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Brave Thinkers · ages 7-8Curiosity & Creativity · with Pip
The Wonder Workshop
30 playful missions to help your child practise asking questions, imagining and experimenting. Fill the five empty frames of the Star Gallery by getting Wonderworks Valley asking questions again, with Pip as their guide.
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Your choice: The Wonder Workshop · Brave Thinkers (ages 7-8) · printable PDF + online adventure
This edition is still being written, illustrated and tested. We only sell an edition once all 30 missions are finished in both formats.
Also part of Choose Any 3 ($74.99) and the Complete Collection ($184.99), each for one age level.
The story
The goal: Fill the five empty frames of the Star Gallery by getting Wonderworks Valley asking questions again.
Your child’s part: Your child asks the questions, tests ideas and makes prototypes, wobbly ones included. What they find out helps fix the leaking roof and the sticking water wheel, and fills a frame in the Star Gallery.
Curiosity and creativity are about asking "why?" and "what if?", then experimenting, making and imagining without worrying about getting it right.
Why parents might choose it
- You’d like less screen time and more making
- They ask lots of questions and you want to nurture that
- They worry about drawing or making things "wrong"
Just gentle ideas to help you choose.
The Wonder Workshop
Here’s what a mission looks like
The story goal: Fill the five empty frames of the Star Gallery by getting Wonderworks Valley asking questions again.
Mission 1 · Why Woods
Ages 7-8 · Brave Thinkers
Pip's Empty Notebook
Pip says: “What if my first wonder is a boring one? What if it looks messy? Everyone in the valley is going to read this book one day.”Pip
- About 10 to 15 min
- Reads the story themselves
- Parent nearby, child leads
- Drawing
Pip's old notebook is so full that the pages stick out like a hedgehog's prickles. Forty seven inventions, all half drawn. Not one finished.
Mara the giraffe lowers her long neck over the workbench and slides it away. In its place she puts a new notebook. Every page is blank.
'No inventions on page one,' she says. 'Only wonders. Things you don't know yet.'
Pip stares at the white page. His trunk starts to curl into a question mark, then uncurls again.
First, a choice: 4 options
- Something up in the sky
- Something at school
- Something about animals
- Something at home
On the printed page: Circle where your wonders come from, then fill the three boxes.
By the end they have: Wonder notebook, page one.
You will need: The Wonder notebook page (or any paper folded in half) · A pencil
- Choose where your first wonder comes from.
- Draw three things you wonder about in the three boxes. Quick sketches are fine; Pip's are mostly blobs.
- Under each drawing, write a question. Start with why, how or what if.
- Read your three questions to someone. Ask them which one they can't answer either.
- Put a small question mark next to the one you most want to find out.
Smaller step if needed: Draw one wonder and say its question out loud; a grown-up can write it down exactly as you say it.
The grown-up’s part: If your child asks you the answer, say you're not sure either and write the question down. The aim is questions, not answers.
For the next five days, write one new why question on the back page of your Wonder notebook before bed.
What it practises: Practise turning things you notice into real questions: draw three wonders and write a question for each.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Wonder Workshop for ages 7-8. The edition is not yet approved, so wording may change, and the mission’s own illustrations are still to come.
The five-chapter journey
Five places in Wonderworks Valley. Thirty missions. Five stars to collect.
Six missions in each chapter. Finishing a chapter lights up a new star on the map, on paper and on screen.
- Why Woods · missions 1 to 6
- Maker’s Workshop · missions 7 to 12
- Colour Caverns · missions 13 to 18
- Invention Inn · missions 19 to 24
- Star Gallery · missions 25 to 30
Activities in this adventure
Craft, Drawing, Puzzles, Treasure hunt, Story choices.
At ages 7-8 (Brave Thinkers)
Multi-step games, mysteries, problem-solving, short writing, real-world challenges. About 10-20 min (a few up to 25) per mission. Short reading and writing. Grown-up role: parent nearby, child leads.
What’s included
One adventure, two ways to play.
The printable PDF
- Adventure introduction and character pages
- All five chapters and 30 missions, fully illustrated
- Puzzles to circle, match, draw and colour
- Grown-up guidance and answer notes
- Progress map with stars to colour
- Reward stickers to cut out
- Completion certificate
The online adventure
- The same 30 missions as interactive games
- Tap, drag, reveal and choose instead of writing
- Character reactions and completion animations
- Digital stars, badges and a final certificate
- Carry on where you stopped, on any device
- Works on phones, tablets and computers
- Tap alternatives to every drag-and-drop
Paper and screen
Every activity works both ways.
The same mission plays on paper or on screen with the same answer. This is how each activity type changes between the two formats.
| Activity | In the PDF | Online |
|---|---|---|
| Story choice | Circle an answer | Tap an answer |
| Secret code | Draw the symbols | Tap symbols into a lock |
| Matching | Draw lines | Drag or tap pairs |
| Ordering | Number the pictures | Drag or tap into order |
| Hidden things | Colour what you find | Tap the scene |
| Feelings | Colour a face | Tap a face |
| Drawing | Draw in the frame | Draw on screen |
| Real world | Tick the box | Tap “We tried it!” |
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