The other day, I went to the San Diego Zoo.  Not physically.  Just to the website.  (Much cheaper than paying for the airplane and zoo entrance tickets.)  They have a program called ‘Roar and Snore.’ It’s a sleep-over program where kids and their families can pack their pillows and sleeping bags and spend the night at the zoo with exotic bed mates — at a distance. (Whew!  I was worried there for a moment . . .)

I liked the name of the program.  Roar and snore.  Roar and snore.  Catchy.

That set my mind whirling.  Why couldn’t grandma sponsor a similar ‘program’ for her grandchildren?  Add some graham crackers, a chocolate bar, and marshmallows and you get Roars, S’mores, and Snores.

So, what would grandchildren do at grandma’s Roars, S’mores,and Snores activity?  Here are some ideas:

• Visit a local zoo
• Play ‘Going on a Lion Hunt’
• Play the online game Wild Chronicles where you help record video footage from the Crittercam collars worn by the lions in northern Kenya
• Sing folk songs around the campfire (such as You Are My Sunshine and She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain)
• Make a lion face iron on transfer and put it on a shirt (here’s a clipart of a lion and a photo of one that you can use)
• Do a woodburning picture of a lion
• Make a lion head out of paper mache
• Watch movies like Clarence the Cross-eyed Lion (filmed in 1965), Born Free (filmed in 1966), Second-Hand Lion (filmed in 2003), Lion King, Madagascar, Madagascar Escape 2 Africa, or even Jungle Book
• Make S’mores over a campfire (or in the microwave if you don’t have access to a camp fire)
• Pitch a tent, pump up an air mattress, and sleep in the back yard (if you don’t have a back yard, throw out the sleeping bags on the floor of the family room)

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