PowerPoint Art #drawITsg is a community drawing project using Information Communications Technology (ICT). Join the Junior Art Lab for a fun and exciting 2-hour workshop and discover how you can combine basic shapes and lines in PowerPoint to create the most amazing masterpieces. Through the workshop, you will be able to learn a fun and simple approach to teach both children and adults to create art and learn basic computing skills simultaneously. Be empowered to create and d

Cooking mama? Coding mama! Times are volatile. First they (technology) came for the factory workers, then the PMETs. How can you best prepare your child for the jobs of tomorrow - which do not yet exist? Come for this taster session on e-commerce and try your hand at coding a website, culminating in a showcase for the entire family. Tech does not have to be scary. Come enjoy a weekend of coding fun together with other mums and families! Topics covered: D1 (3h+1h break) Web Fu

Marrying engineering and arts with the humble ice-cream sticks Our workshops are unique as they combine both engineering and the arts into a simple mechanical model that children can build independently. In our beginner series of workshops, children will be taught how to assemble ice cream sticks and a syringe hydraulic system to form a mechanical arm. Children will be encouraged to come up with creative and functional uses for the arm thus transforming it into a blank canvas

When What You Learn Also Helps Others... The Hack-a-Toy workshop is a hands-on learning experience to build a low-cost, DIY accessibility switch for children with special needs. Used with commercial off-the-shelf toys, these big button switches enable children with special needs to play and learn through play. The Hack-a-Mouse workshop is a hands-on learning experience to build a low-cost, DIY switch adapted mouse for persons with disabilities. By adapting the mouse to be act

Every time you make something, you learn We are a family that strongly believes in learning through doing and making. We encourage our girls to learn beyond books, to experiment and make things at home. By doing so, we hope to cultivate their spirit of curiosity and creativity to solve problems. Now we would like to share this with the rest of our neighbours in Bukit Batok! Sophia Curic (left), aged 7, dismantling a broken fan to see how it works. Anjali, aged 9, using plants

Kids can learn through play! The Tampines Learning Festival gathered residents, young and old, to learn and bond through play. Preschools from Tampines put together activity booths and performances to showcase different cultures and activities from around the world. This unlocked new opportunities to promote lifelong learning even to adults. At the same time, it promoted family bonding among the community. Residents were encouraged to experience this learning themed carnival

Children learn best through experiential learning The Lifelong Learning Council, together with Singapore Workforce Development Agency, in partnership with Istana and Science Centre Singapore, brought our first Tinkerama to the Istana Open House on 1 May this year! Children and parents alike had a field day, using simple everyday materials and recycled stuff to build buildings, cars, boats, even terrariums and clay people! Everyone had a great time, the only complaint was the