Animal Party Option
Looking to have an extra WILD time at your birthday party? Animal World Experience will bring several animals to your birthday party for a 30-minute interactive meet and greet! You will have the opportunity to get some amazing photos as the kids interact with the animals. Look out though - you never know what the presenter with have climbing on their shoulder, wrapped around their arm or peeking out of their pocket! Chose your animal package: - Pretty (Cute and Cuddly)
- Creepy (Slithering & Slimy)
- Pretty Creepy (A little bit of both!)
Offered only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, during the PRIVATE PARTY TIME OF 5:30 to 7:30. p.m. An extra fee of $75.00 will be added to the $225.00 party charge. Members receive 10% off the party charge ONLY ($225). Payment is required in full at the time of the booking.
Free or low-cost summer learning opportunities Tips and Topics for Parents
by Paula Peterson, Executive Director
 Take a trip to a local historic or natural history site. Parks, ponds, local museums or historic sites provide chances for explorations of nature, and investigations into the people and places that make up your neighborhood or community.
Encourage your kids to use art to record their observations and tell the story of their summertime adventures. Journals and scrapbooks are fun to put together, and making them builds skills in organizing, categorizing, story telling and interpretation.
Local libraries are wonderful resources. Check out passes to area museums, zoos and science centers, sign up for a reading club, and check out some great books or videos. Let your child determine his or her own choices. Summer is the time for them to explore topics that are not assigned to them, but that flow freely from their own interests.
Collect postcards, even if just from your own town. Send postcards to relatives and friends near and far. Encourage summer-time letter writing.
Play games - board games, science games, card games. Have a weekly game night with an easy dinner and the night devoted to a favorite game. Let the kids pick one night and the adults pick the next time.
Make a "word of the day" jar! Every evening at dinner pick a word to discuss and use in a sentence or a silly story!
For more background on summer time learning loss and how to combat it, as well as some great websites to check out click here.
Cranky kids? Bored kids? Got those "nothing to do" blues? Check out this Summer Survival Guide for some tips on how to survive the long hot summer.
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