Hands-On Learning Programmes for Schools & Student Care in Singapore
STEM & Science • Design Thinking • Sustainability • Heritage & Culture • Wellness • VIA & Social Impact
From one-off school workshops to multi-session learning programmes, holiday programmes and school-wide activities, Little Changemakers designs hands-on experiences that build curiosity, creativity, empathy and real-world problem-solving skills. Programmes can be adapted for schools, student care centres and enrichment settings based on age, learning goals, duration and group size.
Different settings need different programme formats.
Start with where the learning will happen. We can then adapt the programme, level of challenge, duration and facilitation to suit your students and objectives.
Curriculum, enrichment & school-wide learning
For primary, secondary and post-secondary schools looking for purposeful hands-on learning connected to curriculum, CCE, VIA or broader school goals.
- One-off enrichment workshops
- 4–10 session progressive programmes
- STEM, Science & Design Thinking
- Sustainability & social-impact challenges
- VIA, CCE & service-learning
- School-wide events, festivals & learning days
- Custom curriculum and challenge development
Engaging programmes students want to come back to
For student care centres, enrichment providers and holiday programmes that need hands-on activities with enough variety and progression to sustain interest.
- Weekly or recurring enrichment series
- School-holiday programmes
- STEM tinkering & creative challenges
- Art, heritage & cultural programmes
- Wellness & sensory making
- Age-adapted hands-on projects
- Custom themes for term or holiday planning
Design for Good: Sustainability, Engineering & AI Innovation
A progressive hands-on programme where students use STICK’EM technology, engineering principles, Design Thinking and AI to investigate sustainability and social challenges, build working prototypes, test their ideas and improve solutions for people and the planet.
VIA, CCE & Service-Learning Programmes
Move beyond one-off volunteering. Little Changemakers helps students understand the community they are serving, participate meaningfully and reflect on how they can contribute with empathy, respect and purpose. Programmes can combine preparation, hands-on engagement, reflection and Design Thinking.
Hands-On VIA Programme
Students prepare for and take part in meaningful engagement with a community group through making, facilitation, interaction or service, followed by guided reflection on what respectful contribution looks like.
Inclusive Design Challenge
Students use personas, observation and Design Thinking prompts to redesign an activity or experience for people with different abilities, needs and perspectives.
Senior & Intergenerational Engagement
Students learn how to engage seniors with dignity and purpose before participating in age-appropriate activities, conversations or intergenerational experiences.
VIA Redesign Lab
Students apply Design Thinking to an existing or proposed VIA project, helping them identify real needs, improve their ideas and create more thoughtful and sustainable community impact.
Design Thinking for Inclusion & Social Good
Short talks, workshops and design challenges that help students move from “I have an idea” to “Who am I designing for?”. Students learn to understand people, identify real barriers, generate possibilities and improve solutions for social and community challenges.
Designing Inclusive Experiences for Children
Students explore how different abilities and sensory needs affect participation, then use personas, Universal Design prompts and Little Changemakers’ human-centred design process to redesign an everyday activity for greater inclusion.
Understand
Discover the person, context, strengths and needs.
Observe
Identify barriers, frustrations and opportunities.
Define
Turn what students notice into a clear design challenge.
Create
Generate and adapt ideas around the user.
Improve
Share, test, receive feedback and refine the solution.
Suitable as a standalone 60–120 minute programme or as a component within VIA, CCE, leadership and social-innovation learning.
Think Better With AI
Help students become better thinkers with AI, not simply faster answer-generators. Through Design Thinking and human-centred challenges, students learn to ask better questions, challenge assumptions, evaluate AI responses and improve ideas.
小小中医师 | Little TCM Practitioners
A hands-on cultural learning experience where students explore Chinese wellness traditions through herbs, measurement, sensory discovery and making. The programme combines heritage, practical science observation and age-appropriate wellness concepts.
Step into the role of a Little TCM Practitioner
Students explore selected herbs through sight, touch and scent, use a traditional Chinese balance scale, follow a simple herbal recipe and wrap their herbal pack in brown medicine paper. They also make an aromatic herbal sachet and learn age-appropriate concepts about Qi, meridians and simple acupressure.
Students will:
- Appreciate Chinese heritage and traditional wellness culture
- Strengthen sensory observation, measurement and sequencing skills
- Build curiosity about herbs and the human body
- Learn simple, age-appropriate self-care practices
Signature duration: 60 to 120 minutes
Suitable for: Preschools, primary schools, secondary schools, student care centres, cultural learning weeks and intergenerational programmes.
