To Children Who Can Create 'Something from Nothing': Nail School ViVi Envisions a New Form of Education #AprilDream

To a future where children can 'create something' with their own hands. Nail School ViVi is committed to an education that fosters the 'ability to create from scratch' through nail art. At its core is a strong desire to 'create a society where each child can realize their own potential.'

The Background to Realizing This Dream

'What skills should this child acquire in the future?'

This is a question many parents face in a rapidly changing world. What is needed in this coming era is not just the ability to solve problems with known answers, but the **'ability to create something that doesn't yet exist.'**

With the increase in tablet learning and the growing familiarity of social media among children, we feel that we are living in an age where children are surrounded by information that feels like ready-made answers, rather than actively thinking and creating for themselves. The opportunities to freely conceive and materialize ideas are becoming less frequent. That is why we thought:

The **ability to create from scratch might be nurtured through more enjoyable and accessible experiences.**

The Future ViVi Wants to Create

The future Nail School ViVi wants to create is a society where children can 'create something from nothing' with their own ideas. It's the experience of thinking from scratch, materializing it with their own hands, and being able to say, 'I made this.' We believe that the accumulation of such experiences fosters: - Thinking skills - Expressive skills - Perseverance And **confidence in their own creative ability.**

Why Nail Art?

With social media now commonplace for children, they are seeing more nail art, and it has become easy to pick up nail products at accessible stores like 100-yen shops. Nail art is a small canvas. There are no fixed answers; what to draw, what colors to use, everything is free. In other words, it embodies the **process of creating something from scratch.** Starting with nothing, they conceive a design with their own ideas and bring it to form. And when it's completed, children say:

**'I thought of this myself!'**

That single phrase is the beginning of the power to create.

Initiatives

Nail School ViVi provides education for elementary and junior high school students that emphasizes 'thinking and creating for oneself.' Its curriculum is characterized by designing the 'experience of creating from scratch' itself, rather than simply teaching techniques.