Learn about Mythical Animals with this Fun Card Game

I love printable games because they’re relatively low setup (and low cost) but can be a lot of fun for kids and are often about subjects that you wouldn’t necessarily find a board game about.

Inspired by the book Miss Tourie’s Magic Creatures, Karyn at Teach Beside Me made up this printable mythical creatures card game.

In the book a child is looking for a pet and looks into Miss Tourie’s shop, where all the pets are magical, mythical creatures such as a unicorn and Sasquatch.

The cards show all the different creatures and give a little information about them. Creatures include:

griffen
kracken
Loch Ness monster
Sasquatch
golem
chimera
Cerberus
unicorn
dragon
hydra
hyppocamp
phoenix
Pegasus
black cat (even the cat has a bit of magic in the book!)

While a couple of the cards are related to the book, it wouldn’t matter if you haven’t read the book to play the game. It’s basically a matching game or a game of Old Maid (with the black cat being the Old Maid card) and a couple of wild cards thrown in.

Kids who already love mythology and magical creatures are sure to enjoy this game, and you could also make it a part of a mythology unit study if you do one of those.

Kids could also draw a card from the deck to choose a creature to research and draw their own mythical creature fact card about if you want to extend the activity and make it more educational.

Or just play the game for fun! There’s nothing wrong with that.

Learn more about the game at Teach Beside Me. You can buy a copy from Teachers Pay Teachers.

Looking for more printable games? Check out these easy math games, multiplication games, a who did it game and a printable escape room idea.

[Photo: Teach Beside Me]

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Most kids go through a phase where they want to learn more about animals, and it’s fun for them to learn about the diversity of the natural world and what humans can do to protect other creatures we share the planet with. Camilla de la Bedoyere has written a couple of books, illustrated by Philip Giordano, to help kids learn more about birds and bees.

Wild Your World: Birds looks at many different kinds of birds that live around the world and covers things like parts of a bird, different habitats that birds live in, migration, camouflage, what and how birds eat and more.

With lovely illustrations showing a diverse array of birds found around the world, the book talks about different birds that live in the woodlands, rainforest, fields and farms, coastland, grasslands and deserts, urban areas and the polar regions.

It talks about some of the biggest, smallest and fastest birds, and fun facts about different birds. For example you’ll learn about birds that next in cacti, the birds with weird shaped eggs so they won’t roll off cliffs, and meet the birds that migrate from New Zealand to Alaska.

Wild Your World: Bees follows a similar format, talking about different kinds of bees (and how the vast majority of bee species are solitary bees), parts of a bee and why bees look the way they do, how bees collect nectar and pollen, how bees sense the world around them, how their wings work and what life in a colony is like.

It covers the bee life cycle, how bees make honey, what causes a swarm and more. It covers digger bees, carpenter bees, orchid bees, cuckoo bees (who lay their eggs in the nests of teddy bear bees so they don’t have to take care of their young), mining bees, plasterer bees, leaf-cutter, wool carder and mason bees (so named because they collect materials to make their nests), bumblebees and swaet bees.

Readers will also learn about keeping bees. Both books talk about the dangers to birds and bees and what humans can do to help them.

These books are aimed at readers ages 4-9 who will enjoy looking at the pictures and learning about these animals and how people can help protect them.

About the books: Both books are 46 pages and hardcover. Published 2025 by Design Eye (see: birds|bees). Both books retail for $16.99.

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