Hort Park: the new kid on the block

Apparently, Hort Park has been around for a while but not many knows about it until the recent launch and publicity. Whatever it is, I love its newness, its tidiness and its cleanliness. Most of all, its my new found play ground! There's so much for the kids to enjoy, they don't have to be nature lovers, there's so many features in the park that you can use to entice their natural desire to play and explore.

Actually, the park has put in a lot of playground equipment in its enclosure to appeal to the kids. May be they are doing so with an intention to provide additional incentives for them to visit and hopefully appreciate the beautifully landscpaed park and develop an interest in horticulture. Whatever the reason, these play grounds equipment were certainly well selected and provided our children in Singapore with yet another wonderful place to develop themselves through a meaningful occupation. My next blog will share with you some features of these equipments at Hort Park but meanwhile, I'd like to explore how else our children may enjoy the other features of the park...

There are many such small pieces of landscaped gardens in Hort Park, showcasing the efforts of various companies and organisations. As you walk your children through these little gardens, encourage them to explore the different texture of the ground, the grass, the pebbles, the leaves (dead and alive). They may want to jump from stepping stone to stepping stone and indeed, if you look below, you can see that there are various shapes and sizes and distances between stones to challenge your childs motor skills and spatial (space) awareness.

I was really quite excited to see the variety of textures that the children would be able to walk/jump/run/gallop/hop/sit/crawl on in one given setting. There's wood, there's the usual wild grass (you know what I mean?), the well-kept carpet grass, the synthetic grass, pebbles of different sizes, man made "stones", sand, road, foam and so on. There are also steps of different width and slopes of different gradients, all within a few steps of each other. Where else can you find such a well equip gym??

Go to Hort Park one of these days, it's worth the trip, if nothing, it's beauty will surely unwind your soul. BTW, there's not much shade, so choose a cloudy day or not so warm part of the day.