Things to Do With Kids in Toa Payoh and Balestier, Singapore (2026)

16 September 2026 · 16 min read

Every family guide to Toa Payoh recommends the swimming complex, the stadium and the town park. All three are shut. ActiveSG's own page for Toa Payoh Sport Centre at 301 Lorong 6 says the entire facility has been closed since 31 October 2023 and stays closed through 2030, which takes out the pool and the running track in one line. NParks closed the 4.8 hectare Toa Payoh Town Park on 1 February 2024, also until 2030. Kallang Basin Swimming Complex, the nearest public pool to the estate, closed permanently on 1 September 2025 and the land is going to flats.

So one of Singapore's oldest and densest family towns currently has no public pool and no town park. That is the honest starting point, and it is the reason this guide leads with what is actually open.

What is open is better than the closures suggest. The National Heritage Board calls Toa Payoh the first town planned with comprehensive town amenities, built in the 1960s and named after the swamps that were here first, and that head start left the estate with things newer towns do not have: a 1979 dragon playground NHB calls one of the last of its kind, a 4.49 km river path, a free museum of public housing in the bus interchange building, the oldest Buddhist monastery in the country, and 80 cooked food stalls in one hawker centre at Whampoa.

Seventeen places follow. Eleven of them are free. If you are heading west afterwards, the sister guide is things to do with kids in Novena, Newton and Thomson.

Free playgrounds, all within one estate

1. Toa Payoh Dragon Playground

Photo: Chainwit., Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

The dragon on Lorong 6 was built by HDB in 1979 and designed by the architect Khor Ean Ghee. The National Heritage Board calls it one of the last remaining playgrounds with a dragon design in Singapore, and describes the terrazzo-clad head and ringed body as one of the most recognisable icons of Singaporean culture. It still stands in a sand pit rather than on rubber matting. The head is terrazzo mosaic, the body is a tunnel of steel rings a child can climb through, and there are slides off the back and the tail.

Two more dragons if this one lands: NHB names a smaller variation at Lorong 1 Toa Payoh and another in front of Block 570 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3. The blocks that once surrounded this one were demolished. The dragon stayed and now sits in an open green beside the new flats, with no gate, no sign-in and no fee.

Why kids will love it: Sand. Actual sand, deep enough to dig in, which most Singapore playgrounds replaced years ago. Children climb through the ring tunnel, slide down, land in it, and then refuse to leave. Bring a change of clothes and a bottle of water, because there is no shade over the sand pit and nowhere to rinse feet.

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Website: National Heritage Board, Toa Payoh Dragon Playground
Address: Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, near Blocks 31 and 264, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours. It is open ground with no gate.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Toa Payoh (NS19).

2. PLAY@HeightsPark

Photo: Play @ Heights Park, Jungle listing

Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council opened this on 28 May 2022 and calls it the largest mega playpark in central Singapore. It runs along the foot of Block 144 Lorong 2 next to Toa Payoh West Community Club, and it is built as five themed stations: Maritime Magic, Beach Bonanza, Kids Kampong, Trampoline Tempo, and Skates and Scooters. The centrepiece is a rolling bridge, a long green wave of netting and timber that children run up and down. There is also a water play zone, a sand pit, trampolines set into the ground and a small skate area.

This is the single best free outing in the estate and it is 490 metres from Toa Payoh MRT by OneMap, so no car is needed.

Why kids will love it: The rolling bridge is a proper physical problem. A six-year-old will spend twenty minutes working out how to get across without holding on. Younger ones get the sand and the low decks, older ones get the scooter area. Come before 10am or after 5pm, because the rubber surfacing holds heat, and bring a towel if you want the water zone.

View on Jungle: PLAY@HeightsPark
Website: Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council
Address: Block 144 Lorong 2 Toa Payoh, Singapore 310144. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours. The town council publishes no separate timetable for the water play zone.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Toa Payoh (NS19), 490m. Caldecott (CC17/TE9) is 545m.

