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This Diwali we concluded a series of Arts of Communication workshops with a group of 7th graders attending the Rajeev Gandhi High School in Mulund. The students went through a number of play [...]

We played the game of 21 with kids from Vidyaniketan School in Chennai last week. The game is to teach kids the importance of coordination, planning and collaboration. As a team, the kids need to [...]

Research demonstrates that children achieve better outcomes in learning environments where teachers have high expectations for every child. This is especially true for children who are considered [...]

This is the question 14 year olds are confronted with as they set foot on Khel Planet in the year 2070. In year 2070, the Earth, having depleted its major resources, is on the verge of [...]

Starting this academic year, Khel Planet launched its Mumbai operations. In the month of June we conducted a 10-HOUR WORKSHOPS SERIES on ARTS OF COMMUNICATION with 5th graders of the Mahila [...]

On the​ ‘World No Tobacco Day​’​, we conducted a health ​& wellness​ workshop and a health camp ​with children in Lucknow. It involved ​learning through ​ fun-filled [...]

The children have become really excited about new activities and are increasingly using the learnings from previous sessions. This week we introduced  them to two new activities. In the first [...]

This week the children engaged in a friendly paper plane design competition. The workshop started with Baal geet (children’s poem) followed by a tag game (Chain-chain). It was good to see [...]

Though we have done our life-skills based workshops in several schools now, we had our own apprehensions when we entered the auditorium of Guild of Service school at Anna Nagar. The school hosts [...]

  We are extremely thankful to our Partners, TCS, for providing back to school kits to children in the community where we work. The children got really excited on receiving the gifts and [...]

We did a 3 day camp on scratch programming for children from the Vidyaniketan school. Scratch is simple programming language developed by MIT for kids to learn programming without having to write [...]

We organized two Kho Kho playing sessions in last two weeks with the same group of children. While some children were already familiar with this tag game, others were playing it the first time. [...]

We had several engaging storytellers in this session. These stories were led by Sukriti, Brijesh and Ariana. Children loved it and were immersed in the stories. Children were little hesitant to [...]

Do you know what a game of tug-a-war can bring out in kids? The team of girls kept mum when the boys decided that they did not want girls in their team and would rather play boys vs. girls in a [...]

Khel Planet has launched a crowdfunding campaign for its first board game – King’s kin – at The Goa Project on 27th Feb. The Goa Project is a unique platform that brings [...]

We are excited to share one more good news​! This year Echoing Green’s Fellowship program has shortlisted 432 Semi-Finalist organizations from thousands of applications. We are happy to share [...]

In this week’s session with children, they played a fun tag game, the Dragon, where they were divided into two teams. Each team’s task was to try and tag the other team’s players who would then [...]

Khel Planet team along with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Lucknow team celebrated the festive season by playing games with children. Children played games that they have now mastered and sweets [...]

We are happy to share that Khel Planet has successfully completed a project with Saajhi Duniya on creating content of​ fun activities for children to learn about gender equality and breaking [...]

Last week, our fourth graders at B. K. Convent participated actively in a simulation negotiation exercise. The exercise started with allocation of natural resources to different teams. The teams [...]

We are excited to share that Khel Planet has been selected as one of the top eight social enterprises globally by the Social Enterprise Forum in Sweden for it’s SE Outreach Accelerator Program. [...]

Last week Scavenger hunt activity was organized at Vidyaniketan School. This post has been written by Radha Vasudevan (Correspondent, Vidyaniketan Matriculation Higher Secondary School). Santhosh [...]

While India was batting it’s way to a win during Sunday’s India vs. Pakistan cricket match, children in the slum near Hahnemann Chowk, Lucknow were busy exercising their creativity [...]

We are happy to share that Neelam Pol, CEO Khel Planet Foundation was a speaker at the Development Dialogue Conference 2015 held at hubli. She spoke at the panel “Future of Innovations” which [...]

This week we had ​yet ​another workshop with children ​in the slums of Gomti Nagar, Lucknow. The workshop started ​with ​an activity where children ​observed colors and ran fast to ​touch ​​the [...]

