A trip to the zoo can be not only a wonderful entertainment for a child, but also an exciting and educational event. The joy of communicating with animals will remain for a long time if everything is organized correctly.
How to make going to the zoo fun for your child
Unfortunately, children often look at the animals with pleasure only in the first 15-20 minutes of their stay at the zoo. After that, the walk can turn into a boring examination of the cells, and the child can start to be capricious, demand that they buy cotton candy or something else, and even ask every minute when you will finally go home. To avoid this problem, it is worth preparing in advance for a trip to the zoo. It is appropriate to talk with your child about what kind of animals you will see, how they are interesting. You can read fairy tales about animals to your kid a couple of days before the event, tell interesting stories, show funny pictures.
It is worth taking a booklet from the zoo in advance to know which animals you can see. This will help you prepare your child to meet them, and, more importantly, prepare yourself: the baby may have many questions to which you need to know the answer in advance. It is also worth explaining which animals can and cannot be fed, and why the zoo has such rules.
If the child is still small, do not spend too much time on going to the zoo. The best option is to see 15-20 enclosures, but at the same time get to know the animals better and learn more about them. Walking through the entire zoo at once, devoting just a couple of minutes to each cage, is not the best option. If the child gets tired, you can also relax on the bench, treat him with something delicious.
The subtleties of going to the zoo with a child
Watch the baby carefully, do not leave him alone for a minute. Children often put their hands in cages, trying to pet a wild animal, or do other forbidden and dangerous things for themselves. Of course, the rules of behavior at the zoo need to be explained in advance, but this does not mean at all that during a walk you should be distracted, hoping that the child will do everything right.
Take your camera with you. Children often love to be photographed against the background of different animals. In addition, thanks to beautiful photographs, you will be able to remind him of the rest, show these or those animals again, draw the child's attention to some details that he might not have noticed right away. To make it more interesting for the kid to walk around the zoo and subsequently view the pictures, tell him about the interesting features of different animals: the original skin, unusual ears, paws.
