Every Sunday we release a new wonder-led PDF lesson: one big question for your family to explore together at home.
Follow the wonder of moving pictures, meet early cinema pioneers and begin a small film story of your own.
£6.99
Digital download · a printable Parent Guide and Wonder Companion Journal for your child
Digital downloadA horse lifts its hooves. A drum of drawings begins to spin. A filmmaker imagines a story worth sharing. The First Movies invites your family to explore the meeting place of observation, invention and imagination.
Meet Eadweard Muybridge and Alice Guy-Blaché, investigate the zoetrope and follow your own ideas from a simple story plan to a family screening. There is room to talk, draw, make and notice, choosing the parts that interest your children most.
Continue with a zoetrope-making video, a read-aloud about Alice Guy-Blaché and the National Museum of Australia's paper-zoetrope activity. A wordless storytelling prompt offers another small path to follow together.
The companion resources are free to explore with or without the lesson. The purchased Parent Guide and Journal remain separate.
Each Sunday a new lesson goes live, built around one question worth wondering about.
Print the lesson and follow the question at your own pace, through stories, activities and conversation.
Each lesson has a free resource page with videos, read-alouds and extra rabbit holes to explore.
Home education doesn’t have to mean a full timetable. One rich question a week can fill your days with reading, making, noticing and talking.
Each lesson brings science, nature, history and art together around a single question, so learning joins up naturally.
Spend an afternoon on it or the whole week. There’s no schedule to keep up with.
Lessons are designed for parents and children to explore side by side, at the kitchen table or out of doors.
A new Wonder every Sunday gives your week a shape without filling it.
Every past Weekly Wonder stays in the Wonder Library as a PDF lesson you can buy and explore whenever you like.
Explore The First Movies together, then see where a few pictures and a little imagination might lead.
£6.99
Digital download · a printable Parent Guide and Wonder Companion Journal for your child
Can’t find what you’re looking for? We’re always happy to help.
Early every Sunday morning. The new lesson appears on this page, and last week’s moves into Past Wonders.
No. Anyone can buy a Weekly Wonder for £6.99, like any PDF lesson. On a paid plan, PDF lessons are £5.99, and the Weekly Wonder and Wonder Family Plus plans include every Sunday lesson.
It stays in the Wonder Library as a PDF lesson you can buy at any time, and it’s listed under Past Wonders on this page.
Your plan includes the Weekly Wonder that’s live when you join and every one released after that. Earlier Wonders can be bought on their own or with a lesson credit.
Yes. Every Weekly Wonder added to your Wonder Vault while you’re subscribed is yours to keep and download whenever you like.
Bought one at a time, a Weekly Wonder costs £6.99. Subscribe and each new Sunday lesson works out at £3.25, saving you almost £15 a month. Every lesson is added to your Wonder Vault in the Wonder Family app to keep, and paying yearly (£129) gets you 2 months free.
