It is the first school holiday which will see both my school-going kids stay home together for an entire month. I have never done up an activity list for the school holidays. And since I am researching for activities to occupy their time, I might as well consolidate my finds here. (Most of the images have links to more information, remember to click on them.) Hope this is useful to many parents out there. And if you do have interesting ones, I would love you to tell me in the comments and I will add to the list! Good things have to be shared! 🙂
1. Children’s Seasons
When: 24 May – 29 June
Happening at: Various Museums, click here.
Ticketing: Free for Singaporeans and PR
The National Heritage Board presents the 3rd year running Children’s Seasons 2014. There are endless engaging family activities happening in various museums and heritage centres, etc that will surely occupy many of your June days. There will be many interactive exhibits, unique hands-on activities, exciting games, movie screenings and more. This is also our favourite annual MUST-GO series of programmes and our kids look forward to them each year. Read about our last year’s visit to Singapore Art Museum here.
2. ACE Festival
When: 21 May – 8 June
Happening at: Drama Centre National Library
Ticketing: Click here.
ACE! 2014 is going to be a most exciting collection of performances, workshops and activities for 3-14 year olds, and their grown-ups, with plays and stories from Long Ago and Far Away, as well as exciting activities and events that are right up-to-date! Productions include:
Puss in Boots – The Master Cat – I Theatre (SG)
Starbird – Toto Tales (UK)
Dotty The Dragon – Blunderbus (UK)
Spot The Difference – I Theatre (SG)
Under The Dragon Moon – Creative Edge (SG)
Read about our review on one of the production by I Theatre here to have a feel of how it is like for kids production.
3. Singapore Zoo: Behind the scenes tour
When: 21 May – 22 June
Happening at: Singapore Zoo and River Safari
Registration: click here
There are various behind the scenes tour and programmes happening at the Singapore Zoo and River Safari that will bring your kids to find out how it is like caring for animals, examine panda poo, ensuring the fishes in Amazon Flooded Forest are healthy, and many more. This sounds so interesting. There is limited capacity and you had better be quick in pre-registering your kids.
4. Singapore Zoo: Zoolympics
When: 21-29 June (Daily), 10am – 4pm
Happening at: Singapore Zoo
Registration: $3.00 per Zoolympix passport (Available opposite Zoo Retail Shop), Normal admission rates apply
Young ones are invited to become “Wildlife Rescue Rangers” for a day and help save our animal friends from the brink of extinction by locating five “hot spots” (game stations) around the Zoo. Upon accomplishing the missions and freeing the animals from the clutches of illegal poachers, Wildlife Rescue Rangers will check in at the “wildlife camp base” to learn more about the plight of threatened animals and how they can do their part to spread the conservation message.
5. Singapore Zoo: Fun Wild Learning Details
When: 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 June
Happening at: Singapore Zoo
Registration: Activities are free but normal admission rates apply. Activities are recommended for children between 4-12 yo. Workshops are on a first-come-first-serve basis. Some activities require on-site registration.
Singapore Zoo transforms into a living classroom every weekend this June to show visitors, parents and children alike, that learning can be fun. Happening every weekend, visitors can discover and appreciate wildlife through a diverse range of activities, including performances, craft workshops, animal enrichment trails and even yoga! In an exclusive collaboration with Discovery Kids, visitors can gain insights into the fascinating world of documentary production.
6. Storytelling Comes Alive! With Playmobil
When: 31 May – 30 June, 11am to 7pm
Happening at: Palawa Beach, Sentosa
Ticketing: Free
Take time off for some family bonding with your little ones, and let them explore and learn through play! Immerse in the interactive storytelling sessions, develop the child’s creativity with imaginary play at the Playpit, and learn to transform simple materials into awe-inspiring masterpieces at the Little Hands & Minds! It is going to be a memorable holiday at Sentosa!
7. Safra June 5-day holiday camps
When: 2-6 June (Safra TPY), 9-13 June (Safra Jurong), 930am – 530pm
Happening at: Safra TPY and Safra Jurong
Ticketing: Kidsamaze member – $160 (Jurong) $180 (TPY)
Safra member – $180 (Jurong) $190 (TPY)
Guest – $220 (Jurong) $240 (TPY)
Call for more information: 63554550/551 (Safra TPY) and 66864321/322 (Safra Jurong)
8. Safra holiday programmes
When: 1 June – 30 June
Happening at: various Safra venues
Ticketing: Click here for a long list of programmes in June.
9. Rise and Shine Live Great Breakfast Carnival
When: 14 June
Happening at: The Lawn @ Marina Bay
Ticketing: Kids below 12 go free. Adults tickets at $13 each. To purchase tickets, click here.
Alternatively, participate at kidsrsimple giveaway of 3 pairs of tickets here! Giveaway ends 23 May!
10. Gardens by the Bay – French Flaire (Outdoor screening)
When: 23 May, 8pm to 930pm
Happening at: Supertree Grove
Ticketing: Free
Bring along your picnic mats and enjoy the outdoor screening of The Day of the Crows/Le Jour des Corneilles – a French animation movie featuring the voices of international movie star Jean Reno and late nouvelle vague director Claude Chabrol – under the starlit sky at the Supertree Grove!
