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New Cancellation/Refund Policy effective January 3, 2022
Programs cancelled by the registrant at least two weeks in advance of the program date may receive a refund. Refunds or credits are no longer available for programs cancelled by the registrant within two weeks of the program date.

If you are a Zoo Member or have a promotion code, please enter this information at the time of ticket purchase checkout. Scroll down for a complete listing of all Education Programs.
 
ZOO TROOP

Learning and growing is fun at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden! These 4 week series encourages the development of important skills and values that will allow your child to interact with peers while fostering knowledge and respect for wildlife and wild places. Through age appropriate, skill and wonder-building hands-on activities, close encounters with animals, Zoo hikes, and child-led projects, children learn biological concepts and become curious to explore the world around them and find their own answers. Come to Zoo Troop, where children can let their imagination run wild!

New skills and experiences are learned in each 4-week Zoo Troop series.
Toddlers: Colorful Creatures
Regular Price: $90.00
Member Price: $75.00

For 18-36 months old
Can you see the brilliant colors of nature? Join us in this four-week series as we take a closer look at the Zoo’s colorful creatures. We will meet animals up close and learn to identify the beautiful colors of their scales, fur and feathers!  

Dates: Choose to come every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday for 4 weeks  

Note: Plan for one adult to stay with your child during these classes.

Toddlers: Movers & Shakers
Regular Price: $90.00
Member Price: $75.00
For 18-36 months old
Does your child like to jump, hop, crawl, or climb? Learn how animals are movers and shakers just like them! This is our time to discover how animals get from place to place, using their bodies to maneuver about their homes. Join us to learn about animal locomotion while we move around the Zoo, meet animals, and act like animals with our friends.

Dates: Choose to come every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday for 4 weeks  

Note: Plan for one adult to stay with your child during these classes.

Pre-K: Finding Food
Regular Price: $90.00
Member Price: $75.00
For 3, 4, and 5 year olds not yet in Kindergarten

What would you do to get your hands on your favorite food?! Let’s discover what it takes for an animal to find their next delicious meal. Join us on a journey around the Zoo while we find animals that are really good at finding food! Animals find food by using their hands, ears, eyes, nose and mouth, just like we do! 
 

Note: Plan for one adult to stay with your child during these classes.
 
Pre-K: Ani-Moves
Regular Price: $90.00
Member Price: $75.00
For 3, 4, and 5 year olds not yet in Kindergarten
Have you ever watched a caterpillar inch across a leaf? Or a rabbit hop through the grass? From crawling like a caterpillar to hopping like a bunny, we will mimic the movement our animal friends make and learn about what makes them special. Join us in this four-week series as we discover how animals can fly, jump, hop, swing 
and dive! 

Note: Plan for one adult to stay with your child during these classes.
Kindergarten: Beastly Feasts
Regular Price: $95.00
Member Price: $80.00
Do you think you have ever been as hungry as a hippo?  Do you have a favorite food? So do some of the Zoo animals! During this four-week series, we’ll take hikes in the Zoo, meet some special animal friends, and play games that will help us learn about the crazy variety of animal diets and what is on the menu for our Zoo animals. 

Note: Kindergarten Zoo Troopers attend Zoo Troop without an adult.
 
Kindergarten: I Like to Move It Move It
Regular Price: $95.00
Member Price: $80.00
Do you scurry like a squirrel or swing like a siamang? Do you run like a rhino or paddle like a penguin? During this four-week series, we’ll play games, hike through the Zoo, and meet some new animal friends as we discover (and try out) all of the amazing ways the animals move through their world. 

Note: Kindergarten Zoo Troopers attend Zoo Troop without an adult.
1st-2nd Grade: Tasty Treats
Regular Price: $95.00
Member Price: $80.00
Every living thing needs energy to survive. Animals get energy from the food they eat! Some animals eat plants, while some eat other animals! Join us on our journey to  study the food chain and figure out what some of our Zoo animals like to eat. 
 
1st-2nd Grade: Walk This Way
Regular Price: $95.00
Member Price: $80.00
Creep with eight legs, crawl with six legs, sprint with four legs or walk with just two...join us on this journey as we investigate how animals move! In each class, we will explore animal movers around the Zoo, challenge ourselves with activities and experience up close animal encounters.
 
