We Bought a Zoo

We Bought a Zoo is another that we did a long time ago.

Our first activity was, "act like an animal."  It was basically charades.  The kids took turns choosing any animal they wanted and pretending to be that animal.  The rest of us guessed.  It was pretty much impossible with the animals that they came up with.  Savannah was a cat, a lion and a cheetah.  Lincoln was an armadillo, and aardvark and a hawk.  Somehow I didn't take any pictures or video of this.  I think if I did this game again, I might print pictures of the animals and have them draw one to act out to make it a bit easier on the guessers.

Next we made a zoo.  This took a LOT more time than I expected because the kids got really into it.  They drew pictures of zoo animals and cut them out. They even made themselves zookeepers. Then we glued them to the bottom of a box that I had cut the lid off of, and taped on strips of cardboard (cut from the lid) to make a cage.  Not very accurate since all the animals were in one cage together, but the kids had a lot of fun making it!

For dinner we had "Zoo Stew" which was regular beef stew, "elephant ears" which were frybread, "Jungle Juice" (the little bottles of sugary punch you can buy at the gas station, similar to bug juice,) and "Gorilla Poops" otherwise known as no-bake cookies.  My kids both LOVED the meal, which was shocking since Lincoln had never before even tasted stew.