Art Science Museum

I was ecstatic when I realised that every Friday, the Art Science Museum has a promotion of letting up to 4 children tag along for free with every paying adult. What's more, today just happens to be a school holiday which falls on a Friday! I have been very interested in going there since my friend's enthusiastic recommendations. Thus, despite the fact that I was under the weather, I valiantly brought the kids there.

Surprisingly, the kids were pretty interested in the Singapore Story portion and spent quite a long time there listening to the video explanations, especially the ones about the SG50 short clips and the army training. They also sat through the short movie about inventors inside the dark theatre. We had the whole place to ourselves! Yay!

It was followed by The Deep exhibition. That didn't quite go very well. Due to the darkness, simulating the true condition at the bottom of the sea, the younger ones were pretty fussy. Joram was rather frightened and kept wanting to be carried. My eldest got himself lost for 15 min too. 

Then, it was time for a lunch break at the food court. We passed by this Superheros Cafe. How suitable our family outfit was for the pose! LOL I promised the kids that we will go back there one day to dine in when Daddy is available to come with us.

The Dreamworks exhibition was really fantastic. I was fascinated by the juxtaposition of the old and new Peabody animations. The kids got to try their hands at drawing and editing animations at the various stations. Our favourite was the Dragon Flight. Although a short 3 minutes, the animation was rather exhilarating.

There were many craft stations around, to the delight of the children. However, the lighting inside the exhibition hall was very dim and I didn't want to handle helping the kids do craftwork in the chaos so I brought the materials back to do at home with them when we have the time. 

The new...

... and the old.

Finally, we had a sumptuous tea break at a luxurious cafe called High Society to end off the outing. I thought to indulge the kids on such a rare occasion, so I gave them free rein to choose whatever they wanted to eat. They actually consumed a total of $68 worth of macaroons, cupcakes and ice-cream!!! *horror* Well, I did say that they could eat whatever they wanted...

Our loot from the exhibition