Masak Masak: My Childhood + PLAY @ National Museum of Singapore

Children’s Season at the National Museum of Singapore is back! Titled Masak Masak, the special exhibition centres around the theme of My Childhood features familiar playgrounds and larger than life games of yesteryear. I feel that my boys would enjoy this greatly thus we brought them there today. It’s great to let them “played with” what used to be the games during our time too.

The huge dragon inflatable outside the Museum. It’s a pity that my boys did not get to play it as it was closed when we were there due to a heavy rain earlier on.

We started at play @ NMS!

But we did not really get to play much here. It was jam packed full of people especially the cooking station and the boys could hardly squeeze through the crowds to play the activity. Well for Joelle, she  was still too young to appreciate the activities here yet.  The paper embossed with his favourite food – Roti Prata

Matchy matchy station- wasn’t a favourite with the kids as they were no one playing when we were there, all the kids seem to be busy cooking!

It was showing a girly cartoon inside the tent which doesn’t caught my boys’ attention.

This is the only station – picking berries which I observed to have the least kids and thus the safest for me to let Joelle sit and play. She was supposed to pick and transfer them to the basket but she was doing none of it. She was only picking it and stuffing it inside her mouth. ^^


Jayden wasn’t  keen to play all these activities in the various stations and would rather keep girl company by doing silly things to make her laugh.Thus you can see why we did not spent too much time here.

 

Located at Level 2, The next stop for us is none other than these some sculptures waiting for us to explore. It was so much fun even for me.

Its time for Old school games!!!

The gigantic five stone that is bigger than our head. The boys were having so much fun throwing the five stones and catching it with the net.
The proceed to the gor-li station (aka marble), it was a hit with the kids!!!!
Rouleaux was next….

Peeping through the hole, we can see the different scenes inspired by daily lives, movies and places around the world which are made out of reused toilet roll.

Over here, Cardboard play station where all things build using carton boxes!


Javier build a small stall selling his another favourite food – Fried Chicken Wings. ^^

Us beside the carousel, Javier was busy hugging the carousel and refuse to take this picture with us. 
Finally a shot of us before I end this post.

It was definitely a fun-filled day for us and Joelle was a sweet girl and very “cooperative” throughout our trip.

Fun day at Sentosa on a hot hot day!

Its school holiday again. Its time to play! Normally the boys are busy with classes on weekends or loads of homework that they don’t have much time to play. Thus holiday is time for them to relax and enjoy themselves. ^^

Though it was crazy hot today, we decided to bring the boys to Sentosa for the water play as promised. It was also the first time that we bring Joelle to Sentosa Beach. So we were so looking forward to this trip.

She was abit fearful of the water when we put her in. Luckily I brought her favorite rubber duckie along and she felt a little better and secure chewing her duckie.

This is her OOTD – swimsuit from Old Navy. Though I bought a bigger size at 12-18mth, it fit her perfectly now. Luckily I was kiasu enough to buy a bigger size. Ahaha..

She was happy enough just sitting in the shade playing with her sand playing toys. Ahaha.. at least I have little girl to accompany me, because my 2 boys were busy running in the sun digging sand and playing water.

The below 2 pictures are 2 of my favorite shots with Joelle.
Daddy decided to bring her to sand playing and she protested, whine and finally cry. So conclusion 1st attempt to let her try out sand playing FAILED!!!! ^^
Over at the other side, the boys had already dug a deep hole.
Having had enough of water play, I changed her and nurse and she knocked out in exhaustion despite the hot weather. So I just carry her in one position for close to 1 hour.
Javier decided to move nearer to where I am and play. He seems to feel so at home on the sand and rolling and flipping on it. My little grumpy girl woke up from her nap looking blur.
We went over to look for Jayden and saw that he has dug such a deep hole and feeling pretty satisfied with his work. It was difficult to get the boys to go and girl was getting impatient just sitting and waiting. So I brought her to the nearby playground for some fun. She took me by surprise by holding the hand grip and stand by herself. He did not once but twice. ^^ Recently she seems to be learning new things almost every other day.
Seems like little Joelle wasn’t too keen to take this shot with his brother. *Totally no give face to his brothers! Of course we must take a family pictures before we end our trip here and the boys requested to take a picture with the cannon on the way to the carpark as the remarked that the cannon reminds them of the game clash of clan. Ahaha…
We went to the Ah Hua bak kuh the for our dinner before we head for home.
The meat is tender and soup was spicy and shiok. A very fulfilling meal indeed.

That’s all for our trip to Sentosa, fun but tiring! I’m really getting old!