Summer Camp
Registration for summer camp opens winter 2025
WCS Education has your summer covered with fun, educational camp experiences! We provide unforgettable experiences for your camper including age-appropriate, hands-on activities, up-close animal experiences, time to explore the park and tons of educational fun that builds on campers' innate love for our wild planet.
Select a camp experience below for more information!
Queens Zoo Summer Camp
Queens Zoo is WILD about summer camp! Campers will explore the zoo and learn about our animals like never before! WCS Education has your summer covered with fun, educational camp experiences! We provide unforgettable experiences for your camper including age-appropriate, hands-on activities, up-close animal experiences, time to explore the park and tons of educational fun that builds on campers' innate love for our wild planet.
Scroll down for our camp schedule and descriptions! Camp runs from 9:00am - 3:00pm * Monday - Friday each week unless, except where noted for Toddler Time (9:30am - 11:00am) and Zoo Tykes (9:00am - 12:00pm).
18 months - 3 years old with caregiver
Toddler Time: Animal Senses
Explore the wonders of nature with your toddler as we dive into a sensory adventure! Animals use their five senses to navigate their world, and now your little one can too at the zoo. Join us for a week-long camp at the Zoo, where we’ll discover the natural world through close-up animal encounters, hands-on art activities, and guided exhibit exploration.
One ticket includes an adult and a child. Camper must be 18 months - 3 years old at the time of the program.
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18 months - 3 years old with caregiver
Toddler Time: Home Sweet Home
Join us for an exciting week of exploration with your toddler as we uncover the fascinating places animals call home. Whether it’s underground, in trees, in the water, or even on a farm, there is so much to learn and explore. Through engaging activities like movement, songs, and nature-based exploration, you and your little one will discover how animals find the perfect spot to live.
One ticket includes an adult and a child. Camper must be 18 months - 3 years old at the time of the program.
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3K - Pre Kindergarten
Zoo Tykes: Barnyard Bonanza
Is your child ready for all the fun of zoo camp but not ready for a full day camp experience? Your 3 and 4 year old can join us for a half day camp program at the zoo.
Bring your future farmer down to our half-day barn camp to learn all about our domestic animals! We’ll get to feed the farm animals every day, make farm themed crafts, sing songs, read stories, and meet some of our animal collection up close!
This drop off camp is designed for children entering 3K and Pre-K in the fall in the fall of 2025. Campers must be 3 or 4 years old on or before their first day of camp. Price is per week. Sign up for two different Zoo Tykes camps!
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3K - Pre Kindergarten
Birds of Play
Is your child ready for all the fun of zoo camp but not ready for a full day camp experience? Your 3 and 4 year old can join us for a half day camp program at the zoo.
Join us for our half-day camp where we learn all about what makes birds so special! Is it their feathers, beaks, eggs, or all of the above?! Campers will participate in fun crafts and games, and visit our enchanting bird-centered exhibits each day.
This drop off camp is designed for children entering 3K and Pre-K in the fall in the fall of 2025. Campers must be 3 or 4 years old on or before their first day of camp. Price is per week. Sign up for two different Zoo Tykes camps!
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Entering Kindergarten - 2nd Grade
Week of Wildlife: Animals Like Us
Are you as strong as a bison or as agile as a mountain lion? Animals around the world experience life in many different ways. How are humans and animals similar, and what makes us different? We'll explore how animals eat, move, and sense the world around us. Through experiments, games and up-close animal experiences, campers will discover the diversity of the wild world and the surprising ways that humans and other animals are alike.
This drop off camp is for children ages 5-7 years old entering K, 1st or 2nd grade in the fall of 2025.
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Entering Kindergarten - 2nd Grade
Week of Wildlife: Wild Animal Music
Animals communicate through whistles, tweets, trumpets and an orchestra of other sounds. Come and explore the sounds of nature in the Zoo. Through games, experiments and some instrument making of their own, campers can learn about animal sounds and communication. Camp includes up-close animal encounters, visits to exhibits and hands-on activities!
