Halcyon Maldives - Kids Programme

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KIDS FESTIVE PROGRAMME

Charting their own course EVERY DAY, A NEW DISCOVERY

This festive season, The Halcyon composes its youngest chapter yet — a symphony written for small explorers and the families who wonder alongside them. From sunrise yoga to treasure trails, garden harvests to stargazing, each experience is a note in tune with sea, sand, and sky. Here, curiosity is nurtured gently, wonder is anticipated, and every child finds their own rhythm within this symphony of the seas.

THE EXPLORER’S BEGINNING Every symphony needs its overture.

Bell’s Explorer Passport At check-in, every child receives their own Explorer Passport — a beautifully designed companion for the days ahead. As they move through Marine, Wellness, Culinary, Nature, Culture, and Ocean Protector experiences, stamps gather like notes in a growing melody.

Bell Treasure Trail Inspired by H.C.P. Bell himself, children follow a weathered explorer’s map through Bell Bar, the Traveller’s Garden, the beach, Marine Centre, Kids Club, and jetty — each clue revealing something of the Maldives, its marine life, its history, and the quiet art of navigation.

FAMILY EXPERIENCES Where every note comes together.

Sunset Explorer Picnic Families receive an explorer backpack, binoculars, a scavenger list, and a healthy picnic — searching together for hermit crabs, shells, bird species, and unique leaves as the sky turns gold.

Family Explorer Olympics A weekly gathering of paddle relays, coconut bowling, beach yoga, marine quizzes, mocktail making, and sandcastle challenges — the winning family ringing the Bell at Bell Bar, their achievement echoing across the isles.

Sand Architects Families build turtle sculptures, manta rays, and coral castles together — judged, celebrated, and the winning creation shared with the world.

EXPLORATION

MALDIVIAN CULTURE

Curiosity is the truest inheritance of Bell’s legacy.

The island’s soul, passed gently to the next generation.

Mini Marine Biologist

Boduberu Rhythm Academy

An expanded Marine Discovery journey — identifying fish, using underwater slates, examining shells, peering through microscopes, adopting a coral of their own — earning a “My First Marine Scientist” certificate.

Children learn traditional drumming, dance, and local song, closing with a sunset performance for proud parents.

Junior Stargazers

A hands-on lesson in Maldivian tradition — children craft coconut rope, bowls, and toys from the island’s most generous resource.

Drawing from ancient Maldivian navigation, children learn constellations, use telescopes, identify planets, and hear the stories explorers once told beneath these same stars.

Castaway Challenge Families test their resourcefulness together — shelter building, knot tying, coconut opening, compass reading, and a fire-lighting demonstration led by our team.

Coconut Masters

Dhivehi Discovery A playful language game teaching greetings, colours, fish names, and sea creatures — rewarded with stickers and a few new words to carry home.

WELLNESS

CULINARY

Stillness, too, is a note worth teaching young.

Flavour, too, has a story worth tasting young.

Little Yogi at Sunrise

Little Island Chef

A playful 30-minute session as the island wakes — flamingo balances, turtle breathing, dolphin stretches — closing with coconut water and tropical fruit beneath the early light.

Children gather vegetables from the garden before cooking alongside the chef — coconut pancakes, reef fish tacos, tropical sushi, garden-herb pizza, mango desserts — earning their own “I Cooked at Halcyon” chef hat.

Ocean Sound Meditation

Chocolate Coral Workshop

Waves, boduberu drums, singing bowls, wind chimes — children compose their own ocean soundtrack before drifting into a short, guided meditation, the sea itself keeping time.

White chocolate reefs, coloured by hand and natural pigment, become a gentle lesson in coral bleaching, reef conservation, and the quiet responsibility of protecting what lies beneath.

Wellness Potion Lab

Junior Mixologist

Little hands harvest herbs from the Traveller’s Garden before crafting immunity teas, tropical smoothies, infused waters, and herbal bath salts — parents welcome to join the ritual.

Passionfruit, mango, pineapple, coconut, lemongrass — young hands craft colourful mocktails, served proudly in coconut shells.

Each experience, a note. Each family, a melody of their own — together, a symphony of the seas.

Kids Line Up SMALL EXPLORERS, BIG DISCOVERIES

This festive season, Faru Kids Club becomes the Young Voyagers Club — a daily line-up of discovery for junior explorers. Inspired by H.C.P. Bell’s spirit of adventure, each day charts its own course, from island treasure hunts to marine discovery, craft and storytelling by the lagoon. A season of small wonders, one day at a time.

