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Kids should know how to make things, fix things, grow things and cook things.

Qiko gives children real tools and real challenges so they can learn practical skills by doing them.

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Ages 9–13 · No payment today

The closed Qiko Toolbox box: a deep navy matte lid on a birch plywood tray.

What a child learns

Four things worth being able to do.

Qiko is organised around capability, not subjects. We started with the one where a child can be trusted with something real and find out today whether it worked.

  • The finished toolbox, empty: a birch plywood carry tote on pine cleats with a dowel handle and a blank nameplate, on a workbench among wood shavings.

    Make & Fix

    Here now

    Tools, measurement, building and repair. Where a child stops handing you the broken thing.

  • grow things

    Grow

    Not yet

    Soil, water, light, patience, and something you can eat at the end.

  • cook things

    Cook

    Not yet

    Heat, knives, timing, and a meal somebody else is grateful for.

Grow and Cook have no date and nothing to join. They are what we believe a child should learn — not a product you can want yet.

The range

Start with the Toolbox.

One mission today. The tools are bought once and every mission after this uses them.

The finished toolbox, empty: a birch plywood carry tote on pine cleats with a dowel handle and a blank nameplate, on a workbench among wood shavings.

Qiko Toolbox

₹699

They build the box. It fights back three times.

Make & Fix

Real tools.
Real problems.
Real capability.

Ages
9–13
Sessions
Two
The toolbox in pieces: five plywood panels, four pine cleats, a dowel handle, a drilled warm-up offcut and a stack of navy challenge cards.

In pieces

How it arrives

The open box seen from above: the practice board, hammer, screwdriver, ruler, safety glasses, sanding block, a tin of screws and nails and a stack of challenge cards, each seated in its own fitted recess, with the navy lid resting behind.

In the box

Flat, nothing loose

The finished toolbox on a workbench holding the hammer, screwdriver, steel ruler and safety glasses, with wood shavings around it.

Loaded

Their tools, their box

Child-sized safety glasses resting on the ground, with the hammer's wooden handle and the screwdriver's grip behind them.

Bought once

Qiko Tools

A real hammer, a real screwdriver, a steel rule, safety glasses, a sanding block and fixings. Sized for a child, and used by every mission that comes after this one.

₹899 · with the Toolbox ₹1,399, saves ₹199

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What’s inside

Twelve things. Every one of them real.

Six make the toolbox. Six are the tools — and those are bought once, because every mission after this one uses the same set.

The toolbox in pieces: five plywood panels, four pine cleats, a dowel handle, a drilled warm-up offcut and a stack of navy challenge cards.
The mission, in pieces
The open box seen from above: the practice board, hammer, screwdriver, ruler, safety glasses, sanding block, a tin of screws and nails and a stack of challenge cards, each seated in its own fitted recess, with the navy lid resting behind.
In the box

  • The toolbox, in pieces

    Birch ply, pre-cut — base, two sides, two ends

    Cut, not kitted: there is no click-together plastic here. The panels meet where the child puts them, which is why one of them can be wrong.

  • Pine corner cleats

    Softwood, 20 × 20mm

    The box is screwed to these and the base is nailed into them. Ply edges split under a nail; pine takes one — so both tools are here because the construction needs them, not because a curriculum wanted five verbs.

  • A dowel handle

    Hardwood, turned

    The carry test acts through this. It is the part that tells them whether they built it properly.

  • A warm-up offcut

    Same ply, drilled and scored

    Fifteen minutes on wood that doesn't matter, before touching wood that does. What a carpenter does, and what most kits skip.

  • A blank nameplate

    Hardwood, two pilot holes

    Measured, marked, sanded and screwed on by them. It is the moment the box stops being ours.

  • Nine challenge cards

    Plus one card for you

    Each gives a problem and never a procedure. Three of them contain a fault the card does not mention.

  • A real hammer

    225g, wooden handle, child-sized

    Not a toy one. A 100g hammer bounces, takes thirty strikes and teaches the opposite lesson — the weight is what does the work.

  • A real screwdriver

    Reversible bit — cross one end, flat the other

    One handle, two tips, so choosing the right one is a real decision rather than a rhetorical one.

