Winter Safari Camp at Zoo Atlanta

Date and Time

• Mon, Feb 16, 2026 - Fri, Feb 20, 2026  9am - 4pm

Location

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Details

Winter Safari Camp at the Zoo
December 22-23, 2025
December 29, 2025-January 2, 2026
January 5, 2026
February 16-20, 2026

Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Extended care available for $15/day from 8 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Must be purchased for whole Camp session; cannot be purchased for individual days.

Age Range: 5-11

When school is out, Camp is in!
We are here to engage and excite your young learners ages 5-11 during Winter Break.
Safari Camp is a great opportunity to engage young explorers in learning about the wild world around them and beginning their journey of conservation stewardship. Through Zoo explorations, up-close animal encounters, STEAM-based projects, hands-on science activities, environmental games and more, campers learn about attainable strategies and goals to combat environmental issues and are charged with finding simple ways that they can make a difference.

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THEMES:
Each week campers embark on a different Zoo expedition, exploring wildlife and wild places. Young explorers will be immersed in hands-on, minds-on learning while having fun! 

December 22-23 (2 days)
Protected Professionals: Lions, tigers, and bears! Oh my! These animals are wonderful to work with, but we have to be very safe in how we do it. Come along with us as we explore how we care for our Protected Contact species. At the end of the week, we will design and present a shift door to help our care teams safely move animals out of one space and into another so that we can perform critical care tasks on their habitats. It’s sure to be a roar-ing good time!

December 29-January 2 (5 days)
Zoo in Review: Zoo Atlanta provides an amazing home to its many animal residents. As we continue to experience cold weather in the winter, our warm-climate animals need somewhere to go. During the week, we will talk about ways we can create a winter-friendly habitat for our summer-loving species. At the end of the week, campers will share their very own designs for a new winter habitat for the Zoo resident of their choosing!

January 5 (1 day)
Who Pooed in the Zoo?: Every living thing eats, so every living thing poops… but not everything poops the same. Join us for a day of exploring how animal poop communicates with our Animal Care Team about the overall health of the animals. We will spend the day thinking about what makes a healthy poop across some of our diverse wildlife, and end the day with a scavenger hunt to see what kinds of poop we can find in the park.

February (5 days)
Instincts and Influences: Are they born knowing how to do that? Why does this animal look like that? How do they do that? These are all fabulous questions, and all have answers as unique as the species that call Zoo Atlanta home! This week, we will dive into physical and behavioral adaptations that animals are born with or learn over time, how we encourage animals to use their adaptations in a zoo, and how those adaptations would help them survive and thrive in the wild. At the end of the week, campers will present a comic strip on their favorite animal to highlight some of the behavioral and physical characteristics that they have learned about.