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Thu, 3/1/2007 - 10:51 AM — Lisa Raycher

Lincoln Children's Zoo

1222 S 27th Street
Lincoln, NE 68502
USA

Spend the night at the Lincoln Children's Zoo

Spend the night at the Zoo!

Come see the Zoo in a different light ...or no light at all!

The fun begins at 7:00pm and ends the following morning at 9:00am. Included in all of our overnights is the NightCrawlers Hike, a chance to hear the sounds and see the sights of the Zoo at night. We also provide the opportunity for close encounters with a variety of small critter encounter animals. Zoo games and crafts are also possible. Usually lights-out occurs between 11:30pm and midnight.

The fee is $25 per person, with a minimum of $350 required. This includes pizza and pop, and a continental breakfast in the morning.

A $50 non-refundable deposit is required to hold your date. The balance is due the night of the overnight. Overnights are held throughout the year on Friday and Saturday nights, but some topics are only available seasonally.

Bring a sleeping bag , a flashlight, toothpaste, and a toothbrush. We'll create an evening for you to remember!

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From Wild Wednesday nights to National Hot Dog Day Thu, 6/25/2009 - 3:05 PM — rudy

 

July at the Zoo
 
Wednesday, July 1 – Wild Wednesday – The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme features our rare red pandas and Matschie’s tree kangaroos. Have fun from 5-8 p.m. while you learn about these endangered exotic beauties from China and New Guinea.
Tonight’s activities include:
  • Make a red panda mask
  • A coloring activity
  • Learning from the Zookeepers about these rare creatures and what you can do to help them from going extinct
 
Saturday, July 4 – Independence Day – The Zoo is open and it is a great place to celebrate our nation’s independence with your family and friends. The Zoo will be closing early today at 3:00 p.m.
 
Monday, July 6 – Wild Hair Day – Some Zoo residents are almost bald like the naked mole rats and some of the Zoo’s residents have 1,000’s of hairs per square inch like the harbor seals. Wear your hair in a wild way and receive $1 off a child’s regular priced and 50 cents off a child’s train ticket (cannot be combined with other offers or discounts).
 
Wednesday, July 8 – Wild Wednesday – The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme features beautiful butterflies and bountiful bugs. Have fun from 5-8 p.m. while you get “bugged” and learn about the animals which truly cover the earth.
Tonight’s activities include:
  • Make a butterfly magnet
  • Create a pipe cleaner spider
  • Put together a paper chain caterpillar
  • Discover pop bottle fireflies
  • Meet “Dan the Butterfly Man” – Lincoln’s own specialist on butterflies and the Monarch migration
 
Thursday, July 9 – National Hot Dog Day – Celebrate an American favorite today by receiving a great price on our famous hot dogs at the Safari Café all day long.
 
Friday, July 10 – 11:30 a.m. – Enjoy an impressive and entertaining karate demonstration by Sei Shin Kan Karate on the Stego Stage.
 
Monday, July 13 – Funky Shirt Day – Embrace your geekiness and wear your favorite funky shirt.
 
Wednesday, July 15 – Wild Wednesday – The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme features the colorful and raucous scarlet macaws. Have fun from 5-8 p.m. while you learn about these big birds from the tropical rain forests of South America.
Tonight’s activities include:
  • Bird beak activities – learn why a macaw’s beak is so handy for eating nuts
  • Make your own finger puppet
  • Live music on the Stego Stage featuring Lance Schupbach. Lance’s fun family sing-a-long entertainment was so much fun last year that he is back by popular demand.
  • Meet the macaws with a Zookeeper
 
July 17 - LincolnCity Libraries BOOKMOBILE – 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. in the bus lane in front of the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.
 
July 19-25 – Zookeepers’ Week – Help us thank our Zookeepers forthe excellent job they do, taking care of our special animal friends.
 
 
Wednesday, July 22 – Wild Wednesday – The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme features the strange protective coverings of the tenrecs and the armadillos. Have fun from 5-8 p.m. while you learn about these mammals that are covered in spikes and armor.
Tonight’s activities include:
  • Make your very own armadillo
  • Create a pinecone tenrec
  • Meet “Fez” the three-banded armadillo
  • Pet one of the Zoo’s spiky tenrecs
 
Thursday, July 23 – Thirsty Thursday – The Zoo will quench your summer thirst with drink specials today.
 
