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Growing Minds · ages 5-6Curiosity & 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 · Growing Minds (ages 5-6) · 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 5-6 · Growing Minds
Pip's Empty Notebook
Pip says: “Mara says every wonder starts with three little words: I wonder why.”Pip
- About 10 to 15 min
- Story read aloud to them
- Guided play, growing independence
- Drawing
At the edge of the Why Woods, a small periwinkle elephant is sitting on a log. He has a pencil behind one big ear and a notebook on his lap.
He opens the notebook. Every page is empty. Not one scribble.
"I'm Pip," he says. "This is my wonder notebook. I had so many ideas, I couldn't pick one. So I wrote nothing at all."
First, a choice: 4 options
- Something in the sky
- A creature
- Something at home
- My own wonder
On the printed page: Circle what to wonder about first, or draw your own.
By the end they have: Two wonders in Pip's notebook.
You will need: Pip's notebook page in the book (or any paper) · Crayons or pencils
- Choose what to wonder about first.
- Draw your first wonder on Pip's notebook page.
- Say a why question about it, starting with: I wonder why...
- Draw a second wonder, about anything at all, and say a why question for that one too.
- Curl your arm like Pip's trunk every time you say I wonder.
Smaller step if needed: Draw one wonder and say its question; the second can come another day.
The grown-up’s part: If asked, write each question exactly as your child says it, under the drawing. Don't answer the questions yet; wondering comes first.
Each morning this week, ask one why question at breakfast; a grown-up can add it to Pip's notebook page.
What it practises: Practise starting to wonder: drawing two things you are curious about and saying a why question for each.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Wonder Workshop for ages 5-6. 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 5-6 (Growing Minds)
Short missions, drawing, simple puzzles, role-play, real-world challenges. About 10-15 min (a few up to 20) per mission. Optional read-aloud narration. Grown-up role: guided play, growing independence.
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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