Tampines Watermelon Playground

Easily spotted from afar due to its distinct red, green and yellow mosaic tiles, this fruity playground in the east sees slices of watermelon transformed into a slide and wooden plank swings that have been reduced to immobile benches. The fruity theme continues just a seed’s throw away where there are mangosteen domes for some hide-and-seek, or shelter away from the sun. Built in 1989, the playground was designed as a nod to the fruit farms of rural Tampines before the town was developed. While they first opened with sandy pits, they now stand on rubber mats.