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Zoo word search

The animals you meet at the zoo, from the rhino to the meerkat, twenty of them in one grid. For the car on the way there, or as a follow-up in class after the field trip.

FOUND0 of 20
  • Camel
  • Chimpanzee
  • Crocodile
  • Enclosure
  • Feeding
  • Flamingo
  • Giraffe
  • Gorilla
  • Hippo
  • Keeper
  • Lion
  • Llama
  • Meerkat
  • Ostrich
  • Panda
  • Penguin
  • Rhino
  • Ticket
  • Tiger
  • Zebra

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Zoo

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Find these words

  • Camel
  • Chimpanzee
  • Crocodile
  • Enclosure
  • Feeding
  • Flamingo
  • Giraffe
  • Gorilla
  • Hippo
  • Keeper
  • Lion
  • Llama
  • Meerkat
  • Ostrich
  • Panda
  • Penguin
  • Rhino
  • Ticket
  • Tiger
  • Zebra

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About this word search

Flamingos hatch with gray feathers and only turn pink from the pigments in the shrimp and algae they eat. With that fact in your pocket, the flamingo pool becomes a lot more interesting for a whole class on a field trip.

This fourteen-square grid uses straight and slanted lines, all of them reading forward. Hippo and Rhino are short forms of longer names that younger solvers may not know yet. Chimpanzee is the longest word and makes a good first target.

At the zoo itself, hand each student the printed sheet and a pencil. They can check off every animal as they actually see it, then add Keeper, Feeding and Ticket when those turn up during the day.

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 English (New Zealand) too

The same theme also exists in English (New Zealand) and 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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