A guide for families visiting the Gallery
Planning a family visit to the Gallery? Discover our kid-friendly exhibits, activities, and helpful tips for a memorable experience.
Art at Home for Families
Interact with and discover art from the comfort of your home, from DIY-at-home activities to virtual tours.
Watch & learn
Explore & create
Art Tutorial: Print and Reveal
How do you make a print using different colours? Join us as we reveal the steps to make a print-out of foam, paint, and paper.
Art Tutorial: Fun with Composition
What is one way to start drawing? Learn how to compose an artwork using background, mid-ground, and foreground.
Art Tutorial: Fun with Found Objects
Artist Tan Teng-Kee used found objects such as nuts and bolts to create a sculpture. Learn how to create your own sculpture using objects found at home.
Art Tutorial: Path and Spaces
Get inspired by Lim Kwong Ling’s photograph–let's learn to create an artwork using maps, lines, and colours.
Art Tutorial: Distorted Shadows
Do you ever notice the shadows cast around you? What shapes do you find? Create a painting using shadows while learning tips on working with watercolour.
Art Tutorial: Rocky Sponge Sculpture
How do you create a sculpture using sponge and paint? Observe how colours can emphasise shadows or brighten up different spots of your sculpture.
Art Tutorial: Magic Wand
Be inspired by Joseph McNally’s sculpture and learn how to create your own magical wand using materials you can find at home.
Art Tutorial: Textured Tree
Drawing inspiration from Choy Weng Yang's artwork, create your own textured artwork using paper, crayons, and objects with interesting textures.
Art Tutorial: Sculpture Play
Get creative and create a sculpture using an empty bottle, foil, newspaper, and paint, as inspired by a sculpture in the Gallery.
Art Tutorial: Fun with Portraits
How do you start drawing a portrait? Let us take you through each step, focusing on details such as eyes, nose, and mouth.
Art Tutorial: Colouring Lights
Looking through different layers of colours, what do you see? Make a box with different coloured lenses to explore your world!
Art Tutorial: Wonder Words
Can words be used to create art? Create your own calligraphy artwork using different alphabets, characters, and colours.
Art Tutorial: Fun with Print
Watch and find out how the process of woodcut is done to make prints of different portraits using simple materials. Then, try making your own print!
Art Tutorial: Music Make
What we see or hear can inspire us to explore and express our feelings. Let’s make an artwork that can be used to make music!
Art Tutorial: Fun with Mixed Media
Explore how different mediums and materials can be mixed and layered into one composition, and create your own mixed media art.
Art Tutorial: Weaving in Circles
Make your own colourful handwoven artwork using found materials at home, as inspired by Pacita Abad's beautifully woven and painted work.
Art Tutorial: Window Stories
Is it possible to create an artwork using only rectangles? Let's try it together and learn about negative space.
Energy in Art
How do you portray movement and energy in an artwork? Try using colours and lines to express your feelings.
Kampong Life
Try this sketching activity to learn about a time in Singapore’'s past when it was common to see families living in Malay kampongs (villages).
The Art of Batik
Inspired by the Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing on cloth, create your own wax-resist pattern using three simple steps.
Flower Power
Explore how artists depicted the beauty of flowers using different media.
Kebaya Designs
Let your creativity take flight! Design your kebaya as inspired by Cheo Chong Swee's painting.
Farms in Singapore
Due to the size of Singapore, many farms gave way for houses and buildings. Take a closer look at farms from the past till now.
A Colourful Portrait
Discover warm and cool colours through portrait painting.
Hard at Work
Explore artworks in the Gallery’s collection to learn about the people who worked hard to improve life in Singapore.
Painting Lotuses
Let your eyes guide the way by painting using different colours without mixing them on a palette.
My Family
Many Singapore artists have portrayed “family” in different ways. Take a closer look at the artworks related to “family”.
Where Did The Colours Go?
Use your coloured pencils and help to bring some colour back to the Gallery.
What’s With All The Fruits?
Get creative with your family and rearrange the fruit found in your home to make your own still life painting.
Journey
Discover the ways in which people travel across rivers and seas from the artworks in UOB Southeast Asia Galleries.
Little Red Dot
Get a glimpse into what life was like in Singapore decades ago from the artworks in DBS Singapore Gallery 2.
Historical Places
Design a building inspired by the architectural features of National Gallery Singapore.
Activity Card: Create art with tangrams
Create art with tangrams and explore how colour can evoke different feelings.
Family Artful Conversation: Art and Places
Artists have always been inspired by the places they visit or dream about. Follow these tips and guiding questions to better engage in conversations about these artworks.
Family Artful Conversation: Art and Our Environment
Artists use colours, shapes, and figures to express their thoughts and feelings. Some also use found objects from their environment to create artworks that express their concerns about the world. Here are some tips and guiding questions from their environment to create artworks that express their concerns about the world.
Family Artful Conversation: Colours and Shapes
Artists may use colours and shapes to create works that invite us to feel different emotions or imagine stories. Here are some tips and guiding questions to help you better engage in conversations about these artworks.
Family Artful Conversations: Art and Stories
Artists create artworks to reveal stories about people and their encounters. Here are some tips and guiding questions to help you better engage in conversations about these artworks.
Family Artful Conversations: Art and Nature
Artists are like storytellers who share stories through their art. Explore how works of art can capture moments in history or an artist’s experiences.
Family Artful Conversations: Art and Identity
How does art affect the way we view ourselves? Take a closer look at some artworks to learn how artists explore different facets of their identity through their work, and how a work of art can be used to express one’s identity.
Activity Guide: Artful Adventures with Cheong Soo Pieng
Meet Cheong Soo Pieng, a leading figure in Singapore’s art history. He was known for his style that brought together Western and Eastern painting techniques to portray Southeast Asian subjects. Discover the artist’s creative experiments in art with this activity guide.
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