3rd-4th Grade: Feeding Frenzy
Regular Price: $100.00
Member Price: $85.00
From teeth to talons, animals have a lot of adaptations that help them to find and eat their food. Join us for this four-week series as we investigate what animals eat and how they find their food with zoo hikes and animal visitors.

 
3rd-4th Grade: Animals on the Move
Regular Price: $100.00
Member Price: $85.00
From gibbon brachiation to penguin paddling, animals are adapted to move through all kinds of places in all sorts of ways! During this four-week series, we will take an up-close look at animal locomotion and learn about the adaptations that allow animals to move in different ways. We will also test some of our locomotion skills and see how we measure up when compared to some wild moves around the Zoo. 
5th-6th Grade: Eat Like an Animal
Regular Price: $100.00
Member Price: $85.00
When it comes to finding food, the rules of the wild are eat or be eaten. Learn about the adaptations animals have to find and eat their food, their role in the food chain, and how our eating habits compare to theirs. We will also learn about how our Zoo nutritionist makes sure that our Zoo animals eat a diet that mimics that of their wild counterparts. Of course, animal visitors, Zoo hikes, and other activities will play a big role in this 4-week series as we learn and explore what it means to eat like an animal. 
5th-6th Grade: Prowl Like a Predator
Regular Price: $100.00
Member Price: $85.00
Whether you hunt with talons or teeth, stealth or speed, you have to be fierce to be at the top of the food chain. During this four-week class, we will explore meat-eaters of the mountains, carnivores of the canopy, savanna stalkers, and more to learn how predators in different habitats are specially adapted to find and/or catch their food in the place they call home. 
7th-8th Grade: Zoo-vivor
Regular Price: $100.00
Member Price: $85.00
In the wild, it is all about survival when you are either the hunter or the hunted. During this four week series, we will learn about the adaptations that animals and plants utilize to survive and thrive in a wild and unpredictable world. We will also learn about the role that humans play in forming and changing the rules and the roles of wildlife in their habitat. 
7th-8th Grade: Animal Olympians
Regular Price: $100.00
Member Price: $85.00
We often focus on who is the strongest or fastest human or who can jump the highest or the farthest. This series will focus on how those Olympian talents can apply to the animal kingdom and how these athletic skills translate into survival skills for wildlife. We will even test our own skills and, the final week, those of our visitors against those of our animal Olympians to see who would bring home the gold. 
 
FAMILY PROGRAMS
These family-oriented programs explore wildlife through activities and hikes as well as crafts or games in a manner that is sure to be fun for all ages. Please note that at least one adult must be registered with each family group. Children under 2 years old are free.
The Zoo Gourmet
Regular Price: $20.00
Member Price: $15.00
Food is a huge part of celebrating holidays! At the Zoo, our animals feast year-round on carefully planned diets. Join us for a holiday food frenzy and learn how we feed thousands of animals every day. Through a game, a hike around the Zoo, and with the help of our Education animal ambassadors, we'll learn about why different animals eat different foods, and how the Zoo manages its many menus.

NOTE: Please bring a mask. Masks may be required for animal encounters. One adult must register per family group. Children under 2 years old do not need a ticket.
 
AFTER HOURS PROGRAMS
Adult Sunset Safari: African Sundowner
Regular Price: $170.00
Member Price: $155.00

Join us for a two-part adventure! An interactive social hour with drinks and light bites and a visit from a unique animal is just the beginning. Then, small tour groups led by Zoo Educators will explore the Zoo after hours. Discover our amazing African wildlife and conservation stories through a night hike and get up-close with live animal encounters. This experience also includes behind-the-scenes sneak peeks into what it’s like to care for these African animals.

IMPORTANT: All program participants must be 21 years and older. Please bring a mask. Masks are required for everyone during certain animal experiences and behind-the-scenes. Please note that mask policies may change at any time and may vary by program/location and general admission. Price is per person.
Session African Sundowner Sweetest Day Special: Saturday, October 15, 2022 6:00PM - 10:00PM AVAILABLE
 
T-SHIRTS
Vintage Camp TShirts
Price: $10.00
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Get your vintage camp tshirt! Summer Camp 2019 (pollinators), Spring Break 2020 (wildebeest), Summer Camp 2021 (kangaroo) all available now. Youth and Adult sizes for the whole family!

