Operation: Bore No More · Year 1
15 mission pages, 60 secret codes, 2 master keys, and then they start sending YOU coded messages.
The Chaos Gremlins have entered the chat, and this time the whole pack runs on just two keys: one of simple shapes, one of numbers on a counting line. Learn the two, crack all sixty. And you get four files, a full-colour edition and an ink-saver black and white edition, in A4 and US Letter, so nobody sits silently weeping at the ink level. Laminate the pages and use a whiteboard pen and you've got infinite missions.
Operation: Bore No More is a code-cracking pack for 5 to 6 year olds who have announced, for the fourth time before lunch, that they are BORED. Every page is a transmission from Gremlin HQ: one key, four coded messages, each hiding something gloriously daft to do. Be a cat. Wag your tail. Fly to the moon. Roar at a dinosaur.
No reading age needed. The shapes are big, simple things any five year old can spot and draw, and the number key is just a counting line you run a finger along. It gets longer, never cleverer, so it stays doable right to the last page.
What's inside
15 mission pages, each with one key and 4 coded messages, 60 codes in all
2 master keys on one page. Two keys, one agent: learn them once, crack all sixty
15 GREMLIN ALERT victory moves, every one with a snappy sitting-down version for restaurants, cars and waiting rooms
A 3-step MAKE YOUR OWN MESSAGE flow so they hand you a shapes-only transmission to decode out loud
Top Secret cover with agent sign-up, plus a full parent answer key for all 60
4 files: full colour and ink-saver black and white, each in A4 and US Letter
How it works
Print it, or laminate it. Hand over a pencil. Read the one-line briefing in your best radio voice. They crack, they hop, they moo, they stamp MISSION COMPLETE and demand the next page. Sneaky bonus: they're matching shapes, counting along a number line and sounding out words the whole time. Not that anyone needs to mention that out loud.
Field tested, properly
This pack was tested on my very own fussy chaos gremlins, who now take the mission pages to restaurants, demand them in waiting rooms, and refuse to let a single finished page go in the recycling. If a mission doesn't survive my two, it doesn't make the pack.
Bigger gremlin in the house? There's a Year 2 Senior Agent Division edition, same world, meatier codes, briefings they read themselves, so nobody fights over the key cards.
This is a digital download. No gremlins will arrive in the post. You'll get the PDFs instantly after purchase.
