Piñata for the Lions

Here is a piñata that I made for the lions. I had to make sure that there were no staples or tape left on the boxes before I started. Then for the papier mache I had to use flour and water as you can't use glue for the animals.
Why do you think we can't use glue? What different reasons might there be?

Hey what's that?

When it was all done and painted we put some meat inside it, and rubbed meat over the outside as well so it had a really nice smell for the lions.

Mine! I got it down.

CRRRunch!

The lions didn't take very long to destroy it. My poor zebra :-(

Flying Food

On Tuesday I was up at the holiday programme that the Wellington Zoo runs. They were having a 'flight day' - looking at lots of different types of wings.
One activity they did was to decorate two paper plates then glue them together with some raisins hidden in the middle. These were then thrown like a frisbee to the capuchin and spider monkeys on 'Monkey Island'.
Some plates split apart and many others ended up in the water but the monkeys loved the ones that made it across.

  

Sam's New Blanket

Today some students from Epuni School came to the Wellington Zoo to start their Bushbuilders programme. They had been knitting at school and they had made a blanket to give to the chimpanzees.

Here are some of the students handing over the blanket to the keepers.

Here's what happened when Sam got the blanket - I love the way he lays it on the ground carefully before sitting on it!

Sam using his new blanket to keep warm!

Well done to the students from Epuni School.