maximum 20 children
Step 1: Pick your party Package
Children enjoy an exciting and educational birthday party for their special day! Surrounded by the sights and sounds of the nature center your child’s special day will be one of exploration, learning, and fun. Birthdays are a member benefit. Current Family Membership is required
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Reserved space in our outdoor wooden covered pavilion complete with 8 picnic tables
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A 2.5 hour reservation which includes:
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Time for setup before the party
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50-60 minutes of educator-led program
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30-45 minutes for food, dessert, and refreshments
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Time for cleanup after the party
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Classic TNC party favor for all participants
*$360 For up to 15 Children
*$440 For up to 20 children
*Additional fee required for select themes and add-ons
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Reserve a Classic Party Today!Reserve a Classic Party Today!
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Reserved space in our outdoor wooden covered pavilion complete with 8 picnic tables
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A 3 hour reservation which includes:
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Time for setup before the party
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50-60 minutes of educator-led program
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30-45 minutes for food, dessert, and refreshments
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30 minute BONUS add-on activity
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Time for cleanup after the party
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Classic TNC party favor for all participants
*$420 For up to 15 Children
*$520 For up to 20 Children
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Reserve a Deluxe Party Today!Reserve a Deluxe Party Today!
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Reserved space in our outdoor wooden covered pavilion complete with 8 picnic tables
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A 4 hour reservation which includes:
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Time for setup before the party
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50-60 minutes of educator-led program
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30-45 minutes for food, dessert, and refreshments
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30 minute BONUS add-on activity
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Two different 30 minute BONUS add-on activities
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Time for cleanup after the party
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Classic TNC party favor for all participants
*$560 For up to 20 Children
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Reserve a Ultimate Party Today!Reserve a Ultimate Party Today!
party theme
Parties instructed by an experienced Tenafly Nature Center Naturalist.
Additional Fee $55
Additional Fee $55
Do you love TNC’s natural setting, but want a “bigger” program? We offer programs through partnering education-based companies hosted in our space. Led by a guest naturalist. Additional fees apply for all.
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 audeinece’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, a big Boa Constrictor or an amazing Burmese Python, and even a baby Alligator!
Additional Fee $275
Dive in to the ocean! Learn some of the adaptations that a variety of aquatic creatures have developed for life in the water. Meet the underwater strongman, the starfish; the peaceful but spiny sea urchin; the ancient and mysterious horseshoe crab; the silly clownfish with its protective, multi-armed partner, the anemone, and more. This party will look at these incredible creatures of the deep in a fun, hands-on, and highly interactive show illustrating facts about these wonderful sea creatures.
Additional Fee $300
Some animals have a bad reputation based on appearances! Guests will meet and learn about animal with extradorinary 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 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 paelontologist at home? Dinosaur Supreme has everything the Dynamtie Dinosaurs has, plus more! The program includes and 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.
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Campfire and BYOS'mores
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Natural Craft
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Guided Nature Walk
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Nature Games
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Mud Kitchen (best for children 6 and under)
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Outdoor Heaters
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Animal Ambassador SponsorshipsAnimal Ambassador Sponsorships
Want to have the party in the comfort of your home? Make it special by inviting TNC to the party! We can bring any combination of our Animal Ambassadors to your desired location.
This program will run for one-hour. $275 plus mileage. Program must be indoors if the temperature is below 65 degrees for the safety of our animals. Choice of animals not guaranteed.
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Must have a parking space for TNC staff member near the entrance of your location.
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If any pets, they must be removed from the room where our Animal Ambassadors will be for the safety of the animals and guests
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TNC staff must have access to the outdoor location without needing to enter an inside building.
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A mileage charge of the current IRS rate per mile round trip is added to the program fee if the location is outside of Tenafly.
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Reserve your Birthday to Go Today!Reserve your Birthday to Go Today!
Pictures include photos courtesy of Mark
Saunders Photography
Questions? Directly Contact the Birthday Coordinator