Monday, July 27 – Sundae Monday – While you travel about the Zoo today enjoy a special Sundae on Monday. Today’s Safari Café special will be a guaranteed taste pleaser.
 
July 29 – Wild Wednesday – The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme features creatures no longer walking the earth – dinosaurs. Have fun from 5-8 p.m. while you learn about these fascinating beasts under Lincoln’s own Stegosaurus.
Tonight’s activities include:
  • Create a dinosaur hat
  • Dig into a special Stego’s Big Dig activity
  • Learn how BIG dinosaurs were when they walked about
 
July 31 - LincolnCity Libraries BOOKMOBILE – 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. in the bus lane in front of the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.
 
August at the Zoo
 
Sunday, August 2 – National Clown Week Kick-Off – Celebrate a national heritage – Clowns! Today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and meet the fun-loving clowns of Calliope #40 as you stroll the Zoo.
 
Monday, August 3 – Funny Hat Day – Be bold, be silly, have fun, have hat, come to the Zoo wearing your bold, beautiful, beastly or bodacious hat today.
 
Wednesday, August 5 – Wild Wednesday – The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme features birds – big and beautiful. Have fun from 5-8 p.m. while you learn about these fascinating winged wonders from around the world.
Tonight’s activities include:
  • Meet the Zookeeper and learn about birds
  • Create a paper plate dove
  • Feathers, feathers and more feathers
  • Live music on the Stego Stage featuring Lance Schupbach. Lance’s fun family sing-a-long entertainment was so much fun last year that he is back by popular demand.
 
Thursday, August 6 – Thirsty Thursday – The Zoo will quench your summer thirst with a delightful and special drink today.
 
Wednesday, August 12 – Wild Wednesday – The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme features cats – large and small. Have an evening of “purrrfect” fun as you learn about these fascinating felines from 5-8 p.m. Meet the Zoo’s very rare and beautiful Amur leopards and be amazed at “Zeus” the bobcat and his athletic abilities.
Tonight’s activities include:
  • Create your own leopard mask
  • Create an origami cat
  • Have fun with fur
  • Experience a bobcat demonstration
                                            
Friday, August 14 – Kool-Aid Day – Celebrate a fun drink made right here in Nebraska. Enjoy Kool-Aid before you head back to school.
·        LincolnCity Libraries BOOKMOBILE – 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. in the bus lane in front of the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.
 
Wednesday, August 19 – Wild Wednesday – The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme turtles and tortoises from around the world. Learn about the difference between a turtle and a tortoise from 5-8 p.m. Understand why one has webbed feet and learn about the amazing shells they carry on their backs.
Tonight’s activities include:
  • Create your own take home turtle craft
  • Encounter the turtle cart with many shells and natural artifacts
  • Learn what a turtle, a terrapin and a tortoise are and learn how to tell the difference.
 
Wednesday, August 26 – Last Wild Wednesday – The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme features two of the Zoo’s vocal and active swingers – the white-handed gibbons and the black and white ruffed lemurs. Have as much fun as a barrel of monkeys as you learn that the gibbon is NOT a monkey and that the word “lemur” means ghost.
Tonight’s activities include:
·        Make a monkey
·        Play a primate game
·        Visit with the gibbon and lemur keeper
·        Say good-bye to a summer of fun Wild Wednesdays at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.
 
June Events at the Lincoln Children's Zoo Mon, 6/1/2009 - 5:14 PM — rudy

June at the Zoo

 

Wednesday, June 3 – First Wild Wednesday of the Season.  The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme is Wallabies. Have fun from 5-8 p.m.as you learn about these hopping critters from the land down under.

