Desert Discovery

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