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1. Make the children act out the sequence before they enter it into Pixie.
2. Make a maze out of wooden bricks - see if the children can negotiate it without knocking them down.
3. Set up a route using a car or farm mat - picking up passengers on the way.
4. Attach a trailer and see how much it can carry, use a strong elastic band around Pixie.
5. Use masking tape to mark out a road for Pixie to follow. Add some small world characters, pictures or objects along the way.
6. Place on a number mat and get it to stop at certain numbers.
7. Use the letter mat and get it to stop at specific letters.
8. Roll a dice and press the forward arrow that number of times - can be extended to race with another Pixie.
9. Measure how far each Pixie unit is using small bricks.
10. Use a Pixie template to make a roadway
11. Use a book such as 'Rosie's walk' ,'Going on a Bear Hunt' or 'Three little pigs' to make some illustrations on large paper, then get Pixie to follow the route.
12. Attach a marker pen and get the children to experiment and then draw the route that Pixie takes.
13. Make a Pixie grid and stick pictures on which relate to your current module or theme.
14. Download a blank template from www.swallow.co.uk and use in a paint program.
These ideas are from Ruth Pimentel. Many thanks for permission to publish them here.