HOLIDAY CRAFTS JOIN LEOPARDS, LION, HYENA AT MOORPARK ZOO.Byline: Kevin F. Sherry Daily News Staff Writer Children attending the zoo at Moorpark College Moorpark College is a California-state funded community college located on a 134 acre (542,000 m²) property reclining on a hill in Moorpark, a town in Ventura County, California. this weekend were treated to additional holiday attractions. For a small price, the zoo offered holiday crafts for children that included face painting, glitter writing and ornament making. In between hourly animal shows, children had the opportunity to create a beaded ornament or make a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is a popular Christmas story about Santa Claus' ninth and lead reindeer who possesses an unusually red colored nose that gives off its own light that is powerful enough to illuminate the team's path through inclement weather. out of clothes pins. The crafts ranged in price from $1 to $2.50 each. The Moorpark students who manage the zoo monitor the children and direct the crafts, said Darcy Ridgeway A ridgeway is a road or path that follows the highest part of the landscape. Roads and pathways
Although attendance at the event was poor Sunday, the zoo plans to run the crafting tables again next weekend. Craft event tickets cost $5 for 10, or $10 for a book of 25. The zoo remains open all through winter. Each afternoon visitors have the chance to view the daily training of the carnivores. Zoo workers feed and work with exotic animals and answer questions about them for the public, Ridgeway said. Visitors might get to see animals including a hyena, a mountain lion mountain lion: see puma. , a snow leopard snow leopard or ounce Endangered species ( Uncia uncia;) of nocturnal long-haired cat that inhabits the high mountains of Central Asia and India. It is about 6 ft (1.8 m) long, including the 3-ft (1-m) tail, stands about 2 ft (0. and a black leopard. Next weekend will be the last for the children's craft event. The zoo, located at 7075 Campus Park Road in Moorpark, will be open Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. CAPTION(S): photo PHOTO (color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour Simi edition only) Moorpark student Darcy Ridgeway helps Timmothy Hagins, 9, of Simi, middle, and Dylan Kuhn with crafts. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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