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The Largest Family U Picnic 2016

by Meiling Wong
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It was late Saturday (12 March) afternoon when we arrived at the island’s largest family picnic held at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park River Plains on Saturday (12 March). This signature event by NTUC U Family was originally planned for October 2015 but was postponed due to the awful unhealthy haze conditions. Thankfully, it was a lovely sunny evening for a family picnic. When we arrived at 6pm, hundreds of families had already settled on the lawn.

U-Picnic 2016

This is the third year that NTUC U Family has organized the picnic to create a platform for families to bond and spend quality time together. The theme is ‘Space Odyssey’ as the organizers hope to encourage families to look ahead to a positive future for themselves and their children. We collected our intergalactic-themed picnic bag, which is packed with goodies and worth more than $40, and moved on to find a good spot at the park to picnic on.

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Many of the families had come prepared with packed savoury picnic food like pasta, sushi, chicken wings and beehoon. They smelt great and our eyes lingered gluttonously. Luckily, our intergalactic picnic bag offered up some goodies — a bottle of water, cans of tuna and salmon with crackers, seaweed peanuts, potato chips and honey stars cereal. Ok, so mostly junk food and I am not going to win gourmet picnic mom of the year, but whew! What a life saver!

U-Picnic 2016

I rounded up the kids to check out the many activities to encourage family bonding. They immediately zoomed in on the ‘Moonwalking’ activity, which requires the kids to put on Kangoo Jump rebound shoes (see picture below) and run or jump in.

U-Picnic 2016

I am always amazed by how quickly the kids get the hang of a new activity or experience. They had such a great 15-minute trying out this activity.

U-Picnic 2016

There were plenty of games for the kids with intergalactic names like Robo-Claw Race (a relay race), Planet 51 (an inflatable playground), bungee trampoline and Space Launcher.

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Kids could also collect mission badges, star gaze and meet roving space creatures and astronauts.Most of these activities were for kids 6 years old and over and the queues for the activity were quite long. (see picture below)

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Creative families who dressed up could win ‘Best Dressed Space Explorers Contest’ or take part in the ‘Best Anti-Gravity Photo Contest’. My family was one of the lucky few who got selected on stage to play a family game. That’s us at the far right!

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The fun part of playing games as a family is to figure out how we work together as a family. We had to assemble the alphabets of the words that the Emcee (Jo Augustine) told us to. There were three families on stage. The first family to form the words will win. The final set of the game was to piece together a word with the most alphabets.  We did not win. But it was a good opportunity to teach my kid (I shall not name who) about sportsmanship and that winning is nice, and being in second place is not the end of the world.

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Meeting local celebrity DJ Jo Augustine was a highlight of the event. He was very nice and friendly. At the end of the game, he was obliging enough to take a photo with us.

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By nightfall, the music was pumping and the atmosphere of the night is one of wholesome fun. The kids were hungry and even though there was an exciting lineup of outer space activities and dazzling performances like a cosmic LED dance performance and a spectacular stage performance by Singapore’s very own Lady Gaga look-alike, we decided to call it a night.

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Thank you, U Family for the invitation to a great family outing.

WHERE in Singapore do You picnic with your family? Share with Us in the comments below what family-bonding activities do your family engage in. We will love for you to connect with Us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Comments 9

  1. May says:
    5 years ago

    Looks like a whole lot of fun! Parking must be a nightmare for those who drove! Were the queues long for each game?

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  2. Michelle | The Chill Mom says:
    5 years ago

    We didn’t go because my husband is not a fan of crowd and I thought it would be just us staring at each other on a picnic mat. But the kids activities look fun. Maybe if I can just convince the husband next time….

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  3. Danessa Foo says:
    5 years ago

    It’s a wonderful initiative to get families coming together, play and bond. Too bad, my hubby is not good with crowds… else, we would be there as well 😛

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  4. Priscilla says:
    5 years ago

    Hello Mei Ling,

    Seems like a fun filled day for you and your family! I can’t remember the last time I had a picnic with the family due to our busy schedules but I think it’s definitely a good way to bond.

    Reply
  5. SengkangBabies says:
    5 years ago

    Love the Moonwalking and “space launch”?
    Would be Fun to picnic and party with everyone together 🙂

    cheers, Andy
    (SengkangBabies)

    Reply
  6. Cynthia Koh says:
    5 years ago

    Looks fun! Especially the moon-walking. I always believe we should have such initiatives of picnics where families and friends come together and have fun at an area we don’t usually do picnics at.

    Reply
  7. Phoebe says:
    5 years ago

    I think U Picnic is getting bigger and better! A lot of activities there to engage the family. Love the Kangoo Jump rebound shoes.. every good exercise 🙂

    Phoebe
    BPDGTravels

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  8. Jacqualine says:
    5 years ago

    I love love love family picnics! It’s a super nice way to connect as a family and there are so many fun activities! I think I will love the kangoo jump also hehehe.

    Reply
  9. Ai Sakura says:
    5 years ago

    The cooler bag is so useful! I went to one a few years back.. had such a good time then too with the many activities and games 🙂

    Ai @ Sakura Haruka

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