Nature at Home

Wild Learning

Staying at home? Missing animals? We’ve got the solution – Nature at Home!

Kids at home due to coronavirus-related school closures can now explore wildlife online.

Scroll for animal videos, scavenger hunts, nature science experiments, pollinator gardens and more.

Scavenger Hunts & More

Be a wildlife detective.

What animal can do handstands? Who likes to live in trees? Which items in your kitchen would a zookeeper use?

Inside or outside, go on a Nature Scavenger Hunt to discover wildlife inspired by animals at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and Northwest Trek Wildlife Park.

Just click the link, open the pdf and off you go. Check back for new activities!!

Choose an activity

Inside Scavenger Hunts

Outside Scavenger Hunts

NEW! Nature Science Experiments

Nature Science

Wild Animal Eye Spy

Can you spot it?

Can you spy the wild animals in our camera-trap photos? Learn how to ID coyotes, squirrels, deer, birds and raccoons – then spot them in photos from real-life camera traps hidden around Pierce County for the Grit City Carnivore Project.

Wild Animal Eye Spy

Watch Wildlife

like a zookeeper.

Watch a shark dive at the Zoo, thanks to our partner Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital.

For more videos, find our YouTube channel.

Our YouTube

Wildlife Learning

Meet our animals

and learn cool facts.

Love animals? Then you're in the right place. Explore our animal pages for fun facts, stories, science and adorable photos of tigers, walruses, sharks and so much more.

Meet our animals

Make a Pollinator Garden

Bees, birds, butterflies.

It's spring - the perfect time to make a pollinator garden at home! Hummingbirds, bees and butterflies all need our help right now. Learn how to plant a space to feed and shelter them as they help our food grow.

Make a garden