HKJC "CoolPlay" Project

To strengthen the "home-school-community" collaboration network, this year’s carnival introduces the "Smart • Play • Learn Exploration Kit Feedback Station." Here, families can share their creative ideas about the exploration kits while engaging with various "Light & Shadow" interactive installations. The initiative aims to gather children’s voices widely, inviting young learners, parents, and teachers to co-design child-friendly exploration kits, ensuring the materials truly resonate with their needs.

Additionally, the "Teaching Resources – JumpStarter" online platform has officially launched. This platform offers over 100 inquiry-based activities, allowing children and parents to conduct exploratory learning at home, then upload their learning journeys and reflections. Teachers and other parents can interact, exchange feedback, and learn from one another, fostering stronger home-school collaboration.

To recognize families who actively participate on the platform and contribute constructive insights, the initiative has established the "Smart • Play • Learn Outstanding Explorer Family Award." From numerous participants, five families will be honored as the first recipients of this award during the carnival. The award aims to inspire more young children and parents to join, collectively expanding the platform into Hong Kong’s largest inquiry-based learning community for early childhood education.

The environment is a child's third teacher! Six winning kindergartens from the "2025 Kindergarten EdCorner Setup Competition" showcased their innovative environmental designs, demonstrating practical approaches to inquiry-based learning.

Rhenish Church Shun Tin Nursery

- "Colorful Umbrella Adventure" 
Children can freely create their own umbrellas using crayons on drawing paper, then observe how water droplets change their creations. Through this hands-on activity and critical thinking, children enhance their curiosity and interest in science while developing problem-solving skills and creativity.

HKSKH Ha Shui Wan Nursery School

- "Egg Protection Mission"
While building bird nests, children interact with various natural materials. This multi-sensory experience stimulates their curiosity about nature and encourages hands-on exploration.

TTCA On Keung Nursery School

- "Egg Investigation"
Eggs contain numerous scientific concepts perfect for children's active exploration. Through observation and interaction with eggs, children develop self-exploration skills while making interesting discoveries. This challenging activity helps children better organize their fragmented knowledge about eggs.

PLK Lee Shu Fook Kindergarten & Nursery

- "Cup Shadow Wonders"
In this activity, children created simple projectors to explore the relationship between light and shadows. Through hands-on experimentation, they learnt the scientific principle that light travels in straight lines and understood how projections are formed. The activity also sparked their creative thinking and imagination as they designed unique shadow patterns.

- "Magical Color Construction"
Combining science and art, "Magical Color Construction" let children build colorful mini-houses while exploring how light interacts with translucent objects. They discovered that when light passes through colored transparent materials, it created corresponding colored light. By layering different colored materials, new colors emerge. This activity opened the door to exploring light and shadows in an engaging way.

The bilingual storytelling workshop was co-led by Deaf and hearing instructors using Hong Kong Sign Language and Cantonese. Featuring the classic "Three Little Pigs" story, the session combined expressive, visual sign language with spoken narration enhanced by light-and-shadow elements. The activity included sign language action songs and interactive games, allowing children to engage with the Deaf community firsthand. Through this experience, children develop inclusive values, learning mutual acceptance and cooperation - just like the pigs in the story working together to build a diverse, barrier-free society. (Organized by: Sign Language Bridge)

This interactive workshop let children and parents encounter fascinating small animals like hedgehogs, turtles, and snakes. Through direct observation and contact, participants learnt about animal anatomy, behaviors, and habitats, gaining deeper understanding of how nature shapes animal physiology. (Organized by: Ivan’s Nature Workshop)

As a member of the "Plant Discovery Drawing Team", children observed plant secrets like leaf veins and flower shapes, then illustrated their unique botanical visions. Through close examination, young artists uncovered nature's hidden surprises waiting to be revealed by their paintbrushes. Drawing what they see, no imagination was required. 

We are committed to promoting sustainable urban farming practices and the concept of a circular economy with resource regeneration. We hope to help children develop food conservation habits from an early age and avoid food waste. Any food scraps can be processed through insect bioconversion—the resulting frass (insect manure) serves as fertilizer for growing plants, helping achieve carbon neutrality goals while greening our environment. (Organized by: Green Cycle)

In this activity, children learnt about different marine animals by selecting items to place inside their bottles. They observed how water interacts with various materials (e.g., glow powder or small toys). Through using tools like measuring cups, pipettes, and spoons, they practised measuring water volume, counting objects, and understanding material ratios—developing both tool-handling and math skills in a fun, creative setting that blends learning with play. (Organized by: Pamela Peck Discovery Space)

Hong Kong Christian Service is dedicated to providing balanced, enriching, and diverse learning opportunities for children's holistic development. This workshop introduced scientific principles through balloon-based experiments, focusing on fluid dynamics and action/reaction forces! (Organized by: Hong Kong Christian Service)
 

The "Children's DIY Play & Learn" features 2 hands-on activities:

1. Hovercraft Creation: Children explore basic hovercraft principles using simple materials, stimulating creative thinking and motor skills while observing how balloon release affects movement.
2. Top Spinning: Using everyday materials, children discover friction and rotational dynamics by constructing and observing spinning tops.

Children freely investigated magical interactions between materials and light/shadow. Through touching, observing, and experimenting, children discovered how different materials affect light transmission, reflection, and color changes. Children were encouraged to share their observations - these precious "children's voices" inspired the design of the next generation of light/shadow learning kits.  (Organized by: Jockey Club "CoolPay" Project)

Families collaborated to construct sturdy houses for the three little pigs using various materials. By testing object properties and material strength, children learnt the basic architectural concepts while developing problem-solving skills. Participants took the challenge - build the strongest house to withstand the big bad wolf's huffing and puffing? (Organized by: Jockey Club "CoolPay" Project)

Welcome to the "Colorful Houses" booth, where light and creativity meet! Children created their own dream houses by collaging colorful cellophane sheets. During construction, they discovered how light transforms through different colors to cast beautiful shadows, bringing their little houses to life. Let children design, build, and shine in their luminous world of light and shadow! (Organized by: Jockey Club "CoolPay" Project)

Inspired by the school support program at Rhenish Church Lok Fu Kindergarten, we're bringing the classroom's X-ray discovery experience to this "X-ray Exploration" activity. Children will enter a magical X-ray world to explore the hidden structures beneath the surfaces of animals and human bodies. Through interactive Q&A with parents and observation of skeletal and anatomical mysteries, this activity will enhance children's understanding of biology and technology. (Organized by: Jockey Club "CoolPay" Project)