STORY
A welcoming first path
Characters and a shared adventure make a real place feel approachable, memorable, and worth exploring.
NEW ILLUSTRATED STORY • AGES 4–7
Wander Wild with Jackson & Tucker
A story-led doorway into noticing, wondering, and exploring together.
This illustrated children’s story for ages 4–7 follows Jackson and Tucker as a day at Dreher Island becomes an invitation to notice, wonder, and explore together.
FOR YOUNGER EXPLORERS
Begin with a story. Continue with the real place.
The Jackson & Tucker experience is being designed to help children notice what is around them, wonder about what they find, and share the experience with the people exploring beside them.
NOTICE
Small details matter
Children are invited to look closely at the campground, shoreline, woods, and the evidence around them.
TOGETHER
Wonder grows through conversation
The experience makes room for questions, shared observations, and discoveries children can carry home.
KEEP THE ADVENTURE GOING
The story is only the beginning.
The Dreher Island Adventure Pack gives children more ways to explore the places Jackson and Tucker encounter—from the campground and trails to Lake Murray and the wildlife nearby.
Use it during your visit or continue exploring when you get home.
JACKSON & TUCKER • FREE PRINTABLE
Wander Wild with Jackson & Tucker
Dreher Island Adventure Pack
Keep exploring Dreher Island with Jackson and Tucker.
This 22-page printable Adventure Pack helps young explorers look a little closer at the places around them—whether you're visiting Dreher Island State Park or beginning your adventure from home.
Children can follow an illustrated park map, search the campsite, investigate tracks and wildlife clues, complete puzzles and dot-to-dots, practice caring for the places they explore, and record their own favorite discovery.
Free printable • 22 pages • PDF
WHO IT’S FOR
Made for young explorers.
Best for ages 4–7, with grownup help as needed.
Some pages are quick observation and coloring activities. Others—especially the 100-dot challenges—offer more of a stretch. Children do not need to complete every page.
HOW IT WORKS
Wander → Wonder → Discover → Connect → Protect
Choose the pages that fit your child, your setting, and the time you have. The goal is not to finish every page.
WHAT’S INSIDE
Twenty-two ways to keep exploring.
- illustrated Dreher Island explorer map
- campsite search-and-find activities
- trail and wildlife clues
- animal-track investigation
- leaves and Lake Murray activities
- two 100-dot challenges
- memory and matching games
- campsite-care activities
- drawing and reflection space
- WanderWild Junior Ranger certificate
- grownup guidance and answer key
A LOOK INSIDE
Real pages from the Adventure Pack.
The WanderWild Junior Ranger certificate is a WanderWild Press activity and is independent of official South Carolina State Parks ranger programs.
USE IT AT DREHER—OR AT HOME
Start wherever you are.
Bring the Adventure Pack along to Dreher Island and use the pages as invitations to notice the real place around you.
Or begin at home: explore the illustrations, solve the puzzles, learn about the places Jackson and Tucker visit, and decide what you would like to investigate when you go.
The goal is not to finish every page.
It is to explore, notice, care, and share.
FREE • 22 PAGES • PDF
Get the Dreher Island Adventure Pack.
Enter your email to open the printable pack. Use it at Dreher Island or begin your adventure at home.
Best for ages 4–7, with grownup help as needed.