Year End Holiday Camps in Singapore 2026: The Six Week Guide Parents Miss

8 September 2026, updated 9 October 2026 · 11 min read

Ask a Singapore parent when the year end school holidays start and most will say December. It is a reasonable answer. It is also wrong by three weeks.

Term IV ends on Friday 20 November 2026. The break runs from Saturday 21 November to Thursday 31 December. Six weeks. Most families plan for two, start looking at year end holiday camps in Singapore in early December, and find that the good weeks went in October.

We first wrote this guide in September, before camps had published. On 9 October 2026 we went back and checked 54 camp operators on their own sites and booking systems: dates, prices, ages, hours and whether lunch is included. The 24 camps you can plan around are below. For the full calendar, read Jungle's 2026 Singapore school holidays guide.

The 2026 Year End Break Is Six Weeks, Not Two

The dates come from MOE directly. Term IV runs 14 September to 20 November 2026. The year end vacation runs 21 November to 31 December 2026. Schools hosting O-Level examinations end Term IV earlier, on 23 October.

Six weeks is long enough that no single camp covers it. It is also long enough that families who plan properly get variety, cheaper weeks and actual rest, rather than one expensive December week and five weeks of screen time.

Week by Week: What Runs When

The six weeks are not equal, and the camps know it.

The most useful line in that table is week 1. Camp Beaumont, The Yard, Swish and Vivo Kinetics all start on 14 December. A parent who needs cover from 23 November has a shorter list than most roundups suggest, and it is the full-day camps below.

Year End Camps You Can Book Now

Every camp here was checked on 9 October 2026 on the operator's own website or booking system, not a roundup. Prices are as the operator publishes them. Where a fact was missing, the card says so. Camps that have not published yet are listed at the end.

Full dayHalf day and shortOne-day and overnightCommunity clubs and low costFreeStill to publish

Full-day camps

The first filter for a working parent. These run at least 9am to 3pm. Lunch is the second filter, and each card says whether it is included.

Browse more December holiday camps on Jungle.

Half-day and short camps

Mornings, afternoons and two-to-three-day camps. Good for the younger ones, for the weeks a grandparent can cover the afternoons, and for trying one specific skill.

One-day camps, overnights and outings

For the gaps between bigger bookings, and for the week you want a single day out rather than a week in.

Community clubs and low cost

Community clubs do not run full-day camps, but they fill single days across the whole island for a fraction of a camp fee. Book on onePA; most events show places and checkout only after you log in. A few we checked:

• Tampines, Our Tampines Hub: Future Proof: Finance x AI x Coding, 9 to 11 December, 11am to 3pm, ages 10 to 15, $99 for three days with lunch. Young Robotics Explorers, 12 December, $10 for a parent and child aged 5 to 9.
• Fernvale CC and Heartbeat@Bedok: creative baking workshops for 6 to 12 on Thursdays and Fridays from 26 November, 12pm to 2pm, $30 to $40 a session.
• Marsiling: three-day phonics camps for 4.5 to 8, 27 to 29 November, morning or afternoon. The price is shown on onePA.
• Toa Payoh Central CC: free Chinese culture workshops for children on Tuesdays from 24 November, in Mandarin.
• Bukit Purmei: a keyboard workshop for 6 to 9 on 6 December, $25 to $28.

ActiveSG runs a Hockey School Holiday Programme for 5 to 16 on 23 to 29 November at Jurong, Sengkang, Boon Lay and Delta: 90 minutes a morning, $54 for members and $77 for others. Registration opens on 1 November at noon. ActiveSG credits can pay for up to 60% of school holiday programme fees, according to ActiveSG.

Free

• NLB: 32 free children's sessions are loaded for the break so far, at 12 libraries, mostly on Saturdays in late November. December sessions are still being added. Some need registration with the child's own myLibrary account.
• Keppel Centre for Art Education at the National Gallery: free play for 4 to 12, daily, with a parent.
• SAM's Learning Gallery at Tanjong Pagar Distripark: free, 10am to 7pm daily.
• PIP's PLAYbox at the Esplanade: free with a free Esplanade&Me membership, 11am to 6pm, closed 2pm to 3pm.
• SANTAI: IN PROGRESS at the National Gallery on 21 November, 11am to 7pm: drop-in music, drawing and a makers' market.

