Children’s Season 2026 returns to Singapore from 30 May to 28 June 2026 with a play-based, sustainability-themed festival inviting kids to step up as “Earth’s Superheroes”. Organised by Children’s Museum Singapore (CMSG) as part of HeritageSG, this year’s edition is the first to celebrate the International Day of Play (IDOP), a UNICEF-supported initiative recognising play as essential to children’s development and well-being.
The festival weaves together interactive performances, hands-on workshops and museum trails across Museum Roundtable venues, encouraging children to explore environmental issues and pick up everyday sustainable habits without it ever feeling like a lesson.
Designed By Children, For Children
What makes Children’s Season 2026 distinct from a typical school-holiday festival is its Children’s Panel: 25 students aged 10 to 11 from Huamin Primary School who served as festival programmers. They voted for their favourite Signature Programmes and worked directly with the selected artists to co-curate four site-specific works that will be presented at different Museum Roundtable venues.
That co-curation model gives the festival a different texture from most curated arts programmes for kids in Singapore. The voice of the audience — primary-aged children — sits inside the programming itself, not just at the receiving end of it.
Earth’s Superheroes: A Sustainability Theme For The Whole Family
The Earth’s Superheroes theme is the spine that holds the programme together. Rather than presenting sustainability as an abstract concept, Children’s Season 2026 turns it into a series of role-plays: kids become heroes who tackle waste, protect ecosystems and rethink how everyday objects are used.
Two anchor names to know:
- Ms Nat & the Zero-Waste Heroes — a Signature Programme by artist Nur Ateeqah Binte Mazlan, founder of Ms Nat Learning Exploration. The performance invites young audiences to imagine themselves as zero-waste heroes through interactive storytelling.
- Chapter Zero Playground & PLAY @ Children’s Season drop-in — a pop-up playground experience created with artist Phua Li Ling, founder of Chapter Zero, designed to mark the inaugural International Day of Play in Singapore.
Where The Festival Takes Place
Children’s Museum Singapore at 23-B Coleman Street anchors the festival, with programmes also rolling out at participating Museum Roundtable venues including the National Museum of Singapore. The PLAY @ Children’s Season drop-in — Play Together: A Pop-up Playground — will take place at NMS, complementing its existing A Whale of a Tale playground space.
For visiting families, Coleman Street puts the museum within easy walking distance of Bras Basah, City Hall and the wider civic district, so it slots neatly into a half-day in town with food stops and other museum visits.
Why Children’s Season 2026 Is Worth Putting On The Calendar
The June school holidays in Singapore are crowded with kids’ programming, but Children’s Season 2026 stands out for three reasons. First, it actually involves children in the programming — not as performers, but as decision-makers. Second, the sustainability angle is timely without being preachy, anchored by play and storytelling rather than lectures. Third, it stretches across 30 days from end-May into late June, giving families flexibility to plan around tuition, travel and other commitments.
If you’re already lining up things to do in May and June, it pairs naturally with Singapore HeritageFest 2026 and PA Family PLAYGround 2026, both of which run on overlapping family-friendly themes.
Practical Details
- Dates: 30 May to 28 June 2026
- Theme: Earth’s Superheroes — sustainability, environmental awareness, play
- Anchor venue: Children’s Museum Singapore, 23-B Coleman Street, Singapore 179807
- Participating venues: National Museum of Singapore and other Museum Roundtable partners
- Highlights: Ms Nat & the Zero-Waste Heroes; Chapter Zero Playground; PLAY @ Children’s Season drop-in
- Festival programmers: Children’s Panel of 25 students from Huamin Primary School
Children’s Season 2026 is shaping up to be one of the more thoughtful family festivals on the May-June calendar — equally grounded in play and in the environmental questions that today’s primary-school kids will be living with for the rest of their lives.
