Zoo word search
Red pandas, meerkats and a darkened kiwi house where you have to wait for your eyes to adjust. Twenty words from a day at the zoo or wildlife park.
- Capybara
- Cheetah
- Chimpanzee
- Elephant
- Enclosure
- Feeding time
- Flamingo
- Giraffe
- Hippo
- Kiwi house
- Lion
- Meerkat
- Nocturnal
- Orangutan
- Otter
- Red panda
- Rhino
- Tiger
- Zebra
- Zookeeper
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionAt the zoo
Name
| Y | E | N | C | L | O | S | U | R | E | C | N | I | G |
| S | L | N | O | E | T | I | G | E | R | I | D | N | A |
| N | E | K | L | C | F | M | Z | N | I | I | A | H | O |
| A | P | F | I | U | T | N | N | E | O | T | T | E | R |
| M | H | E | O | W | A | U | F | N | U | W | C | R | R |
| L | A | E | N | P | I | F | R | G | S | G | A | E | R |
| A | N | D | M | M | A | H | N | N | D | E | P | G | E |
| E | T | I | O | R | E | A | O | Z | A | E | Y | U | D |
| I | H | N | I | A | R | E | N | U | E | L | B | M | P |
| C | I | G | T | O | O | C | R | K | S | B | A | F | A |
| U | P | T | R | H | I | N | O | K | E | E | R | H | N |
| F | P | I | O | O | M | O | A | E | A | T | A | A | D |
| O | O | M | T | E | Z | C | H | E | E | T | A | H | A |
| L | I | E | P | U | F | L | A | M | I | N | G | O | G |
Find these words
- Capybara
- Cheetah
- Chimpanzee
- Elephant
- Enclosure
- Feeding time
- Flamingo
- Giraffe
- Hippo
- Kiwi house
- Lion
- Meerkat
- Nocturnal
- Orangutan
- Otter
- Red panda
- Rhino
- Tiger
- Zebra
- Zookeeper
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About this word search
New Zealand's zoos and wildlife parks, such as Auckland Zoo, Wellington Zoo, Hamilton Zoo and Orana Wildlife Park in Christchurch, keep animals from all over the world alongside native species. Red pandas and meerkats are firm favourites, and most zoos have a kiwi house where day and night are swapped so visitors can see the kiwi when they are awake.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and the words run across, down and diagonally, never backwards. Feeding time is the longest at eleven letters, written FEEDINGTIME, with chimpanzee at ten. Lion is the shortest at four letters. Zebra, zookeeper and chimpanzee contain a Z, which is rare, so that is a good letter to look for first.
Take this sheet to the zoo and tick each animal off when you see it. Afterwards, children can write down which animal they would like to look after as a zookeeper, and why.
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 ferry or the bach. 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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