National Art Gallery

 

What an eventful saturday!

After our visit to the Fire station at Hill street, it was an impromptu decision to bring the children to the National Art Gallery. Fortunately, it was within walking distance and we had time to spare. My children always enjoy their visit to the National Art Gallery because of all the fun and interactive DIY activities that this gallery has.

My INK-credible Adventure by Yeo Shih Yan is one of our favourites where the children can do "air" painting and their waves gets intepreted into brush strokes...clapping sounds becomes ink splatters and even jumping (which is one of every little child favourite activity) becomes an art piece.

We signed up for one of the classes on paper cutting. Hah! finally got some feet resting time.

Above: the children were very engrossed in cutting their paper. YAY! 30mins went by just like that. I only had to take photos of them. Truly great babysitting activity.

The people at National Art Gallery were so kind to even offer to take a family photo of us! Here's a picture of their completed paper cutting artwork.

a visit to the prison cell completes our day trip to the National Art Gallery. Thank you Elliot and Nathan for such a good sport! Hope to have more play dates like this!

A Day at the National Gallery | Ink paints

 

September Staycation Day 2 | Fairmont Hotel

 

Breakfast is provided for in our staycation package. Down we went to Prego where breakfast is served. You just have to order whatever you like from the menu and they will bring it to you. 

Being tourist for a day. We visited the National Gallery. A very child friendly place. Plenty of hands on activities for the children. We always enjoy our visits to the National Gallery. As we arrived slightly late at our breakfast place and had to wait in queue. We only managed to reach the National Gallery about 11am and it was going to close at 12noon for disinfection. Alamak.

So the kids managed to see some art installations (dayung sampan), did some batik painting works, saw some origami robot folds but didn't managed to do it cos it was closing soon.

There was an activity on making your own house out of carton box which we didn't get to do too. Not to be disappointed by our short visit, we went round exploring parts of National Gallery which we had never been too!

As the kids section was closed for disinfection, we were still very full from our heavy breakfast and so went to view the Art Gallery instead. We managed to get our free tickets from the counter and visited the works of Georgette Chen. It was such a lovely day!!!

Lovely spaces on the upper floors for the children to explore and even run around!

After viewing the art works, we walked back to Fairmont Hotel and changed out for our pool! YAY! And it was a sunny afternoon!!! Gorgeous day to be out at the poolside. So sad, my period came, so I couldn't join the children in the pool and had to wait by the poolside, wearing a mask in the sunny afternoon. Although I was under the shade of the umbrella, it was still very "hot" to wear a mask!!!

Dinner was at Haidilao because it has been so long!!!

I had totally forgotten that they provide toys for kids. The children were so delighted to receive little gifts and told me that Haidilao is one of their favourite place for meals. 

Jade received a princess magic wand. She was almost screaming with delight on the insides! On the way back to our hotel room, she was skipping, marching with her wand and giggling...

Jade. Brain freeze from the ice cream.