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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 school trip.

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  • 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

Zoo trips tend to have a route, and this list follows one: the big animals first, Rhino, Hippo and Giraffe, then the apes, the Meerkat enclosure and finally the Penguin feeding. Keeper, Enclosure, Feeding and Ticket make it about the visit as much as the animals.

In this fourteen by fourteen grid, words go across, down and slanting, and none of them run backwards. Chimpanzee and Crocodile are long. The double L in Llama is a handy clue.

On the way home, ask everyone to pick the animal they liked most and say one thing they learned about it. The finished puzzle makes a good keepsake for a scrapbook of 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, pupils check their own answers.

  • At home and on the go

    Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or the holidays. 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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