Things To Do With Kids In Sembawang And Canberra, Singapore: 16 Parks, Pools And Free Water Play

16 September 2026 · 15 min read

Two station names in this town will send you to the wrong platform. Bukit Canberra, the integrated sport and community hub with Canberra in its name, sits 315 metres from Sembawang MRT and 963 metres from Canberra MRT, measured on OneMap. Sembawang Shopping Centre, with Sembawang in its name, is 558 metres from Canberra and 964 metres from Sembawang. Get that the wrong way round and you add fifteen minutes and a hot walk to the start of your day.

Once you know which platform to get off at, this is one of the best-value corners of Singapore for a family. The hot spring on Gambas Avenue is the only natural one in the country and it costs nothing. Sembawang Park has a 30-metre jetty the British started in the early 1940s, a maritime playground built as a battleship, and the only natural beach in the north that is open to the public. Bukit Canberra alone holds four swimming pools, an indoor sport hall, a free outdoor water play area and a 44-stall hawker centre, all on the same 21 Canberra Link address.

Ten of the 16 places here are free. Every opening time and price below was checked at NParks, ActiveSG, NLB, NHB, HDB, NEA or the operator's own site, which is how we found a lawn closed until June 2027, a water quality advisory on the beach, and two ActiveSG pages that disagree about what the pool costs. If you are heading one stop south after this, the Yishun guide covers the next town along, and the Woodlands guide covers the one to the west.

Free parks and playgrounds

1. Sembawang Park

The Sembawang Tree at Sembawang Park. Photo: Jun Jie Yam, Wikimedia Commons, CC0

Sembawang Park opened in 1979 on land that was part of the naval base, and the National Heritage Board records that it was renovated in 2011 and given a maritime playground in the form of a battleship. The ship sits in a wide sand pit, with a tube slide spiralling down from the tower beside it, a net to climb and a round basket swing. The park also holds Sembawang beach, which NParks calls the only natural beach in the North that is open to the public, and a 30-metre jetty the British built in the early 1940s and the Japanese finished. A 2,200 square metre therapeutic garden opened here on 11 October 2023, with a forest classroom for sensory play, a natural playscape of boulders and wood, and a forest island with a tunnel.

Two things to know before you pack swimming costumes. NEA has an advisory out on the water quality at Sembawang beach, so treat it as a place to dig rather than to swim. A section of the lawn is also closed for construction works from 9 September 2026 to 30 June 2027.

Why kids will love it: A whole ship to board, a tube slide off the tower next to it, and enough sand underneath to bury a parent. Older ones take the net and the tower; smaller ones stay in the sand. Bring a bucket and spade rather than swimming things, and come early, because the sand pit has very little shade by eleven.

View on Jungle: Sembawang Park
Website: NParks, Sembawang Park
Address: At the northern end of Sembawang Road, Singapore. Car park A is off Sembawang Road, car park B off Tuah Road. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours.
Price: Free. NParks charges no parking fee at either car park.
Getting there: 2.4 km from both Sembawang (NS11) and Canberra (NS12) on OneMap, so take a bus or drive. Car park A has 88 lots, car park B has 90.

2. Sembawang Hot Spring Park

Photo: TheGreatSG'rean, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

There is one natural hot spring in Singapore and it is on Gambas Avenue. Water comes out of the ground at 70 degrees, runs into a collection point with an egg cooking station, and then feeds a cascading foot bath pool where it cools as it drops through four tiered levels. Families bring raw eggs and cook them at the station. The foot bath is the other half of the visit: sit on the edge, put your feet in the coolest tier, and let the children work out which of the four they can stand.

This is a park with rules worth reading first. The cascading foot bath pool is closed every Monday and Thursday from 11am to 2pm for maintenance and cleaning. There is no car park on site at all.

Why kids will love it: Cooking an egg in a public park is a very good trick, and the queue at the collection point is half the fun. Bring eggs, a bucket and a towel. At 70 degrees the top tier will scald, so hold the hand of anyone under five and start them at the bottom pool.

