Play & Learn at the Zoo

Can you hang like a monkey? Can you roar like a lion?

Play & Learn is one of the nine programs offered at Center for Families. At multiple sites throughout Dane County, Play & Learn groups provide weekly learning and fun for children ages 0 to 5 and their parent(s). Our goal is to reach children who are not able to attend structured pre-school and provide early childhood education to better prepare them for kindergarten success. 

Last week we had our fourth annual Play & Learn at the Zoo. All the Play & Learn groups facilitated by Center for Families were invited to the Henry Vilas Zoo on Wednesday May 30 to learn about all the zoo animals. We had 106 parents and children participating in “Play & Learn at the Zoo. Each child was provided with a “Play & Learn at the Zoo Passport” that illustrated different Zoo animals and fun facts about them as a coloring sheet. The children were also given stickers to place on the sheet of each animal they found at the Zoo.

A copy of the “Play & Learn Passport” can be downloaded below. After a fun morning running around lions, tigers and bears everyone came back to the park for a pizza picnic and to share stories of all their fun encounters. 

A big THANK YOU goes out to all of the families that participated in this event and to the entire Center for Families staff that made it possible: Tracy Braunreiter and Rachel Werner: Play & Learn facilitators, Teri Weiland: Program Manager, Mike Kenitz: Co-Director, and Mary Joan Nastri: Program Support Specialist.

Play & Learn Facilitators Rachel and Tracy pose for a photo.

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Keep Learning. Keep Playing.

For more information on Play & Learn please visit our website at centerforfamilies.org

View all the photos from the event Click Here
Download a copy of the Play & Learn Passport, Click Here