Camps

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Penguin Camp

Experience how animals use their senses by using all yours including sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Learn about animals from all over the world: elephants, chimpanzees, bears and many more. Animal visits, guided exhibit tours, craft projects, songs, games and story time fill each busy day. Quiet time will be available every afternoon for the full day camp. Register for Penguin Camp.

Schedule and Fee:
• Morning Sessions:
   Monday - Friday, 9 am - noon
   Fees: Zoo members $115     Non-members $136

Zoo lunch is not available for half day sessions.

• Full Day Sessions:
   Monday - Friday, 9 am - 4 pm
   Fees: Zoo members $230     Non-members $270

You may purchase ZooCamp Lunch

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Tiger Camp

Head out to discover the Zoo´s magnificent animals through hands-on activities, songs, stories, games and crafts. Discover why animals have such amazing features, colors, shapes and forms and what sort of groups they live in. Learn how animals communicate and how they work together as family groups. Touch animals that visit your camp and visit the Trillium Creek Family Farm to get a close look at animals! Register for Tiger Camp

Schedule:
Monday - Friday, 9 am - 4 pm

Fee:
Zoo Members: $230
Non-Members: $270

You may purchase ZooCamp Lunch

Giraffe Camp

Explore habitats around the world as you visit rainforest, savanna, arctic and ocean animal exhibits including some from right here in Oregon. Discover why animals live where they do through hands-on activities, songs, games and crafts. Make a special treat for lorikeets to see how they eat. Animals visit your camp, too! Register for Giraffe Camp.

Schedule:
Monday - Friday, 9 am - 4 pm

Fee:
Zoo Members: $230
Non-Members: $270


You may purchase ZooCamp Lunch

Rhino Camp

Go on safari to discover predator and prey animals! How do they survive? Who eats whom? Take a close look at the tools each animal uses to get food or avoid becoming food. Visit birds of prey and go on a private tour of the insect zoo to find out how birds and insects can be predators or prey. Craft projects, songs, games, stories, and touchable animals fill each busy day. Register for Rhino Camp

Schedule:
Monday - Friday, 9 am - 4 pm

Fee:
Zoo Members: $230
Non-Members: $270



You may purchase ZooCamp Lunch

Otter Camp

Explore native Oregon animals and habitats and compare them to the rest of the world. How is Oregon like or not like other places in the world and what does that mean for animals? Do you find tigers in Oregon? Why not? Are there deer in Africa? Why not? Visit the Trillium Creek Family Farm for a close look at how domestic animals compare to wildlife. Craft projects, songs, games, stories and touchable animals fill each busy day. Register for Otter Camp.

Schedule:
Monday - Friday, 9 am - 4 pm

Fee:
Zoo Members: $230
Non-Members: $270


You may purchase ZooCamp Lunch

Cougar Camp

Travel to Africa, Asia, South America, Pacific Ocean and the Great
Northwest - all here at the Zoo!  Spend each day exploring a different part of the world through hands-on activities, tours and culturally relevant crafts.  Learn how humans in different cultures view animals and how humans and wildlife influence each other.  Look at all the different ways big cats, birds and insects change from one continent to the next and why.  Stay late at the Zoo on Thursday evening and travel further - back in time - to explore the lives of the dinosaurs in our new Prehistoric Predators! Exhibit! Register for Cougar Camp.

Schedule:
Monday-Wednesday & Friday 9 am - 4 pm
Thursday 9 am - 9 pm Includes Thursday dinner.

Fee:
Zoo Members: $252
Non-Members: $296


You may purchase ZooCamp Lunch

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Animal Investigators

Go behind the scenes to get an insider's view of what it takes to care for animals as small as an urchin and as big as a rhinoceros. Explore some husbandry techniques used by zookeepers. Discover what animal enrichment is and why the Oregon Zoo uses it. Learn about the zoo's wildlife conservation efforts and stay overnight for more behind-the-scenes views including an insider's look at the veterinary hospital and animal kitchen. Register for Animal Investigators Camp.

Schedule:
Monday - Wednesday 9 am - 4 pm,
Thursday 9 am overnight to Friday 4 pm
Includes an overnight stay, Thursday dinner, Friday breakfast
and Friday lunch.

Fees:
Zoo members $299
Non-members $352

You may purchase ZooCamp Lunch

FutureVet curriculum for the Animal Investigators camp has been sponsored by Banfield, The Pet Hospital.

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Wild Design

Discover the secrets to building a zoo. Meet designers and builders who reveal what it takes to create spaces for people and animals. How do you design an exhibit for a naked mole rat? How about a bear? Go behind the scenes in exhibits and the exhibits workshop for hands-on exploration of the designing and building process. Design and build a model exhibit. Stay overnight at the Oregon Coast Aquarium for more behind the scenes, and sleep with the sharks! Register for Wild Design Camp.

Schedule:
Monday - Wednesday, 9 am - 4 pm
Thursday 9 am overnight to Friday 4 pm
Includes Thursday dinner, Friday breakfast and Friday lunch.

Fees:
Zoo members $323
Non-members $379

You may purchase ZooCamp Lunch

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ALL CAMPS INCLUDE:

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Extended Care

Early Care
Monday - Friday
8 am - 9 am
$25 per week

Late Care
Monday - Friday
4 pm - 6 pm
$50 per week

Early & Late Care
Combined $75 per week
(not available for half-day Penguin Camp)

Children are supervised in a classroom with games and videos available.
Pre-registration is required. We are unable to accommodate drop-ins.

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Registration for all camps will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration cannot be done over the phone. See registration information.

If you would like to contribute to the Zoo Education Scholarship Fund, please add any amount to your registration fee. All scholarship donations are tax deductible.

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