Kheldai Sikdai

Kheldai Sikdai is a playful learning approach that sparks curiosity and creativity in classrooms. It helps children learn by doing through stories, games, making, digital exploration etc.

Locations
7+
Teachers Trained
2000+
Students Reached
30,000+

Core Areas

Kheldai Sikdai programs are thoughtfully designed around four core areas

  • Kheldai Sikdai Classroom

    Play-based learning program that equips teachers to use hands-on, engineering-focused activities in their classrooms. It helps children explore, create, and problem-solve through daily playful experiences, making learning joyful and meaningful.

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  • Kheldai Sikdai Making Space

    Creative corners in schools where students explore, tinker, and turn ideas into reality. Using everyday tools and materials, they learn through making, either individually or together, blending imagination with hands-on skills.

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  • Coding, Design, Engineering & Storytelling(CoDES)

    Initiative to make creative coding more accessible and equitable for young children in Nepal; especially those in community and government schools. It does so by integrating coding with children’s local literature.

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  • Kheldai Sikdai Digital Citizenship

    Aims to design and prepare a corpus of evidence-based resources on digital literacy and citizenship in various forms – textbooks for teachers, toolkits for the general public, and social media campaigns for youth.

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Characterstics

Playful principles that shape how we learn, teach, and grow

  • Joyful

    Students form predictions about which design will fly better and test these predictions.

  • Meaningful

    Students form predictions about which design will fly better and test these predictions.

  • Actively Engaging

    Students describe how lift, drag, gravity, and thrust affect a hoop glider.

  • Iterative

    Students form predictions about which design will fly better and test these predictions.

  • Socially Interactive

    Students form predictions about which design will fly better and test these predictions.

Featured Projects

Projects under Kheldai Sikdai

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Components

Key Components of Kheldai Sikdai

  • Learning Kits

    A set of classroom ready materials, student and teacher guides and access to digital platforms that support activity-based learning. (highligh physical and digital kits.)

  • Socially Interactive

    Partnership with local governments and school leadership to ensure long-term effectiveness and sustainability of the program

  • Teaching Community of Play(TeaCoP)

    A certified 12-session training program that helps teachers integrate playful and hands on learning methods into their teaching practice.