Things to do with kids in Queenstown, Tiong Bahru and Redhill, Singapore

16 September 2026 · 16 min read

In 1952 the British began building Queenstown as Singapore's first satellite town, and named it after Queen Elizabeth II to mark her coronation. The estate then collected firsts the way other towns collect malls. Singapore's first technical school opened here in 1956. The first polyclinic followed on Margaret Drive in 1963. On 30 April 1970 Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew opened Queenstown Public Library, the country's first branch library, and on 15 August that year Lim Kim San opened Queenstown Sports Complex, the first neighbourhood sports complex in Singapore.

Here is the part nobody writes down. Queenstown Library is shut for renovation, and the National Library Board now points residents to Clementi, Harbourfront and Jurong. So the town that invented the branch library currently has none. The 1970 sports complex, on the other hand, is still open six days a week, and a child still swims there for 50 cents on a weekday.

That is the shape of this guide. Tiong Bahru is the half everyone has written about, so it gets its tilting train, its market and its mall playground, and then we move west. Queenstown and Redhill carry the rest. Eight of these 17 places are free. Every price and opening time below came from NParks, ActiveSG, NHB, NEA or the operator's own site in September 2026, not from another guide.

Free parks, playgrounds and walks

1. Tiong Bahru Park

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Tiong Bahru Park is 3.3 hectares of NParks land wedged between Tiong Bahru Road and Lower Delta Road, and the reason every Singapore parent knows it is the train. NParks describes it plainly: the life-sized tilting train is the centrepiece of the playground. It is tipped at an angle, as though climbing a hill, with slides and climbing frames built into the carriages. The park around it is flat, shaded and wheelchair accessible, which makes it one of the easier parks in the central area to reach with a pram and a scooter at the same time.

Why kids will love it: They get to climb inside a train that is falling over. The tilt is the whole joke, and a four-year-old will work out within a minute that the uphill end is the one worth conquering. Come before 10am or after 5pm, because the play area takes full sun. There is no water play here, so bring a bottle rather than a swimming costume.

View on Jungle: Tiong Bahru Park
Website: NParks, Tiong Bahru Park
Address: 1 Henderson Road, Singapore 159561. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Tiong Bahru (EW17), 480 m.
Ages: 2 to 12.

2. Alexandra Canal Linear Park

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This is 1.4 km of park built on the lid of a covered canal. It starts at Commonwealth Avenue, runs along Strathmore Avenue and through the Dawson estate, and ends at Tanglin Road, where the Alexandra Park Connector carries on to Zion Road. NParks lists fitness and play equipment for all ages along the route, and the whole thing is wheelchair accessible because it is a flat concrete deck rather than a hillside.

The Dawson end is the interesting stretch. HDB built SkyResidence @ Dawson on the site of the old Queenstown Town Centre and the Commonwealth Avenue Wet Market, kept six mature Angsana trees standing around a central plaza, and left 1.7 hectares of green space. A 200 m community eco-corridor runs along Margaret Drive with 18 conserved mature trees, including a Rain Tree and a Broad-Leafed Mahogany.

Why kids will love it: It is a straight, flat, traffic-free run of more than a kilometre, which is exactly what a child on a scooter or a balance bike wants and almost never gets. Start at Commonwealth and go east, so the play equipment arrives as a series of surprises. Shade is patchy in the middle section, so this is a morning or late-afternoon outing.

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Website: NParks, Alexandra Canal Linear Park
Address: Alexandra Canal Linear Park, Strathmore Avenue, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours. NParks publishes no closing time for the park connector.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Queenstown (EW19), 460 m to the Strathmore end.
Ages: All.

3. My Queenstown Heritage Trail

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The National Heritage Board and the volunteer group My Community built a 40-stop trail through the estate, and it is the cheapest history lesson in Singapore. The stop worth walking to with children is Blocks 45, 48 and 49 Stirling Road: three seven-storey blocks completed in October 1960, among the first batch of public housing launched under HDB's First Five-Year Programme. Blocks 160 and 161 Mei Ling Street, the first point blocks HDB ever built, are ten minutes further on. The trail booklet is a free download from Roots.

Why kids will love it: Standing under a block of flats and being told it is older than their grandparents lands better than any museum label. Give an older child the booklet and let them navigate, because the trail is a grid of short streets with almost no traffic. Pick four stops, not 40. This is a one-hour walk done well or a three-hour argument done badly.

