Penguin Palooza

Penguin Palooza is an annual search and find at Mesker Park Zoo. From April 1-April 25, 2025 visitors can search for penguins throughout the zoo and enter to win prizes! There are 26 penguin statues (13 colorful, 13 black) around zoo attractions and animal habitats. Can you find them all?

The 2025 Palooza will end with a Penguin Palooza Party in the front plaza of Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden on April 25, 2025. Celebrate World Penguin Day and the end of Penguin Palooza with us from 10 am- 2 pm. The party will feature penguin-themed activities, keeper chats, story times, and penguin feeding giveaways and is included with zoo admission and free to members.

How to Play:

To find the penguins:

• Choose your challenge level: 
  • Player – 13 color penguins (youth level)
  • Puzzler – 13 black penguins (adult level)
• Use the map (reverse side) as a guide for where to find the penguins.   A route is suggested but not required.
• Find all 13 numbered penguins for your chosen level.
• Each numbered area on the map contains the corresponding numbered penguins (one for each level).
• As you find them, describe their specific location on the corresponding numbered blanks below. 
• Have fun!

How to Win:

To enter the contest:

• Take a selfie with one of our penguins.
• Post your penguin selfie on your social media.

(#MPZBG, #MPZpenguinpalooza)

• Complete the entry form with your contact info and social media username.
• Place your entry form in the Penguin Palooza box in the MPZBG gift shop.
• Winners will be drawn at our Penguin Palooza Party on April 25, 2025. They will be announced in person at the zoo and contacted via phone or email.

Please note: An entry form submission is required to win the Player/ Puzzler prize; A tagged social media post is required for the social media prize. One winner per household.

Our bright, whimsical penguins were made of used bottle caps and donated by GreenTree Plastics of Evansville.

Bottles and caps are single-use plastics that ends up in our waters and on our beaches, harming aquatic life.  We encourage you to join us to reduce, reuse, and refuse single-use plastics, and to recycle any plastics you do use.  Help us keep our waters clean for aquatic animals like penguins!