Yesterday was our first zoo day (of many) of the year!
To kick off the start of zoo season, I really wanted to do something fun. I know most people do scavenger hunts at the zoo and we have in the past but, I wanted to shake it up. That's when I found the zoo passport! After hunting around Pinterest for hours I finally found one where the link actually worked, would work for my daughter's skill level, and that I liked!
I printed this off education.com, it is a free printable. All you need to do is create a free account at education.com. The passport is found here
The printable has several pages with a variety of animals. I knew not all of the animals in the passport were at our zoo. I did take out quite a few pages and left several blank pages for drawing unique animals not found in the passport.
On the back cover, I just double-sided taped some small star stickers to use as the marker.
She found the first animal!
I loved that the pages also has a small amount of writing. We're still in the stages of getting her use to having a pencil in her hand and the process of writing. Writing each animals name was the perfect amount of writing for a zoo day wither her. She's only four, she doesn't have the patience to write all about each animals habitat, eating habits, etc.
I love that our zoo will have some of the animals just walking around the zoo (with a zookeeper of course)! It's so cool to be searching for the next animal and find an animal encounter!
She loved when the animal signs were at her level! She could prop her passport up on the sign and copy the animals name.
While taking a break, she decided to go through her passport, counted up all the animals we hadn't seen yet and talked about all the animals we'd already marked off!
The entire month of April at our zoo, is about being in bloom. They plant over 100,000 tulips each year. They also have over one million daffodils, hyacinths, flowering trees, shurbs, etc. It's absolutely gorgeous this time of year.
The last thing we always see is the zebras. They are in a hard to find, dead end path and I always forget them. Until we're almost out the doors and Madison reminds me we forgot them.
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