the free edition at home as many times as you like, colour a page online above, or order the bound copy direct from Mimi. Create · Imagine · Be Kind · Belong.
Coming to Amazon soon. Free to print for home and classroom use; please don't resell or repost the file.
A calm moment
Breathe with Balloonie
Feelings are like the weather. When the sky feels stormy, three slow breaths can help the clouds drift on. Balloonie will show you how: fill up slowly, hold, then let the air out gently.
4s Breathe in through your nose while Balloonie fills up.
4s Hold it, nice and still, like Azalea in the garden.
6s Breathe out slowly while Balloonie floats back down.
Three rounds take about forty seconds. Grown-ups can breathe along too.
Press start when you are ready.
Six little questions
Which Mimi Maple friend are you?
Bouncy like Azalea, gentle like Bamboo, cheerful like Balloonie, thoughtful like Rowan, floaty like Harriet or bursting like Confetti? Answer honestly, there are no wrong answers.
Question 1 of 6Friend quiz
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Everyone is welcome at Bamboo's party.
From A Wobbly Hug
Build your calm corner
Rowan has a small safe place he loves a lot. Make one of your own: tap a sticker to add it, then drag it anywhere on the board. Double-tap a sticker to take it away again.
Your corner is empty. Add a cushion, a book, a teddy…
Collect them all
Your story passport
Every activity on this site can earn a stamp. Pop balloons, finish the memory game, colour a picture, breathe with Balloonie, take the quiz and peek inside the books. Stamps are kept on this device, nowhere else.
Stamps earned
0 of 17Earned stamps are shown in colour. The little note under each one tells you how to get it.
For grown-ups: the Playroom is designed for shared play. There is no sign-in, no account and no personal information; scores, pictures and the calm corner are remembered only in this browser. The read-aloud buttons use your device's built-in voice, so what you hear depends on your browser. Balloon Pop and the colouring picture need a mouse, finger or stylus; every other activity can be played from the keyboard.
Keep the play going
Take the Playroom off the screen.
Free printables from the books, conversation starters for grown-ups, and the stories that started it all.