Beat the Heat this Summer — Come to Our Free Library Shows!
It’s that time again…time to layout your family’s summer activity calendar. And, we hope you’ll include Zooniversity in your busy summer schedule. Just like the last 10 summers, Zooniversity will again be offering free wildlife shows at more than 60 public libraries throughout Texas. See our Public Calendar for the nearest location. This summer we will be featuring a new [...]
Sweet! Enter Our Animal-Themed Cake Contest!
Attention Party Moms & Dads: Dig into your birthday photo files and fish out those pics of your child’s animal-themed birthday cake. Send them to us and, just for sharing, you just might win a $50 gift card to the store of your choice! We’re searching for fun, animal-themed party cake ideas to share with other [...]
Host an Eco-Friendly Kid’s Party
Creating an eco-friendly party goes way beyond recycling gift wrap or reusing last year’s party streamers. Your child’s birthday may be the perfect time to teach about the importance of caring for the environment. You can use the the party as a way to demonstrate some simple, but effective, eco-friendly choices and explain how they benefit the world. [...]
Top 10 – No, Make That 15 – Ways to Make A Successful Kids’ Party
It’s scary to add it up, but we’ve done animal programs at nearly 3,000 kids’ birthday parties. So, we have seen the best and the worst parties you can possibly imagine. Here are our top 15 ways to make a successful party that kids and parents will remember (for GOOD reasons) for years to come: 1. Limit the number of [...]
Forget the cake…do animal cookie pops!
This smart party idea came from one of my Zoo School moms who has an at-home baking business. Forget the boring, traditional birthday cake with the tinted, whipped shortening they like to call frosting. Forget the aggravation of having to cut and serve the cake, as swarms of kids squeal around you and the frosting gets packed [...]
“I need your help. I found an animal…”
Springtime is in full bloom here in Texas and our phones have been ringing off the hook with animal lovers who have stumbled upon a wild species that they think needs our help. Lots of baby bird, baby cottontail, opossum, and "I’m not sure what this is" phone pleas for help and "rescue." Abandoned Babies: One [...]
Know, Before You Hire Someone with Animals
So, you’re surfing the net, looking for a something special to bring to your school, library or your child’s birthday party. Animals! How cool. What a crowd pleaser. But, there are some important things to know before you book that animal show. Are they licensed? Anyone who displays a mammal (something with fur, even a [...]
Problem Party People
Zooniversity teaches about 600 wildlife shows each year and a big hunk of them are at children’s birthday parties. Ninety-nine percent of the party parents and guests are wonderful people. They follow our safety rules, they respect our expertise as wildlife professionals, they are polite and interested audience members. But, there is that remaining one [...]