3. Toa Payoh Dinosaur Playground

Photo: Toa Payoh Dinosaur Playground, Jungle listing

Two dinosaur sculptures, a clutch of five white eggs and a green stegosaurus platform, sitting in an ordinary estate playground off Toa Payoh East. The larger dinosaur stands about three metres tall. There is a small conventional play frame beside it and a couple of benches, and that is the whole attraction. It takes fifteen minutes and it is completely free.

One caution. No public body publishes an address for this playground, and guides give two different blocks for it. The address that resolves on SLA's OneMap, and the one on the Jungle listing, is 27 Toa Payoh East.

Why kids will love it: A three-metre dinosaur that you are allowed to climb on, guarding eggs the size of a football. For a four-year-old in a dinosaur phase this beats any indoor playground in the country, and it costs nothing. Best paired with lunch at Blk 210 Lorong 8, which is a ten-minute walk away.

View on Jungle: Toa Payoh Dinosaur Playground
Website: not yet listed by any public body
Address: 27 Toa Payoh East, Singapore 310027. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours. It is open ground with no gate.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Toa Payoh (NS19), 985m.

4. Toa Payoh Sensory Park

An estate park off Lorong 5, 661 metres from Toa Payoh MRT on SLA's OneMap, laid out around the senses and carrying a playground and an exercise corner. It is quiet and it is almost never busy, which is the reason to know about it when PLAY@HeightsPark is full.

Worth saying plainly: neither NParks nor Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council publishes a page for this park, so there are no official opening hours, no facilities list and no map. It is unfenced ground, so it is open whenever you walk into it, and you find out what is in it by turning up.

Why kids will love it: It is small, it is shaded in parts and nobody is queuing. Children who find big playgrounds overwhelming do much better here. Half an hour, then on to something else. There are no toilets and no shop, so go before you come.

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Address: Lorong 5 Toa Payoh, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours. No operator publishes separate hours.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Toa Payoh (NS19), 661m.

5. Whampoa Park Connector

Photo: Somebodyidkfkdt, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

NParks runs a 4.49 km park connector along Sungei Whampoa. It starts at Jalan Rajah across from Toa Payoh Town Park and ends at Bendemeer Road, passing through the Jalan Rajah, Kim Keat, Whampoa, St George's and Bendemeer estates. Along the way are two PUB water features, River Vista and Kolam Ayer Waterfront, plus playgrounds and plazas set beside the water, and a floating pontoon and boat shed.

One thing to plan for. The route crosses two pedestrian overhead bridges, over the PIE and over the CTE, and cyclists have to push up the ramps. With a scooter or a small bicycle, start at the Whampoa end and turn back before the first bridge.

Why kids will love it: A flat, car-free path beside water, with a playground or a plaza to stop at every few hundred metres. It is the one place in this estate where a child on a balance bike can go a long way in a straight line. Mornings only, because there is very little shade on the Whampoa stretch.

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Website: NParks, Whampoa Park Connector
Address: Jalan Rajah to Bendemeer Road, along Sungei Whampoa, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours.
Price: Free.
Getting there: Boon Keng (NE9) for the Whampoa end, Toa Payoh (NS19) for the Jalan Rajah end.

Free things to do indoors when it rains

6. HDB LIVINGSPACE Gallery

Photo: LN9267, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

A free museum about public housing, in the basement of HDB Hub above Toa Payoh bus interchange. It runs across two levels and eight spaces, covering how towns are planned, how estates are upgraded, the community programmes that go with them, and a multimedia show about Tengah. It is built to be walked through at your own pace, there are no guided tours, and it is 52 metres from Toa Payoh MRT.

Two practical notes. It is closed on Sundays and public holidays, which catches a lot of families out. Groups of ten or more have to book a slot in advance on HDB's website.

Why kids will love it: Scale models of towns, buttons and screens, and the moment a seven-year-old works out that the flat they live in was drawn by somebody. It is also air-conditioned and empty on a wet Saturday morning. Under fives will be bored in fifteen minutes; eights to twelves get a solid hour.

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Website: HDB, Our LIVINGSPACE Gallery
Address: HDB Hub Basement 1, 480 Toa Payoh Lorong 6, Singapore 310480. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 8.30am to 5pm. Closed Sundays and public holidays.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Toa Payoh (NS19), Exit A.

