Saturday, March 7, 2009

"Eco-Explorer"

The girls did a workshop at the Dallas Zoo today and earned their Brownie Try-It Eco-Explorer Badge. It was a lot of fun! We have never gone to the zoo and gotten a guided tour before, that is worth the money by itself.
Here are a few pictures from the Workshop.
Waiting for it to start
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Animal scanvenger hunt
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Learning how to use binoculars
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The best part was meeting some animals! They brought out a tarantula (I couldn't get a picture of it), a corn snake, a box turtle and an adorable armadillo!

I wasn't quite ready to snap Jake the Snake. :p
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When they set the turtle and the armadillo on the floor, they both headed STRAIGHT to Libby out of a circle of 20+ girls.
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The only one that Caroline would touch was the turtle...
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Look at the cute little creature!
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Libby loved that she was able to touch the animals
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1 comment:

Val in the Rose Garden said...

We did something like that at our zoo last summer. My kids LOVED the armadillo they had there... they also had a little bitty tawny Owl.

I really like the idea of having a 'how to use binoculars' though! We didn't have anything like that.

Sounds like a great day. :)

Val