UnBox is designed for individual use. While children can explore it together, we recommend separate boxes to ensure each child gets the full experience of personal creative exploration.

No. UnBox is gender-neutral. Every child receives the same box, curated to suit their age group, regardless of gender.

Yes, though it depends on the child’s individual needs. We're also developing a box for children with visual and hearing impairments. To find out how UnBox might suit your child, please contact our support team for a personalized discussion.

UnBox instructions are intentionally open-ended to spark imagination. If you find them unclear, chances are your child understands them better! Still stuck? Play the audio guide and encourage your child to follow their instincts.

After completing all 40 कलाकसरत, you will receive an analysis of your child’s development across 16 learning attributes, known as the UnBox Appraisal. This appraisal is confidential and will only be shared upon request. To request it, please email us at socngp@gmail.com.

UnBox instructions are available in English, Hindi and Marathi.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience. While our packaging is designed to prevent damage, if something has gone wrong, please write to us at socngp@gmail.com with a description of the issue and photos of the damaged box. Replacements and refunds are handled on a case-by-case basis.

We recommend a minimum interval of 24 to 48 hours between two कलाकसरत.

The interval is rooted in the four stages of creative thinking—Preparation, Incubation, Ideation, and Illumination. This pause allows the child time to absorb, reflect, and connect their learnings across experiences, ensuring each कलाकसरत remains fresh and uninfluenced by the previous one.

We believe children learn best when they’re free to explore. Do not force your child. Invite them to do it with you - but let their curiosity lead the way.

Not at all. UnBox is about the process, not perfection. Trust their pace and let learning unfold naturally.

UnBox follows Montessori principles. All tools, including scissors, are child-safe and designed for age-appropriate use. Children often instinctively know how to use tools responsibly when trusted with them.

UnBox encourages confidence in making mistakes. Omitting erasers is intentional - mistakes are part of learning. When children aren't afraid to be wrong, they create freely and think more boldly.

Unlike most activities designed with fixed outcomes, UnBox is open-ended. It encourages organic, creative exploration - leaving room for improvisation, mistakes, and innovation.

Check out our Learning Outcomes for parents and educators to see how each कलाकसरत helps develop specific skills and learning attributes.

Can you understand the difference between teaching and learning? Children learn spontaneously. Only we need to understand what they are learning from. Unbox explores children's observations, their imagination, their self-motivation, their empathy, it creates space for them to develop, and introduces parents to their latent qualities. Unbox does not teach you, it opens up the possibility of learning.

The popularity of Isaac Newton, Archimedes, Galileo, Shakespeare was not due to their school performance, but to their independent thinking. If you want your child to be unique, you need to be unique as a parent. A normal route always takes you to a specific destination. Its always off-the -beaten track which has challenges and we need to be able to give children a chance to think independently. We need to increase our ability to think independently if we really wish our children to be independent. As a parent, we should be able to manage their thinking as well. It is good if you have that ability and if not you just need to develop it for their sake. It may be difficult to develop such an ability but not impossible, isn't it?

Does the concept of education system apply only to school education? Parents are keen to improve their child's grades in school subjects, but are they keen to improve the quality of thinking? Only then can such expectations be placed on the education system. If you keep aside school / school education, the basic learning process is enjoyable. A sense of companionship, empathy, needs to be developed in the child along with knowledge or proficiency or skill. Co-operation can help in fighting off ego. We tend to look with affection to those who have a different view from us. Coexistence tends to connect with other people's experiences, opinions, logic, other people's joys or sorrows. Education does it all.

Isn't every child special? Don't you want to find that difference? If education eradicates stagnation and cultivates integrity, schooling is monotonous, and creates divide. In short, schooling is not inclusive. It is the parents' insistence that every child should follow the parameters set by the school. Later during school and college education, subjects like mathematics and science create an impregnable fence of comparison and division. Children slip through this strain. What a child's curiosity can prove, no less or more marks can prove.

