Mumbai, Apr 13: EuroKids Preschool 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 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.
