More reasons to love Pasir Ris Park

Today's feature on Pasir Ris Park (again!) is going to focus on climbing. Climbing is really important to a child's development especially in promoting the coordination of both side of their body. This integration of both side of the body needs both our left brain and our right brain to talk to each other and hence enhances our brain processing. The below are some excellent climbing equipments you can find at Pasir Ris Park, all for the fee of $0.00!!

A Climbing wall that challenges the very young (they can just plan how to crawl through the hole!) to the very old. Your child may need a little encouragement to get started as it can look quite scary and they may not know what to do and may think that the only way to "play" is to climb all the way up so high!


Yes, one of the way to play with this is to climb.

Don't fret if the little one is too scared to climb on this. They may want to just try bouncing on the black "trampoline" in the centre or if they are less than six, you may want to skip this equipment totally.



I did not take a picture of the entire piece of this equipment but it's actually a huge fake mountain with slides and such rock climbing studs all around it. An unusual piece of equipment but I love unusual stuff, the more novelty there is, the more stimulating it is to the child!

You can climb up via the "rock path....


Or you can walk up the slope of this fake hill.
Oh, you can slide down the proper slide Or you can slide down on the slope Or if you are daring, walk down the slope.

And if you think that's quite a fair bit of things to climb at Pasir Ris Park already, here's more!
An entire playground with a variety of steps and ladders to get to higher ground and there's this new climbing frame that was recently added on:


The "proper" way of playing is actually to stand on the frame below, hang on to the parallel bar on top and walk across. Then again, as I always say, there's no "proper" or "right" way of playing, just remember SAFETY FIRST.

About climbing: The picture tells a thousand words.
For those eyeing the huge colourful playground behind: this is the largest such pre-fabricated composite playground I have ever come across in Singapore.

Yet another feature that I love, this equipment requires a child to visually guide her body as to how much space there is in between the blocks and hence know how far apart to raise her legs. She needs not only to coordinate her eyes and legs and hands but also the moving blcoks challenges her balance!

There's so much more to show around Pasir Ris Park but I'm going to take a break from it. Discover this wonderful park for yourself by making it the must go this weekend! If you see me there, come say hello!

The Promised English version

To all who have been waiting patiently for the English translated version of the report on zaobao, this is it:



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Acknowlegement: KK Women's and Children's Hospital.

I simply love Pasir Ris Park

Here's the educational side of Pasir Ris Park. This new addition is in the form of a maze and it appeal to those who are very young to the older kids looking for a game to play with their friends.



Not only can you get your child to point out the spelling of his name, you can also teach your pre-schooler all the letters of the alphabets. I like how the capital letters and the small letters are all jumbled up. Get your child to point to all the big letters (uppercase) and then all the small letters (lower case). Hone their concentration, scanning ability and perseverance through this activity! Have a race to see who can find a letter faster if you happen to have more than one kid with you (it doesn't matter if you don't know the kids, get them to join in the fun that you are having with your child may help your child make a new friend on the playground!).


If your chid has yet to learn how to write the numbers and letters, this is a great board to teach them to trace around each number. Moving his entire arm to write it big help to enhance a child's memory of how a letter is formed. Why not head over to the sand area after this to do some writing on the sand with a stick? Write a big 8 and get your kid to walk the shape of the infinity! It'll prove quite a challenge!


Keep that stick that you find to write on the sand as you can change it into a drumstick (this help children to see that an object can be of multiple usage and develops their creativity and flexbility). Now for those staying in the east, you do not have to go all the way to Science Centre to let your child try out how different sizes of percussion instruments make different depth of pitch and tones!