Birthday Parties

Guests will take to the forest searching for a variety of living and natural wonders. Partygoers will create a keepsake bag and join their friends on a hunt for things found along TNC’s trails. Once the journey is complete, guests will trade in their collection for a reward.

Oh no! The faeries are lost in the woods. Partygoers will need to help save the lost faeries on the trails. As a reward, they will be gifted with faerie wings, crowns, and even a wand! As a special treat, guests may even meet animal who lives among the faeries.

Additional Fee $55

Come and create your own cuddly friend! Guests will stuff their own teddy bears to take home. Bring the bears out for a stroll on the trails and play a game.

Additional Fee $55

Guests will hike through TNC’s woods with an educator to find natural treasures and follow the clues to the buried treasure. When guests arrive they will decorate a keepsake bag to use as they explore our trails and learn about the organisms that inhabit our preserve. Great for kids needing to get some energy out on the trails!

What does it take to survive in the woods? Get ready to get dirty! Guests will learn the basics of survival by fire building, wayfinding and shelter building.

Experience an animal encounter with 3 TNC Animal Ambassadors. Guests discover how they are different and similar to each animal and how each species survives in the environment. This program can help children gain respect for and decrease their fears of animals. We will also take a short walk in search of native animals.

This party is for those who have dreamed of receiving a letter by an owl and learning about a whole wizarding world! We will meet 3 fantastic beasts including an owl, toad, and a snake and head into the forbidden forest…just be careful no one mentions this party to you-know-who!

Meet mammals from around the world as you learn their life stories, their often humorous personality, fun facts, anecdotes and get animal eye-views! Guests can meet a variety of mammals chosen for the audience’s age range. Animals may include a rabbit, a Wallaby, guinea Pig, and the Patagonian Cavy.

Additional Fee $275

Have your party in the scaly world of strange reptiles! Meet with a variety of reptiles, most of which can be touched under the watchful eyes of the instructor. Past guests have included lizards like a Blue-Tongued Skink, turtles like a Red-foot Tortoise, an amazing Burmese Python, and even a 5-6 ft Boa Constrictor!

Additional Fee $275

Some animals have a bad reputation based on appearances! Guests will meet and learn about animals with extraordinary adaptations to survive. This program is for brave party goers ready to meet some animals people may have called “monsters” but by the end of the party, all will call cool! Animals may include an alligator snapping turtle, electric catfish, an Anaconda species and more.

Additional Fee $325

Imagine a museum at the nature center! Enjoy an amazing, educational, and fun dinosaur presentation using museum-quality dinosaur, fossil and mineral specimens. Your guests will take home 3 genuine fossils of their choice, ranging from dinosaur bone, trilobites, fossil shark teeth and more. Guests go on a dinosaur egg hunt and even hatch them at the party. The party ends with a ring toss over a life-size T-Rex foot! Each guest will win a toy dinosaur.

Additional Fee $560 for 15 children, $615 for 20 children

Do you have a future paleontologist at home? Dinosaur Supreme has everything the Dynamite Dinosaurs has, plus more! The program includes an upgraded dig with 8 take-home pieces and pre-arranged goody bags filled with dinosaur theme items.

Additional Fee $710 for 15 children, $755 for 20 children.