Fun With Kids: Meet marshmallow snowmen, watch short film to spread kindness
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Gardens by the Bay’s floral display Poinsettia Wishes features marshmallow snowmen and larger-than-life sweet treats, set amidst festive plants such as poinsettias and real Christmas trees.
PHOTO: GARDENS BY THE BAY
SINGAPORE - Make family time all the more special with these ideas and activities.
Visit: Sweet festive offerings at Gardens by the Bay
Take your kids to meet the marshmallow snowmen and gingerbread family. You will find these larger-than-life sweet treats at Gardens by the Bay's Flower Dome, set amid festive plants such as poinsettias, cyclamens and real Christmas trees.
The attraction's popular annual Christmas floral display Poinsettia Wishes runs until Jan 3.
This holiday season, you can sign up for workshops ranging from Christmas wreath-making and floral arrangements to botanical watercolour art and nature weaving.
There is also Christmas Wonderland, a ticketed evening event with light displays, carnival games and festive offerings at Supertree Grove.
Find out more at the Gardens by the Bay website.
Watch: Behind The Wall short film to spread kindness
Tommy the mouse ventures beyond a mysterious wall in the perfect city of Pura Pura. There, he meets animals that talk and look different, like Al the Elephant, a worker from a faraway land. But he soon realises that while others may look and sound very different from him, they are all the same inside and just as capable of kindness.
Behind The Wall is a 30-minute heartwarming short film that you can stream to watch at home. Recommended for families with kids aged seven to 12, it is accompanied by a 20-minute post-show activity video and digital activity booklet, which provides insights into the lives of migrant workers.
Produced by non-profit arts organisation Gateway Arts, it is based on the children's book Who's Behind That Wall? (2016) by Kim Eun-hee and adapted by playwright Jean Tay. This film would have been a full stage production, if not for the Covid-19 situation.
On using animals to represent humans, director Samantha Scott-Blackhall, artistic director of Gateway Arts, says: "It was a way to represent 'differences' through the sizes and shapes of animals. In this case, the hardworking and stronger animals represented the migrant workers in our midst.
"Behind The Wall offers a simple message: Anyone can be friends regardless of the differences between us. And showing kindness is the best gift of all."
The film will be streamed via Sistic Live till Dec 31. Each $20 e-ticket allows one user to three views.
Get details and buy the e-ticket at this website.
Read: Slow Down children's book by Rachel Williams
Slow down. Stop. Listen. Every child and adult should take time to observe how nature is unfolding around them and bring calm to their busy world.
That is why Britain-based author Rachel Williams and illustrator Freya Hartas came up with Slow Down, which looks at 50 everyday natural events and tells them like short picture stories.
Readers will learn, for instance, how a butterfly emerges from a chrysalis, how a spider weaves a web or how a cloud forms.
Williams first had the idea for the book while rushing to get her young daughter to school. "She'd noticed a bee on a flower, wanted me to stop and watch, and she asked what the bee was doing," says Williams.
She adds: "I think being able to stop and look around is so important right now. To introduce children to nature and the planet is a great grounding in getting them to respect the natural world and fight to protect it."
The hardcover book retails for $36.38 and is available at major bookstores.
