SG50 Jubilee Baby gift

Singapore celebrates it’s 50th birthday in 2015, and someone thought we should welcome 2015’s babies with a Julibee Gift, something like a good old traditional goodie bag.

Over 6,500 entries were submitted for the Baby Gift/s.

Singaporeans are pragmatic, Daddy suspect the most popular items should be free medical check, free education, free milk powder, cash and vouchers.

But the committee wanted something which falls under the categories “Care, Celebrate and Commemorate” ( ie cash and vouchers not applicable :p )

From now till 15May, the shortlisted 15 gifts are ready for your selection.
What gifts for babies

The nation has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 50 years.
All babies are important, but maybe those born in 2015 are more symbolic.

Those born in 2015 will perhaps lead Singapore into the next 50 years.

Daddy was invited to go on air (95.8) to share his ideal Jubilee Baby Gift. He only wish more parents will spend more time with the kids. They are only young once, and they outgrow their childhood like, overnight!

If we parents make the effort to connect and go through their childhood together, there is a higher chance that the family will be more integrated, stronger, and happier.

Video: Happiness in our Family (credit TheHappinessRevolution)

– Article about Jubilee Baby Gift
– Choose your top 5 gifts here

* poster and image credit – HeyBaby

Old playground Watermelon and Mangosteen

We visited our last Old playground in 2011.
Eight of them are listed in our Project Playground.

Old Watermelon playground

If you are ever thirsty, the WaterMelon and Mangosteen at Tampines might bring the kids some fruity fun. Daddy loves the Red mosaic which blends in with the surrounding Red HDB blocks.

Kids do what they do best at a playground. Play!

Slides, Run, Hide & Seek (again?)

or Ninja Warrior?

Siblings love to follow their elder siblings. In this case, Boon Xin realised (too late) that some stunts are not suitable for smaller kids 🙁

She fell and imprinted some Mosaic shape above her left eyebrow.
Fortunately, it was nothing serious.

She recovered in time to enjoy a few more swings.

More on the vibrant Red mosaic, and the glass blocks offering peek-a-boo.

Colourful shiny mosaic, old mosaics on playgrounds

5 minutes away, a pair of Mangosteen await. Unfortunately, there are too much graffiti and school children dating their partners within the Mangosteen.

These two fruits playground are at Tampines Central Park, next to Block 858 (PO 520858).
Old playgrounds near tampines Park

2040216 – We are featured on 早报.

Video : Kids get re-acquainted with old playground again.

Follow our links to explore Singapore’s oldest playgrounds.

Project Playground #, the oldest playgrounds :
#1 – Dragon Ang Mo Kio – http://sengkangbabies.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-playground-singapores-oldest.html (how our Project was born)

#2 – Elephant Pasir Ris – http://sengkangbabies.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-playground-2-pasir-ris-park.html

# School of Hard Knock Playground exhibitions at Esplanade Tunnel
http://sengkangbabies.blogspot.com/2011/01/m1-singapore-fringe-festival-school-of.html
#3 & 4 Seal Dakota Crescent, and Adventure playground Jalan Tua
http://sengkangbabies.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-old-playground-3-4-airport-road.html

# Some other playground blogs we found along the way
http://sengkangbabies.blogspot.com/2011/02/this-coming-sunday-we-are-roaming-toa.html

#5 – Dragon Toa Payoh and Dinosaurs
http://sengkangbabies.blogspot.com/2011/02/project-old-playground-5-toa-payoh.html

#6 – Pelican at Dover
http://sengkangbabies.blogspot.com/2011/03/project-old-playground-6-dover-pelican.html

#7 – Merry-Go-Round at Tiong Bahru Park
http://sengkangbabies.blogspot.com/2011/03/tiong-bahru-parks-train-and-merry-go.html

#8 – Watermelon and Mangosteen at Tampines
https://sengkangbabies.com/playground/ripe-watermelon-mangosteen-playground/

More photos of Old playgrounds!
# Our fanpage has 100s of FUN photos
# Our Flickr album