Blui's Soccer Match (Part 1)

Name: Blui's Soccer Match (Part 1)
Description: Blui and his friends learn that teamwork is the key to winning, on and off the field.

30 pages

Blui and his friends learn that teamwork is the key to winning, on and off the field.

Blui organises a football match, and part one is everything that happens before playing: picking teams, arguing about the rules, discovering that winning alone is not enough. Blui is a macaw, curious, funny and a little cheeky, and that mix gets him into trouble in the most recognisable way possible: he wants it to go well and he wants to do it his way, and those two do not always fit together. The story takes its time showing the mess before the agreement, which is where a child sees themselves.

What this piece works on

Teamwork understood as something to be built, not a rule someone announces.
Shared rules: why a game needs everyone to agree on the same thing before starting.
Handling frustration when things do not go the way you planned.

Watching together

Part one of two. Works well with children who already play with others and have argued about a rule at least once, roughly from age four.