7. Toa Payoh Library

Photo: Toa Payoh Library, Jungle listing

NLB describes this as the second-oldest public library in Singapore, and it has been given purpose-built spaces for children, adults and seniors. It sits at 6 Toa Payoh Central, 347 metres from the MRT, inside the same block of shops as the rest of the town centre, so it combines easily with lunch. Borrowing is free for members, the bookdrop and the reservation lockers run 24 hours, and the library page shows a live crowd level before you set out.

Why kids will love it: The children's area is a room of its own rather than a shelf at the back, so a five-year-old is not being shushed by adults reading newspapers. Open until 9pm every day of the week, which is the detail that matters when a class next door finishes at 7pm and nobody wants to go home yet.

View on Jungle: Toa Payoh Library
Website: NLB, Toa Payoh Library
Address: 6 Toa Payoh Central, Singapore 319191. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 10am to 9pm. Closed on public holidays. Closes 5pm on the eves of Christmas, New Year and Chinese New Year.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Toa Payoh (NS19), 347m.

Heritage you can walk, for nothing

8. Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery

Photo: GoAheadFan95, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Singapore, completed in 1909 on Jalan Toa Payoh. The Hall of Celestial Kings and the Mahavira Hall were gazetted together as a national monument in 1980. The compound is large, quiet and open to the street, and it holds more than the monument halls: the Cheng Huang Temple inside the grounds keeps the same 8am to 5pm hours. The monastery extends those hours at Qing Ming and Chong Yang.

Why kids will love it: Sweeping tiled roofs, painted friezes running the width of a building, and courtyards big enough to walk around without being told to be careful. Twenty quiet minutes is about right. Shoes come off inside the halls and voices stay down, so it works better with over-fives than with a toddler.

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Website: Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery
Address: 184 Jalan Toa Payoh, Singapore 319944. Google Maps
Opening hours: Daily 8am to 5pm.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Toa Payoh (NS19), 1,041m. Boon Keng (NE9) is 1,273m.

9. Toa Payoh Heritage Trail

Photo: Wzhkevin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The National Heritage Board's Toa Payoh Heritage Trail covers 19 sites and splits into three suggested routes, so you can take the one that matches how far a child will walk. Of Community Institutions and Common Spaces is 1.5 km and about half an hour. Of Public Housing and Shared Spaces is 4.5 km and about ninety minutes. Of Faiths and Beliefs is 6 km and about two hours, and it uses buses rather than being walked end to end. The trail takes in the early HDB blocks, the dragon playground, the monastery, and the town centre shops.

Maps and a full booklet download free in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil.

Why kids will love it: It turns a walk to lunch into a hunt. Print the map, hand it to the oldest child, and let them navigate between markers. The short 1.5 km route is the one to do with under-sevens, and it finishes near the town centre where there is food and a library.

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Website: National Heritage Board, Toa Payoh Heritage Trail
Address: Starts in Toa Payoh Central, Singapore 310183. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours. Individual sites keep their own hours.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Toa Payoh (NS19), 171m from the town centre start.

10. Balestier Heritage Trail

Photo: Terence Ong, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5

Balestier has no MRT station of its own, which is part of why it still looks the way it does. The National Heritage Board's Balestier Heritage Trail runs through 23 sites and tracks the road from plantation to shophouse precinct, taking in temples, a hospital, the old film studios, the market and the rows of shophouses. Again there are three routes: Historical Landmarks of Balestier at 1.7 km and 45 minutes, Faith, Film and Food at 2.3 km and an hour and a half, and Building Balestier at 3 km and two hours. All three are walked.

Zhongshan Park, the open green beside Zhongshan Mall on Ah Hood Road, is a sensible halfway stop with a pond and a large banyan tree. No operator publishes hours for it, so treat it as an unfenced green rather than a destination.

Why kids will love it: Shophouse fronts at 1.7 km is the right dose, and the buildings are covered in things to count: air vents, tiles, five-foot-way columns, the animals over the doorways. Do it before 10am. There is very little shade on Balestier Road and the traffic is loud.

