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"Boo at the Zoo 2007"


 


It's Merry not Scary! Kooky not Spooky!


Trick or Treat Bags provided to the first 1000 guests each day by Southwest Parent Magazine!!

Thank You to Our Supporting Sponsors: Saturn of El Paso/Las Cruces
Southwest Parent Magazine, El Paso Times & Telemundo Channel 48



“BOO at the ZOO” KIDS ACTIVITIES
Your children from 2 – 12 years old will have a blast!!

Fiesta Lanes Pumpkin Bowling: Roll the pumpkin and hit pins if you can!

Leopard Limbo: Kids can limbo under the pole – adults…maybe not!

Create a Cobweb: Stretch the webs to make your own spider man creation.

Very Batty Cave: If you dare, walk through the Very Batty cave and get candy on the other side!

Sea Lion Pirate’s Cove: Arrrrrrghh, Seafaring Pirate Mateys!
Come visit Sunny and his sea lion friends in the Pirates Cove!

Shrek & Donkey: Pin the tail on the Donkey Game while our own Zoo donkey Cisco watches!

Harvest Grove & Kids Maze: Explore our amazing maze and have a photo taken ($5) in the Harvest Grove pumpkin patch!

Elephant Buckets: Can you get the ele-poo in all the buckets? You’ll win candy if you doo,doo.

EP Fire Truck: Visit an El Paso Fire Department Fire Truck and the firefighters who save lives!

Pinatas: Come by the café for a chance to break our Halloween Pinatas

Cold Stone Creamery® Cake Walk: The winner walks away with a certificate good for Cold Stone Creamery® ice cream at one of their three locations.

Dracula’s Disco: Old Times Disco and Disco Movil provide not-so-spooky dance music.

Zoolightful Fortunes: Have your “wild” future told by Esmeralda – the Zoo Fortuneteller

Thank You Activity Sponsors: Derrill Rothermich, Scott Stein, D.D.S., P.A.

“BOO at the ZOO” CANDY STATIONS
Kids up to 12 years old can enjoy candy from different booths all over the El Paso Zoo!

Thank You Candy Sponsors!
Able Pools
Bank of America
Cappetto’s
Cold Stone Creamery®
Cookie Lee Jewelry - Marcie Yoder
EP City/County Health & Environmental District 211 Program
Keep El Paso Beautiful!
Imagine Tomorrow Computer Classes for Kids
Partners in Pediatrics - Dr. Jose Prieto Jr’s Office: East & West
Pinnacle Social Services LLC
Prudential Financial
Rocky Mountain Mortgage
Sun Metro
T-Mobile


ZOO PRIZE FOR BEST “BOO-TH”: 4:30
Candy Stations are encouraged to decorate their Booth.
We will choose one Booth per day as a winner of the prize for “Best BOO-th” 2007

Prize Winner Receives a Wolf Pack Zoo Membership
Good for 2 adults and 5 children for one year
Value: $50

Courtesy: El Paso Zoological Society (915) 532-8156

ZOORIFIC KIDS COSTUME CONTEST: 2:00

Children are encouraged to wear their favorite outfit to compete in the Zoolightful Costume Contest.

  • The Most Creative Costume wins $50

  • Best Overall Costume wins 2nd place ribbon & Four Children’s Zoo tickets

Kids ages infant to 12 are eligible to participate. Registration begins at 1:00 at Harvest Grove, All contestants must be registered by 1:50pm – that’s when contest entry closes. (Judges Decision is Final)

  ZOO COSTUME PARADE @ 2:45
All children are invited to participate in the Parade directly after the Zoolightful Costume Contest.

Last year the Rhinos Hockey Team led the Parade This year Miss El Paso and Miss Teen El Paso will be the honored guest parade leaders!
 


ZOOLIGHTFUL DECORATED PUMPKIN CONTEST 3:30
Everyone is invited to bring their carved or decorated pumpkin from home and enter to compete in the Zoorific Decorated Pumpkin Contest.

Anyone is eligible to participate. Registration begins at 1:00 at Harvest Grove, All contestants must be registered by 1:50pm – that’s when contest entry closes.

Best Design wins a Zoo Society Wolf Pack Membership worth $50.
It’s good for a year and reciprocal at more than 40 AZA Zoos.

For giggles - we even have a special contest for the different Zoo departments – come see what the Zoo Staff has up their sleeves.

EXTINCT ANIMAL MEMORIAL
Our “Boo at the Zoo” is “Merry not Scary” but what’s really scary is seeing all the animals that have gone extinct. You can help save animals in the wild by visiting the Cisneros Paraje and signing the petitions in our El Paso Zoo “Take Action” areas.


ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS:
Come to the Cisnerso Paraje and see the Bearded Dragon and the Blue-Tongued Skink, and arrrghh Mateys visit the Pirates Parrots. Mac our seafaring parrots loves to tear things up – maybe he’ll encounter a piñata pumpkin to shred to pieces like the sail of a pirate ship! Arrrrggghh!









ANIMAL PUMPKIN SQUISH
We are providing the pumpkins..
Watch to see which animals will provide “the squish.”

10:45 - Mac the Parrot – Education Building
11:00 - American Lands
12:00 - Spider Monkeys
12:15 – Elephants
12:30 Tapir
TBA - Sun Bear & Tapir
TBA - Orangutans
TBA - Tiger
2:00 – Goat - Paraje
2:45 - Cisco the Burro – Education Trailer
3:30 - Inca the Spectacled Bear

REGULAR EL PASO ZOO PROGRAMS
10:45 - “World of the Sea Lion” Show

Upstairs in the “El Paso Electric Company Gallery”
12:00 - Elephant Talk & Enrichment Demo
2:45 “World of the Sea Lion”Show

Upstairs in the “El Paso Electric Company Gallery”










El Paso Zoo 4001 E. Paisano, El Paso, Texas 79905-4223
(915) 521-1850 Fax (915) 521-1857
Admission: $5
Zoo Members & Ages 2 & under: Free,
Ages 3-12 $3
62 & over, Active Duty Military with ID $4
www.elpasozoo.org.
Winter Hours: Monday-Friday: 9:30am - 4:00pm,
Saturday-Sunday: 9:30am -5:00pm

 
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For more information contact:
Rick LoBello
Curator of Education
915-521-1881
lobellorl@elpasotexas.gov