At the risk of taking this way off topic...
When I started in photography I was about 8 years old, and we were poor. Economies were the order of the day, and making money stretch as far as possible was needed. To get the most out of the expense of buying a magazine or book, I used to read every word, which is how I acquired knowledge on a lot of photographic topics that frankly bored me to tears. Colour was too expensive to use. But those were the days of box cameras and people getting contact prints. So, I started my DIY processing with contact prints, using saucers for dishes and, in those days of gaslight papers, an existing nightlight as a safelight.
This was possible because people were unused to enlargements (special photos only, and probably low quality from a box camera anyway) as contact prints were either two and a quarter square or two and a quarter by three and a quarter inches. Easy enough to see and easy to pass round. Contact prints died away as 35mm took over (my first camera took 35mm size photos, and I got those back from the chemist contact printed though).
Now that larger formats than 35mm are relatively affordable, surely it should be possible to return to contact printing for a small outlay. A sheet of glass (I used one borrowed from a picture frame each time when I started) instead of a contact printer, and cheap containers instead of dishes won't cost too much. The problem is most likely the "big print" expectation, added to the idea that film = 35mm. People might even find that seeing an image appear on a blank sheet of paper is fascinating...