A perennial favourite with parents, NewtonShow offers comprehensive full-day Science camps that will occupy your kids for the entire week, from Monday to Friday 9AM-4PM! Featuring fun experimental ‘real world science’, this September’s “Autumn Camp” will take place in four locations island-wide (Central, West, Novena and East). There the kids will explore an exciting world of rockets, submarines, Lego, dinosaurs, volcanoes, guitars, slime, rainbows, and magic milk—to name a few. The price for five full days includes lunch and two snacks daily, a T-shirt, mask, certificate and Newtonshow magazine. They’ll even help with organising a bus service if you need—a great choice for full-time working parents!

Newtonshow is located at 9 Mohamed Sultan Rd, Singapore 238959 and 221 River Valley Road, Singapore 238279 (Central); 887A Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 279896 (West); 175 Thompson Road, Singapore 307624 and 273 Thomson Road, Singapore 307644 (Novena); 229 Joo Chiat Road, Singapore 427489 (East), tel: 3125 1950. Visit their website for more information.

Located on Loewen Road in Dempsey, Wildlings runs a Forest School programme for most parts of the year which helps children connect with the natural world by learning, playing and exploring the great outdoors. This September, Wildlings is offering an outdoor adventure camp that packs a rich and immersive nature experience filled with child-led and nature-based activities catering for different age groups. With three camps for ages 4-5, 6-7, and 8-11, you can be assured that your child will be safely enjoying an age-appropriate customised adventure with great physical, social and intellectual outcomes.

The camp runs for three days from 9AM-12PM, but if your kid is 6-11, you may choose to top up $190 for a camp extension until 3pm, which comes close to a full-day experience. From 12-3pm, they’ll enjoy lunch (included) and more action-packed adventures like wilderness survival, fort building, campfire celebrations, slip-n-slide and colour fights.

Wildlings is located at 27A Loewen Road, Singapore 248839, tel: 6349 2249. Visit their website for more information.

Situated near the Swiss Club on Bukit Timah, the Mindful Camp is another full-day, full-week holiday camp that will have your kids occupied from Monday to Friday, 9AM to 4:30PM. Declaring to be Singapore’s best children’s favourite holiday camp, the Mindful Camp is designed to deliver “a healthy dose of mindfulness, arts, nature and play for the thriving child!” With a vision to guide children into growing up as happy, mindful and caring individuals, the Mindful Camp intentionally creates a safe people-centred space where kids can learn and grow playfully. This September, it offers two camps: Camp River for 5-7 year-old children and Camp Mountain for 8-12 year-old children. Lunch and snacks are catered, and past camp activities have included activities like farm to table cooking, scavenger hunting, ‘longkang’ (or drain) fishing, movie making, plushie making, street art, animal therapy, field trips and sports like touch rugby, cycling, kayaking and trampolines. Do note that Camp Mountain will be conducted at a different venue from Camp River.

Camp River is located at 36 Swiss Club Road, Singapore 288139; Camp Mountain is located at City Sprout, 102 Henderson Road Sprout Hub, Singapore 159562, tel: 9797 0091. Visit their website for more information.

Helen O’Grady Drama Academy is an internationally-acclaimed drama programme which adopts drama in the nurturing of life skills. Their ‘Drama System’ implements a fun, positive and stimulating curriculum administrated by dynamic trainers, which is tailored to improve the self-esteem, creativity, communication skills and confidence levels of all young attendees. This September, the drama academy is presenting “Buzzing Bees”, an unforgettable two-day holiday experience for kids aged 7-12 which will culminate in a finale showcase where proud parents can admire their kids in dramatic action. The camp will run on 5-6 September from 10AM-12PM.

Helen O’ Grady is located at Mountbatten Centre, 231 Mountbatten Road, Block B, #03-01, Singapore 397999, tel: 9116 2838. Visit their website for more information.

Specialised fine arts-based studio Arthaus runs courses for adults and kids all year round. Aiming to provide a “non-judgmental” space where adults and children from all walks of life with varying skills can discover, explore and express personal creativity in a cosy environment, Arthaus is where you can go to enjoy and make art without pressure or restraint. Over the school holidays, Arthaus runs three or five-day kids holiday programmes exploring various themes like landscapes, florals, pets or palette knives, or featuring different mediums including oil, acrylic, watercolour and drawing. Contact Carolyn on Whatsapp at +65 9023 0458 to enquire about schedules and availability.

Arthaus is located at 901A Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 58961, tel: 9023 0458/9723 4084. Visit their website for more information.

