Welcome to Learning With Leaflings!

In this role-playing game made for young adventurers and problem solvers, your players will take on the role of Leaflings, little plant peoples who inhabit a town in the middle of an enchanted forest!  This town, like all others, will have challenges that your characters must face together, and, in the process, will teach about core social-emotional skills for pre-K kids.  Players will grow their skills just like the leaves from the top of their noggins to use for future adventures and help each other see the importance of paying attention to feelings, listening, taking a pause, and more… all while having fun telling a story together.

Made for pre-K SEL teaching

Learning With Leaflings was made to align with a particular pre-K social-emotional learning curriculum to assist with immersive demonstrations of core concepts that appeared throughout the curriculum.  This was co-authored between Alex G., the teacher using the material, and Steph from TTRPGkids.  

While intended for use in a particular class, this material can also be used for other classes or for at home use, as you see fit, so we decided to publish it for general use!

Created using The Classroom Ready TTRPG Toolkit

This game was created using the TTRPGkids Classroom Ready TTRPG Toolkit which you can find here and use to outfit your own games for easy use by educators!

https://ttrpgkids.itch.io/the-classroom-ready-ttrpg-toolkit

Participating in the TTRPGs Teach game jam

As part of the TTRPG’s TEACH game jam, check here for some more details!

AGE RANGE that this game targets

• Ages 3-5 (pre-K)

SUBJECT & SKILLS the game will help players learn

• Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum

NUMBER of students/players 

• Classrooms bewteen 3-20 students

PLAYTIME required for a full game 

• 30 minutes, but will vary depending on class/story

RULES are designed for easy, intuitive play 

• A facilitator is required to read material and moderate the class
• No prior game or TTRPG experience is required from the teacher or students
• Pre-requisite educational knowledge:
  • Counting up to 6
  • Answering simple questions
  • Participating in imaginary play

TOOLS that are needed 

• [1] 6-sided die (jumbo sized/ dice roller apps help avoid choking hazards)
• [1] printed character sheet for each player
• [1] printed town tree for the class
• [varies] cut out leaves for personal and tree skills

PWYW + Earnings Support Libraries

Learning With Leaflings is pay-whay-you-want (PWYW) so teachers can have access to the material.  Any donations recieved for this project will be put towards covering printing and shipping costs for TTRPGkids books to be sent to support The American Library Association's (ALA) Games and Gaming Roundtable (G&GRT) International Games Month (IGM) - this is a yearly event where publishers and creators send games to libraries in order to support their gaming collections.  Every $15 raised will send one physical copy of Making a Tabletop RPG for YOUR Particular Kid to a library during the next IGM event.