Boon Lay playground: cycling

Playground at Boon Lay is really quite big... just the right size for your preschooloers to cycle around and it provides just the right length and gradient of slopes for your 3-4 years old learning how to cycle with those training wheels. A gentle slope is great for learning how to brake, up the challenge of balancing and definitely is an adenaline rush for the kids and a great confidence booster. Don't forget about the hard work going up the slope.




I like foot reflexology paths... I guess the people who first decided to build them in Singapore parks probably never knew that there could be so many uses for them other than stimulating acu points in the feet!
Cycling on these paths are not only great fun but work out those leg muscles and demands lots of balance, coodination and patience.
Toddlers gets a good workout too when they walk on these "poke rocks" with their shoes on, better their balance! The two tones of the rocks add extra fun as we challenge our little one to stay in just one of the colours as they walk, run, jump and crawl on it. That's teaching early colouring within the boundaries and tracing skills.

Playground at Boon Lay: Learn your ABC

I really love this playground in Boon Lay. It is so simple yet full of thoughtful delight, hopefully intentional.


The playground structure that you see in my earlier posts is built on this shock absorbing rubber foam. Since we are going to take away the wonderfully creative media of sand, we better make sure that we gave playground users something not just safe but just as fun.

Forget about flashcards! These huge alphabets printed on the foam are going to be more fun and effective to teach our children letters recognition. Children can "trace out" the alphabets by walking, hopping, marching, crawling, galloping or using their whole palm. Make sure you get them to shout out the name of the letters as they move through it. Such multisensory teaching will make letters recognition a breeze for your kids.

As they got better at recognising the letters, we can play a game by calling out the name of a letter and the children can race each other to spot, run and land on the letter!

As your children 'trace' the alphabets, make sure they do it with the correct strokes as this can ensure proper letter formation on paper... wrong letter formations are hard to correct in later years and significantly slows down writing speed.

Oh, cycling and jogging along the alphabets as we sing the alphabet song is fun and teach the kids to sequence their letters...

I just wish they have these letters in lower case too!