Children’s Day: Things to do over the long weekend 2025

Children’s Day is on 3 October 2025. Bring your kids out to play this Children’s Day long weekend! We list down some activities you can check out over the long weekend from 3 to 5 October. Free activities included!

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1. Children’s Takeover @ CMSG

Image credit to Children’s Museum Singapore

Celebrate Children’s Day with us at “Children’s Takeover @ CMSG” on Friday, 3 October 2025.

As part of this initiative, Primary 4 and 5 students from Gan Eng Seng Primary School will take over the museum for half a day. This one-day event aims to empower children by entrusting them with front-of-house responsibilities, allowing them to exercise different skills including teamwork, problem-solving and communications. Pre-registration required.

📅 3, 4 & 5 Oct 2025 (Free entry. Booking required)
📍 Children’s Museum Singapore CMSG

For more information, visit Children’s Museum Singapore CMSG Children’s Day 2025.

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2. Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 @ Gardens By The Bay 滨海花园庆中秋

This SG60, Mid-Autumn Festival at Gardens by the Bay pays tribute to how the festival has been celebrated through the years in Singapore – with beloved local character Ang Ku Kueh Girl as guide. Join her and her friends Curry Puff Boy, Sugee Cake Girl and Roti Prata Boy as they take you through how the country has evolved from a humble fishing village to high-rise HDB living through the illuminated beauty of large-scale lantern sets.

📅 22 Sep to 12 Oct 2025
🕙 6pm – 10pm daily
📍 Golden Garden, Supertree Grove and Bayfront Plaza at Gardens by the Bay
🏷 Free Admission

For more information, visit Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 @ Gardens By The Bay.

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3. Mid-Autumn Festival @ Jurong Lake Gardens 2025 – Lights by the Lake

Journey into a world of enchanting illuminations at Jurong Lake Gardens. As twilight descends each evening from 6.30pm to 10.30pm, the gardens transform into a magical realm where ancient tales come alive through spectacular lantern displays. This year’s exhibition features an immersive Journey to the West experience, where visitors can walk amongst intricate lantern displays depicting the legendary tales of Sun Wukong, Tang Sanzang, and their companions.

📅 27 Sep to 12 Oct 2025
🕙 6.30pm – 10.30pm daily
📍 Jurong Lake Gardens

For more information, visit Lights by the Lake @ Jurong Lake Gardens.

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4. Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery Mid-Autumn Celebrations 2025

Come celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival at Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery. Look forward to Mid Autumn lion and dragon dance, dance performances, lanterns display, singing sessions and more…

📅 27 Sep to 6 Oct 2025
🕙 6pm – 10pm
📍 Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery

For more information, visit Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery Mid-Autumn Celebrations 2025.

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5. LEGO® F1® Grand Brix Speed Hunt & Experience the Thrill event

Designed in close collaboration between experts from the LEGO Group and Formula 1, the event features a life-sized LEGO Williams Racing FW46 F1® Race Car, built with over 400,000 LEGO bricks and measuring 5.5 metres in length and 2.1 metres in width.

There will also be various interactive stations at the pop-up where visitors can explore what it takes to be an elite racing team. Fans can test their speed as a pit stop mechanic, challenge their reaction times, and measure their stamina to experience the skills and excitement that drive a Formula 1 career.

📅 25 Sep to 12 Oct 2025
🕙 11am – 9pm daily
📍 ION Orchard

For more information, visit LEGO Experience the Thrill.

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6. UOL Malls F1 Pop-Up Event

UOL Malls is revving up the excitement ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix 2025 with a mall-wide F1 campaign that brings fans closer to the thrill of the track. From exclusive shopping rewards to a high-octane Pop-Up Event, shoppers can look forward to a host of activities and experiences that celebrate the world’s most electrifying race.

For more information, visit UOL Malls F1 Pop-Up Event.

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7. Halloween at the Gallery: Trick-or-Treat Family Fun

Example of the @Monster Builders@ boxes participants can create during the workshop. Image credit: National Gallery Singapore

This family programme offers a lighter take on Halloween, blending art with play. Held in the Expression Workshop room at the Gallery’s Keppel Centre for Arts Education (KCAE), children will design their own @Monster-Builders@ boxes before embarking on a trick-or-treat trail through selected exhibition spaces. With a playful map in hand, they’ll discover artworks and collect sweet surprises from Gallery staff along the way, ending with refreshments at Bakery Brera Café.

📅 5, 12, 19, 26 Oct and 2 Nov 2025
🕙 10.30am and 2.30pm
⏳ 1.5 hours
🏷 Charges apply

For more information, visit National Gallery Halloween.

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8. THE MONSTERS Take Over VivoCity’s Sky Park with LABUBU

Explore four immersive zones, each filled with quirky photo ops, playful surprises and interactive moments. After your rooftop adventure, head down to Level 1 for a peek at the time-limited POP MART POP-Up Store at our East Court featuring exclusive merchandise from THE MONSTERS Wacky Mart Series.

For more information, visit VivoCity LABUBU

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9. Step into Prehistory at Cloud Forest Jurassic World: The Experience

Jurassic World comes alive at Cloud Forest! In this NEON and Universal Live Entertainment collaboration, encounter animatronic dinosaurs amid misty waterfalls and prehistoric plants. Highlights include an 8.5-meter Brachiosaurus, baby dinosaur interactions, and hidden Compys. Over 50 plant species once grew alongside dinosaurs.

📅 From 29 May 2025
🕙 9am – 9pm
📍 Cloud Forest
🏷 Admission charge to Cloud Forest applies

You can also get tickets via Klook, Fever, Pelago and KKday.

For more information, visit Cloud Forest Jurassic World: The Experience.

