Learn About Animals on Different Continents

September 22, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Since I’ve been working on a nations of the world series for more than a year now, I’ve been thinking more about geography and how places are connected in ways that we might not always think about.

And one thing that different nations on the same continent often have in common is the animals that live in the wild there. Little kids especially will love learning about different animals and the habitats in which they live with these resources.

Montessori Nature has a nice set of printables for each continent with different animals to math the ones shown on the map. (Free with email) These can be used on their own or with the animal TOOBs (this set for example includes the crocodile, gorilla, elephant and more). Match the animals with their pictures on the cards, or hide them in a sensory bin for kids to find and then sort by continent.

Mama’s Happy Hive has a lovely felt map of the world that she uses for continent activities, including matching animals to the continents they live on. Her animals all live in boxes organized by continent, which frankly I’m a little jealous of.

Gift of Curiosity has a set of free printable animal cards and a post all about how they used them as a map activity.

If you’re able to pay for resources, Chalk Academy has a great set of animals of the world cards that are available in English, Korean and simplified or traditional Chinese.

Pinay Homeschooler has a post all about using little animal figures with printables of the continents and their animals, and they have a set of printables for sale on Teachers Pay Teachers that includes maps of each continent showing five animals each that you can use with animal figures or by printing out animal cards to match those on the maps.

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Shark Week Learning for Kids

Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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