For children aged 0-5 years
Due to Covid-19 we have temporarily suspended our Educational Workshop Programme and are therefore unable to offer school & group visits to the Zoo & Castle that include a workshop. We hope to be able to re-introduce our workshop programme as soon as it safe to do so.
Please contact louise.curtis@dudleyzoo.org.uk for information on self-guided visits.
The workshops detailed in the following pages are from our 2019/20 programme and are for reference only. UPDATED 02/04/21.
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For further information or to book a visit please call 01384 215313 or email louise.curtis@dudleyzoo.org.uk
Count with Keepers
Workshop length: 20 – 30 mins
This workshop focuses on basic counting; where the children help the keepers count the number of legs, horns and spots of animals that they can meet. This gives your children the opportunity to apply basic numbers to a real world setting.
Animals: This workshop may include a cockroach, guinea pig and a tarantula.
Cost: £8.00 per child
Animal Story Time
Workshop length: 20 – 30 mins
Join us for story time at the zoo, where we will be reading our very own animal based book! This workshop will be an adult led story time with the chance for the children to meet some of the animals from the story!
Animals: This workshop may include a chinchilla, ferret, guinea pig, rabbit and a rat.
Cost: £8.00 per child
Down on the Farm
Workshop length: 20 – 30 mins
A tactile session for younger children down in our farm barn: where your children will have a chance to meet a variety of small animals. They will all have the opportunity to touch all the animals they meet.
Animals: This workshop may include a chinchilla, guinea pig, ferret, rabbit and a rat.
Cost: £8.00 per child
Meet the Animals
Workshop length: 20 – 30 mins
A tactile session for younger children based in our Discovery Centre. This is a great session to introduce children to small, fluffy animals in a calm environment. They have the opportunity to meet different friendly animals, with the option to touch them if the children would like to.
Animals: This workshop may include a chinchilla, guinea pig, ferret, and a rat.
Cost: £8.00 per child
Meet the Minibeasts
Workshop length: 20 – 30 mins
This is a session where your children will be able to meet a selection of invertebrates. This session will be as hands on as is possible, allowing the children to touch or hold where possible. As well as seeing a selection of biofacts including butterflies behind glass and bugs in plastic.
Animals: This workshop may include a cockroach, stick insect, snail and a tarantula.
Cost: £8.00 per child
Shapes and Colours on the Zoo
Workshop length: 20 – 30 mins
This is a session will give your children a chance to recognise colours and shapes in a real world setting. This session utilises our animals and enclosures to encourage the children to name an animal’s colour or what shapes they can see in an animal’s enclosure.
Animals: This workshop may include a chinchilla, cockroach, salamander and a snake.
Cost: £8.00 per child
Zoo Explorer Tour – NEW FOR 2019-20
Workshop length: 50 – 60 mins
This is an interactive tour taking place at the top of the zoo, where the children are able to feed the meerkats, hop like wallabies, march through the castle like an army, sing and act like a gibbon, roar and act like a sea lion, see penguins play with bubbles and meet and touch some of our friendly fluffy animals.
Animals: This tour may include a chinchilla, ferret, guinea pig and a rat.
Cost: £10.00 per child
