Our Story
The Future
Is Handmade
What We Believe
Every Child Starts With What If
A Drawing Becomes A Plan
A Plan Becomes A Real Thing
When It Breaks They Build Again
OpenKids Exists For That Moment
At A Glance
OpenKids is an education brand of TAFA Group, an education group founded in Singapore in 2015. Its two programmes, Art and Tech, take a child from age 3 to 24: Art to imagine, Tech to build, and the confidence to take what they make into the world.
Since 2015
It BeganIn Singapore
In 2015, TAFA Group, the education group behind OpenKids, was founded in Singapore. Our Art Programmes have taught children there ever since, and our Tech Programmes now bring the same care to robotics, AI coding and 3D design.
From Education To Happiness
Mission And Vision
Raise Children Who Imagine The Future And Build It
Art gives them the nerve to imagine, and Tech gives them the skill to build.
A Generation Of Children Ready For Any World
Wherever life takes them, they arrive curious and capable.
Today
One Class At A Time
- Students Taught In Art Programmes Since 2015
- 35,000+
- Students Currently Enrolled
- 10,000+
- Ages On One Continuous Pathway
- 3–24
Figures as of July 2026. 35,000+ is a self-reported running total of students taught in Singapore, not current enrolment.
Up Close
Four Moments
One Child
From “What if?” to “I made this.”
A First Idea
A hand that can barely hold a crayon starts making things.
A First Build
The same imagination now builds what it draws.
A First Team
Design, build, break, rebuild, with teammates and a deadline.
A First Offer
Years of making become a portfolio of their own, and they choose where to take it next.
The Moments Are Illustrative
Offers received by individual students: individual results, never a guarantee.
Into The World
At HomeAnywhere
A child who can imagine and build carries that with them: to a new school, a new city, a new country. Their work already travels to exhibitions and competitions abroad.
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2025
Nomination ARTNOW 2025 Nominated Works Featuring a TreeArt Student
Nineteen nominated works from the 2025 ART NOW Global competition, each credited to the institution that submitted it — among them one by a TreeArt student in Singapore.
2025
Honours TreeArt Students Honoured At The 14th Youth World Cup Painting Competition
Around the theme Peace, Hope and Future, entries submitted through TreeArt in Singapore earned honours in every age group, from four to twenty-five.
2025
Honours TreeArt Students Shine At The 6th Asia Youth And Children Arts Festival
Three runner-up places, gold awards in every group from age four to twelve, and two team golds for TreeArt at an Asia-wide competition themed The Most Beautiful Scenery, People and Things.
2025
Singapore Winners Friendship In Bloom 2025 Singapore Winners Announced
Seventy-nine works from Singapore were honoured in an international youth art programme that turns the friendship between two countries into pictures.
2026
Honours TreeArt Students Honoured At The 2026 International Visual Arts Competition
From around five thousand works in more than seventy countries, TreeArt entries earned a second place, an eighth place and nine nominations.
2025
Exhibition Inside The 2025 ART BETHANIEN Biennial In Berlin
Two hundred and fifty-one artists and projects from more than thirty countries and regions at Kunstquartier Bethanien, where the Singapore winners of the Golden Key round were invited to exhibit.
2025
Singapore Winners 2025 Golden Key Singapore Round Winners Announced
The Singapore winners of the 2025 Golden Key International Art Competition qualified to exhibit at the Berlin biennial that autumn.
2026
Exhibition Rome International Youth Art Competition
A creative invitation for young artists aged 4–18: the 2026–2027 Rome International Youth Art Exhibition welcomes imaginative work on The Garden of the Gods and the Imagination of a Teenager.
OpenKids students compete at the world's top technology competitions.
Find A Class Near You
For Families
Message your nearest campus on WhatsApp. The first trial class is free.
For Global Partners
Two programmes proven in Singapore and one operating system behind them, now open to Global Partners worldwide. The first conversation is confidential and carries no obligation.