Singapore's Financial Literacy Bootcamp for Kids
Learn About Money, The Fun Way
Money is easier to understand when kids can play with the ideas. MoneyKids uses games, simulations and hands-on challenges to introduce children to earning, saving, investing, spending and making thoughtful money decisions.
What is financial literacy for kids?
It is how children learn how money works and to practice thoughtful choices about earning, saving, spending, growing and giving, in ways they can understand.
- Program's Syllabus
Making Money Easier to Understand
Money can be easier to understand when kids get to experience it for themselves. Through interactive games and simulations, children explore how different their actions on money can affect what happens next. What they’ll learn in this program:
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Earn, Save & Grow Money
Children explore different ways people earn money and why saving is important before looking at ways money can grow.
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Discover Money & Currencies
Kids learn how money has evolved and compare different currencies through activities that make the ideas easier to remember.
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Explore Investing
Age-appropriate simulations introduce the idea of investing and show why choices about money can involve different outcomes.
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Practise Money Decisions
Games give children opportunities to weigh choices around spending, saving, loans and business financing.
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Learn About Giving Back
Children discuss why businesses and individuals may give back to their communities and how social responsibility fits into money decisions.
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Try Research & Negotiation
Collaborative challenges introduce market research and negotiation as part of making informed choices.
Why Should Children Learn Financial Literacy?
Learning money literacy early gives children a major advantage in life. It builds healthy money habits like budgeting and telling needs from wants, which lead to independence and less stress later in life.
Because many schools spend little time on these skills, learning them now means they won’t have to figure them out through expensive trial and error as an adult.
Money Education Beyond the Classroom
Schools cover many important subjects, while everyday money decisions can be harder to practise in a classroom setting. MoneyKids creates a space where children can explore money and business concepts through play.
Game masters and lead trainers bring experience as investors and entrepreneurs into the activities, combining practical stories with the curiosity and energy of childhood learning.
Learning happens through experience. Children can ask, experiment, collaborate and make decisions inside a safe story simulation.
Commonly Asked Questions
What is the MoneyKids Financial Literacy Bootcamp?
It’s a play-based money programme for kids aged 7 to 12. Instead of sitting through lessons, children play games and simulations where they earn, save, invest and borrow, then talk through what happened with our trainers.
Why is financial literacy important for kids?
Kids deal with money long before anyone formally teaches them, through pocket money, red packets and things they ask you to buy. Learning early gives them a chance to make small mistakes now, when they cost very little.
What age is it for?
Children aged 7 to 12. The games and examples are pitched at that range, so a 7-year-old and an 11-year-old can both follow along.
Does my child need to know anything about money first?
No. Kids start from the basics, like how money came about and why different countries use different currencies, and build up to ideas like investing and loans from there
What will my child learn?
The programme covers the evolution of money, different currencies (even the concept of cypto!), ways to earn and grow money, healthy money habits, investing, giving back, financial freedom, loans and business financing, and market research and negotiation. Each topic is tied to a game or hands-on activity.
How do financial literacy games for kids actually teach anything?
Kids make a decision, see the result straight away and then discuss it. When a child has invested play money and watched it rise or fall, “risk” stops being a vocabulary word. The trainer then connects what happened to how money works in daily life.
Who teaches the bootcamp?
Our game masters and lead trainers are investors themselves. They bring their own entrepreneurship experience into the games and explain concepts in plain language that children can easily follow.
Is this the same as what my child learns in school?
Not quite. Some schools may skip topics like investing, loans and negotiation, so the bootcamp fills that gap. It’s meant to sit alongside school, not replace anything.
Will the bootcamp make my child good with money?
We can’t promise outcomes like that. What we do is build knowledge, confidence and curiosity about money, and those grow faster when parents keep the conversation going at home.
How do I enrol, and what are the dates and fees?
You can get more information by contacting us here. Let us know what you need, and we’ll send you the upcoming schedule, the fees and how to sign up. If your child is also curious about building a business, feel free to inquire about the MoneyKids Entrepreneur Bootcamp while you’re at it.
Are You Ready for a Dose of Fun?
Spaces fill up fast. Secure a seat today and let them experience the joy of learning, creating, and growing with Moneykids. Big ideas, bright smiles, and a whole lot of fun await!