Alphabet Zoop is a educational program based around a weekly letter and animal. Each session consists of a picture story book, a song, a craft activity and a visual or tactile animal experience. The primary aim of this program is to provide a rich, stimulating environment where a child and their caregiver can learn together through music, movement and kinaesthetic activities and develop a strong connectedness with nature.
Alphabet Zoop is available to Zoo members only. If you would like to book a place for our next available program, please visit here

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Cute, not so cuddly, caterpillars...

Alphabet Zoop has started back for 2013 with a current total of 21 children in two different sessions. This term will focus on the Trail of the Elephants beginning with B is for Butterfly.

The highlight of our first week was possible because of 'Ando' one of our amazing invertebrate zoo keepers who has worked at Melbourne zoo for 36 years! He very generously organised a Lemon tree with at least 20 Orchard Butterfly caterpillars on it, all at different stages of their life cycle. He even pinned leaves from another tree that had eggs on them so that the kids could see how our really fat caterpillars started their journey. We were even lucky enough to see how two fat caterpillars had made their silky chrysalises.
What great fun the kids had with their magnifying glasses exploring our Lemon tree! 
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