Get ready for one wild week! We’re going to be Zoo Explorers for this week of Camp Fun. We’ll take a trip to the zoo to find animals in our zoo passport books and have lots of pretend play fun at home with zoo animal masks and animal hand puppets. Campers will get to let their imagination go wild by decorating their own wood safari animals to create their own mini zoo at home! Follow along with our Summer Camp Fun Series.
You can never have too many coloring pages to keep campers busy during Camp Fun! Be sure to download our Zoo Free Coloring Page and set it out with colored pencils, crayons, or markers for a quiet indoor activity.
Kids will love making these animal masks from pre-cut foam pieces and they’ll love wearing them even more! The craft kits come with six different animals to make – perfect for imaginative play.
Campers can craft up their own miniature zoo with this set of 12 wood animals, colorful paint, and googly eyes.
Pack your Zoo Passport books, a pair of animal print sunglasses, and a picnic lunch and spend the day exploring your local zoo! Not only were the animal print sunglasses super cute, they came in handy on the hot sunny day. In addition to adding the stickers, there are pictures that the kids can color in their zoo passports when they get home too!
Head to the zoo and see how many animals you can find with our Free Zoo Bingo Printable! This is a great activity to teach kids all about the animals they see and to have them tell you their favorite.
Spending a long day at the zoo can be a hot and sunny experience, so make sure you are prepared with plenty of sunscreen and these fun color your own zoo visors! Not only are these adjustable visors fun to decorate with fabric markers, but they are an extra-fashionable (and practical) accessory for your zoo trip!
These 24 piece wildlife puzzles come with 4 different animal scenes and are a great quiet activity to incorporate into Zoo week.
Stella and Hazel loved these realistic safari sticker scenes and had fun making up a story about the animals in the pictures they created.
Incorporate lots of imaginative play this week with this set of 12 animal hand puppets. The girls performed a zoo mystery!
This wild craft is perfect for Zoo Explorers Week. Decorate this foam frame and put your favorite memory on display! This Zoo Animal Picture Frame Magnet Craft Kit comes with self-adhesive foam pieces to decorate the frame with and can make up to 12 frames.
- Discover some fun safari themed activities
- Make your own animal puppets from craft sticks
- Make recycled animal planter craft
- Make jungle animal bracelets
- Craft your own safari hat
- Have a Zootopia movie day
Make your picnic lunch for the zoo extra special by packing it in these zoo animal boxes. For a special treat during Zoo Explorer week, make your own chocolate dipped animal crackers.
We love our summer visits to the library! Here are the books we checked out for this week:
- Zoo-ology by Emmanuelle Grundmann and Joelle Jolivet
- The View at the Zoo by Kathleen Long Bostrom and Guy Francis
- Curious George Goes to the Zoo by H.A. Rey
- Life-Size Zoo From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, An Actual-Size Animal Encyclopedia by Teruyuki Komiya
- ZooBorns! Zoo Babies from Around the World by Andrew Bleiman and Chris Eastland
- A Trip to the Zoo by Karen Wallace
- Fraidyzoo by Thyra Heder
Now you can be totally ‘sloth’-some with this DIY Sloth Backpack. Simply download, print and cut out the free printable sloth backpack templates. Trace the templates onto brown felt sheets and cut out. Use acrylic paint and paintbrushes to paint on the sloths features. Put a sheet of scratch paper inside a DIY Medium White Canvas Backpack so that the paint will not soak through to the other side and paint the body of the sloth. Glue the felt head, feet and claws onto the backpack. Now all there’s left to do is to fill the bag with fun goodies for a lazy day of hanging out.