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Easy zoo word search

Lion, zebra, panda and camel: ten well-known zoo animals for young children on the way to the zoo. The grid is ten by ten and the words only run across or down, never backwards.

FOUND0 of 10
  • Bear
  • Camel
  • Hippo
  • Lion
  • Llama
  • Panda
  • Seal
  • Snake
  • Tiger
  • Zebra

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Zoo for young kids

Name

Find these words

  • Bear
  • Camel
  • Hippo
  • Lion
  • Llama
  • Panda
  • Seal
  • Snake
  • Tiger
  • Zebra

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Zoo for young kids

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About this word search

Zebra and Panda are easy to picture in black and white, which makes a nice game before the puzzle. Ask your child which other animals on the list have stripes, and the Tiger usually comes up first.

In the ten by ten grid, words only run to the right or downward. Help your child read a name, spot its opening letter somewhere in a row, and check whether the next letters carry on rightward or underneath.

At the zoo, keep the sheet in a bag and tick off each animal you actually see. If one is missing, that opens a nice talk about where it lives in the wild.

Ways to use this word search

  • In the classroom

    Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, students check their own answers.

  • At home and on the go

    Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or a family vacation. A pen is all you need, no screen required.

  • Play together

    Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.

Try it in German too

The same theme also exists in German, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.

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