Epcot Passport & Animal Kingdom Passport Activity?

[MAPOrocks]

Can someone please comment on the Epcot Passport and Animal Kingdom Passport activity for kids? I know that at Epcot, the passports get stamped at the Kidcot stations and you have to buy the passport for around $12. What about in Animal Kingdom?

Thanks!

 

[MAPOrocks]

bumping to try to get a response.....please!

 

[Que_Sarah_Sarah]

Found this on the Disney moms panel.

Option 1:
This "game" is Animal Kingdom's "Kids' Discovery Club." This is a great (FREE!) activity to help connect your kids to some educational and fun activity stations throughout the Animal Kingdom park. In total there are 6 activity stations, all of which are indicated on the park map with a "K" symbol. Once you go to any of these stations and complete the activity, you and/or your kids will be given an activity passport booklet and their first stamp. They can then proceed to visit all of the other stations and collect a total of 6 stamps while they learn a little on the way (shhhh, you don't have to tell them this part!).

Option 2:
This "game" is the Animal Kingdom "Safari Journal", which is based on a Safari Journal that you can purchase for about $11 (prices subject to change). This journal is filled with pictures and information and helps guide your kids throughout the park. It also has stickers for them to apply in their book as they find specific animals and experiences in the park. This booklet is sold at many of the gift shops throughout the park, including the one at the entrance, in case you want to buy it at the beginning of your day.

This was from 2010.

 

[MAPOrocks]

Can anyone comment on which one their kids enjoyed the most. My daughter is 9 and LOVES animals. Says she wants to be a veterinarian at Animal Kingdom when she grows up.

 

[Best Aunt]

At Epcot, it's a little more than the passport. I believe there's always some kind of "craft" thing as well. Right now it's Duffy The Bear On A Stick. If you go to the kidcot tables in each country, they will use the passport stamp on the Bear's stick (as well as in the passport). Imagine a cardboard bear on a big popsicle stick. The tables had books showing how you could color the bear to dress him up like the clothing of that country. I think they had markers on the tables. So basically, if you don't want to spring for the passport, your child can still get the stick bear for free and get it stamped.

My nieces were determined to go to every country to get their stick bears and passports stamped, so we did it over two evenings. I thought it was a pain trying to find the kidcot tables. I suppose if you had planned to look at everything in World Showcase and were doing the kidcot tables as an afterthought, you would bump into each table eventually. But if you are making a point of just being there for the kidcot tables, you have to search them out in each country.

We didn't do it at Animal Kingdom, so I can't help you there.

 

[Best Aunt]

If you look at the left side of the photo, you will see the back of the Duffy The Bear On A Stick which I referred to in my previous post.

This was just the second country that we visited. By the end of the evening, there were many passport stamps on Duffy's stick.