exploration backpacks
Check out a free Imago Exploration Backpack to guide your discovery outside!
Exploration backpacks are located at Imago in a deck box next to the kiosk and are free for families to rent. There are three topics to choose from: Birds, Insects, and Trees. To rent a backpack fill out the checkout form and you will be sent the code to unlock the Exploration Backpack box.
Exploration Backpacks are only to be used while at Imago. Please return the backpack and all of it’s contents (keep your activity booklets!) to the box when you are finished exploring! Use the check in form to let us know when the Exploration Backpack is returned to the box.
How to Check Out an Exploration Backpack
- Click the “Exploration Backpack Check Out” button below.
- Fill out the form that pops up with which backpack you want to check out.
- After you submit the form you will be sent an email with the code to unlock the deckbox to retrieve the Exploration Backpack you checked out.
What is in an Exploration Backpack?
Insect Exploration Backpack
- Bugs & Slugs Field Guide
- Ohio Butterflies & Moths Field Guide
- “Caterpillars, Bugs, and Butterflies” Book
- Camera
- Journal
- Compound Eyes Bag
- Fact Sheet
- Kaleidoscopes (3)
- Parts of an Insect
- Stuffed Ant
- Labeling Cards
- Song Lyric Sheet
- Insect Puzzles Bag
- Ant Puzzle
- Beetle Puzzle
- Discovery Tools
- Bug Boxes (3)
- Magnifying glasses (3)
- Trowels (2)
- Pencil Bag
- Pencils
- Colored Pencils
- My Insect Activity Book (keep this!)
Birds Exploration Backpack
- Binoculars
- Bird Stuffed Animal (Red Winged Blackbird0
- Camera
- Journal
- Ohio Birds Field Guide
- Bird, Nest, Egg (Book)
- Bird Call
- My Birding Activity Book (keep this!)
- Pencil Bag
- Pencils
- Colored Pencils
Trees Exploration Backpack
- Tree Finder Field Guide
- Journal
- Leaf I.D Sort
- Leaf Rubbing Kit
- Blank paper
- Crayons
- Plastic leaves
- Pencil Bag
- Pencils
- Colored Pencils
- Parts of a Tree Sort
- My Tree Activity Book (keep this!)
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Cincinnati, OH 45205
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(513) 921-5124
Through our preservation of urban nature, our hands-on green workshops, and our education programs for youth, Imago is fostering an exciting, sustainable future that benefits us all.