No list is complete without a coding camp. If you’re keen to give your little one a jump-start on computing, this impressive award-winning programme founded by an MIT graduate, (who also worked in Silicon Valley) is probably where you’ll send them. Coding Lab students have bagged National Olympiad in Informatics medals, won Inter-School Robotics Competitions, and—this may interest kiasu parents more—gotten into their chosen schools via the DSA (Direct School Admissions) exercise. Aside from regular after-school classes, workshops and special programmes online or across their four campuses, Coding Lab also runs modular holiday camps. This September, they will be offering camps online, at Bukit Timah (KAP) and Parkway Parade. Depending on your child’s age group, chosen module and level, there are two-day or five-day camps available. Two-day camps run all day from 9AM-4PM while five-day camps typically run all week for two to four hours daily.

Coding Lab is located at KAP Mall, 9 King Albert Park, #02-21, Singapore 598332 (Bukit Timah); 80 Marine Parade Road, #10-06, Singapore 449269 (Parkway Parade), tel: 6977 9641. Visit their website for more information.

If your kid is a budding chef or simply loves food, Tomato Cooking School might become their haven this September holidays. Guided by friendly, experienced chefs, your child will be taught to make two or three healthy restaurant-quality dishes each day, the yummy results of which they can happily bring home to share with you. You will even get daily photo and video updates of what your child was up to! This Autumn’s cooking camp is themed “Spanish Holidays” and you can look forward to delicious treats like Gazpacho, Spanish omelette, baked croquettas, Fideua, Paella and basque cheesecake, to name a few. The programme runs in two slots from 9AM-12PM and 1PM-4PM, and lunch will be provided if you book both slots. Tomato Cooking School has four locations across the island—Central, West, Novena and East.

Tomato Cooking School is located at OMG Building, 278 River Valley Road, Singapore 238319 (Central); Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, 170 Upper Bukit Timah Rd, #16-04, Singapore 588179 (West); 273 Thomson Road, #04-01, Singapore 307644 (Novena); 229 Joo Chiat Road, Level 3, Singapore 427489 (East), tel: 3125 1946. Visit their website for more information.

Play2See is a “unique edutainment programme” that seeks to nurture lifelong learning and confidence by encouraging screen-free exploration in children. Your child will be taken on a wide range of excursions and activities, giving them a chance to expand their perspectives and experience of the world with visits to various local venues. While inculcating art appreciation with physical learning, Play2See also encourages the kids to explore diverse subjects from varying viewpoints. This September’s camp will run all week from 9:30AM to 4PM, with a catered lunch and freeplay break between 12-1:30PM. Your kids will be taken to the Cloud Forest, Sentosa beach and Fort Siloso, National Museum and Marina Barrage. Good news: if you have a second child joining, they will enjoy a $50 discount for the week.

Play2See is located at 90 Cuscaden Road, Block B, Singapore 249725, info@play2see.com. Visit their website for more information.

This is an awesome programme for young aspiring architects and designers. DesignTinkers presents a variety of fun-filled, immersive, hands-on sessions with the opportunity to learn fascinating real-world applications such as 3D printing, interior and eco-home design and treehouse architecture. A number of programmes are on offer over the September holiday week, although the younger children can only attend short parent-accompanied sessions on Saturdays to “Build a Treehouse” and “Design My Room” (5-14yo). During the week, children aged 7-12 can join more exciting one or two-day programmes running from 9:30AM-3PM (snacks and lunch provided) at Goodman Arts Centre or HarbourFront Centre. All materials are provided and the kids will get to take home their lovely creations at the end of every session.

DesignTinkers is located at Goodman Arts Centre, 90 Goodman Road, Blk B, Meeting Room 2, #03-18, Singapore 439053, tel: 9769 1205. Certain sessions will be conducted at Agora Colearning, HarbourFront Centre, 1 Maritime Square, #04-01, Lobby C, Singapore 099253. Visit their website for more information.

ActiveSG runs sports programmes throughout the year to encourage an active and sporty lifestyle among the young. If your school-aged kid is sporty and Singaporean, you can even make use of your free allocated ActiveSG credits to offset up to 50% of program fees. This September, ActiveSG is running a Volleyball Academy school holiday program for primary, secondary and junior college-aged kids in venues around the island. Click here to find out more.

ActiveSG Volleyball Academy sessions are available at Bukit Canberra Sport Hall, 21 Canberra Link, Singapore 756973; Jurong West Sports Hall, 20 Jurong West Street 93, #02-18, Singapore 648965; Our Tampines Hub, 1 Tampines Walk, Singapore 528523; Delta Sports Hall, 900 Tiong Bahru Rd, Singapore 158790, ActiveSG_Volleyball@sport.gov.sg. Visit their website for more information.

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