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Website: National Heritage Board, Balestier Heritage Trail
Address: Along Balestier Road, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours. Individual sites keep their own hours.
Price: Free.
Getting there: Toa Payoh (NS19) or Novena (NS20), then a bus or a 15-minute walk down to Balestier Road.

Swimming, given the public pool is shut

11. SAFRA Toa Payoh swimming pool

With Toa Payoh Sport Centre closed until 2030 and Kallang Basin gone for good, this is the only swimming pool left in the estate that a visiting family can use at all. It has a six-lane 50 metre Olympic-size pool of 1.2 to 1.8 metres, a one-metre training pool and a 0.5 metre wading pool. On Wednesdays it opens at 11am, after maintenance.

Two things to know before you drive over. The wading pool is closed for renovation from 11 August to December 2026, which removes the toddler option for the rest of the year. And this is not a public pool: a guest has to be signed in by a SAFRA member, and each member may bring three guests a day at most. If nobody in your family is a member, the nearest ActiveSG pool with a wading pool is Jalan Besar Swimming Complex at 100 Tyrwhitt Road, which is closed all day on Tuesdays and charges 50 cents for a child on a weekday.

Why kids will love it: A full 50 metre pool with a separate one-metre training pool, so a child who has just learned to swim gets somewhere to do it without adults doing laps over them. Avoid Saturday 3 October 2026, when the training pool and six lap lanes are booked from 9am to 6pm.

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Website: SAFRA, Swimming Pools
Address: SAFRA Toa Payoh, 293 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, Singapore 319387. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 7am to 9.30pm. Wednesday 11am to 9.30pm. Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 8am to 9.30pm.
Price: Free for SAFRA members. Guests $1.25 concession and $2.30 normal on weekdays, $1.80 and $3.40 at weekends. Under fives free. Concession applies to children over five and under 140cm.
Nearest MRT: Toa Payoh (NS19), 828m.

12. Little Splashes Aquatics, Balestier

Photo: Little Splashes Aquatics, Jungle listing

An indoor heated pool on Balestier Road built for babies and small children, taking swimmers from three months old. Being indoors and heated is the reason it exists: lessons carry on through a thunderstorm, and a nine-month-old is not shivering after ten minutes. It sits in BT Centre at 207 Balestier Road, near Citadines, about 900 metres from Farrer Park MRT.

Little Splashes does not publish class fees on its website, so ask when you book.

Why kids will love it: Warm water, a small pool, and a teacher within arm's reach. For a baby who has only ever met a bathtub this is the gentle version, and for a four-year-old who panicked at an outdoor pool it is the reset. Wednesday and Friday classes do not start until 11am, so a morning nap survives.

Book on Jungle: Little Splashes Aquatics, Balestier
Website: Little Splashes Aquatics
Address: 207 Balestier Road, BT Centre, #01-01, Singapore 329683. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 9.30am to 8pm. Wednesday and Friday 11am to 8pm. Saturday and Sunday 9am to 6.15pm.
Price: Contact provider for pricing.
Ages: From 3 months.
Nearest MRT: Farrer Park (NE8), 905m. Novena (NS20) is 970m.

Indoor and paid, for a wet afternoon

13. Kidz Amaze at SAFRA Toa Payoh

SAFRA calls this the first infant and toddler development play zone in Singapore, and that is the right way to understand it. The Toa Payoh branch is not the three-storey slide tower at Jurong. It is built around learning and discovery, with child-size furniture, a nursing room, lockers and a corner where a parent can sit down. Playtime is unlimited once you are in and no booking is needed.

Note the weekday hours: it does not open until 1pm from Monday to Friday during term, which catches out anyone arriving after a morning class. During school holidays it opens at 10am. It is closed for cleaning on Monday 28 September 2026 and reopens the next day at 1pm.

Why kids will love it: Soft play sized for people who have only just learned to walk, with nothing in it tall enough to be frightening. Adults pay $5 and stay as long as they like. SAFRA does not publish the child entry rate anywhere on its site, so call 6355 4550 before you go, and bring socks or buy them at the counter for $3.

