Coming Soon to Grand Rapids…Animal Adventures: Growing Up Wild!
This Contest is now closed. Congratulations Elizabeth Stine! I’m (wildly) excited about John Ball Zoo and Frederik Meijer Gardens pairing up once again to bring Grand Rapids Animal Adventures: Growing Up Wild! My family missed out on this event last year (sigh) but this year we’re going. My kids will love the chance to get up close with some amazing animals and even pet them. Not to mention, their adventurous side will love exploring the conservatory by flashlight. What a perfect way to spend a winter night!
You don’t want to miss this! At Animal Adventures you will…
- Discover fascinating things about four animals— a mammal, a reptile, an amphibian and a bird.
- Watch live animal presentations close up and pet the animals.
- Enjoy animal story time.
- Explore the Tropical Conservatory by flashlight.
- Do animal art activities.
- Play games like: Listen Up, What’s for Dinner and Pop Up Peek-A-Boo.
- Mondays, January 30 and February 6 at 6–7:30 pm at Meijer Gardens.
- Reservations required by calling Meijer Gardens at 616-974-5239 or John Ball Zoo at 616-336-4310
- Reservation deadline for each event is the Thursday prior to the event.
- FEE: $5 members, $7 non-members (Ages 3 and up)
The GRkids family would like to send your family to the Animal Adventure for free! We are giving away a family 4-pack of tickets to see this amazing event.
To enter leave a comment with your name (and email if you enter via facebook) and tell us your favorite animal to visit at the zoo. Enter soon – the winner will be chosen Monday, Jan. 26 and notified via email.







My 3 year old daughter said her favorite zoo animal is a snake!
The kids love the monkeys. They can be quite entertaining!
My children love the apes they are so interesting and do the funniest things.
I would have to say that the favorite animal would be the penquins.
We love to watch the monkeys!
We love the snow leopards, black-footed cat in the nocturnal exhibit!
My son’s favorite animals are the bears. My daughter’s favorites are the monkeys.
My kids’ favorite animals to visit at John Ball are the Lions, Flamingos and Might Mike (alligator)!
I have three grand girls that would just love this opportunity!
We love seeing the penguins, feeding the stingrays and petting the pig!
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We love seeing the monkeys and the penguins! Thanks for the giveaway!
We love the penguins!!!
Our favorite animals are fish and frogs. My little guy could stand next to the frog exhibit all day!! He also love the glass walls with fish behind them!!
Stingrays are a favorite around here. Thank you for the chance to enter.
My kids and I Love the bears and The lions. we would love to win!
We love to see the monkeys!
My daughter’s favorite is the komodo dragon.
My children love the cat families, penquins and the flamingos. We so would love to go to the zoo and would love to win.
My 2 year old loves the fish and my 4 year old is partial to the reptiles and Nessie! And they both love to use their flashlights, so the conservatory at night would be very exciting!!
We love the bears!
we love to see the Lions & the bears! estine2522@yahoo.com
We like the lions!
We love the monkeys and would love to go to this event! Thank you for the giveaway chance!
We love the penguins, monkeys and elephants!
We absolutely love watching the monkeys!! katkuz28@aol.com
My girls love to feed the birds!
My son loves to see the lions and monkeys.
My favorite animal at the zoo are the wallaby. My kids love mighty mike and the penguins!!! And of course the baby goats!!
We all love to visit the penguins!
We love watching the otters play!
My name is Kareen Dyk, my two girls and i Love the Lions….they are so strong and powerful and we love the chimps…b/c they are so funny!! we would love to go to this great event! Pick us Please!!!
We LOVE the Lions!
We like the lions.
We try to go every year to the Zoo and our favorite exhibit is the penguins!
I love visiting the Monkeys!
My kids love to go see the penguins!!!
Our favorite animal at the zoo is the monkey!
We enjoy the chimpanzees.
Our favorite are the monkeys!!!!
Our most favoriate animal to visit at the zoo has aleays been the lions. Thier beauty never cease to amaze us.
Carrie_s_magnanti@yahoo.com
my kids love feeding the parakeets at the zoo!