This drop off camp is for children ages 5-7 years old entering K, 1st or 2nd grade in the fall of 2025.
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3rd - 5th Grade
Zoo Explorers: Forces of Nature
The world is changing, and so are we! Humans have the power to completely alter the environment: what does that mean for animals?
Join us as we explore how climate change is shaping the world, and in turn changing the way animals look, adapt, and behave. We'll discover how animals evolve over time and in response to the ways we transform the planet, and how some animals are able to weather the change while others go extinct. Campers will be inspired to find the ways they can advocate for wildlife and make a positive change in the world.
Price is per week. Sign up for two different camps! This camp is for children entering 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade in the fall of 2025.
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3rd - 5th Grade
Zoo Explorers: Wild by Design
Become a wildlife problem solver! From exhibit design to finding ways for animals to safely navigate urban environments, this camp invites you to think like an engineer, architect, and conservation scientist. We'll use design thinking and creative problem-solving skills to tackle conservation issues, both locally and globally. We'll look to nature for strategies to solve these challenges through up close encounters, hands-on activities, and exhibit exploration.
Price is per week. Sign up for two different camps! This camp is for children entering 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade in the fall of 2025.
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6th - 8th Grade
Junior Scientists: Conservation Scientists
Campers discover how WCS scientists, artists, and exhibit designers replicate the natural areas we protect around the globe in our zoo. During this week of camp, your child can learn how WCS studies these habitats and educates and inspires visitors about the animals that live there. Through engaging activities, exhibit visits, and animal demonstrations, campers will gain a new understanding of zoo exhibit design. Campers will use what they have learned to then explore some of the natural areas around the zoo and create their own model exhibit!
Campers must be ages 11-13 years entering 6th, 7th, or 8th grade in the fall of 2025.
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Schedule
Toddler Time: 18 months to 3 with caregiver | Zoo Tykes: 3 & 4 yo/ pre-K | Week of Wildlife: K-2nd grade | Zoo Explorers: 3rd-5th grade | Junior Scientist: 6th - 8th grade
| June 16 — June 20 5 day camp |
Toddler Time: Animal Senses |
| June 23 — June 27 5 day camp |
Toddler Time: Home Sweet Home Zoo Tykes: Barnyard Bonanza |
| June 30 — July 3 4 day camp* |
Week of Wildlife: Animals Like Us Zoo Explorers: Forces of Nature |
| July 7 — July 11 5 day camp |
Week of Wildlife: Wildlife Wild Animal Music Zoo Explorers: Wild by Design |
| July 14 — July 18 5 day camp |
Week of Wildlife: Animals Like Us Zoo Explorers: Forces of Nature |
| July 21 — July 25 5 day camp |
Zoo Tykes: Birds of Play Week of Wildlife: Animals Like Us |
| July 28 — August 1 5 day camp |
Week of Wildlife: Wild Animal Music Zoo Explorers: Wild by Design |
| August 4 — August 8 5 day camp |
Week of Wildlife: Animals Like Us Zoo Explorers: Forces of Nature |
| August 11 — August 15 5 day camp |
Week of Wildlife: Wild Animal Music Zoo Explorers: Wild by Design |
| August 18 — August 22 5 day camp |
Zoo Tykes: Birds of Play Junior Scientist: Conservation Scientists |
| August 25 — August 29 5 day camp |
Week of Wildlife: Animals Like Us Zoo Explorers: Forces of Nature |
Price
$558 members / $620 regular (5 day camp)
$450 members / $500 regular (4 day camp)*
$216 members / $240 regular (Toddler Time)
$306 members / $340 regular (Zoo Tykes half day camp)
*Prorated price the week of June 30 - July 3 only*
Extended Care
We now offer Extended Care from 3:00pm to 5:00pm. Extended Care includes free play, exhibit visits, and nature play exploration. Add-on items such as Extended Care and additional camp t-shirts can be purchased once you add a week of camp to your shopping cart.