Book on Jungle: Kidz Amaze, SAFRA Toa Payoh
Website: SAFRA, Kidz Amaze Indoor Playgrounds
Address: SAFRA Toa Payoh, 293 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, Singapore 319387. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 1pm to 7pm. Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 10am to 9pm. School holidays Monday to Friday 10am to 7pm.
Price: Adults $5 for unlimited time. Child entry is not published online, so call 6355 4550.
Ages: Infants and toddlers upwards.
Nearest MRT: Toa Payoh (NS19), 828m.

14. SuperBowl Toa Payoh

Twelve minutes' walk from the MRT, on the third floor of SAFRA Toa Payoh, and open past midnight every night of the week. Bumper lanes are available for children aged ten and under, which is the difference between a game and forty minutes of gutter balls. Socks are compulsory with house shoes and both are sold at the counter.

The pricing rewards going early. A public adult game before 6pm on a weekday is $5.50; the same game at the weekend is $6.00. A student under 21 pays $3.50 before 6pm on weekdays. Bumper lanes are charged at the hourly rate, which is $30 for the lane before 6pm on a weekday for up to five people.

Why kids will love it: Bumpers turn a seven-year-old into someone who knocks pins down, and the automated scoring does the arguing for you. Weekday afternoons in term time are close to empty. Two games and a drink is the right length before anyone gets bored.

Book on Jungle: SuperBowl Toa Payoh
Website: SuperBowl Toa Payoh
Address: 293 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, #03-02, Singapore 319387. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 12pm to 12am. Friday and eve of public holiday 12pm to 1am. Saturday 10am to 1am. Sunday and public holidays 10am to 12am.
Price: Public $5.50 per game before 6pm on weekdays, $6.00 after 6pm and all weekend. Student under 21 $3.50 per game before 6pm on weekdays. Shoes $2, socks $2.
Ages: Bumper lanes for 10 and under.
Nearest MRT: Toa Payoh (NS19), 828m.

15. Prime Gymnastics Club

Photo: Prime Gymnastics Club, Jungle listing

Founded in 1987 by a group of gym parents and run as a non-profit, Prime is the oldest private gymnastics club in Singapore. It occupies a ground-floor unit at Block 17A Lorong 7 Toa Payoh with full apparatus, and it runs a genuine ladder: Gym Tots for 1.5 to 3 year olds with a parent in the gym, KinderGym for 3 to 5, GymNovice Junior for 5 to 7, GymNovice Senior for 8 and up, and developmental squads above that by trial.

Term fees are published as a downloadable file rather than on the page, so ask for the current term sheet.

Why kids will love it: Real spring floor, real bars, real foam pit, rather than a soft play area with a gymnastics label. Coach-to-child ratios are 1 to 6 in KinderGym and 1 to 8 above it. Saturday morning slots go first. It is a 1.1 km walk from the station, so most families drive or take a bus along Lorong 7.

Book on Jungle: Prime Gymnastics Club
Website: Prime Gymnastics Club
Address: 17A Lorong 7 Toa Payoh, #01-190, Singapore 311017. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm. Saturday 9am to 2pm. Sunday 9am to 1pm.
Price: Contact provider for pricing.
Ages: 1.5 years and up.
Nearest MRT: Toa Payoh (NS19), 1,124m.

Lunch, which is what this estate is actually famous for

16. Whampoa Drive Makan Place

Photo: Kbseah, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Block 90 Whampoa Drive holds 80 cooked food stalls and 12 market stalls, which makes it one of the biggest concentrations of hawker food in central Singapore. Blocks 91 and 92 across the way add another 52 food stalls and 112 market stalls. Stalls set their own hours, and with two blocks facing each other there is almost always something open.

Check the cleaning dates before you go. NEA closes Block 90 from 21 to 23 September 2026 and again on 15 December 2026, and Blocks 91 and 92 on 14 December 2026.

Why kids will love it: Eighty stalls means a child who only eats one thing can have that one thing while everybody else eats properly. Sit near the drinks stall, send the older child to collect, and be out in forty minutes. It gets packed at peak hours, so aim for 11.30am or after 2pm.