11. Gardens by the Bay – A Sustainable Garden
When: 31 May, 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 June, 10am to 5pm
Happening at: Cannnonball Room
Ticketing: Free
A garden that is all about sustainability… how quaint is that? Learn more about Gardens by the Bay’s sustainability strategies with a series of simple experiments and other fun activities over this June holiday!
12. Gardens by the Bay – Kids at the Garden
When: June (various dates)
Happening at: Cooled conservatories, Kingfisher Lake and Outdoor garden
Ticketing: $18 per pax
This educational series of programmes is suitable for ages 4-6 and 7-9 where kids explore the gardens and lake to find out the birds and the bees, plants, flowers, etc and they get to do a craft to take home as souvenir! There are limited slots and advance registration is required. Click here to find out more.
13. Chinese Holiday Camp – Kid Start Now
When: June 2014, 4-day camp
Happening at: Kid Start Now
Registration: Click here for registration.
If you are thinking of starting off your kids’ interest in Chinese, I highly recommend this holiday camp for your kids. YH went through this holiday camp last December and he totally loved it! The camp aims to encourage lots of speaking opportunities for the kids through interesting reward system and story-based curriculum. This is a 4-day camp for kids age 3-6 yo. Read my review on this camp here.
14. Rush-Me-Not Art Holiday programmes
When: June 2014
Happening at: Rush-Me-Not Art Studios at Novena and East Coast Branch
Ticketing: Call to register. 62561449 (Novena), 63488608 (East Coast Branch)
Click here to find out more
There is a series of art classes suitable for 3 years and above. Rush-Me-Not Art Studio holds various art programmes including art therapy and their emphasis is as what the name says, they allow free expression and no rush approach towards self development through art. You may read my review on their holiday art class here.
15. Cookery Workshop
When: 26, 27 June 2014, 930am to 12noon
Happening at: Two by Two Schoolhouse
Ticketing: Call to register 62450838
Circus Mania Cookery workshop is a dessert making activity under the Big Top! Your kids will be in for a fabulous time creating whimsical characters like clowns, seals, lions, elephants which will come to life under the tutelage of their talented chef!
Traveller’s Bento Cookery workshop will be a fun bento-making workshop on the different kinds of cuisine from around the world! It will be a mish mash of Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese foods to name a few.
16. Holiday Camp
When: 18 – 20 June (Tiny Travellers Camp), 23 – 25 June 2014 (Carnival Camp)
Happening at: Two by Two Schoolhouse
Ticketing: Call to register 62450838
If you think that your young ones will be bored in the June holidays, you may like to sign them up for a 3-day holiday camp to spend their time in a fun way! These holiday camps have plenty of interactive story-telling, games, speech and drama, art and craft, and early literature.
If you do sign up for any of the above, tell me in the comments!
For the readers in Singapore, what are you doing this June School Holidays?
For the readers overseas, how do your kids spend their school holidays?
Lots of fun activities! Summer vacation is almost over for us here. Summer here in the Philippines usually means beach, swimming pool and other activities that involve water. 🙂
Water activities are always popular with kids! We do not have beautiful beach here. I know Philippines has plenty! A relaxing vacation by the beach is great 🙂
Alright – thanks for the list! Especially the movie screening – going to see if we can fit that one in (wish it wasn’t a Friday though – harder for us!).
Also we’re going to give the Kid Start Now holiday camp a try 🙂 . And I’ll be checking out some of the museums, too. And picnic! There’s actually quite a lot going on.
Great that you are giving Kid Start Now a try. Tell me about it if your kids do go! If you are going for the picnic, we should meet up! The museums are definitely worth going to. We had not missed once 🙂
I’ve pinned this post for reference. Do you know what’s happened to the picnic, though? I didn’t write the date for it on the calendar and I’ve ended up setting P’s birthday party for that day (I realised the clash after my comment). I probably would have had to make it that day anyway – there’s not a lot of dates we can move it to. It would have been good to meet up. We’ll have to keep an eye out for another occasion.
Thanks for pinning! Oh, I’ll miss you this time. P’s birthday party is priority of course! You will be busy this period 😉
Definitely!
Man, what a list! Looks like there are tons of things to keep you guys busy! We have a local theatre that does a discount day, so I like to take T to a movie in the middle of the week – just to mix it up!
A discount day? That must attract many people! We do have movies at lower rates on weekdays non-peak hours too. Enjoy your show with Mr T!
My niece and nephew are visiting this school holiday, and finally we are NOT going to USS again! Thanks to your list of fun things to do in Sg.
Thanks Michelle! Glad you find the list useful! Hope your niece and nephew enjoy Singapore fun activities! 🙂
Wow, I didn’t know that there are so many activities going on at the zoo for this June holiday. Looks like things my boy will enjoy but not too sure if he is old enough for them. Thanks for the recommendation!
No problem! There is recommended age group. Otherwise, you can bring him to Children’s Seasons. That will be suitable for young kids too!
I’m in the midst of writing a list of places for kids for the school holidays too! Thanks for this list. The Chinese camps are especially helpful for my boy who needs lots of motivation to like the Chinese language.
Look forward to your sharing! The Chinese camp is for below 6 yo. Will be good for no. 3? 🙂
Oh… I was hoping they have something for primary school kids.
Wow, you have compiled a great list here, very useful! Thanks! Will have a look at some of the activities….
Glad you like it! 🙂