Tonight’s activities include:

·        wallaby craft

·        wallaby hopping course

·        wallaby jump contest

·        Baby wallaby growth chart (wallabies start out the size of a lima bean when they are born)

·        wallaby coloring page

·        A special wallaby demonstration with a Zookeeper

 

 

Friday, June 5 – Got Milk? National Tour The Lincoln Children’s Zoo will be hosting a national tour stop between 11 a.m. –2 p.m. The tour was here last year and everyone had such a good time, we’re doing it again!

·        Lincoln City Libraries BOOKMOBILE – 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. in the bus lane in front of the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.

 

Saturday, June 6 – Butterflies, Bagels and Bach – 10:30 a.m. – Today is opening day of Laura’s Butterfly Pavilion where children of all ages enjoy the beauty of these gossamer winged beauties. Hundreds of butterflies will be in flight and they  may light  on a finger covered with special butterfly nectar. The first 200 people will be treated to bagels while viewing the new butterflies.

 

Wednesday, June 10 – Wild Wednesday – The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme is crocodiles and snakes. Have fun from 5-8 p.m. as you learn about some of the world’s most fascinating beasts, crocodiles and snakes.

Tonight’s activities include:

  • Handy craft – “Sammy the Snake”
  • Create your own crocodile visor
  • Make a crocodile puzzle
  • Play – “Don’t Touch the Water!” game
  • Meet Maizy the cornsnake
  • Check out reptile skulls and snake sheds too

 

Saturday, June 13 – Garden Party annual fundraiser – In preparation for the Zoo’s annual fundraising event, the Zoo will be closing at 3 p.m. Visit our website at www.lincolnchildrenszoo.org/events/fundraising/garden_party to learn how you can attend this great event.

 

Wednesday, June 17 – Wild Wednesday – The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme is emus and hammerkops. Have fun learning about these strange birds, one a large and flightless bird from Australia and the other with a hammer-shaped head from Africa from 5-8 p.m.

Tonight’s activities include:

  • Make a paper plate emu
  • Meet the Zookeeper at the hammerkops nest
  • Meet Mazurka the emu
  • Create a feathery emu
  • Since Saturday is Father’s Day, children will create a special Father’s Day gift for dad that is literally for the birds
  • Live music on the Stego Stage featuring Lance Schupbach. Lance’s fun family sing-a-long entertainment was so much fun last year that he is back by popular demand.

 

Thursday, June 18 – Thirsty Thursday – Look for drink specials at the Safari Café and the Zoonique Boutique. Discover the delight of an Alligator Ice or be perfectly pleased with a Pepsi, a cool beverage makes the Zoo even more enjoyable.

 

Friday, June 19 - Lincoln City Libraries BOOKMOBILE – 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. in the bus lane in front of the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.

 

Saturday, June 20 – H.U.G.S. Day – Those wishing to participate need to pre-register. This one-day camp focuses on the grieving process and helps youth to understand more about the “Circle of Life.”  Visit www.hugscamp.org for more information.

 

Sunday, June 21 – Father’s Day – Stop Dad from mowing the yard and bring him to the Zoo. Free ice cream and train rides for all Dads.

 

Wednesday, June 24 – Wild Wednesday – The Zoo will be open until 8 p.m. Tonight’s theme is flowers and trees. Have fun and “tree-mendous” learning experience as you go green through the Zoo from 5-8 p.m.

Tonight’s activities include:

  • Make your own pinwheel to place in your garden at home
  • Paint a pot for your favorite plant
  • Have fun doing leaf rubbings
  • Learn how to press flowers
  • Make some leaf people
  • Live music on the Stego Stage featuring Jim King and his banjo. Jim’s  fun family sing-a-long entertainment was so much fun last year that he is back by popular demand. Come and sing with Jim and ask him to play your favorite song.

 

Sunday, June 28 – Animal Enrichment Day – Noon to 4 p.m. – Learn how our Zookeepers enrich and stimulate the interest of our Zoo animals. Watch the animals interact with their treats at scheduled times throughout the day. Check our website www.lincolnzoo.org to find out what you can donate to help enrich our animals’ lives.

 

June 30 – Sunglasses Day – Head to the Zoo today in your coolest of cool shades and receive $1 off a child’s regular priced  admission and 50 cents off a child’s train ticket (cannot be combined with other offers or discounts).

 

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