Naki Kids
Little games. Lots to discover.
Grow a number garden. Crack a pattern. Explore feelings, kindness and thinking. Pick a game and have a go.
👋 For parents and teachers
What this is. Five short games for practising number skills, patterns, feelings, kindness and thinking. Play together and talk about what you notice.
What each one is actually practising
- Number Garden — count a visible group, add flowers or take them away, then connect the result to a number sentence. Choose numbers up to 10 or 20.
- Pattern Detective — find a repeating group of shapes. The extra challenge also includes number sequences. There is no timer, and you can try again.
- The Feelings Machine — putting an exact name to a feeling, noticing how big it is, and slowing the breath out longer than the breath in. Naming a feeling precisely is the thing everything else in emotional intelligence is built on.
- The Kind Round — reading someone else's face and situation, then helping the way they want rather than the way you assumed. One stop each round is one the child got wrong, so they practise a real apology: name what you did, mean it, offer to mend it.
- Stop, Think, Load — holding a rule in mind while things move, not grabbing the wrong thing, and dropping a rule the moment it changes. One rule never changes and is never repeated: the dangerous items never go on the truck. It speeds up gradually, because a challenge that stops growing stops teaching.
Things we deliberately left out
- No sign-in, no name, no email, no chat, no friends list, no leaderboard.
- No ads and nothing to buy, ever.
- No daily streaks, no countdown timers, no "you lost" screens. Nothing here is designed to pull a child back tomorrow.
- Game answers and progress stay on this device. The website loads its pages and artwork normally, but these games do not send scores or answers to a server. Clearing browser data wipes saved progress.
How it talks to your child
Praise is always about what they did — "you changed your mind when the rule changed" — never about what they are. Children praised for effort keep trying when things get hard; children praised for being clever tend to stop. A wrong answer here is never called wrong: it gets a plain explanation and the right one, and the round carries on.
Best used together
A grown-up can help with reading and connect the games to everyday life. Ask afterwards: how did you find that number? What was the pattern? Which feeling word was new?
Suits roughly ages 6 to 11. Younger children will want somebody reading with them.
Made in Taranaki by Naki Whiteware Removal. Free, and it always will be.
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Number Garden
Plant flowers or take some away to make the number. Six little gardens, with no timer.
Pattern Detective
Look for the rule. Choose what comes next. Six puzzles, and as many tries as you need.
The Feelings Machine
Something happens. The machine starts shaking. Your job is to work out exactly what the feeling is, notice how big it is, and settle it back down.
Three feelings, then you are done. There is no timer and no way to lose.
Feelings sorted.
Words you used today
The Kind Round
You are out on the truck picking up old appliances. At every stop there is a person, and something is going on with them.
Work out how they feel first. Then choose what would actually help — which is not always the thing that sounds helpful.
Round finished.
stops
Stop, Think, Load
Things come along the belt. Tap the ones that match the rule. Let everything else slide past.
Two catches. The rule keeps changing — and the dangerous stuff never goes on the truck, no matter what the rule says.
It gets faster. That is on purpose.