Singapore

Singapore Mid-Autumn coloring pages

2 free pages to print, taken from the eleven in Once Upon a Mid-Autumn Moon in Singapore. Open a picture and print it.

One moon, many neighbours

Singapore keeps the Mid-Autumn Festival as a public, shared, slightly crowded thing, and that is what these pages are about. Lanterns go up in Chinatown and across the gardens, families eat mooncakes at the void deck downstairs rather than indoors, and the whole block ends up under the same moon whether or not it is their festival. The set includes a dragon playground, a bumboat on the river and a lake at the quiet end of the evening.

The rest of it is the part a child in any country will recognise: new neighbours, an extra mooncake for whoever turned up, a grandparent on a video call because the moon is the same one either way.

The 2 free pages

One moon over the flats

Singapore keeps the Mid-Autumn Festival with lanterns and mooncakes on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, usually in September or early October. Lanterns glow along the corridors of the flats, and neighbors of every background gather at the void deck, the open space beneath a block, to share food and carry lanterns.

From the playground to the tables

Both pictures show the foot of a tall block at night. Color them, set them side by side, and ask the child to draw a path of footprints from the dragon playground to the long tables. Who would walk it? Perhaps Marcus and Aisyah, on their way to join the neighbors.

The stories behind these pages

Every picture in this set belongs to one bedtime tale in Once Upon a Mid-Autumn Moon in Singapore — eleven stories for ages 4–10, each with a word search and a full-page coloring picture after it. The 2 here are a sample; the other nine pages come with the book. A coloring page is better when the child already knows who is in it.

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