Apart from school, the child is still learning. The child also learns from home. Many of the things a child learns from their surroundings cannot be measured in the school's evaluation system. What a child learns is reflected in his expression. We need to be able to develop an eye to understand that. We insist on unwittingly fitting what is easy and original into the framework of the concept. So, there is no need to say something different like 'Home Education'.

Testing is a form of evaluation. When studying a subject, some individuals grasp certain concepts earlier, while others take more time. The late learner is often left behind in assessments and labeled as 'not understood.' What is the purpose of such tests? If everyone were evaluated based on their understanding, the results could show that all children in the same class are at different levels of proficiency. As it stands, school-level tests are highly ineffective in measuring true success.

Be prepared to take as much effort for the child's life education as the child has to take for his schooling. Let the child grow with you. It is very easy to plan a child's schedule according to the school schedule. It is not usually in the parents' mindset to take him to some outing even when school is on or to leave the school to spend time with the visiting guests. Household weddings are decided by looking at the dates of the children's exams. If you understand the importance of school as a place for children to play, study, argue, negotiate, express built-in skills and co-operate with their peers instead of understanding that school as a place to study, take exams and evaluate children accordingly, then only the lifelong learning of children is going to be with you.

Of course. The pace of change has accelerated. Technology is evolving rapidly. However, the progress of the education system is very slow. We are still climbing the same steps as primary, secondary and higher secondary. The methods changed a little bit. But still we have not been able to make education comprehensive. As children get older, we are still not ready to accept the developmental methods that make them happy and cheerful without burdening them with education, study and competition.

Considering the school environment, the answer is unfortunately negative. Our education has become teacher-centered, examination-centered and marks-centric. You have decided on the same curriculum and the same methods of assessment as the teachers can handle. Nowhere in the learning process is there an idea of whether students will be able to do it or whether we can evaluate their skills.

Our mindset usually looks at comparisons from two angles. One, comparison leads to stubbornness, toughness or commitment. Two, comparisons lead to embezzlement, loss of self-esteem, loss of appetite. So it is very important to work on the mindset of the children before the comparison starts. The skill to take comparisons in a positive direction needs to be developed in children.

Sometime in the development stages we adopted the concept of outsourcing. You have outsourced your efforts to maintain your health through diet and physical activity. We entrusted the development of our community to NGOs. We handed over the administration of the country to the rulers. We became dependent on the judiciary instead of finding a solution to our differences and discords. We also put the responsibility on the education system instead of learning from the environment, family, friends and relatives. It is time to look at the dangers and see if there are any solutions.

We have done compartmentalization of education. As a result, career opportunities are divided. The design of a highly creative aircraft is considered scientific research without being considered a work of art. The hand pressure, the angle of the sculpture, and other details are not considered to be the work of science, but it is considered as art. The so-called 'career' of schooling is formed only when we believe that there is scope for the curriculum without considering the scope of human qualities. Only real-world skills can determine his career.

There is no doubt that education changes society. Education liberates thoughts. Learning builds confidence, develops empathy. More and more reading encourages rational thinking. And therefore, education can lead to a healthy society. Of course, this is not the teaching of textbook knowledge. The learning qualities that develop in children from the second to the third year of age are achieved if they are given the right direction and the right opportunities. The competition during education stunts the growth of children. If we learn through play and nurture the qualities of the child, then the child becomes a conscious, intelligent citizen.

School exams can never make the right choice. Because every child's developmental stages are not the same. But the stages of the examination system are fixed and the same for everyone. The exam categorizes children by subject, not by their marks, not by their skills. The growth of children in different economic conditions, geographical environments, and different societies takes place in different ways, at different times and in different ways. In such a situation, how can the selection made through examination be fair?

We must first understand the concept of success. Happiness can be the measure of true success. If schooling makes children happy, then success in it will also make them happy. But that doesn't seem to be happening. Every child at home is special to his parents. At school, smart children are classified into one group and children who are slow in learning into the other. This division erodes children's confidence and their attachment to school. How can such education and the success achieved in it ensure a happy lifestyle?