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Website: NParks, Sembawang Hot Spring Park
Address: Along Gambas Avenue, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: 7am to 7pm. The cascading foot bath pool closes every Monday and Thursday from 11am to 2pm.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Canberra (NS12), 1.25 km on OneMap. There is no car park on site, so NParks directs drivers to 114 Yishun Ring Road and a 450-metre walk. Avoid weekday evenings from 4pm to 7pm and all day at weekends, which NParks flags as the busy windows.

3. The community lawn and Butterfly Garden at Bukit Canberra

Bukit Canberra from the air, with the community lawn and Canberra House behind. Photo: Fanz226, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Bukit Canberra is built into a slope, and the green half of it is free. ActiveSG describes the community lawn and Butterfly Garden as a pleasant place for a leisurely stroll in Sembawang's heartlands, which undersells a flat, open, mown lawn in a town where flat open lawns are rare. The lawn runs along the foot of the sport hall, under a wall of hanging greenery, with Canberra House and its red roof on the ridge above. The whole site is one address, so a picnic here is ten minutes from a pool, a water play area, a sport hall and a hawker centre without moving the car.

The sport centre grounds keep one set of hours, 7am to 10pm daily, and ActiveSG closes outdoor facilities in heavy rain.

Why kids will love it: Room to run in a straight line, which most Singapore parks do not have, plus butterflies to chase in the garden and the North South Line trains crossing the viaduct overhead every few minutes. Bring a kite or a ball. The lawn has no shade at all, so this is a before-ten or after-five stop.

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Website: ActiveSG, Bukit Canberra Sport Centre
Address: 21 Canberra Link, Singapore 756973. Google Maps
Opening hours: 7am to 10pm daily.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Sembawang (NS11), 315 m on OneMap. Canberra (NS12) is 963 m, despite the name.

4. Park @ Sembawang Alley

Sembawang MRT station. The park sits beside it, 122 metres away. Photo: Fanz226, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

NParks calls this one a little pocket of green with a small playground, located beside Sembawang MRT station, and that is an accurate description rather than a modest one. It is small. What makes it worth a numbered entry is where it is: 122 metres from the station gantry on OneMap, and about the same from Sun Plaza. That makes it the place to let a child run for twenty minutes before a train, or to burn off the last of the afternoon after the library closes, without committing to a bus ride.

Treat it as a decompression stop rather than a destination, and pair it with Sembawang Library four floors up in Sun Plaza next door.

Why kids will love it: A playground they can see from the station exit, which means no negotiation about how much further it is. Twenty minutes here turns a grumpy transfer into a good one. Best for under-sevens, who will not run out of equipment as quickly.

View on Jungle: Not yet listed
Website: NParks, Park @ Sembawang Alley
Address: Beside Sembawang MRT station, along Sembawang Drive, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Sembawang (NS11), 122 m on OneMap.

5. Irau Drive Playground

Irau Drive runs off the coast road near Sembawang Park, and NParks lists the green space along it as a park in its own right, with a playground and a fitness corner. It exists on this list for one reason: it is the only other NParks-listed playground within walking distance of Sembawang Park, so it doubles the play on a morning you have already driven out to the coast. Park at Sembawang Park, do the battleship, then walk on to Irau Drive when the sand pit gets too hot.

Be honest with yourself about the distance before you plan around it. OneMap puts Irau Drive Playground 2.6 km from Sembawang station and 2.4 km from Canberra, which is a 30-minute walk in either direction.

Why kids will love it: A second playground on a day that was only supposed to have one, with the fitness corner next to it for the older sibling who has decided playgrounds are beneath them. Best paired with Sembawang Park rather than visited alone.

View on Jungle: Not yet listed
Website: NParks, Irau Drive Playground
Address: Along Irau Drive, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours.
Price: Free.
Getting there: 2.6 km from Sembawang (NS11) and 2.4 km from Canberra (NS12) on OneMap. Drive to Sembawang Park and walk, or cycle.

6. The Canberra park connectors

Two NParks park connectors start at Canberra Link and do the two jobs a family needs. The Canberra Park Connector runs 1.3 km along Sembawang Way to Sungei Sembawang, passing under the MRT viaduct, and NParks describes it as a safe route to Sembawang MRT station. The Canberra Sembawang Park Connector runs 1.6 km from Canberra Link along Sembawang Road to Tuah Road, where it joins Sembawang Park. Together that is 2.9 km of level, wheelchair-friendly path linking Bukit Canberra to the station in one direction and to the battleship playground in the other.

