Children's Day out | Bangkok Post: lifestyle

Lifestyle > Family

Children's Day out

Children’s Day is tomorrow and you might be looking for a place to entertain your kids and make the occasion memorable for them. Plenty of fun activities are on the cards to stir their imagination and get the creative juices flowing, and some places usually inaccessible to children will be throwing open their doors without charging an admission fee.

- The Royal Thai Air Force base at Don Muang will feature not only the F-16 and demonstration of the fighter aircraft in flight, but also its latest acquisition the Saab JAS 39 Gripen and its full complement of technology and weapons. The Gripen can take off and land on normal highway. There will parachute jumping and free flights for children on the military aircraft C-130, scheduled take-off times being 10:10am, 11:15am, 12:55pm and 2:20pm. The day's activities begin at 8:30am and run until 3pm at the cargo area of Don Muang Airport.

- The Bangkok Art and Cultural Center (BACC) presents "DekSil@BACC", a workshop featuring painting, drawing and sculpting; stage performances and story-telling, musical performances, khon mask dance and mime performed by kids. The event runs on floors 1 and L from 10:30am-5:30pm.

- The Education Ministry will host balloon flights and screening of 4D movies at Sanam Suepa located opposite Suan Amphorn Garden near the Rama V Monument on Si Ayutthaya Road. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, joined by her son, will preside over the opening ceremony at 8am. Other activities include an adventure zone, quiz show, sports competition and models of cartoon houses.

This article is older than 60 days, which we reserve for our premium members only.You can subscribe to our premium member subscription, here.

Your comments

Reply

Sign in once and access every part of the website at your convenience!

Please log in to our Bangkokpost.com community to post your comment.
You can sign in to the community by clicking here.

If you are not part of the community yet, please sign up here. By being part of this community you will get all these privileges.