Unfortunately that seems to be true. The concept of success has become quite materialistic in the speed of development. We associate study with marks, marks with opportunity, opportunity with money and money with success. We appreciate some of those who do different things, but the simple thought of 'Shivaji should be born, but to a neighbor' is still prevalent. In fact, we need to be able to change the current concept of ‘success’ and to understand it from the root, in ourselves and ultimately in children. Can we call this simple awareness in a child a parameter of 'success'?

Competition is not bad. A competitive environment brings out the latent qualities in children. But competition is not a fair competition, it is a struggle. If this competition goes ahead and separates certain people and gives a feeling of inferiority to others, it is bad that such an atmosphere is created. So avoiding competition is not the issue. Jealousy, envy, hatred, superiority, ego should be eliminated from the competition and the attitude of sportsmanship, appreciation of the skills, efforts and hard work of others should be developed. Isn't creating this a part of education?

Even though we know that not every child learns in the same way, we keep the same method of testing. At the same age, children in the same class have different learning outcomes. At certain stages of life, children develop all the qualities like curiosity, observation, development of senses, creativity. For some this happens earlier and for some later. It is not fair to assume that no one's imagination has developed today, so he has fallen behind in the competition. Also, there is no reason to consider him a winner because of his brilliant intellect.

Kids are trained for specific goals in academic sessions. If they do not understand anything which is taught, they are simply made to memorize it and are in a way ‘pushed’ in the next academic session. ‘Just mug it up’ is a normal answer given to kids' genuine difficulties. Under the burden of a four-walled school we have completely forgotten that learning is based on understanding and knowing, not merely memorizing without understanding. The difference between ‘academics and education’ is the same as ‘teaching and learning’.

Study is not done in hours. Adolescents are constantly learning something. We do not put their learning in the category of 'education' because we have tightened education within the framework of school education. At this age, children's observation increases exponentially and their struggle to express what comes to mind increases. If we can't avoid the hindrances of children in school at this age, then their growth will be limited to this book knowledge. Are you willing to take this risk as a parent?

We ignore what harms the child in the desire for the best. What is readily available to the child is the best for him. In the name of educational activities, it has become an effortless way to get the expected results from it by just providing tools. There is no room for his curiosity, observation, or creativity. So it slows down its natural journey of their creativity. Everything that is easily seen around the house is a tool for children. That’s where their creativity comes from. Isn't it a loss to rely on tools and to decide in advance what to use for them?

We associate study with marks, marks with opportunity and opportunity with money. This thought is absent among children between the ages of child and adolescents. Instead of pushing this equation in their head, instead of forcing them to raise marks, focusing more on the growth of their thinking, their quality as individuals will definitely increase. So what do you think - to improve marks in school subjects or quality of thinking?

Children refuse repetition, not study. The process of reciting poems by force is basically very boring. If Children's rhythm matches only then they begin to recite poetry. Only if they make friends with numbers they start enjoying maths and then they hardly feel bored playing with them. Children's study is not a matter of concern, it is a matter of our understanding. Have you ever enjoyed school?

As the children mature, their brains are constantly working. The more it is engaged in an activity, the sharper it will be. It is difficult for parents to keep up with their energy. Parents can help him to find the answers to every question that comes to his mind. Only provide a healthy environment around the child and things that can make him happy. The healthy and happy a child's mind is, he is more likely to be positive.

Does the child need to be taught? The child learns from observation, from imitation, from simulation. Every good or bad thing he observes, teaches him something. A child staring out of the window, breaking a toy, reading books other than textbooks, not paying attention to what is being said does bother every parent. If the child's creativity and curiosity are aroused, he will never need to be reminded how to learn. These qualities will help him to learn as he matures.

The education that gives happiness is the true education.