NParks describes the Canberra Sembawang stretch as level and smooth, which is the sentence scooter parents are looking for. Lighting on both runs from 7pm to 7am.

Why kids will love it: A flat, smooth, lit run where a scooter or a balance bike actually gets somewhere, with trains going past overhead on the viaduct section. Start at Bukit Canberra, finish at Sembawang Park, and get the bus back. Best for confident riders from about five.

View on Jungle: Not yet listed
Website: NParks, Canberra Sembawang Park Connector
Address: Both start at Canberra Link, Singapore 756973, beside Bukit Canberra. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours. Lighting 7pm to 7am.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Sembawang (NS11).

Water play and swimming

7. Canberra Cove and the Forest Gym

ActiveSG opened Canberra Cove and the Forest Gym together on 23 March 2025, and lists Outdoor Canberra Cove among the amenities at Bukit Canberra. It is the free outdoor water play area on the hill above the ticketed pool, and the Forest Gym is the outdoor play structure that opened alongside it.

Here is the honest part. ActiveSG gives Canberra Cove no page, no opening hours and no admission rate of its own. Everything else written about it online comes from parenting sites rather than from the operator. What is verifiable is that it sits outside the swimming complex gantry, that ActiveSG publishes no charge for it, and that the sport centre grounds around it open 7am to 10pm daily. Go expecting to find out the rest on arrival, and go with towels.

Why kids will love it: Outdoor water that costs nothing, 315 metres from Sembawang station, with the hawker centre for lunch afterwards on the same address. Bring towels, a change of clothes and sun cream. ActiveSG closes outdoor facilities in heavy rain, so check the sky before you set off.

View on Jungle: Not yet listed
Website: ActiveSG, Bukit Canberra Swimming Complex
Address: 21 Canberra Link, Singapore 756973. Google Maps
Opening hours: ActiveSG publishes none for Canberra Cove itself. The sport centre grounds open 7am to 10pm daily.
Price: Free. It sits outside the ticketed pool and ActiveSG lists no admission rate for it.
Nearest MRT: Sembawang (NS11), 315 m on OneMap.

8. Bukit Canberra Swimming Complex

Photo: ActiveSG Swimming Complex, Bukit Canberra, Jungle listing

Four pools on one ticket: an outdoor competition pool, an outdoor kids fun pool, a sheltered teaching pool and a sheltered kids wading pool. The fun pool is the one to head for with young children. It is shallow the whole way across, with a short yellow slide and water jets rising out of a play structure in the middle, and a timber deck around the edge wide enough to park a family on. The sheltered pools matter as much in practice, because they mean a swimming morning survives both a downpour and a midday sun.

ActiveSG's own pages disagree about this complex. Its editorial article lists it at 6.30am to 9.30pm daily and at the higher special-features price. The facility page, which is the one to trust, gives 8am to 9.30pm, closed every Wednesday, and classifies it as a normal pool. The rates page names the eight special-features complexes and Bukit Canberra is not among them, so the cheaper rate applies.

Why kids will love it: A slide and water jets in a pool shallow enough for a three-year-old to stand up in, and a proper competition pool twenty metres away for the one who has learned to swim. Come on a weekday, when a child pays 50 cents. Go on any day but Wednesday.

Book on Jungle: ActiveSG Swimming Complex, Bukit Canberra
Website: ActiveSG, Bukit Canberra Swimming Complex
Address: 21 Canberra Link, Singapore 756973. Google Maps
Opening hours: 8am to 9.30pm every day except Wednesday, when it closes all day. If a Wednesday is a public holiday it opens 8am to 9.30pm.
Price: Citizens and permanent residents pay $0.50 for a child and $1.00 for an adult on a weekday, $0.60 and $1.30 at weekends. The standard rate is $0.80 and $1.30 on a weekday, $1.10 and $1.70 at weekends. Rates dated 25 August 2026.
Nearest MRT: Sembawang (NS11), 315 m on OneMap.

