We spent the morning leaving our hand prints around the zoo.
First we planted a tree on the river trail. It was a prickly plant and it is meant to stop people walking through the garden. It was also a smelly plant to detract from the poo smells at the zoo!!
We also left muddy hand prints on a tree picture.
Next we went to see the penguins. Wow- we saw 2 little blue penguins. We learnt we should keep our cats inside at night to stop them attacking penguins, (we should be ok in Normandale as there are no penguins!!)
We also drew chalk pictures of penguins, and left gluey handprints on a picture of a penguin. After we made a handprint, we threw sand at it! Fun.
After that we went into the kiwi house where we got to touch a 5 year old tuatara. It was very soft. We also saw 3 kiwis running around. Tahi the kiwi only had 1 leg so he hopped.
Here, we left glow in the dark paint hand prints on a tuatara shape. When we had finished, the lights were turned off and we saw them glowing.
Our last activity in the morning was to go on a hunt and find conservation signs. We found lots.
Thank you Kim for all the fun things you organised for us to do.
in the afternoon we were able to walk around the zoo and see all the animals. It was exciting walking through the Australian section where the animals ere wandering around us.
It was a really fun day.
