Children's Garden

This is how we spent Christmas day last week. The kids went to explore Jacob Ballas Children's Garden, which is a new place built along Bukit Timah Road, near the entrance of the old NIE school. There were different areas to explore in the garden, from a treehouse, a suspension bridge, to a water-play area, to a sandplay area, and also, some exploration areas where you can touch and feel different plants, and make music from a tree-trunk. There is also a small amphitheatre where functions can be held in the premises.

The Jacob Ballas Children's Garden, opened on 1 October 2007 and was developed at a cost of $ 7.3 million with the support of the Jacob Ballas Trust, Dr Rossalyn Leong and Reef Holdings, occupies 2 ha of land at the Discovery Core of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, next to Bukit Timah Road. The main aim of the Gardens, is to provide a natural educational setting that promotes the theme that "All Life on Earth Depends on Plants".