9. The water play park at Canberra Plaza

Canberra MRT station. Canberra Plaza is joined to it by a link bridge. Photo: Fanz226, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

HDB built Canberra Plaza with gardens, trails and a water play park, and opened it on 18 December 2020. The mall is joined to Canberra MRT by link bridges, which OneMap puts at 85 metres from platform to mall, so this is the rare free water play you can reach without a walk in the sun at either end. HDB counts more than 30 retail, service and food and beverage outlets underneath it, so a wet child has somewhere to dry off and eat.

HDB publishes no opening hours for the water play park and no single set of hours for the mall, because tenants keep their own. Assume it follows daylight and check with the shop you are meeting at.

Why kids will love it: Water play that is 85 metres from the station gantry, with lunch and a slide under the same roof. Bring a towel and a spare set of clothes in a bag, because the walk back to the train is short and air-conditioned. Best for under-eights.

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Website: HDB, Canberra Plaza
Address: Block 133 Canberra View, Singapore 750133. Google Maps
Opening hours: HDB publishes none for the water play park. Shop hours vary by tenant.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Canberra (NS12), 85 m on OneMap.

Indoor and rainy day

10. Sembawang Library

Photo: Sembawang Public Library, Jungle listing

NLB dropped the word Public from its branch names, so this is Sembawang Library now, on the fifth floor of Sun Plaza. The design takes the area's shipping past literally: the reading spaces are built as shipping containers you sit inside, and there are reading decks arranged around them. It is 113 metres from Sembawang MRT on OneMap, which makes it the single most convenient wet-weather stop in either town.

Note two closures that catch families out. The library shuts at 5pm on the eves of Christmas, New Year and Chinese New Year, and it closes entirely on public holidays.

Why kids will love it: A library where you read inside a shipping container. The reading decks let a parent sit beside a child rather than across a table from them. Free, air-conditioned, and open until 9pm every day of the week, which is later than most things in this town.

View on Jungle: Sembawang Public Library
Website: NLB, Sembawang Library
Address: 30 Sembawang Drive, Sun Plaza, #05-01, Singapore 757713. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday, 11am to 9pm. Closes at 5pm on the eves of Christmas, New Year and Chinese New Year. Closed on public holidays.
Price: Free.
Nearest MRT: Sembawang (NS11), 113 m on OneMap.

11. Sunshine Childhood Playland

An indoor playground in the basement of Sembawang Shopping Centre, listed on the mall's own directory at #B1-20 and open seven days. It is the only indoor playground in either town, which matters in a part of Singapore where the alternative on a wet afternoon is a 40-minute journey to Yishun or Woodlands. It is not on Jungle: the directory carries the operator's Northpoint City branch in Yishun but not this one.

Neither the operator nor the landlord publishes a rate for this branch, so do not turn up assuming it matches the Yishun price. Ring ahead or check at the counter.

Why kids will love it: Indoor play on the same basement floor as a climbing gym, so a family with a six-year-old and a two-year-old can split up and meet for lunch upstairs. It opens at 11am and runs to 9pm on Fridays and at weekends, which covers the whole of a wet afternoon. Bring socks, which most indoor playgrounds require.

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Website: Sembawang Shopping Centre, Sunshine Childhood Playland
Address: 604 Sembawang Road, #B1-20, Sembawang Shopping Centre, Singapore 758459. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Thursday, 11am to 8pm. Friday to Sunday and public holidays, 11am to 9pm.
Price: Contact provider for pricing. Neither the operator nor the mall publishes a rate for this branch.
Nearest MRT: Canberra (NS12), 558 m on OneMap. Sembawang (NS11) is 964 m, despite the name.

12. Bukit Canberra Sport Hall

The sport hall across the community lawn. Photo: Jun Jie Yam, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

The indoor hall at Bukit Canberra takes badminton, basketball, pickleball, table tennis and volleyball, and it is the cheapest wet-afternoon plan in this guide. A badminton court costs $3.50 an hour off peak for a citizen or permanent resident, and a table tennis table costs $1.50. Two hours of badminton for a family of four comes to $7 off peak, which is less than one ticket to an indoor playground.