Still to publish

As of 9 October, Camp Asia, Mandai and The Eton Academy say year end camps are coming. Science Centre, KidsSTOP, Gardens by the Bay, Coding Lab, Centre Stage, HaHa Chinese, XCL, Chess at Three, Impressions, BOUNCE, Minisport, My Gym and Hollandse Club had published no year end dates.

Vivo Kinetics has dates, 14 to 18 December at Invictus Dempsey, but no price or booking link yet. Canadian International School and Whizz Kidz show no year end camp this year. We will update this guide as they publish.

When to Book, and the Deadlines That Matter

Most local camps published in September and early October, so the booking window is now. Four dates are worth putting in a calendar:

• 31 October: The Brainery Code's early bird ends.
• 1 November: Get GungHo's early bird ends for its 23 November week, and ARC registration closes.
• 1 November, 12pm: ActiveSG hockey registration opens.
• From 8 November: Get GungHo's early birds close week by week.

Book weeks 4 and 5 first if you need them, because that is when the school-run camps open and demand peaks. Weeks 2 and 3 still have places at most camps. Check refund terms before paying: SRT's Stage Camp and SAFRA's army camp, for two, do not refund.

The PSLE Week Nobody Plans For

PSLE results are released tentatively on 24 or 25 November, which puts them in week one of the break.

Two things follow. Do not book anything demanding for week one: results week is emotionally loaded, and children rarely engage well with a structured programme in it. And if your child does want a camp that week, the list is short: Prodigy, Worklab, Dragons, Outdoor School, Get GungHo and Canvass all run from 23 November.

Best for P6 families: keep week one light, then use weeks 2 and 3 for something genuinely new.

What to Book at Each Age

Ages 3 to 5. Half day. The Yard's KinderTots and Camp Beaumont's Playtime take 3 and 4-year-olds, Worklab's myCamp Jr takes 4-year-olds, and Wildlings starts at 3.5 once booking opens. A full day at this age produces an exhausted child and a wasted fee.

Ages 6 to 11. The widest choice: every full-day camp above takes this age. Book earliest, because this is the age group that sells out first, as SRT's camp already has for 4 to 7s.

Ages 12 and up. Options narrow. Dragons EPIC runs to 13, Get GungHo's Adventure camp to 14, Nullspace's AI Hackathon to 16 and ARC's programmes to 18. A mixed-age camp built for nine-year-olds is usually a wasted week.

What Year End Camps Cost in 2026

These are the published prices from the camps above, not estimates.

Read the inclusions before comparing prices. Lunch is included at Prodigy, Worklab Xplorers and Outdoor School and costs $80 a week extra at Get GungHo, which moves a $620 week to $700 without the headline price changing.

What to Ask Before You Pay

1. What is the refund and cancellation policy? Six weeks is long enough for illness, travel changes and a child who decides they hate it.
2. What is the actual adult-to-child ratio on the floor during a normal session?
3. What happens in wet weather? December is the wettest stretch of the year, and half the full-day camps here are outdoors.
4. Does the camp run on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? Prodigy's listing suggests yes; most others stop.
5. What does my child come home with? A finished project, a performance or a skill level. Camps that cannot answer this tend to be expensive childcare.
6. Is lunch included, and is there a minimum number for the camp to run? Prodigy and ActiveSG both need five children.

A Six-Week Plan That Does Not Cost a Fortune

Book weeks 4 and 5 now if you need them. Take weeks 2 and 3 for something new, where places are easiest to find. Keep week 1 light for PSLE families and build it, and week 6, from the free and community club layer. That covers six weeks for less than most families spend on two December weeks.

How We Checked These

Every camp was checked on 9 October 2026 on the operator's own website, booking system or schedule, never a roundup. Prices, dates and ages are as published that day. Camps whose dates carry no year were left out, as were camps open only to club members. Where a fact was not published, the card says so.

Browse all December holiday camps on Jungle, or the Christmas holiday programmes for single days in late December.