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Future Leaders · ages 9-10Curiosity & 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 · Future Leaders (ages 9-10) · 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 9-10 · Future Leaders
Pip's Empty Notebook
Pip says: “The trouble is, every question I think of, I immediately start answering. Then it's an idea again, and Mara will give me that look.”Pip
- About 15 to 25 min
- Reads the story themselves
- Self-directed, parent checks in
- Drawing
Pip's notebook is not actually empty. It holds forty-one ideas, eleven sketches of a machine that doesn't exist yet, and one drawing of the Star Gallery that he has rubbed out so many times the paper has gone furry.
What it doesn't hold is a single question. Mara noticed this in about four seconds. She tapped the page with one long hoof and said, "Ideas are answers, Pip. Where are the things you don't know?" Then she walked off, which is how Mara ends most conversations.
The story continues in the mission.
First, a choice: 4 options
- Something that's broken or not working
- Something with no practical use at all
- Something I noticed today
- A question I feel I should already know the answer to
On the printed page: Tick the type of wonder you will start with, then fill the six frames.
By the end they have: Ranked wonder page.
You will need: A sheet of paper or the printed page · A pencil
- Fold a page into six boxes, or use the six frames on the printed page.
- Fill each box with a quick sketch of something you wonder about, plus a question underneath. Stick figures are fine; Pip's are worse.
- Mix your types: at least one useful, one useless, one from today.
- Give every wonder two marks out of five: how much you want to know, and how possible it is to find out.
- Rank your top three. Circle the one you would investigate first and write one line on why.
- Optional: keep one box private. Fold it over. It still counts.
Smaller step if needed: Fill three boxes instead of six and rank just those.
The grown-up’s part: Stay out of the answers. If your child asks you one of the questions, try: I'm not sure either. How would we find out?
For the next five evenings, note one why question that came up at school, then on day five cross out any you no longer care about.
What it practises: Practise turning vague curiosity into specific questions, then choosing which one is worth investigating first.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Wonder Workshop for ages 9-10. 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 9-10 (Future Leaders)
Planning, reflection, social scenarios, goal setting, independent online play. About 15-25 min (a few up to 30) per mission. Independent reading. Grown-up role: self-directed, parent checks in.
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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