Believe it or not, we’re wrapping up 2025, and with that, the annual year-end holidays are here again, starting from 22nd November 2025. Before the holiday chaos hits, we’ve rounded up a bunch of December holiday programmes to keep the kids engaged and active, giving them a fun way to explore while giving you a little respite.
This year’s line-up includes exciting new additions, like the Southern Voyagers camp by NTUC First Campus Outdoor School, a 3-day island-hopping adventure where 9- to 12-year-olds can explore Singapore’s Southern Islands while learning survival and leadership skills.
Read on for the full list of programmes.
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First on the list is Mighty Troopers, a beginner-level camp that’s split into 2 groups: Junior and Senior Troopers, respectively for 4-6 year-olds and 7-9 year-olds. This 1-day camp sees participants on a mission-based adventure to navigate the park, create a slingshot to defend their base, and finally take part in a simulated skirmish to save the day.
This camp is designed to nurture skills such as teamwork, critical thinking, strategy, and leadership, encouraging confidence and collaboration in kids through the camp. While Junior Troopers will have more collaborative play, Senior Troopers will embark on group missions where teamwork is essential. They can also expect more challenging and longer routes, along with more tactical decision-making at their version of the camp than their younger counterparts.
Dates: 24th Nov, 26th Dec 2025
Time: 9am-1pm
Location: Woodlands Waterfront Park
Cost: $130.80
Find out more about Mighty Troopers
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Like the Mighty Troopers camp, Wild Troopers has 2 editions, varied by the age of participants. With an instructor-child ratio of 1:8, you can rest assured that there’s sufficient supervision of your child at these camps. This camp has a greater focus on discovering Singapore’s native plants and what they can be used for, through interactive scavenger hunts and guided exploration.
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Then, it culminates in a Grand Water Battle where troopers will have to put on their camo paint, pack their fieldpacks, and take part in either play-based water challenges or a full-scale water battle. Regardless, they’ll all learn outdoor survival skills, including map reading and animal safety.
Dates: 5th Dec, 26th Dec 2025
Time: 9am-1pm
Location: Admiralty Park
Cost: $130.80
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Just for the biggies, there’s Jungle Rescuers, a 2-day camp that will equip participants with essential survival techniques, which they’ll learn how to apply in real-life outdoor scenarios. They’ll learn how plants overcome adversities, and ponder on how they can apply the same to challenges that they may meet IRL.
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Not only will they learn to sharpen their decision-making skills, they’ll also be taught improvisational first aid using foraged materials, and to think on their feet in unexpected situations. Through team activities, children will also have the chance to develop their teamwork and communication skills.
P.S.: Lunch is provided for campers, with both vegetarian and non-vegetarian options.
Dates: 1st-2nd Dec, 11th-12th Dec, 18th-19th Dec 2025
Time: 9am-3pm
Location: Hindhede Nature Park
Cost: $261.60
Find out more about Jungle Rescuers
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This one’s for the water babies – Water Trekkers is an intermediate-level, 3-day camp for 7-9 year-olds that’ll take them into Singapore’s very own waterways. During this camp, they’ll learn how we can do our part to keep our waterways clean, and sustainable habits that they should practise in their daily lives.
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Attendees of the Water Trekkers holiday camp will gain an understanding of why clean water is so important for us and the creatures who share our world with us. Kids will participate in activities such as outdoor science experiments, fishing with DIY fishing rods, and even walking in water systems – under the vigilant care of their instructors, of course.
Dates: 24th-26th Nov, 3rd-5th Dec, 15th-17th Dec, 22nd-24th Dec 2025
Time: 9am-3pm
Location: Mountbatten Square & local catchment
Cost: $381.50
Find out more about Water Trekkers
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Where there are waterbabies, there will be those who prefer having their feet on dry land. Enter Forest Scouts, a more challenging sibling of Jungle Rescuers. This is also a 3-day camp that’ll see the 7-9 year-old campers take to the woods on a forest rescue, learning about the dangers of the forest, how to minimise risks and forest survival skills.