All t-shirts are for pickup only, at the Harold C Schott Education Building at 56 Erkenbrecher Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45249 Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, or Saturday 9am-12pm. Call 513-559-7730 when you arrive. All orders will be held for 4 business days, and then returned to inventory if not picked up. 

Gildan Brand 100% Cotton. See size chart.
 
ADULT PROGRAMS
For wildlife enthusiasts 16 years and older, our in-depth adult classes provide thought-provoking learning along with a good time. Some programs limited to 21 years and older.
History and Hijinks Tours
Regular Price: $25.00
Member Price: $20.00
How well do YOU know your Cincinnati Zoo? The honor of "second oldest Zoo in the nation" comes with a lot of history and some pretty epic tales. Step back in time with Zoo animal care and trainer veteran of 50 years, Gary Denzler, as he leads you on a fun and factual story-based historical tour of the Cincinnati Zoo, sharing tales of the people and animals that have made this zoo what it is today.

This program is geared towards participants 16 years and older.
 
GIVE THE ZOO TO KIDS IN NEED
Support Low Income Students Visiting The Zoo
 
Donate today and support low income students visiting the zoo.

The Living Classroom Education Access Fund began in 2012. Since that time the fund has brought 150,000 low-income children and their teachers to the Zoo for a free, fun, standards-aligned daytime, or overnight field trip. You can give EVERY child the opportunity to be inspired by wildlife every day and enjoy the quintessential Cincinnatian experience of visiting this top zoo.

An entire grade of young people can visit the zoo for $1000.00
Provide a zoo experience to a bus full of students for $500.00
Send an entire classroom to the Zoo for $250.00
Any donation amount could help! Please donate today.

Learn more about the Living Classroom Education Fund here- http://cincinnatizoo.org/lceaf/
 
EDUCATION GIFT CERTIFICATES
Zoo Education Programs make a perfect gift. You can even redeem your Education Gift Certificate online! When making a purchase online with an Education Gift Certificate select the Gift Certificate option in the payment screen and enter the barcode number.

NOTE: Purchasing a gift certificate does not guarantee a space in programs. Sign up for our quarterly Education Program Announcement email to receive notices of new programs and when they go on sale.
$245.00 Education Gift Certificate
Price: $245.00
Perfect for Full Day Camp 2022 at the member price!
Spring Break or Summer full day camps for 4yr-6th grade.

​Gift Certificates only redeemable for Zoo Education Programs.
$260.00 Education Gift Certificate
Price: $260.00
Perfect for Full Day Camp 2022 at the non-member price!
Spring Break or Summer full day camps for 4yr-6th grade.

​Gift Certificates only redeemable for Zoo Education Programs.
$255.00 Education Gift Certificate
Price: $255.00
Perfect for Full Day Camp 2022 at the member price!
Spring Break or Summer full day camps for 7th-8th grade.

​Gift Certificates only redeemable for Zoo Education Programs.
$270.00 Education Gift Certificate
Price: $270.00
Perfect for Full Day Camp 2022 at the non-member price!
Spring Break or Summer full day camps for 7th-8th grade, or 5th-8th Eco-Explorers at Bowyer Farm.

Gift Certificates only redeemable for Zoo Education Programs.
$130.00 Education Gift Certificate
Price: $130.00
Perfect for Half Day Camp 2022 at the member price!
Summer half day camps for 4 year - 2nd grade.

​Gift Certificates only redeemable for Zoo Education Programs.
$145.00 Education Gift Certificate
Price: $145.00
Perfect for Half Day Camp 2022 at the non-member price!
Summer half day camps for 4 year - 2nd grade.

​Gift Certificates only redeemable for Zoo Education Programs.
$100.00 Education Gift Certificate
Price: $100.00
Perfect amount for a Zoo Troop series.

Gift Certificates only redeemable for Zoo Education Programs.
$50.00 Education Gift Certificate
Price: $50.00
Great for Family Day Programs or single Family Sunset Safari program.

Gift Certificates only redeemable for Zoo Education Programs.
$15.00 Education Gift Certificate
Price: $15.00
Gift Certificates only redeemable for Zoo Education Programs.
$10.00 Education Gift Certificate
Price: $10.00
Gift Certificates only redeemable for Zoo Education Programs.
 
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