Continent Adventures

Where will you
explore first?

Spot wildlife, try a field mission, and find your next Continent Adventures book. For curious kids ages 6–9 and their grown-ups.

Explore Africa Explore South America

Your first field missions

Look closely at the illustrations and see what you can discover together.

Watercolor habitats showing a lion by an acacia tree, a camel on sand dunes, a gorilla in the jungle, and a hippo in water.

Africa · Savanna to Sahara

Spot the desert traveler

Which animal is standing in the Sahara dunes?

See the Africa book
Watercolor map of South America showing the Amazon rainforest, Andes mountains, grasslands and wetlands, and Galápagos and coastal waters.

South America · Amazon to Galápagos

Look up to the Andes

Who is flying over the mountain peaks?

See the South America book

Take the adventure off-screen

Each book takes young explorers through four habitats with wildlife coloring, puzzles, and passport stops.

Look inside

Open a sample to get a closer look at the activities.

Montessori cards

Each book includes cut-out classification cards for a hands-on geography activity you can do together.

Africa’s continent classification cards, with a world map and separate pictures and labels.

Inside Africa

Continents of the world

Find a continent on a map or globe, then match its outline to its name.

Enlarge the continent cards
South America’s land and water form cards showing an island, lake, peninsula, gulf, isthmus, strait, cape, and bay.

Inside South America

Land and water forms

Match pictures and labels for features such as islands, lakes, peninsulas, and bays. Read the definitions together and see if you can find an example on a map.

Enlarge the land and water cards

How to use the cards

  1. Carefully cut out the cards.
  2. You may laminate the cards to help protect them and use them again.
  3. Africa: Start by showing your child a globe or world map. Point to each continent and say its name aloud. South America: Start by showing your child the land and water forms. Point to each form and say its name aloud.
  4. Lay out the control cards first. These are the cards with the picture and name together.
  5. Next, place the picture-only cards below the matching control cards.
  6. Read each name label with your child, then place it under the correct picture-only card.
  7. South America: Read each definition card together, then match it to the correct land or water form.
  8. Once your child is familiar with the cards, mix them up and let your child practice matching them independently.

The backs of the card pages are left blank so the cards can be cut out and used.

Meet the author

Lynette Steyn

Lynette Steyn is the author of Curious Compass Kids’ Continent Adventures. Her Montessori-inspired activity books invite children ages 6–9 to explore geography through wildlife coloring, puzzles, and greetings from the places they visit.

She’s currently working on the third expedition, Asia.

Lynette Steyn on Amazon

Book 3 · In development

Next stop, Asia

We’re working on the next Continent Adventures activity book.

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