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These include knowing how to tell between poisonous and helpful plants, and what they should do if they encounter wild animals. They will develop creative and problem-solving skills through collaborative teamwork on a child-led rescue mission, and traverse the forest terrain in a test of the skills and knowledge that’s been imparted to them.
Dates: 1st-3rd Dec, 8th-10th Dec, 22nd-24th Dec 2025
Time: 9am-3pm
Location: Mountbatten Square & Chestnut Nature Park
Cost: $381.50
Find out more about Forest Scouts
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For the best of both land and water, there’s Wetland Wanderers – a 3-day survival camp that brings the young adventurers to Singapore’s only marshlands. Another course for 7-9-year-olds, this camp is packed with wetland wildlife-spotting as the kiddos learn independence and navigation techniques, which they’ll put to good use on an Amazing Race-inspired quest.
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They’ll learn team-building and problem-solving skills as they trek through muddy trails using compasses and grid maps. Along the journey, they’ll gain a deeper understanding of our mangroves while getting up close and personal with Singapore’s wildlife, fostering a love for nature.
Dates: 26th-28th Nov, 8th-10th Dec, 17th-19th Dec 2025
Time: 9am-3pm
Location: Mountbatten Square, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Kranji Marshes
Cost: $381.50
Find out more about Wetland Wanderers
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Parents of budding scientists, you’ll want to bookmark this Science Explorers camp. Running over 3 days, this hands-on and experiential camp will hone the littles’ investigative skills, encouraging them to make observations and ask questions while they collect data and make hypotheses.
This camp, designed to be in line with MOE learning outcomes, is set to be a science camp to learn the subject beyond the classroom. Campers will have to navigate around the nature parks to find outdoor labs, where the science will come to life as they investigate how seeds travel and grow in the natural world.
Dates: 24th-26th Nov, 3rd-5th Dec, 15th-17th Dec 2025
Time: 9am-3pm
Location: Mountbatten Square, Chestnut Nature Park, Rifle Range Nature Park
Cost: $381.50
Find out more about Science Explorers
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Rounding off this list of December holiday camps is Southern Voyagers, a 3-day camp for kids aged 9-12 years old. This camp takes the little adventurers off our shores to the newly revamped Southern Islands – Sentosa, St John’s Island, and Kusu Island, where they undertake an expedition to discover Singapore’s roots.
Think immersive storytelling and outdoor play, while building forts, creating floating towns, and outdoor cooking – amongst other hands-on survival skills that they’ll pick up along the way. These include basic engineering, fire starting, and raft building, as the explorers consider factors like resource planning to solve challenges.
Dates: 26th-28th Nov, 10th-12th Dec, 22nd-24th Dec 2025
Time: 9.30am-3.30pm
Location: Mountbatten Square, Marina South Pier
Cost: $490.50
Find out more about Southern Voyagers
All of these camps are organised by NTUC First Campus Outdoor School – Singapore’s largest outdoor learning provider for children aged from 4 all the way to 12 years old. As the name suggests, they focus on outdoor programmes, specially designed to bring kids out of the schoolroom and into the natural world. Since 2019, they have engaged over 18,000 children.
Each camp is curated and thoughtfully planned around Singapore’s natural environment and urban settings, to encourage values including curiosity, responsibility, resilience and courage in its young participants. With our natural landscape shrinking, and global warming a reality more than a myth, the environmental stewardship that kids will learn at these camps is especially important.
Taking place outside the four walls of the classroom, children are taught, in a safe, controlled setting, essential life and survival skills. These include knot tying, basic first aid, shelter building, and even outdoor cooking – 100% practical, 0% fluff.
What’s more, NTUC members can get 15% off all camps, while TSL readers can enjoy an additional 10% off everything except 1-day camps with the code <TSL10>.
If keeping your kids off the screens is an exercise in patience and diplomacy, the holiday camps at NTUC First Campus Outdoor School are a great way to get them out of the house, off their school books, and have them learn some life skills while they’re at it.
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