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ZOO TROOP

Learning and growing is fun at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden! These 4-week series encourage 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!

Choose to come every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday. See class descriptions for current series content. All programs include acitivities in the classrooms, ambassador animal encounters, and Zoo hikes. Older classes usually have a series project/presentation. Toddler and PreK attend with an adult. Kindergarten-8th attend independently.

Toddlers Colorful Creatures

Regular Price: $105.00

Member Price: $90.00

For 18-36 months olds
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: Toddler series is for children 18-36 months old. Plan for one adult to stay with your Zoo Trooper during these classes. Only one adult may accompany each child during the classroom portion.

Toddlers Movers and Shakers

Regular Price: $105.00

Member Price: $90.00

For 18-36 months olds
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: Toddler series is for children 18-36 months old. Plan for one adult to stay with your Zoo Trooper during these classes. One adult may accompany each child during the classroom portion.

Pre K Finding Food

Regular Price: $105.00

Member Price: $90.00

For 3, 4 and 5 years old not 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!

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

Note: Pre-K series is for 3, 4 and 5 year olds not in Kindergarten. Plan for one adult to stay with your Zoo Trooper during these classes. Only one adult may accompany each child during the classroom portion.

Pre K Ani Moves

Regular Price: $105.00

Member Price: $90.00

For 3, 4 and 5 years old not 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!

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

Note: Pre-K series is for 3, 4 and 5 year olds not in Kindergarten. Plan for one adult to stay with your Zoo Trooper during these classes. Only one adult may accompany each child during the classroom portion.

Kindergarten Beastly Feasts

Regular Price: $110.00

Member Price: $95.00

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.

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

Note: Kindergarten Zoo Troopers and older attend without an adult. This is a drop-off style program.

Kindergarten I Like to Move It Move It

Regular Price: $110.00

Member Price: $95.00

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.

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

Note: Kindergarten Zoo Troopers and older attend without an adult. This is a drop-off style program.

1st to 2nd Grade Tasty Treats

Regular Price: $115.00

Member Price: $100.00

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.

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

1st to 2nd Grade Walk This Way

Regular Price: $115.00

Member Price: $100.00

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.

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

3rd to 4th Grade Feeding Frenzy

Regular Price: $115.00

Member Price: $100.00

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.

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

3rd to 4th Grade Animals on the Move

Regular Price: $115.00

Member Price: $100.00

From gibbon brachiation to penguin paddling, we will take a 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 movers and shakers around the Zoo.

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

5th to 6th Grade Eat Like an Animal

Regular Price: $115.00

Member Price: $100.00

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 our Zoo animals eat a diet that mimics that of their wild counterparts. Animal visitors, Zoo hikes, and other activities will play a big role as we learn and explore what it means to eat like an animal.

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

5th to 6th Grade Prowl Like a Predator

Regular Price: $115.00

Member Price: $100.00

Whether you hunt with talons or teeth, stealth or speed, when you are at the top of the food chain, you have to be fierce. We will explore meat-eaters of the mountains, carnivores of the canopy, savanna stalkers, and polar prowlers to learn how predators in different habitats are specially adapted to find and/or catch their food in the place they call home.

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

7th to 8th Grade Zoovivor

Regular Price: $115.00

Member Price: $100.00

In the wild, it is all about survival, and you are either hunter or hunted. We will learn about the adaptations that animals and plants can employ 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.

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

7th-8th Grade Animal Olympians

Regular Price: $115.00

Member Price: $100.00

We often focus on who is the strongest or fastest human, or which person can jump the highest or the farthest. This series will focus on how those Olympian talents apply to the animal kingdom and how these athletic skills translate into survival skills for wildlife. We will even test our own skills against those of our animal Olympians to see who would bring home the gold.

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