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Website: Roots, My Queenstown Heritage Trail
Address: Start at Block 45 Stirling Road, Singapore 140045. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours. The blocks are lived-in public housing, so keep to the void decks and pavements.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Queenstown (EW19), 460 m.
Ages: 7 and up.

4. City Sprouts at Henderson

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City Sprouts took over the grounds of a former school on Henderson Road and filled it with 38 greenhouses run by local farmers. Entry is free and the site is open every day from 9am to 6pm, which makes it one of the few working farms in Singapore you can walk into on a whim without booking anything. There are cafes on site, and the group runs a Kids Adventure Camp plus seasonal family events. Venue hire for parties runs from $86 to $3,300 depending on the space.

Why kids will love it: Thirty-eight greenhouses means 38 chances to ask a farmer what something is. Children who will not eat a vegetable will happily poke one that is still attached to a plant. It is compact enough for a toddler to cover on foot in 40 minutes, and the old school layout means shade, benches and toilets are never far.

View on Jungle: City Sprouts
Website: City Sprouts Henderson
Address: 102 Henderson Road, Singapore 159562. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday, 9am to 6pm.
Price: Free to enter.
Nearest MRT: Redhill (EW18), 580 m.
Ages: 3 to 18.

5. Henderson Waves and the Forest Walk

Photo: Johan Jonsson (Julle), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The Henderson Road side of Telok Blangah Hill Park is where District 3 runs out and the Southern Ridges begin. Henderson Waves is the undulating timber bridge 36 m above Henderson Road, and the Forest Walk is the elevated steel walkway that carries on from it through the forest canopy. The park itself is 34 hectares and holds a Terrace Garden with 360-degree views and the Sembcorp Forest of Giants arboretum. Three car parks hold 67 car lots between them and charge nothing.

Two things to know before you go. NParks has closed a section of footpath below the Therapeutic Garden for slope works until 31 March 2028. Sections of the Forest Walk are unlit between 7pm and 7am until 30 September 2026, and NParks states there is no wheelchair access at this park.

Why kids will love it: Walking on a bridge that ripples like a wave, high enough to look down on the traffic, is the sort of thing children describe to other children afterwards. The Forest Walk then puts them at treetop height with no railing-free edges. It is a genuine hill climb, so it suits confident walkers from about six upwards rather than a pram.

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Website: NParks, Telok Blangah Hill Park
Address: Telok Blangah Green, off Henderson Road, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours, except the Earth Trail, which NParks asks you not to enter after 7pm.
Price: Free, including the car parks.
Nearest MRT: Telok Blangah (CC28), 870 m.
Ages: 6 and up.

Pools and sport for the price of a bus ride

6. Queenstown Sport Centre

Lim Kim San opened this as Queenstown Sports Complex on 15 August 1970, the first neighbourhood sports complex in Singapore. Fifty-six years later it is still running as an ActiveSG site on Stirling Road, with a swimming complex, a stadium and a gym. The swimming complex has a normal pool and a competition pool. The stadium opens at 4.30am for runners, through a side gate until the main entrance opens at 7am.

The one thing to diarise is the maintenance day. Queenstown Swimming Complex closes all day every Tuesday, unless the Tuesday is a public holiday. Delta, five minutes down the road, closes on Wednesdays instead, so between the two of them there is always a pool open in this town.

Why kids will love it: Fifty cents. A child under 18 swims for $0.50 on a weekday and $0.60 at the weekend, which makes this the cheapest two hours of entertainment in the district by a wide margin. Bring goggles and a float, because there is no wading pool here and no water features, just honest lane swimming and a shallow end.

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Website: ActiveSG, Queenstown Swimming Complex
Address: 473 Stirling Road, Singapore 148948. The stadium is 473A Stirling Road, Singapore 148949. Google Maps
Opening hours: Pool 8am to 9.30pm daily except Tuesday, when it is closed all day for maintenance. Competition pool also opens 6.30am to 8am on Mondays and Wednesdays. Stadium daily 4.30am to 9.30pm.
Price: Pool, Singapore citizens and PRs, child $0.50 on weekdays and $0.60 at weekends, adult $1.00 and $1.30. Standard adult rate $1.30 and $1.70. ActiveGYM $1.50 for a student, $2.50 for an adult. Rates effective 25 August 2026.
Nearest MRT: Queenstown (EW19), 470 m.
Ages: All.