Lily says her favorite animals are the monkeys and the lions.
mine would have to be the fish/aquarium. Or giraffes.
My kids favorite animal is the monkeys we would love to win!
My kids live the sea otters.
There are lots of favorites but we always head first straight for the monkeys!
My absolute favorite is the snow leopard! My kiddos love the monkeys.
My favorite right now is the Komodo Dragon. My son loves him right now so it is fun to see his excitement. I am always a fan of the petting zoo too!!
We LOVE to watch the monkeys and chimps!!! We could sit there all day!
We love seeing the Lions and Monkeys! We’d love even more to win tickets to this fun event! goringliz@yahoo.com
Every time we go to the zoo the boys change what their favorite animal is.
They love animals, especially my 5 year old. There favorite part is always the petting zoo.
Our daughter loves the monkeys
My son loves monkeys!
My boys love the snakes!
We love the lions!
My kids love the monkeys. I love the snow leopard.
I love watching the otters. They are so active, and love to show off!
We like the penquins. They’re cute and the aquarium is nice and cool in the summer time
We love the bear who pounds on the door when he is hungry and wants back in the den.
We love going to the zoo. My kids love seeing the penguins swim around.
Gators! Loves. the. gators!
Giraffes are our favorite animal to visit at the zoo!
My children love the Sting Rays! I can’t get them to leave!!
We love to visit the monkeys!!
Our favorite animals to watch at the monkeys.
We love the otters!
We love visiting the zoo! Our favorite animal is the komodo dragon.
We love the chimpanzees! They are fascinating to watch.
We love the lions at the zoo the most!
Trevor’s favorite are the penguins! Waddle Waddle!
We love seeing the monkeys.
This would be awesome! Been in Michigan 30 years and never been to meijer gardens though I have always wanted to go, such a long drive. I hope to make it there one day soon! We LOVE the monkeys and all the animals at the petting zoo
We like the penguins!! jswinni@yahoo.com
We love the penguins! My kids love seeing them swim around and feeling like they’re right next to them!
Our favorite animals to watch are the monkeys. My daughter really loves the petting zoo.
My little girl lives penguins!!! Can’t wait to see some real ones this summer!!!
My daughter loves the otter!
The animal we like to see the most at the zoo is the MOnkeys, my 8 yr old thinks they are pretty neat…
We LOVE the penguins!
Its the big cats. My kids just love them
We love the bears!!
Love the monkeys!
Love to watch the kangaroos. THey are fascinating!
My daughter’s favorite are the birds she can go into the cage with them and feed them. She was just telling about it yesterday and asking to go to the zoo. She would love this!
Our favorite is the otter exhibit! Tammysellek@sbcglobal.net
Thanks for the opportunity!! Our favorite animals… Would be the monkeys, big mike, and the lions!
We love to see the lions, and also the birds that you can feed! Thanks for the opportunity, I hope we win!
I love the monkeys!
The Lions are our Favorite!
We like stingrays.
The bears are my son’s favorite.
First off I would like to point out that January 26th is on a Thursday not a Monday and second me and my kids love the lions at the zoo!
avanoss4@aol.com
My girls love the monkeys! This would be so much fun!
My kiddos love the penguins. Since divorce has divided our family, we’ve been looking for reasons to smile. Tickets to Animal Adventures are just the … ticket!
We love the monkeys!
We love all the animals! One daughter’s favorite is Mighty Mike and the other one says the otter. Truth is we could watch all of them (well maybe not the porcupine – he’s stinky!) all day!
The goats! LOL amy_jer_smith@yahoo.com
the penguins are my favorite. Matt.and.Sarah.markle@gmail.com
Our family favorites are monkeys, bears, snakes and otters. Really there are too many to post.
My kid love to see monkeys.
It’s hard to chose just one but we love to visit the alligator
Although it isn’t one specific animal our favorite part is the the petting area! My kiddos love to be up close to them.
We love the Lion
Love the lions
We love to visit and feed the birds!
We really love the canaries and the goats. Being able to touch and interact with critters makes the zoo a great place for an afternoon.
We love the monkeys!
The monkeys are always this families favorite!