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Website: NEA, dates of hawker centre closures
Address: Blocks 90 and 91/92 Whampoa Drive, Singapore 320090. Google Maps
Opening hours: Individual stalls set their own hours. NEA publishes closure dates but not trading hours.
Price: Free to enter. Stalls set their own prices.
Nearest MRT: Boon Keng (NE9), 857m.

17. Toa Payoh West Market and Food Centre

Photo: Kbseah, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Built in 1969 and still two storeys of 40 cooked food stalls over 108 market stalls, Block 127 Lorong 1 is the closest hawker centre to an MRT station in this estate, 316 metres from Braddell. NEA's own description names chicken rice and Hokkien mee as what it is known for. There are tiled wall mosaics on the ground floor, worth thirty seconds of a child's attention on the way in.

It is closed for cleaning on 21 September 2026 and again on 7 December 2026.

Why kids will love it: It is small enough that a five-year-old can see you from the stall queue, which is not true of Whampoa. Go upstairs for the market and let them look at the fish. Then eat downstairs. Best before noon on a weekday, when there is no queue and the fans are on.

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Website: NEA, dates of hawker centre closures
Address: Block 127 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh, Singapore 310127. Google Maps
Opening hours: Individual stalls set their own hours. NEA publishes closure dates but not trading hours.
Price: Free to enter. Stalls set their own prices.
Nearest MRT: Braddell (NS18), 316m.

Enrichment classes in Toa Payoh and Balestier you can book on Jungle

Everything here has a branch inside the two estates and a listing with a booking link. Prices are not published by most of them, so ask when you enquire.

• Cristofori Music School, piano and instruments from 3 to 18, at HDB Hub, 500 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh 310500.
• Yamaha Music School, group music from age 2, at Toa Payoh West Community Club, 200 Lorong 2 Toa Payoh 319642.
• Medley Music School, piano, guitar and violin from 3, at SAFRA Toa Payoh #02-02, 293 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh 319387.
• guitarstreet, guitar lessons from 6, at 247 Kim Keat Link 310247.
• Taekwondonomics, taekwondo from 3, at SAFRA Toa Payoh #03-05. Closed Mondays and public holidays; Tuesday to Friday 2pm to 9pm, weekends 9am to 7pm.
• Johan Taekwondo Institute, taekwondo from 3, at Block 177 Toa Payoh Central #01-168, 310177.
• Spartans Boxing Club Balestier, boxing and fitness from 4, at 573 Balestier Road 329888.
• Technique Pro Football Academy, football from 5, at the Singapore Indian Association, 69 Balestier Road 329677.
• Real Madrid Foundation Football and Basketball School, astroturf pitches and outdoor courts at 19 Toa Payoh West 318876, four minutes' walk from Caldecott (CC17/TE9) or bus 235.
• Red Dot Penguins Swim School, swimming at 5 Toa Payoh West 318877, inside the school compound.
• Global Art, drawing and painting from 2, at Block 183 Toa Payoh Central #01-252, 310183.
• Artisan Han's, art and clay classes, at 120 McNair Road, McNair Spring 320120. The studio publishes neither hours nor fees, so call first.
• Computhink Kids SG, coding and robotics from 6, at 6 Toa Payoh Central 319191, in the library block.
• PlayFACTO School, student care and enrichment for 6 to 12, at 600 Lorong 4 Toa Payoh #02-01/02, 319515.
• HAO Chinese Tuition Centre, Chinese from 3 to 16, at 501 Balestier Road #02-01, Wai Wing Centre 329844.
• BriliBrain Edu, Chinese tuition from 3, at 18 Ah Hood Road #06-53, Hiap Hoe Building 329983.
• Kumon Learning Centre, maths, English and Chinese, at 541 Balestier Road 329863.
• The Early Intervention Centre, speech, motor and social programmes for 1 to 8, at 18 Ah Hood Road #06-52/54, 329983. Weekdays 9am to 5.30pm, closed weekends.

At a glance

Eleven of the seventeen cost nothing, and almost all of them are inside one MRT stop of each other. When the town park and the swimming complex reopen in 2030 this list gets easier; until then, the dragon and the sand are still there.

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