  • Steel ruler

    300mm, millimetre marks

    With a findable zero. Half the measuring mistakes a child makes come from a ruler whose zero isn't at the end.

  • Safety glasses

    Child-sized, impact-rated

    Child-sized, because adult glasses slide down and get taken off. Also the ritual that tells everyone this is real.

  • Sanding block, two grits

    Coarse and fine

    A block, not loose paper. Loose paper teaches nothing about pressure, and it is why most sanding ends up uneven.

  • Screws, nails and a lidded tin

    20 of each

    Enough to get it wrong several times. The tin is where they live afterwards, which is a habit worth building early.

And deliberately not in it — no drill, no saw, no electronics, no craft consumables, no plastic version of anything. What justifies the price is what your child can do at the end, not the weight of the box.

Things they can do

Not just something they made.
Something they can now do.

Written the way a child would say it, and beside it the way they’d prove it. We don’t claim a skill we can’t describe them demonstrating.

Macro of a single screw seated flush in the pine screw block, its head sitting down onto the surface.
Seated flush — not proud, not sunk past flush

  • I can set up my workspace and work safely.

    ProofGlasses on before the first strike. Board stable. Free hand behind the strike line. Tools back in the tray between jobs.

  • I can measure and mark exactly where I want.

    ProofMarks a given distance within 2mm, from the right end of the ruler, with a mark thin enough to aim at.

  • I can drive a screw straight, and I know when to stop.

    ProofScrew seated flush — not proud, not sunk past flush. Run a fingernail across it and you shouldn't catch.

  • I can hammer safely and accurately.

    ProofNail driven within about 10° of upright, head flush, no strike outside the target, free hand never in the strike path.

  • I can find a rough edge and make it smooth.

    ProofFinds the rough section by touch with their eyes closed, sands it, and it passes the same eyes-closed test afterwards.

  • I can find what's wrong, fix it, and check that I fixed it.

    ProofGiven a fault nobody has named: notices it, says what's wrong, picks the right tool unprompted, repairs it, and tests the repair without being asked to.

The whole Make & Fix map — including what we haven’t built yet, marked as such.

Line illustration of a child in safety glasses driving a screw into the practice board, free hand steadying the board clear of the work.

Give them room to figure it out.

How Qiko works

The child does the work.

Every card gives a problem and never a procedure. There is no step one to follow — which is what makes the next six steps theirs.

  1. A real problem
  2. They try
  3. It doesn't work
  4. They figure it out
  5. They fix it
  6. They check it worked

Qiko doesn’t remove every difficulty. It makes the difficulty safe enough for children to solve.

For the grown-up

Your job isn't to teach.

It's to give them room to figure it out. You're in the room the whole time — that part isn't optional — and the box tells you the two moments to step in. Everything in between is theirs, including the parts they get wrong.

Child-sized safety glasses resting on the ground, with the hammer's wooden handle and the screwdriver's grip behind them.
Real tools, sized for a child's hand
You're in the room. The whole time.
Within arm's reach, sitting down. This isn't a product that entertains your child while you do something else, and we'd rather say so now.
You step in exactly twice.
Once to check the glasses are on. Once if something's genuinely unsafe — a hand in the strike path, a tool pointed at a face. Everything else, you sit on your hands.
Small tools, real ones.
A 225g hammer, a child-sized screwdriver, impact-rated glasses. Nothing that cuts, nothing with a motor, nothing that plugs in.
Designed so mistakes are cheap.
Short nails, a card holder that keeps fingers out of the strike path, and a claw so anything that goes in can come back out. Getting it wrong should cost a second attempt, nothing more.
Not for under-sevens.
And the screws and nails are a choking hazard, so they live in a lidded tin away from smaller siblings.

The full safety position — hazards named, and what stays your call.

The closed Qiko Toolbox box: a deep navy matte lid on a birch plywood tray.

Qiko

Toolbox

Ages
9–13
Expected price
₹699
With Qiko Tools
₹1,399 · saves ₹199
First pilot
6 families

Expected price for the mission on its own. We haven't manufactured any yet, so this is our estimate — you'll know the real number before anyone is asked for anything.

Which one would you want after this?

Optional — it just rides along in the message. Neither exists yet.

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