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Wondrous is where childhood comes to life.
The Know & Play Space consists of three main parts:
The Forest of Childhood - where you come to understand your child and their development
The Woodlands - where you go to further understand your child's learning
and then, finally...
Wondrous
where you come to experience and curate a wonder-filled childhood alongside your child.
Here you will find:
Wondrous Play & Learning Ideas, Resources & Guides
The Wondrous Acre Wood Story World - including Tales of The Wondrous Acre Wood
The Wondrous Curriculum
Wondrous In-Person Sessions & Tutoring
Wondrous
Play & Learning Ideas
Wondrous
Resources & Guides
The Wondrous Curriculum™
by The Know & Play Space
The Wondrous Curriculum is a story-led, enrichment curriculum for children around the ages of 3-7 - built around the seasonal, story world of The Wondrous Acre Wood, and rooted in what the natural world is a actually doing each week.
Every song, activity, recipe and more, is connected to the story chapters from the Tales of The Wondrous Acre Wood, and the real science that lives within them.
This is not a scheme of work.
It is a guide to truly noticing - carefully structured, deeply considered and completely alive.
The Wonder Membership
All things Wondrous, and the deeper parts of The Forest of Childhood live inside
The Wonder Membership.
With one membership you unlock two worlds:
The Forest of Childhood - where you come to truly understand your child's development at every stage.
Wondrous - where you come to experience and curate a wonder-fulled childhood alongside them, through stories, seasonal activities, play ideas, developmentally-appropriate resources and more.
Already a Forest Member?
Your membership now includes everything Wondrous too. Welcome to both worlds.
"There was something wondrous about this place.
You could always feel it.
You just had to stop long enough to notice."
The Wondrous Acre Wood is a story-led play & learning world
for children aged birth - 7 (and beyond).
It is rooted in the natural world, the rhythm of the seasons and the turning of the year.
It began as a story. A young boy found a gap in the hedge on a September morning, and discovers a wood full of extraordinary creatures, real natural science and quiet sense of belonging. Everything Finn discovers in the wood is true, but whether the wood itself is real, well... that rather depends on whether you're the noticing kind.
The sessions, clubs and curriculum that grow from the stories are designed to give children exactly what childhood deserves - unhurried time in the natural world, stories that carry real learning, songs that celebrate the seasons and the deep confidence that comes from knowing you belong somewhere.
What I can tell you though, is this...
Right now, in a Hampshire woodland, a site is being cleared, a stream is being uncovered, and a community is beginning to gather. The gates are hoping to be opened in Spring 2027, and when it does, everything 'Wondrous' will find its home there.
Until then, the sessions are running, the clubs are open,
and the stories are waiting to be read. The Wood is ready for you, wherever you are.
You just have to know where to look.
In-Person Sessions
by The Know & Play Space
Come and join me for Wondrous In-Person Sessions.
Currently they all run from my home & garden in Bishops Waltham, but I will be moving all sessions over to the real Wondrous Acre Wood site once it's ready!
Click below to view which sessions are on offer at the moment,
(and which will be coming to the new site if you're intrigued!)
