Growing with Pip

For the Grown-Ups

The Grown-Up Corner

Ideas, classroom tips, and conversation starters for the parents, teachers and caregivers helping Pip's world come to life alongside a child.

Why Pip?

Every Growing with Pip book is built around the same idea: there's no "right" way to color, feel, play or grow. Pip sometimes worries, gets frustrated, or needs help — just like the child on the other side of the page — so the books invite conversation instead of correction, curiosity instead of a right answer, and a little room to go at your own child's own pace.

Classroom & Daycare Tips

  • Keep a book (or a few loose pages) in a quiet-time or calm-down corner — coloring gives little hands something to do while big feelings settle.
  • Use a page as a nap-time transition: 5-10 minutes of quiet coloring right before rest time helps the room wind down together.
  • Start a "Pip of the Day" ritual — pick one page each morning and read its prompt aloud before free choice time.
  • Pair a page with circle time — many pages connect naturally to feelings, kindness, or nature themes you may already be covering.
  • Send a page home for family time — it's an easy, screen-free way to extend the day's theme without extra prep on your end.
  • Let coloring be optional and un-graded — the books work best as an invitation, not an assignment, especially for kids who color outside the lines (literally).

Curious about bringing Pip to your whole program? See classroom packs.

Conversation Starters

Open-ended questions to spark imagination, a little critical thinking, or just a fun chat — no book required. We also share a "question of the week" like these on Instagram, so follow along there for new ones.

1

If you could plant a seed that grew into anything at all, what would you grow?

2

What's something you were curious about today?

3

If Pip visited our home, what would you want to show them first?

4

What's a color that makes you feel happy? What about calm?

5

Tell me about a time you tried something new — how did it feel before, during, and after?

6

If you could invent a brand-new game, what would the rules be?

7

What's one kind thing you could do for someone tomorrow?

8

What do you think a seed feels like while it's still underground, waiting to grow?

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