7. Delta Swimming Complex

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Delta is the pool to pick when you have a toddler, because it has the wading pool that Queenstown lacks. There are three bodies of water here: a competition pool, a teaching pool and a wading pool, at the Tiong Bahru Road end of the estate. The teaching pool has an accessible ramp, a pool wheelchair is available on request, and there are 128 car spaces, which is generous for a central pool. ActiveSG notes that the teaching pool stays open during lightning alerts, when the outdoor pools close.

Why kids will love it: A wading pool they can stand up in, and a teaching pool for the stage after that. The lightning rule matters more than it sounds: on a typical Singapore afternoon the big pool clears and the teaching pool carries on, so a thunderstorm does not end the outing. Closed all day Wednesday.

View on Jungle: Delta Swimming Complex
Website: ActiveSG, Delta Swimming Complex
Address: 900 Tiong Bahru Road, Singapore 158790. Google Maps
Opening hours: 8am to 9.30pm daily except Wednesday, when it is closed all day. Competition pool also opens 6.30am to 8am on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Price: Singapore citizens and PRs, child $0.50 on weekdays and $0.60 at weekends, adult $1.00 and $1.30. Standard adult rate $1.30 and $1.70.
Nearest MRT: Redhill (EW18), 420 m.
Ages: All.

Indoor, and out of the rain

8. The bird playground at Tiong Bahru Plaza

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Level 3 of Tiong Bahru Plaza holds a free playground shaped like a bird, which the mall describes as a design inspired by the iconic mosaic playgrounds of the past. It is the closest thing the district has to the old dragon and dove playgrounds, and it is indoors and air-conditioned. The mall also has diaper changing stations, family and nursing rooms and a water refill station, and the MRT entrance is 30 m from the door.

Why kids will love it: A mosaic bird to climb, with none of the sunburn. This is the wet-weather fallback for the whole Tiong Bahru end of the district, and because it costs nothing you can stay 20 minutes without feeling short-changed. Go on a weekday afternoon. On a rainy Saturday every parent in the estate has had the same idea.

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Website: Tiong Bahru Plaza, Family
Address: 302 Tiong Bahru Road, Level 3, Singapore 168732. Google Maps
Opening hours: 10am to 10pm daily, with the mall.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Tiong Bahru (EW17), 30 m.
Ages: 2 to 10.

9. Smaland at IKEA Alexandra

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IKEA runs supervised ball-pit playrooms at two Singapore stores, and Alexandra is one of them. It is free, and you leave the child there while you shop. The rules are firm and worth knowing before you drive over: the child must be between 100 cm and 130 cm tall, must be toilet-trained, and may use the playroom for a maximum of one hour per day. The parent named on the indemnity form has to stay in the store.

Smaland hours changed on 27 April 2026 and are now shorter than the store's. Weekdays it runs 2pm to 7.30pm with last entry at 6.30pm. Weekends and public holidays it runs 11am to 9pm with last entry at 8pm.

Why kids will love it: An hour in a ball pit with other children and no parent hovering, which for a five-year-old is the point. The height rule is the catch and it is measured at the door, so a tall four-year-old gets in and a small seven-year-old does not. Alexandra Village Food Centre is a 10-minute walk away for lunch afterwards.

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Website: IKEA Singapore, family-friendly facilities
Address: 317 Alexandra Road, Singapore 159965. Google Maps
Opening hours: Smaland weekdays 2pm to 7.30pm, last entry 6.30pm. Weekends and public holidays 11am to 9pm, last entry 8pm. Store Monday to Friday 11am to 10pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 10pm.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Queenstown (EW19), 735 m.
Ages: 100 cm to 130 cm tall and toilet-trained.

10. Kidztropic Cove

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Kidztropic Cove is on the fifth floor of the Annex at Furama Riverfront on Havelock Road, and it is built for children of six and under rather than the whole age range. Sessions are two hours. On Tuesday to Friday that costs $25 for one child, with an additional adult at $5. On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays it is $29 with an additional adult at $7. A five-session package is $110 and a three-month unlimited pass is $120, both valid for three months. Grip socks are compulsory for children and socks for adults.

