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Little Explorers · ages 3-4Curiosity & 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 · Little Explorers (ages 3-4) · 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 3-4 · Little Explorers
Pip's Empty Notebook
Pip says: “My wonder notebook has no wonders in it!”Pip
- About 5 to 8 min
- Story read aloud to them
- Parent-led throughout
- Drawing
Flap, flap! Pip the elephant flaps his big ears.
Pip has a notebook. He opens it. Swish! Empty. Swish! Empty. Every page is empty!
Pip's trunk curls up like a question mark. Hmmm?
First, a choice: 3 options
- The moon
- A snail
- Rain
On the printed page: Point to a picture, then draw your wonder.
By the end they have: Wonder notebook page with one wonder.
You will need: The notebook page in this book (or any paper) · Chunky crayons
- Together, curl one arm up like Pip's trunk and say: Hmmm?
- Your child picks the moon, the snail, the rain or their own idea, and draws it on the notebook page. A scribble counts.
- The grown-up writes the question exactly as your child says it, even if it is one word.
- Together, say: Ooh, I wonder that too!
Smaller step if needed: Just point to one of the three pictures and say Hmmm? The drawing can wait.
The grown-up’s part: Write down exactly what your child says, even if it isn't a full question. Five-minute version: one arm curl, one picture, done.
Tomorrow at teeth-brushing time, curl your trunk arm and ask your grown-up one why question.
What it practises: Practise noticing one thing you want to know about, and showing it with a drawing while the grown-up writes the question.
Word for word from Mission 1 of the draft The Wonder Workshop for ages 3-4. 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 3-4 (Little Explorers)
Picture matching, movement, simple choices, pretend play, storytelling. About 5-10 min (a few up to 12) per mission. No reading needed. Grown-up role: parent-led throughout.
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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