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07.00 – 08.00 Hrs | Little Yogi at Sunrise 10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Bells Explorer Passport 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Mini Mariners 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Boduberu Rhythm Academy 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Little Island Chef 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Sunset Explorer Picnic

10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Bell Treasure Trail 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Family Explorer Olympics 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Coconut Masters 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Chocolate Coral Workshop 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Ocean Sound Meditation 18.00 – 19.00 Hrs | Junior Stargazers

10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Bells Explorer Passport 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Family Explorer Olympics 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Coconut Masters 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Chocolate Coral Workshop 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Ocean Sound Meditation 18.00 – 19.00 Hrs | Junior Stargazers

10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Bell Treasure Trail 10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Sand Architects 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Castaway Challenge 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Dhivehi Discovery 16.00 – 17.00 Hrs | Wellness Potion Lab 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Junior Mixologist

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10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Sand Architects 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Castaway Challenge 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Dhivehi Discovery 16.00 – 17.00 Hrs | Wellness Potion Lab 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Junior Mixologist

DEC 2026

07.00 – 08.00 Hrs | Little Yogi at Sunrise 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Mini Mariners 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Boduberu Rhythm Academy 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Little Island Chef 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Sunset Explorer Picnic

DEC 2026

07.00 – 08.00 Hrs | Little Yogi at Sunrise 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Mini Mariners 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Boduberu Rhythm Academy 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Little Island Chef 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Sunset Explorer Picnic

DEC 2026

11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Family Explorer Olympics 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Coconut Masters 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Chocolate Coral Workshop 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Ocean Sound Meditation 18.00 – 19.00 Hrs | Junior Stargazers

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10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Bells Explorer Passport 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Family Explorer Olympics 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Coconut Masters 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Chocolate Coral Workshop 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Ocean Sound Meditation 18.00 – 19.00 Hrs | Junior Stargazers

07.00 – 08.00 Hrs | Little Yogi at Sunrise 10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Bell Treasure Trail 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Mini Mariners 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Boduberu Rhythm Academy 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Little Island Chef 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Sunset Explorer Picnic

07.00 – 08.00 Hrs | Little Yogi at Sunrise 10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Bells Explorer Passport 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Mini Mariners 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Boduberu Rhythm Academy 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Little Island Chef 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Sunset Explorer Picnic

10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Bell Treasure Trail 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Family Explorer Olympics 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Coconut Masters 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Chocolate Coral Workshop 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Ocean Sound Meditation 18.00 – 19.00 Hrs | Junior Stargazers

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11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Family Explorer Olympics 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Coconut Masters 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Chocolate Coral Workshop 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Ocean Sound Meditation 18.00 – 19.00 Hrs | Junior Stargazers

DEC 2026

10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Sand Architects 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Castaway Challenge 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Dhivehi Discovery 16.00 – 17.00 Hrs | Wellness Potion Lab 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Junior Mixologist

JAN 2027

10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Sand Architects 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Castaway Challenge 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Dhivehi Discovery 16.00 – 17.00 Hrs | Wellness Potion Lab 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Junior Mixologist with Alesiya

JAN 2027

07.00 – 08.00 Hrs | Little Yogi at Sunrise 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Mini Mariners 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Boduberu Rhythm Academy 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Little Island Chef 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Sunset Explorer Picnic

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10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Bells Explorer Passport 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Family Explorer Olympics 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Coconut Masters 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Chocolate Coral Workshop 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Ocean Sound Meditation 18.00 – 19.00 Hrs | Junior Stargazers

10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Bell Treasure Trail 10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Sand Architects 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Castaway Challenge 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Dhivehi Discovery 16.00 – 17.00 Hrs | Wellness Potion Lab 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Junior Mixologist with Alesiya

10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Bells Explorer Passport 10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Sand Architects 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Castaway Challenge 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Dhivehi Discovery 16.00 – 17.00 Hrs | Wellness Potion Lab 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Junior Mixologist

07.00 – 08.00 Hrs | Little Yogi at Sunrise 10.00 – 11.00 Hrs | Bell Treasure Trail 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Mini Mariners 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Boduberu Rhythm Academy 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Little Island Chef 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Sunset Explorer Picnic

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07.00 – 08.00 Hrs | Little Yogi at Sunrise 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Mini Mariners 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Boduberu Rhythm Academy 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Little Island Chef 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Sunset Explorer Picnic

JAN 2027

11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Family Explorer Olympics 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Coconut Masters 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Chocolate Coral Workshop 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Ocean Sound Meditation 18.00 – 19.00 Hrs | Junior Stargazers

JAN 2027

07.00 – 08.00 Hrs | Little Yogi at Sunrise 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Mini Mariners 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Boduberu Rhythm Academy 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Little Island Chef 17.00 – 18.00 Hrs | Sunset Explorer Picnic

JAN 2027

11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Family Explorer Olympics 11.00 – 12.00 Hrs | Coconut Masters 14.00 – 15.00 Hrs | Chocolate Coral Workshop 15.00 – 16.00 Hrs | Ocean Sound Meditation 18.00 – 19.00 Hrs | Junior Stargazers

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