Why kids will love it: A padded indoor world sized for short legs, with nobody older barging through it. That age cap is the selling point if you have a two-year-old who gets flattened at the bigger playgrounds. Closed Mondays, and it does not open until 2pm on weekdays, so this is an afternoon plan.

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Website: Kidztropic pricing
Address: 407 Havelock Road, #05-02, Singapore 169634. Google Maps
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 2pm to 7pm. Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 10am to 7pm. Closed Mondays.
Price: $25 for two hours Tuesday to Friday, $29 at weekends and on public holidays. Additional adult $5 and $7.
Nearest MRT: Havelock (TE16), 330 m.
Ages: 6 and under.

11. Waka Waka

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Waka Waka is the safari-themed playground one unit along from Kidztropic in the same building, and it takes the older half of the family: 7 months to 12 years. A weekend, public holiday or school holiday ticket is $27 and admits one child and one adult, with an additional adult at $10. Weekends run on pre-booked slots of 1 hour 45 minutes. Weekdays are unlimited playtime with no pre-booking, which is the better deal by some distance. Socks are compulsory for everyone.

Check the calendar before you go, because the opening days are unusual. In term time it opens Thursday, Friday and Sunday from 10am to 6pm, and Saturday from 10am to 8pm. During school holidays it opens Monday to Friday and Sunday 10am to 6pm, and Saturday 10am to 8pm.

Why kids will love it: It is big enough for a ten-year-old to get properly tired in, which is rare for an indoor playground in the central area. Take the Thursday or Friday option if you can, because unlimited time beats a 105-minute slot and the place is emptier. Under-sevens who find it too much can go next door instead.

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Website: Waka Waka admission
Address: 407 Havelock Road, #05-01, Annex @ Furama, Singapore 169634. Google Maps
Opening hours: Thursday, Friday and Sunday 10am to 6pm, Saturday 10am to 8pm. During school holidays, Monday to Friday and Sunday 10am to 6pm, Saturday 10am to 8pm.
Price: $27 at weekends, on public holidays and in school holidays, admitting one child and one adult. Additional adult $10. Check the admission page for the weekday rate.
Nearest MRT: Havelock (TE16), 330 m.
Ages: 7 months to 12 years.

12. PotteryPlease! at Queensway Shopping Centre

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Queensway Shopping Centre is where Singapore has bought football boots and school shoes since the 1970s, and on the third floor there is now a pottery painting studio. The studio fee is $28 a person for a 1.5-hour session, and that covers brushes, aprons, palettes, 25 underglaze colours and the glazing and firing afterwards. The ceramic piece itself is separate and starts at $8, chosen during the session and paid for at the end. An extra half hour is $5 if a seat is free. Collection is currently one to two weeks after firing.

Why kids will love it: They choose their own mug or plate and then get it back a fortnight later, fired and permanent, which is far more satisfying than a painting that goes in the recycling. Budget about $36 a child in total. Closed Mondays, and the doors do not open until 1pm.

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Website: PotteryPlease! pricing
Address: 1 Queensway, #03-40 and #03-48, Queensway Shopping Centre, Singapore 149053. Google Maps
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 1pm to 7pm. Closed Mondays.
Price: $28 studio fee per person, plus the ceramic piece from $8. Extra half hour $5.
Nearest MRT: Queenstown (EW19), 830 m.
Ages: 3 and up.

Two things you will not find in the other guides

13. Gateway Kids Club at Gateway Theatre

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Gateway Theatre on Jalan Bukit Merah runs a children's morning every single Saturday, and almost nobody outside the estate seems to know. Gateway Kids Club runs 10am to 1pm and has three parts: a storytelling session called Once Upon A Time, an arts and crafts session called Look What I Made, and free play. The storytelling is complimentary and needs registration. The crafts cost $4. It is aimed at ages 3 to 7, though the theatre says children of all ages are welcome.

Why kids will love it: A real theatre, a story read properly, and then something to make with their hands, for four dollars. Three hours is long enough that you can do the storytelling, break for a drink and come back for the crafts. Register for the free session in advance, because it is the part that fills.

View on Jungle: Gateway Theatre
Website: Gateway Kids Club
Address: 3615 Jalan Bukit Merah, Singapore 159461. Google Maps
Opening hours: Every Saturday 10am to 1pm.
Price: Storytelling free with registration. Arts and crafts $4.
Nearest MRT: Redhill (EW18), 630 m.
Ages: 3 to 7, older children welcome.

