The challenge

Frankie & Benny’s Restaurants produce puzzle books to hand out to kids eating at their restaurants.

Each A5 sized book contains 16 pages of puzzles and activities – 8 for younger kids (in red) and 8 for older kids (in green).

The challenge was to invent fun, engaging and educational puzzles and games around the central theme of each book, then illustrate and layout the pages. The key characters of ‘Dino’, ‘Nibbles’ and ‘Sketch’ would feature throughout.

The solution

Research around each theme would be the starting point for the books. Traditional activities such as ‘colour-in’, ‘word-search’ and ‘spot the difference’ would often be included. However, these needed to be adapted to suit the theme.

Other activities such as making toys, preparing fun recipes, growing things etc, encouraged kids to take the book home. Informative ‘pop-up’ facts would often be included to add extra educational interest.