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Design Workshops for Children

The wonderful diverse world of design can truly expand a child’s mind - from sharpening creative sensibilities to boosting problem solving skills.

Duration :

10-12 Hours

Team Size :

20-40 People

What We Do

We curate engaging design workshops for children of different age groups with varied levels of experience. Each session is carefully customised as per the group. If you’re an NGO, educational institution or even a group of parents looking to engage their children in enriching activities - you’ve come to the right place.

Workshops We Offer
Stop Motion Animation

In this workshop, we teach children how to take photographs of still objects and turn them into animated videos. Over the course of this session, we encourage children to explore their imagination and build their knowledge of visual storytelling. By the end of this workshop, students have hands-on experience animating stop motion videos.

Skills & Learnings:

Storytelling

Critical Thinking

Ability to question & assess

Visual Appeal

Consumer mindset awareness

Experience Design 101

This workshop introduces children to human-centric design, which includes UX (user experience), UI (user interface) and ergonomics. Kids are taught the basics of design and its applications through the eyes of a consumer. At this workshop, students will create a basic design prototype of a mobile app.

Skills & Learnings:

Storytelling

Critical Thinking

Ability to question & assess

Visual Appeal

Consumer mindset awareness

Innovative thinking

Brand Awareness

In this workshop, we go over the fundamentals of branding, marketing, sales and how they’re connected. Students are taught the key steps in creating and marketing a product as well as defining and capturing an audience. At the end of this session, students design a brand and create a marketing plan for it.

Skills & Learnings:

Storytelling

Critical Thinking

Ability to question & assess

Visual Appeal

Consumer mindset awareness

Film Appreciation

We curate films and organise film appreciation workshops keeping in mind the age and background of the group. Kids are encouraged to dissect themes, examine their world view and share their thoughts about the film. This broadens their vocabulary and gives them an opportunity to understand themes from a fresh perspective.

Skills & Learnings:

Storytelling

Critical Thinking

Ability to question & assess

Visual Appeal

Consumer mindset awareness

Film Making 101

In this introduction to filmmaking workshop, we teach children the art of storytelling by taking them through the key steps in making a film or video. Conceptualisation to visual storytelling and finally, a basic understanding of technology and equipment are packed into this workshop, by the end of which, the children have created their own film.

Skills & Learnings:

Storytelling

Critical Thinking

Ability to question & assess

Visual Appeal

Consumer mindset awareness

Customised Workshops

If you have an idea in mind or would like to teach specific skills to your kids, reach out to us and we’d be delighted to curate a workshop specifically based on your requirements.

Skills & Learnings:

Storytelling

Critical Thinking

Ability to question & assess

Visual Appeal

Consumer mindset awareness

Why should we inculcate design thinking at a young age?
Improves problem solving

Children are encouraged to examine information critically, and break problems down to work on them step by step.

Instils empathy

By putting themselves in a somebody else’s shoes, kids learn to see the world around them from different perspectives.

Strengthens creativity

Teaching a child to think creatively will help them stand apart from the crowd, especially in a technologically advanced future.

Embraces mistakes

A child introduced to design thinking is comfortable making mistakes. Kids learn, unlearn, persevere and strive for solutions.

Builds confidence

Creative explorations encourage personal growth and make children happier, more confident and determined.

Fosters teamwork

Children learn to work in groups, which effectively hones communication skills and builds leadership qualities.

Past Workshops
Stop Motion workshop with Billimoria High School
Stop Motion workshop with Billimoria High School

Billimoria High School, Panchgani, invited us to conduct a stop motion animation workshop with students of classes 9 & 10. In the exercise, students learnt the steps to create an animated video. This not only introduced students to the basics of storytelling and content creation, but also gave them autonomy and ownership of the creative process.

Film Making workshop with underprivileged kids
Film Making workshop with underprivileged kids

Ektara, a post school NGO for impoverished children in Kolkata, invited us to organise a film making workshop. We taught the kids the fundamentals of film making, went over exercises to understand key concepts, and the kids were made to shoot their own documentary style film at the end of the workshop.

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