14. The Enabling Village

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The Enabling Village is a former school compound on Lengkok Bahru in Redhill, retrofitted so that a wheelchair, a mobility scooter and a pram can all get everywhere. Steps have been replaced by gently sloped ramps, every multi-storey block has a lift, and tactile tiles of the kind used in MRT stations run through the site. The spine of it is the Enable Lane, a textured, barrier-free, universally designed pathway with high-contrast elements. Performance and event spaces have hearing loops, and essential areas carry Braille signage. There are shops and cafes, and the grounds are open from 7am to 10.30pm.

One honest caveat. SG Enable's own site documents the access features rather than any play equipment, so treat this as a place to walk, eat and use easily rather than a playground.

Why kids will love it: If your child uses a wheelchair or a walker, this is the rare Singapore outing where nothing has to be worked around. For everyone else, the Enable Lane and the tactile tiles are a very concrete lesson in how other people get about. It is a short, flat visit, best paired with Tiong Bahru Park or the Redhill pool.

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Website: Enabling Village, universal design
Address: 20 Lengkok Bahru, Singapore 159053. Google Maps
Opening hours: 7am to 10.30pm daily.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Redhill (EW18), 440 m.
Ages: All.

15. Little Cookhouse at SkyVille @ Dawson

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Little Cookhouse is a baking studio tucked into the SkyVille @ Dawson block on Dawson Road, running sessions for children between 3 and 12. It works by appointment only, at weekends, and takes up to eight children per booking depending on what is being baked and how old they are. That makes it a birthday or a half-term plan rather than a drop-in, and it is five minutes from Queenstown MRT.

Why kids will love it: A small group, a real kitchen and something edible at the end of it. The eight-child cap means a five-year-old actually gets to do the mixing rather than watch an adult do it. Book well ahead, because weekend-only availability in a studio this size goes quickly.

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Website: Little Cookhouse
Address: 87 Dawson Road, SkyVille @ Dawson, Singapore 141087. Google Maps
Opening hours: Saturday and Sunday, by appointment only.
Price: Contact provider for pricing.
Nearest MRT: Queenstown (EW19), 430 m.
Ages: 3 to 12.

The lunch stop

16. Tiong Bahru Market

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Every family day in this district ends here. Tiong Bahru Market is an NEA hawker centre on Seng Poh Road, with the wet market on the ground floor and the cooked food on level 2, and it is a five-minute walk from Tiong Bahru Park. One useful correction to the usual advice: the nearest station is Havelock on the Thomson-East Coast Line at 440 m, not Tiong Bahru at 600 m, so if you are coming by train the TEL is the shorter walk.

Why kids will love it: Chwee kueh, a plate of chicken rice and a sugarcane juice for the price of one cafe main. More usefully for a parent, a table of five different dishes means the fussy one gets rice and nobody has to agree on a restaurant. Go before 11.30am or after 1.30pm if you want a table with room for a pram.

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Website: NEA hawker centres
Address: 30 Seng Poh Road, Singapore 168898. Google Maps
Opening hours: Stall hours vary. Most cooked food stalls run from breakfast to mid-afternoon and the wet market winds down by lunchtime. Individual stalls take their own rest days.
Price: About $4 to $7 a dish.
Nearest MRT: Havelock (TE16), 440 m. Tiong Bahru (EW17) is 600 m.
Ages: All.

17. Alexandra Village Food Centre

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If your day has been spent at the Alexandra end of the district, this is the closer one. Alexandra Village Food Centre sits on Bukit Merah Lane 1, about 10 minutes on foot from IKEA Alexandra, and it is the hawker centre locals use when they do not want to queue at Tiong Bahru. It is open-sided and breezy rather than air-conditioned, and the seating spills outdoors.

Why kids will love it: Satay bee hoon, fried carrot cake and a cold drink, eaten under a fan, after an hour in a ball pit. Pair it with Smaland and you have a whole afternoon for the price of lunch. The outdoor seating is the part to aim for with a pram, because the aisles inside are narrow at peak times.

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Website: NEA hawker centres
Address: 120 Bukit Merah Lane 1, Singapore 150120. Google Maps
Opening hours: Stall hours vary. Most stalls run from mid-morning to early evening, and individual stalls take their own rest days.
Price: About $4 to $7 a dish.
Nearest MRT: Queenstown (EW19), 930 m.
Ages: All.

