Game Concept: Safari Quest - Dice & Card game for kids

My daughter, soon to turn 5, has been showing a lot of interest recently in what Daddy does - making up her own little boardgames off the cuff for us to play. It's sparked me to make something we can play together, and I thought I'd share the idea with everyone here and see what you think.

I've tentatively called it Safari Quest (Safari was taken). The players are Researchers, travelling through a national park trying to document the various animals that live there.

It's a simple card and dice game. There is a deck of cards face-down in the centre of the table, each with a different combination of between 2 and 5 animal symbols on it. The more symbols, the more points it's worth.

On your turn, you draw 2 cards, and choose one that you want to try and document/photograph/find or whatever we end up calling it. You then play Yahtzee with 5 dice, trying to match the symbols on the card. Like Yahtzee, you get 2 rerolls. For example, I might choose a card with 3 symbols, and then have to match those symbols by rolling and rerolling my dice.

If the player can match the symbols, they keep the card to score at the end. If not, the card goes back to the bottom of the deck.

Here's the catch - when you choose one of your 2 cards, the card you don't choose goes into a discard pile next to the deck. The next player can then choose to either take that card and attempt to roll those symbols, or draw 2 cards of their own and repeat the process.

The game lasts 10 rounds (or whenever young fidgeters have had enough). The round counter is represented by a little Jeep moving along spaces on a board that looks like a national park, with a waterhole, plains, forests, swamp etc. It's purely a round counter, but it helps to engage little minds and put them into the theme of travelling through the park.

I chose the theme by picking something my daughter loves - animals and documentaries. We watch a LOT of David Attenborough, and are greenies at heart, so I wanted to shy away from the Zoo theme and do something a bit more natural. I think the game is probably a step down from Zooloretto Dice, and could be used as a stepping stone for young children before jumping into that game. I really wanted to try and make something that would be engaging for the parents too (which is SUPER hard), so the push-your-luck aspect of taking the easy rolls for small points or going after the hard ones for big points but possibly failing works there, along with the 'potentially giving a card to the next player that they might want' aspect. It's light, definitely, but I think there's a bit of substance there for adults without complicating things too much or unnecessarily for the little ones.

Let me know what you think, and thanks for your time!