At the woodland picnic table Sue and Andrew lay their finished blue bead bracelets in a small plain tray. Mum takes a photo using a simple phone. The open craft box sits on the table, calm happy natural expressions, no lettering, entire people and props inside the frame.

The Blue Trail Clue

Phase 7 · Book 5
Focus ue and ew; vowel-team review

Sue and Andrew walk with Mum along a level woodland path following small blue cloth ribbons tied low on trees. Sue holds a pictorial clue showing a green bench and ribbon. Entire people in frame, no writing on clue.

Sue and Andrew play a trail game with Mum. They follow blue ribbons through the trees. Each ribbon marks a clue. The next clue should be by a green bench.

Sue crouches beside the first of two green wooden benches on the woodland path finding no clue beneath it. Andrew and Mum stand close. The other bench is farther away partly seen with a small blue ribbon tied to its back; no craft box visible yet.

They reach two green benches. Sue looks under the first one. There is no clue. “Which bench do we need?” asks Andrew.

Andrew holds a few picnic paper scraps with faint pictorial food drawings while Sue and Mum look. They stand by the first green bench on the woodland trail. These scraps have no writing, no clue revealed and no craft box.

Andrew finds a few scraps of paper. They look at each piece. “They’re from a picnic,” says Mum. “These are not our clues.”

Sue studies the earlier pictorial bench-and-blue-ribbon clue while Andrew finds a fresh rolled pictorial clue underneath the second green bench. Blue cloth ribbon visibly tied to that bench. Mum watches beside them; no craft box yet.

Sue rereads their last clue. “Look for the bench with a blue ribbon.” Andrew sees one on the other bench. There is a new clue tucked beneath the bench.

Sue, Andrew and Mum sit at a woodland picnic table with an open plain craft box containing blue beads, string and a small child-safe glue bottle. They calmly make simple blue bead bracelets together. Whole people and table inside frame, no product lettering.

The new clue leads to a box by the oak tree. Inside are blue beads, string and glue. They make bracelets at a picnic table with Mum. “The clues led us here!” says Sue.

They lay their blue bracelets in a tray. Mum takes a photo to show Dad. “We solved the trail clues,” says Andrew. “And found a new way to play!” says Sue.

The Blue Trail Clue

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