Enrichment classes in Queenstown, Tiong Bahru and Redhill you can book on Jungle

These are the class providers with a branch inside these estates and a Jungle listing, so you can see the schedule and book without a phone call. Unit numbers are the exact branch, not the head office.

Tiong Bahru

• HiArt. Art, ages 2 to 18. 302 Tiong Bahru Road, #04-104, Tiong Bahru Plaza. Open Tuesday 3pm to 9pm, Wednesday to Friday 1pm to 9pm, weekends 9am to 6pm, closed Mondays.
• Tiong Bahru Music School. Music, ages 5 to 18. 70 Seng Poh Lane.
• I Can Read. Reading and English, ages 2 to 15. 298 Tiong Bahru Road, #06-03, Central Plaza.
• Speech Academy Asia. Public speaking, ages 3 to 16. 298 Tiong Bahru Road, #06-04, Central Plaza.
• My English School. English, ages 2 to 12. 18 Jalan Membina, #04-04.
• Singapore Taekwon-do Academy. Taekwondo, ages 4 to 18. Tiong Bahru Community Centre, 67A Eu Chin Street.

Queenstown and Queensway

• Little Cookhouse. Baking, ages 3 to 12. 87 Dawson Road, SkyVille @ Dawson.
• PotteryPlease!. Pottery painting, ages 3 to 18. 1 Queensway, #03-40 and #03-48.
• Empty Square Fitness. Muay Thai, ages 13 to 18. 1 Queensway, #03-07. Student pricing available, contact provider for rates.
• aquaDucks. Swimming, babies upwards. The Queenstown venue is a private pool, so the address is confirmed on booking.

Redhill, Bukit Merah and Alexandra

• Bianka Panova Academy. Gymnastics, ages 4 to 18. 2 Bukit Merah Central, #02-03.
• Red Dot Penguins Swim School. Swimming, ages 0 to 18. 3500A Bukit Merah Central.
• Marsden Swim School. Swimming, ages 0 to 12. Delta Swimming Complex, 900 Tiong Bahru Road.
• Energize Singapore. Fitness, ages 6 to 18. 165 Bukit Merah Central, #05-3667.
• Kumon Learning Centre. Maths and English, ages 3 to 18. Block 163 Bukit Merah Central, #03-3571.
• PlayFACTO School. Student care, ages 6 to 12. 3791 Jalan Bukit Merah, #05-14, E-Centre@Redhill.
• LK Taekwondo Institute. Taekwondo, ages 3 to 14. 354 Alexandra Road, #01-08.
• Aureus Academy. Music, ages 2 to 18. 370 Alexandra Road, #B1-38/39, Anchorpoint.
• Global Art. Drawing and painting, ages 2 to 12. 370 Alexandra Road, #B1-37, Anchorpoint.
• Little Farm Explorers. Farming and nature, ages 3 to 12. 102 Henderson Road, at City Sprouts.
• Caricaturist.SG. Drawing, ages 10 to 18. 1 Jalan Kilang Timor, #06-01.

A short ride away, around Outram and Pearl's Hill

Still inside postal sector 16, and worth the extra two stops.

• Mud Rock Ceramics. Ceramics, ages 6 to 18. 315 Outram Road, #14-01.
• The Potters' Guilt. Pottery, ages 7 to 16. 195 Pearl's Hill Terrace, #01-03.
• The Art Nooq. Art jamming, ages 3 to 18. 195 Pearl's Hill Terrace, #01-58.
• Arterly Obsessed. Art, ages 4 to 18. 195 Pearl's Hill Terrace, #01-10.
• LVL Music Academy. Violin, cello and piano, ages 4 to 18. 195 Pearl's Hill Terrace, #01-12.
• Arrow Sports Academy. Tennis, ages 2 to 18. 317 Outram Road, #02-29, Concorde Shopping Centre.
• Ballroom Dance Academy Singapore. Ballroom dance, ages 4 to 18. 317 Outram Road, #03-01C.
• avoyoga. Yoga, ages 4 to 12. 23 Kampong Bahru Road, #04-01 and #04-03.

At a glance

Queenstown spent 70 years being the place Singapore tried things first, and most of what it built is still standing and still cheap. Start at the tilting train, end at a hawker centre, and let the 50-cent pool do the middle of the day.

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