This post has been written by Radha Vasudevan (Correspondent, Vidyaniketan Matriculation Higher Secondary School) “A most enjoyable Saturday morning.  Sreepriya and Santhosh will agree [...]

Another Sunday morning workshop with kids living in the slums near Gomti Nagar in Lucknow. This time we introduced the kids to the popular game of Twister. This game requires children to use all [...]

  In the first session in Chennai in the new year, we wanted to introduce the children at Vidyaniketan school about working in teams and wanted them to be more comfortable with disagreements [...]

Our chilly Sunday morning started with an play workshop with 18 bright eyed children in a slum near Hahnemann Chauraha in Gomti Nagar, Lucknow. Parents of these children work as rag-pickers / [...]

During the last workshop in Chennai before the kids leave for their winter break. We introduced them to a fun team-building activity by name “Mine-field”. One kid from each team will [...]

Last week we started Khel Planet workshops in a new city, Auroville.  Auroville (City of Dawn) is an experimental township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, near [...]

This week as children finished their semester exams in Lucknow, we engaged them in an interesting game of Minefield. In this game a team member is blindfolded and the rest of the team has to [...]

This week in a continuing workshop in Lucknow, children received Seema and Aman’s second letter. In the letter Seema posed the question of whether girls could grow up to be astronauts. This led [...]

  This week in Gurgaon, we started the workshop by asking the children to set up the ground rules for us to follow across our Khelshaalas in the future. Surprisingly, the most boisterous, [...]

Last week we conducted another workshop at a school in Lucknow. During an activity, we asked children what superpower would they like to have and how would they use it. Most of the children [...]

Last week, we conducted our first Khelshaala at Diksha School, Gurgaon; a progressive school for marginalized children from the vicinity. At Diksha, the focus is not only to impart education, but [...]

On Monday, we conducted workshop at the B K Convent School in Lucknow. This is an aspiring low-income, private school affiliated with the U.P. State board. Starting this academic year, the school [...]

S was, I think, barely 2 and had just started expressing her mind when I first got a lesson in parenting from her. We were so used to both sides of the family laying claim to her and going, “Ah, [...]

Let’s put back play into lives of children because they have a RIGHT TO PLAY. 1.  Identify USED educational games that your children have outgrown or buy NEW educational games (for ages 6+ [...]

The last game we played at Vidyaniketan in Chennai was building a family tree. It was a lateral thinking exercise. Both volunteers and kids had a good learning experience!    

Hey! Happy News 🙂 Khel Planet has been accepted for the incubation program by UnLtd Tamil Nadu. UnLtd TamilNadu is one of the few beyond profit incubators in the state who aspires to drive the [...]

How can children develop a mindset of gender equality in the 21st century? Rather than introducing a lecture based curriculum, we are taking an innovative approach by introducing children to [...]

We had an icebreaker session with kids so that volunteers and the kids from Vidyaniketan school can get to know each other. The kids got introduced to a bunch of new words through pictionary (and [...]

A school at Pulianthope, Chennai serves children from marginalized families from the local community. Khel Planet conducted a icebreaker gaming session with kids – 7up and Dumb charades. [...]

Team Khel Planet recently conducted a play workshop at the ‘Achieve Together’ conference in Gurgaon on 9h August. 24 children between ages 10 and 12 years participated in the workshop. From team [...]

Introducing to you Khel Planet’s very first toy library at the Vidya Niketan school in Chennai,India. Children in this school come from predominantly under-privileged backgrounds, and most [...]

Khel Planet wins the ‘audience choice award’ of the BRIDGE Education Innovation Pitch Competition at Harvard Graduate School of Education on February 26th , 2014. The award is sponsored by The [...]

Khel Planet wins the Edupreneur Quest Business Plan Competition held in Mumbai on 23rd February 2014. Edupreneur Quest program is an initiative of Central Square Foundation in partnership with [...]

This was the first game workshop we conducted in Gurgaon, India with 30 children. This is an afterhours school run by the BG Foundation for drop-out children. We played the game of Pictionary [...]