Museum of Ice Cream Singapore
Unlimited ice cream and a pool of sprinkles in Dempsey, from S$43 a head for about an hour. Worth it with children; expensive ice cream without them.
- Where: Dempsey
- Price: S$30–60
Out with the kids
Singapore with Kids
Ideas for a day out together.
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Gardens by the Bay
The Supertrees, the outdoor gardens and the 7.45pm light show are free. You pay for the two cooled domes, and residents pay a good deal less than visitors.
- Where: Marina Bay
- Price: Free
Sentosa
S$4 gets you across by train, and the beaches, Fort Siloso and the Sensoryscape lights are free. The rides and shows are where the money goes, so choose one or two and leave the rest.
- Where: Sentosa
- Price: Under S$30
Singapore Maritime Gallery
A free museum on the second floor of Marina South Pier, with ship-handling simulators facing the real water and a 1603 piracy case that shaped maritime law. Better for kids than adults.
- Where: Marina Bay
- Price: Free
Civil Defence Heritage Gallery (Central Fire Station)
Singapore's oldest fire station, on Hill Street, hides vintage engines you can climb into. Pair it with a Saturday-morning open house downstairs, booked ahead. Closed Mondays.
- Where: Civic District
- Price: Free
Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle & Dragon Kiln
A 27-metre wood-fired brick kiln from 1940 behind a Jurong yard of pots. Worth the trek for a pottery class or a heritage fix; firings are rare, so ask when it’s next lit.
- Where: Jurong
Sisters' Islands Marine Park (Big Sister's Island)
A floating boardwalk that rises with the tide, a lagoon that holds the sea and reef life in the pools at low tide. Pack lunch and water: the island sells neither.
- Where: Southern Islands
- Price: Under S$30
Petit Pain
Joo Chiat's small-batch croissant bakery, now on Joo Chiat Place. Three-day French butter lamination, a honey brioche for tomorrow, and a short week, so go early.
- Where: Joo Chiat
- Price: Under S$30
Long Beach Seafood (Dempsey)
The restaurant that claims black pepper crab as its own, in a pillarless 400-seat hall among the Dempsey trees. Order both crabs and let the table vote.
- Where: Dempsey
- Price: S$60 and above
Roland Restaurant
Chilli crab from the son of the woman who invented it, on the sixth floor of a Marine Parade car park. The sauce is lighter than the versions it spawned.
- Where: Marine Parade
- Price: S$30–60
MINT Museum of Toys
One collector's 50,000 toys in a purpose-built glass box on Seah Street. Go with someone of a different generation; leave toddlers, who can look but not touch, for another day.
- Where: Bugis
- Price: S$30–60
Battlebox
Nine metres under Fort Canning's picnic lawns, the bunker where the decision to give up Singapore was taken. About an hour, free on the basic ticket, and bookings can't be changed once made.
- Where: Civic District
- Price: Free
Kid-friendly by neighbourhood
Mandai wildlife parks
Pick the Mandai park you actually want and do it properly. Trying to cover them all in one day leaves nobody with energy for the last one.
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Sentosa
Pick one Sentosa: beach, heritage, sea life, waterpark or rides. Trying to do three in a day is how a family ends up silent on the way home.
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West-side family day
Pick one anchor: Jurong Lake Gardens and Forest Ramble for an outdoor day, or Science Centre and KidsSTOP for a wet one. Not all four in an afternoon.
- 4 picks
Collections
Let the kids choose
Ask them first: climbing, experimenting, animals or stories. Then book one anchor activity and leave the rest of the afternoon for snacks.
- 6 picks
Ideas for different ages
‘Good for kids’ covers everyone from toddlers to teenagers, which is the problem. Choose the session, route or activity for the children actually coming with you.
- 4 picks