Booking is through ActiveSG and each user gets two slots a day, so a long session needs two accounts. Peak rates more than double the price, to $7.40 for badminton and $3.20 for table tennis, so aim for a weekday morning in the school holidays.

Why kids will love it: An indoor court of their own, with the ceiling height to hit a shuttle properly rather than at a wall. Table tennis suits from about seven, badminton from about eight. Bring your own rackets and shuttles, and book before you travel, because courts go quickly at weekends.

View on Jungle: Not yet listed
Website: ActiveSG, Bukit Canberra Sport Hall
Address: 21 Canberra Link, Singapore 756973. Google Maps
Opening hours: 7am to 10pm daily.
Price: Badminton $3.50 an hour a court off peak and $7.40 at peak for citizens and permanent residents, $4.60 and $9.70 at the standard rate. Table tennis $1.50 an hour a table off peak and $3.20 at peak, $2.00 and $4.20 at the standard rate. Rates dated 25 August 2026.
Nearest MRT: Sembawang (NS11), 315 m on OneMap.

Bigger adventures for older kids

13. Boulder Planet Sembawang

Photo: Boulder Planet Sembawang, Jungle listing

A bouldering gym in the basement of Sembawang Shopping Centre, with walls low enough that nobody wears a harness and mats thick enough that falling off is part of it. The children's programme, BP Rocketeers, runs only at this branch and only at weekends, 10am to 11.30am on Saturdays and Sundays, in 90-minute classes with one coach to five children. The entry requirement is a minimum height of 90 cm and an assessment session booked before joining.

The number most families miss is the Youth Pass. It is $16 for anyone 18 and under, against $33 for a single adult entry, but it only works on weekdays before 6.30pm and only at the Sembawang and Tai Seng outlets. A school-holiday morning is the cheap way in.

Why kids will love it: Route-reading is a puzzle with a physical answer, and the coloured holds turn a wall into a set of problems to solve rather than a thing to climb. Ages 6 to 12 for the class. For a drop-in, come on a weekday afternoon and pay $16.

Book on Jungle: Boulder Planet Sembawang
Website: Boulder Planet, kids classes
Address: 604 Sembawang Road, #B1-22/23, Sembawang Shopping Centre, Singapore 758459. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10am to 10pm. Weekends and public holidays, 10am to 9pm.
Price: Youth Pass $16 for 18 and under, weekdays before 6.30pm only. Single entry $33. BP Rocketeers packages: 4 classes $180, 8 classes $310, 12 classes $432.
Ages: 6 to 12 for BP Rocketeers, minimum height 90 cm.
Nearest MRT: Canberra (NS12), 558 m on OneMap.

14. Bukit Canberra ActiveSG Gym

The gym at Bukit Canberra takes ActiveSG members from age 12, which makes it one of the few places in this guide aimed squarely at a teenager rather than a small child. A student pays $1.50 a session, an adult $2.50, and both are citizen and permanent resident rates. If a teenager is going more than six times a month, the MyActiveGYM off-peak plan is $9 a month for a student and covers every ActiveSG gym on the island, not just this one.

An Active Health Lab sits on the same site at #02-61, which is where ActiveSG runs its fitness and health assessments.

Why kids will love it: A real gym floor, at teenage prices, with a parent allowed to come along for $2.50. The off-peak plan at $9 a month is the cheapest way to keep a 14-year-old occupied in the school holidays. Ages 12 and up.

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Website: ActiveSG, Bukit Canberra ActiveSG Gym
Address: 21 Canberra Link, Singapore 756973. Google Maps
Opening hours: 7am to 10pm daily.
Price: $1.50 a session for a student or senior and $2.50 for an adult, for citizens and permanent residents. The standard adult rate is $3.30. MyActiveGYM off peak is $9 a month for a student aged 12 to 17, $15 for an adult. Rates dated 25 August 2026.
Ages: MyActiveGYM is open to ActiveSG members aged 12 and above.
Nearest MRT: Sembawang (NS11), 315 m on OneMap.

