Mumbai : EuroKids
Preschool, India’s leading preschool
brand, has announced the launch of its Summer Club 2026, a 21-day
program that introduces Design Thinking to children aged 2–6 across 2,000+
centres nationwide. Themed 'Design Tales', the program uses story-led
problem-solving to build empathy, creativity, and critical thinking from the
earliest years — skills increasingly recognised as essential for the future. The program is rooted in EuroKids' Heureka curriculum,
developed in alignment with Harvard University's Project Zero and NEP 2020, and
is designed to engage thousands of children across India this summer.
What is Design Tales?
At
the heart of Summer Club 2026 is a simple but powerful idea: every great
solution begins with a story. Each day of Design Tales opens with a character-led
narrative — children meet Ella the elephant, Zoomie the car, Chirpy the bird,
Gina the giraffe, and others — each facing a real problem that children are
invited to help solve. Through these stories, children naturally move through
the five stages of Design Thinking: understanding the problem, defining it,
imagining solutions, building prototypes, and testing ideas.
This
is not passive storytelling. It is a structured inquiry — where a child's
instinct to ask 'why?' and 'what if?' becomes the engine of learning.
How the
Program is Structured
The 21-day program is
designed around a daily rhythm that feels joyful and purposeful in equal
measure. Each session moves through five intentional stages: a warm Welcome to
build readiness; a Connect moment where the day's story is introduced through
puppet play or sensory exploration; a Relate conversation where children
identify the core problem and discuss how the characters feel; an Apply phase
where children create, build, and test their own solutions; and an Express
close where every child shares what they made — with no wrong answers, only
celebrated efforts.
The program is tailored
for two distinct age groups: Wanderers (2–4 years) and Discoverers (4–6 years)
— each with a curriculum calibrated to their developmental stage. Younger
children engage through sensory play and guided making; older children take on
more complex problem statements and multi-session design challenges.
On Day 21, children
present their work to parents in a Culmination showcase — a moment that
reflects not just what they built, but how they learned to think. For many
families, it will be the first time they see their child explain a problem,
walk through their solution, and own their idea with confidence.
Why Design Thinking, and Why Now?
Design Thinking is among
the most sought-after skills in the modern world — used by engineers, doctors,
educators, and entrepreneurs to navigate complexity and create solutions that
work for people. Research in early childhood development consistently shows
that the foundations of creative and critical thinking are laid in the first
six years of life. EuroKids Summer Club 2026 is built on this evidence: that
the best time to nurture a problem-solver is not when they enter the workforce,
but when they are still asking why the sky is blue.
Speaking on the launch,
KVS Seshasai, CEO of the Pre-K Division,
Lighthouse Learning (EuroKids), said, “At
EuroKids, we see early childhood not as a race to accumulate facts, but as the
beginning of a child’s relationship with the world, a time when questions
matter more than answers. Our curriculum is imagined with care and intent,
shaped around how young minds truly unfold: through wonder, experimentation,
and the freedom to explore without fear of being wrong.
The
Summer Club is a natural extension of this vision. It is not merely a program
but a thoughtfully crafted journey where stories spark inquiry, ideas take
shape through play, and children learn to trust their own thinking. In
nurturing this process, we are not just preparing children for school, but for
life, raising individuals who are curious, confident, and capable of seeing
possibilities where others may not.”
Summer Club 2026 is currently open for enrollment across
EuroKids centres pan-India. Given the staggered rollout across cities, parents
are encouraged to contact their nearest centre for local program dates and seat
availability.
With over 25+ years of expertise, 2,000+ preschools across
550 cities, and over a million children nurtured, EuroKids continues to
lead early childhood education in India by combining research-backed pedagogy with engaging
learning experiences designed to stay with a child long after summer
ends.