Kids Camps
Summer 2026
Unleash your child’s love for wildlife with The Creature Conservancy’s unforgettable summer camps! Designed for young animal enthusiasts, our camps offer hands-on experiences with exotic creatures, engaging educational activities, and up-close encounters that inspire awe and learning. Join us for a summer filled with discovery, adventure, and fun!
The day starts at 9am and ends at 4pm. The fee for a week long camp is $375. Due to staffing shortages, we do not offer before or after care.
Spaces fill quickly!
Registration Opens Soon!
February 2nd, 5pm Member Registration
February 16th, 5pm General Registration
**Please register your camper for sessions that correspond with the grade level they will be entering in the fall**
Summer Camp Sessions
1st & 2nd Graders
Travel the world as we visit a new habitat each day, including rain forests, deserts, and tundras to name a few. Learn about the animals and plants that live in each area, and the features that make each one special and unique.
Zoofari
Explore the wonderful world of animal diversity as we highlight a new group each day, including mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and insects.
Fur, Feathers & Scales
Meet creatures with incredible senses that allow them to see, hear, and smell things that we cannot. Learn what turns their “everyday” senses into su[er powerful abilities.
Sensational Superpowers
3rd & 4th Graders
Jump into our time machine and travel back in time. Explore some of the earliest animals to appear on Earth, the critters that walked alongside dinosaurs, and present day dinosaur relatives. Image what a prehistoric world would have looked like compared to today!
Prehistoric Adventures
If you could build your own personal zoo, what would it look like? Stretch your creative muscles as you learn about animal care needs and habitat, as you create a layout for your own dream zoo.
Build A Zoo
Backyard Biology
Learn how to make your backyard into a paradise for the animals that also call it home. Become an ecodesigner and discover how to “build” homes for butterflies, hummingbirds, and fireflies through small gardening and construction projects.
Mammal Madness
Join us as we learn about the most charismatic group of animals, mammals! From the way our furry friends move, to how they think, and communicate, mammals have developed special strategies that make their survival so successful.
5th & 6th Graders
Predators exist in all animal groups including mammals, birds, reptiles, and even insects! Discover the tools that predators use to find and catch their prey, as well as the defenses that prey use to slip away unharmed.
Powerful Predators
Slither of “scute” into this camp about our scaly friends! Learn about turtles, tortoises, lizards, snakes, and crocodilians as we explore what it means to be a reptile.
Reptile Mania
Boneless Beasts
What do a spider, jellyfish and clam have in common? Unearth characteristics that unite (and divide) invertebrates, as we explore a group that makes up 97% of all animals.
7th - 9th Graders
Creature Cognitiion
How do our animals learn and make choices? How do keepers work to keep animals physically and mentally healthy? We will explore these questions as well as topics that include animal welfare, cooperative care, and enrichment in this introduction to animal behavior.