15. The Sembawang Heritage Trail

A black and white bungalow off Sembawang Road. Photo: Wzhkevin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The National Heritage Board publishes three self-guided routes through Sembawang and the maps and companion guide are free to download. The shortest, From Dockyard to Shipyard, is 5 km. The Historical Landmarks route is 7 km and about two hours using public transport, and its six stops are the Holy Tree Sri Balasubramaniar Temple, Sembawang Strip, Homes in the Naval Base, Sembawang Shipyard, Sembawang Shopping Centre and Sembawang Hot Spring Park. Communities of Sembawang is the longest at 8 km.

The black and white bungalows are the part children remember. These were homes in the naval base, and NHB makes them a stop on the Historical Landmarks route. The streets off Sembawang Road still hold rows of them.

Why kids will love it: A treasure hunt with a printed map, where the prize at the end of the Historical Landmarks route is an egg cooked in a hot spring. Use public transport between the stops rather than walking all 7 km. Best from about eight, when a child can hold the map and navigate.

View on Jungle: Not yet listed
Website: Roots, Sembawang Heritage Trail
Address: The Historical Landmarks route ends at Sembawang Hot Spring Park, Gambas Avenue, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Self-guided, so any time. Individual stops keep their own hours, and the hot spring park is 7am to 7pm.
Price: Free. The trail maps and companion guide are free downloads from Roots.
Nearest MRT: Sembawang (NS11) or Canberra (NS12), depending on which route you start.

The lunch stop

16. Bukit Canberra Hawker Centre

Photo: Kbseah, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Forty-four stalls and more than 800 seats, on the same 21 Canberra Link address as the pool, the sport hall and the water play. NEA lists it and Canopy Hawkers Group runs it under an NEA appointment. The building is the reason to eat here rather than anywhere else in the estate: the roof is planted, the walls are hung with greenery, and the seating looks out into trees rather than a car park, so lunch with a tired child happens in shade and a breeze rather than in a food court.

It opens at 7am and closes at 11pm, seven days a week, which is longer than almost anything else in this guide.

Why kids will love it: Everyone gets what they want, and nobody has to agree. It is a two-minute walk from the swimming complex, so wet hair and a plate of chicken rice can happen in the same half hour. Come before 11.30am or after 1.30pm to get a table with four seats together.

View on Jungle: Not yet listed
Website: Bukit Canberra Hawker Centre
Address: 21 Canberra Link, Singapore 756973. Google Maps
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday, 7am to 11pm. Individual stalls keep their own hours.
Price: Stall prices vary. There is no entry charge.
Nearest MRT: Sembawang (NS11), 313 m on OneMap.

Enrichment classes in Sembawang and Canberra you can book on Jungle

Twelve Jungle listings sit inside these two towns, spread across three buildings. Every link below carries the branch location, so it opens the Sembawang or Canberra centre rather than the head office.

At Canberra Plaza, Block 133 Canberra View

• The Ballet School Singapore, classical ballet on the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus, ages 3 to 18, #03-01.
• Kickmatics Taekwondo, taekwondo for juniors, tweens and teens, ages 4 to 18, #03-02. A 30-minute trial is $20 and is waived if you sign up straight after.
• The Eton Academy, English, maths and science, ages 3 to 12, #03-09.

At Sembawang Shopping Centre, 604 Sembawang Road

• Global Art, drawing, painting and craft, ages 2 to 12, #03-02/03.
• The Dance Station, ballet, contemporary, jazz and tap on the Royal Academy of Dance and Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dancing syllabuses, ages 2 to 18, #01-19.
• Yamaha Music School, piano, guitar and group music courses, ages 2 to 18, #03-15.

At Sun Plaza, 30 Sembawang Drive

• Dancepointe Academy, ballet, jazz, hip hop, K-pop and contemporary from age 3, #04-08/09.

Swimming lessons at Bukit Canberra

• Singapore Swimming Academy teaches at Bukit Canberra Swimming Complex, 21 Canberra Link, ages 4 to 12. Children's classes start from $120 a month.

At a glance

Ten free places, a pool at 50 cents for a child, a badminton court at $3.50 an hour and a natural hot spring that has never charged anybody. Sembawang and Canberra are quieter than Yishun and cheaper than almost anywhere, and the only real trap is the station names.

Browse more things to do with kids in the north of Singapore on Jungle, or read the Yishun guide for the next town along.