School Demo
See the 15 games, meet Foo Foo, and experience how one sitting moves a child's money life forward by three months.
- For Grades 6 to 8
- Teacher-led classroom format
- Life File stays at school
Financial education for Grades 6 to 8
Where money starts to make sense.
Children discover one money idea at a time through 15 games. Alongside the later sessions, the Life Money Lab turns their learning into a money life of their own: a chosen profession, a monthly income, and real decisions made safely.
15money games
4stages in the Lab
6-8grades
Work Town, the first game, where children discover what work is worth.
The idea
Learn through games. Apply it in a money life.
The games and the Life Money Lab are two different layers. One creates curiosity. The other lets children live the decisions.
Step 1: Play
Learn through games
A child feels the idea before hearing the definition. Work, income, needs and wants, saving, risk, and interest, each made clear through one focused game.
Step 2: Apply
Run a money life in the Lab
This is a practical lab, not another game. Each child chooses a profession, earns an income shaped by their game score, and manages budgeting, saving, investing, insurance, and loans on their own numbers.
The course
Fifteen games. One idea each.
Level 1 lays the foundations. Level 2 moves into real decisions: borrowing, insurance, and spotting a scam.
Level 1
Foundations
Game 1Work TownAll work has value. Not all work gets paid.
Game 2The ₹500 DecisionNeeds, wants, and the spending choice
Game 3The Apple TreeCash flow: what comes in, what goes out
Game 4Household Budget ChallengeBudgeting a real household
Game 5Banking BasicsHow banking and finance work
Game 6Beat InflationSaving, investing, and inflation
Game 7Goal MarketWhy a financial goal matters
Game 8Buy It RightThe consequences of how we buy
Level 2
Real decisions
Game 9The Risk Reward GameRisk and reward
Game 10Borrow WiseLoans and credit cards
Game 11Find My CardWhich credit card suits me
Game 12What If?The insurance I should hold
Game 13Basket BuilderThe mutual fund I should hold
Game 14Scam SpotterDigital money and online safety
Game 15Interest RaceSimple and compound interest
What children spend on
Inside the ₹500 game
Same five hundred rupees, same menu, yet each child leaves holding a different amount. Spending is not just the expense, it is the habit you hold.
Ice cream
Chocolate
French fries
Story book
Sketch pens
Pencil box
The Life Money Lab
A practical money life, while mistakes are still safe.
The Lab begins alongside the later game sessions. Each child chooses a profession, turns their game score into a monthly income, and manages the decisions adults face: budgets, goals, unexpected events, insurance, and borrowing.
"It is not a classroom. It is the first experience of adult finance life, while they are still safe enough to make mistakes."
Each stage is opened by the teacher for the whole class at once. No child moves on until the class is ready.
1
Budget and emergency fundSix months of salary, built first
2
InvestmentOpens once every child has the fund
3
InsuranceThe shield, so the goal is not disturbed
4
Loans in proportionBorrowing that stays in proportion to income
Professions in the Lab
Every child chooses their own
A growing set of careers, each with its own income and risks. The child makes the choice and lives with the numbers.
Teacher
Doctor
Farmer
Programmer
Mechanic
Artist
For principals and teachers
Easy to fit. Simple to run. Real for the child.
SMILE runs inside a normal class timetable, led by a teacher who does not need to be a finance expert. A small number of schools join each year as Founding Partners.
Founding School Partner
Bring the games and practical parallel Life Money Lab into your timetable with a small founding group of schools.
- 15 games and 4 Lab stages
- Child chooses a profession
- Levels can scale toward Grades 11 and 12
CSR or NGO Partner
Support financial education in schools that need it, with a practical program children can experience rather than only hear about.
- School-based delivery
- Safe space to make mistakes
- Clear classroom journey
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I have a financial education module for Grades 6 to 8. Children learn through games and then apply inside the Life Money Lab. Our games create the curiosity. The Life Money Lab gives that curiosity a place to grow.Aishwarya · Founder, Smart Money Institute of Learning
Let children practise money before money becomes a consequence.
Bring SMILE to your school as a Founding Partner, or help fund practical financial education through a CSR or NGO partnership. Start with a classroom demo.