Desert Discovery
Desert Discovery is a special habitat just for under-5s to explore. The inspiration for the gallery is the Mojave Desert in the USA and it features a desert quarry.
Baby Oasis
A safe, secure oasis designed especially for non-mobile children who are not yet walking. It has a soft, padded interior, and seating for parents and carers to explore the space with their baby.
- Play among the peek-a-boo palm leaves
- Who can we see in the mirrors?
- Reach for the textured ‘feely’ shapes
- Pull yourself up to look around the desert
Boulder Mountain
Explore soft rocks and boulders - Crawl inside the cave
- Transport the boulders on the bucket lift – can you see how it works?
- Telephone Cactus Construction and let them know a bucket of boulders is on its way!
Cactus Construction
- Can you find the cactus? It won’t hurt you!
- Move the rocks and boulders around with wheelbarrows and buckets
- Construct towers and structures with the boulders
Construction Office
- Don’t forget to pick up your hard hat and jacket!
Storytime Tent
- Turn the big hand on the Day-Night clock and enter the tent
- Make yourself comfortable around the fire pit and tell your fellow adventurers a story
- Dress up or put on a puppet show!
Desert in the Dark
- While you’ve been in the Storytime Tent, night has fallen, look up at the stars!
Lift the flap to see and touch the treasures collected by the pack rat. - Put your hands in the feely holes – what’s inside?
- What can you smell?
- Carefully unfurl the bats wing
- Crawl inside the cosy cave
- Can you see how the Sidewinder snakeleaves her tracks?
- Stroke the friendly coyote and he’ll ‘talk’(in yips, yowls and howls!) back to you