Educational framing: Designed by a TCM practitioner and adapted by Little Changemakers as a child-friendly cultural learning experience. It does not provide diagnosis, treatment or medical training.
More STEM & Science Workshops
Looking for a shorter STEM experience? Choose from hands-on science, engineering, electronics and invention workshops that can run as one-off enrichment sessions, student care activities, holiday programmes or themed learning weeks. Students learn by building, testing, observing and improving.
Glow-in-the-Dark Math
Students explore patterns, shapes, measurement and light through playful hands-on challenges.
Paper Engineering
Students design, fold, test and improve paper structures while exploring stability and form.
Urban City Design
Students build and improve a mini city while thinking about space, function and community needs.
Road Safety Design
Students use design thinking and simple models to explore safer roads and transport systems.
DIY Vacuum Cleaner
Students explore air movement, simple circuits and prototype testing through a mini invention challenge.
Electromagnetism
Students investigate magnets, circuits and forces through hands-on experimentation.
Dough Circuit
Students create simple circuits using conductive and insulating dough in a playful STEM activity.
Human Body Systems
Students explore body systems through models, movement and interactive learning activities.
DIY Voice Recorder
Students learn about sound, circuits and communication through a simple recording project.
Little Chemist
Students observe reactions, make predictions and explore basic chemistry through safe experiments.
DC Motor
Students explore circuits, motion and energy transfer through a simple motor-based activity.
Motorised Car Challenge
Students build and test a simple moving vehicle while exploring motion, energy and design improvement.
Creative Art, Culture & Wellbeing Workshops
Hands-on art experiences that help students explore creativity, culture,
self-expression and wellbeing through making.
These programmes work especially well for student care enrichment,
school holiday programmes, arts and cultural learning, wellbeing weeks
and recurring creative series. Activities can be adapted for different
ages, themes, learning objectives and programme durations.
Mixed Media Sculpture
Students combine textures, forms and different materials to create expressive three-dimensional artworks while exploring composition, construction and creative choices.
Marbling Art
Students experiment with colour, movement and pattern while discovering how small changes can create unexpected visual effects.
Fabric Print Design
Students experiment with motifs, repetition, colour and fabric surfaces to develop their own personalised textile designs.
Ancient Civilisations Art
Students encounter art, symbols, stories and creative traditions from ancient cultures before responding through their own artwork.
Little Baker Miniature Art
Students create miniature food-inspired artworks while developing observation, fine-motor control, scale awareness and attention to detail.
Collaborative Process Art
Students co-create a shared artwork while practising communication, negotiation, teamwork and confidence in contributing their own ideas.
Positive Affirmation Art
Students combine visual expression and positive language to reflect on strengths, identity, confidence and emotional wellbeing.
Sensory Process Art
Students explore texture, colour, movement and tactile materials through open-ended artmaking with room for individual expression.
Why Schools Choose Little Changemakers
We do more than deliver activities. Little Changemakers designs hands-on learning experiences around people, problems and real-world challenges. Programmes can range from a single enrichment workshop to a progressive 5–10 session learning journey.
Learn by Making, Testing & Improving
Students actively build, experiment, observe, discuss and refine ideas instead of simply receiving information.
From One Workshop to a Learning Journey
Choose a standalone experience or build a multi-session programme where skills, challenges and student independence develop progressively.
Designed Around Your Learning Goals
We can adapt age level, challenge, duration, cohort size and programme structure around your students, objectives and timetable.
Problems That Go Beyond the Classroom
Sustainability, inclusion, ageing, community needs and everyday challenges give students meaningful contexts for STEM, Design Thinking, VIA and innovation.
Technology With People at the Centre
Whether students are working with AI, engineering, design or social innovation, they learn to ask who they are designing for and why their solution matters.
Informed by Real Social-Impact Work
Our learning programmes draw from Little Changemakers’ work with children, seniors, persons with diverse abilities, volunteers, community organisations and corporate partners.
A programme can become a 90-minute workshop, a 5–10 session innovation series, a student care enrichment programme, a holiday programme, a VIA project or a larger school-wide learning experience.
School & Student Care Enquiry
Plan a learning programme with us.
Tell us about your students, learning goals and preferred format. Whether you need a one-off workshop, a 5–10 session programme, holiday enrichment, VIA or a school-wide experience, we can recommend a suitable structure.