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10. The Little Prince: The Journey of Stars

Image credit: Fever

Enter the starlit world of The Little Prince: The Journey of Stars at GROUNDSEESAW Singapore, where iconic scenes bloom across towering 6-meter digital walls. Let yourself be carried away by a fascinating narrative journey where the words and paintings of Saint Exupéry come to life around you.

You can get your tickets on Fever.

For more information, visit The Little Prince: The Journey of Stars.

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11. United Buddy Bears exhibition at Gardens by the Bay

Set against the iconic backdrop of the Supertrees, the display features 150 life-sized bears, including 145 representing countries and regions around the world, each hand-painted by an artist from that nation. Standing hand in hand in two large circles, the bears form a powerful visual symbol of peace, unity, and friendship among nations.

📅 15 Aug to 12 Oct 2025
🕙 9am – 9pm
📍 Supertree Grove Lawn
🏷 The exhibition is free

For more information, visit United Buddy Bears exhibition.

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12. NLB brings to life Singapore’s first Star Wars Pop-Up Library

Image credit: NLB

This Star Wars-inspired pop-up library houses a physical collection of over 2,000 Star Wars books, featuring 380 unique titles specially picked by NLB librarians. This includes titles such as the Star Wars: Darth Vader comic series; Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Manga series; Star Wars: The High Republic junior novel series; the Thrawn: Ascendancy trilogy novels, and more.

📅 6 Aug 2025 to 24 Jan 2026
🕙 10am – 10pm daily
📍 Changi Airport Terminal 3, Level 2

For more information visit NLB Star Wars Pop-Up Library.

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13. Pop-Up in the Museum 2025: Diecast Dreams – A Celebration of Miniature Masterpieces

The Mint Museum of Toys, home to one of Singapore’s most treasured vintage toy collections, is proud to present the latest edition of its annual Pop-Up In The Museum – this year themed around diecast cars, collectible vehicle models, and F1 racing tracksets. The display promises to captivate diecast collectors, spark nostalgia in families, and thrill car lovers of all ages.

📅 23 Aug to 5 Oct 2025
🕙 9.30am – 6.30pm
📍 Mint Museum of Toys
🏷 Admission charges apply

For more information, visit Pop-Up in the Museum 2025.

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14. Singapore Odyssea: A Journey Through Time at National Museum of Singapore

Housed within the iconic Shaw Foundation Glass Rotunda, the National Museum of Singapore’s new signature experience Singapore Odyssea invites visitors to take a time-travelling voyage through Singapore’s 700-year history, and appreciate the importance of the sea in shaping our country’s past, present and future.

📅 Starting 8 Aug 2025
📍 Shaw Foundation Glass Rotunda, National Museum of Singapore
🏷 Free for Singaporeans & PRs | Ticketed for General Visitors

For more information, visit Singapore Odyssea: A Journey Through Time.

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15. Gallery Children’s Biennale 2025: Tomorrow, We’ll Be…

The family-favourite Gallery Children’s Biennale 2025 is back with multi-sensory and immersive installations where art meets play! As National Gallery Singapore celebrates its 10th anniversary, the fifth edition of the Biennale invites the young and young at heart to dream big, express their creativity, and explore a hopeful and inclusive future shaped by the core values of Joy, Kindness, Love, and Dream.

📅 31 May 2025 to 29 Mar 2026
📍 National Gallery Singapore
🏷 Free admission

For more information, visit Gallery Children’s Biennale 2025.

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16. Let’s Play! The Art and Design of Asian Games at ACM

This exhibition explores the rich history of Asian games and the role they have played in shaping culture, identity, and community. Some travelled widely, taking on new forms and meanings across borders. Others became tools for mental training or expressions of artistic ideals. Even today, they remain at the frontier of innovation – as seen in the rise of artificial intelligence.

📅 5 Sep 2025 to 7 Jun 2026
🕙 Daily, 10am – 7pm | Fridays, 10am – 9pm
📍 Asian Civilisations Museum
🏷 $12 for Singaporeans and Permanent Residents; $25 for Foreign Residents / Tourists

For more information, visit Let’s Play! The Art and Design of Asian Games at ACM.

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17. Heart&Soul Experience 新心相系展览: Where Home Will Always Be – The SG60 Flagship Event

SG60 Heart&Soul Experience Wheels Of Time

Embark on a journey of discovery at the SG60 flagship event jointly developed by the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) and the National Library Board (NLB). Come uncover the windows into our shared connections with each other as a community and celebrate how far we have come as a nation. Created by the team behind the Singapore Bicentennial and SG50 ‘Future of Us’ Exhibition, Heart&Soul promises to be an adventure that not only captivates minds and inspires discovery, but also touches hearts and souls.

📅 26 Aug to 31 Dec 2025
📍 Orchard Library (Ticketed) & Orchard Central and orchardgateway (Non-Ticketed)
🏷 Admission is free, and access to the ticketed experience is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information, visit SG60 Heart&Soul Experience.

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18. Mid-Autumn Family FUN with Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre

MAFF 2025 will feature a total of 27 diverse programmes taking place in SCCC and Singapore Conference Hall (SCH). One of the key highlights of this year’s festival will be Moongazing with Monday Bruce, an art installation at SCCC’s Roof Garden featuring five giant illuminated inflatables of Monday Bruce, the main rabbit character from a popular series of collectible blind boxes.

📅 4 to 5 Oct 2025
📍 Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre

For more information, visit Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre Mid-Autumn Festival 2025.

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Note: All details are correct as at the time of publishing. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information, no guarantee is given nor responsibility is taken for errors or omissions in the compilation. Readers are advised to check with the respective event organisers/companies for the most updated schedules, venues, details and promotions.

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