Learn about Mythical Animals with this Fun Card Game

April 30, 2026 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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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Pumpkin Worksheets for Kids

This time of year is a great time for pulling out all the apple and pumpkin themed worksheets to add a little seasonal fun to your learning. Let’s take a look at some fun pumpkin themed worksheets for the classroom or homeschool.

If you want some pumpkin printables that are actually about pumpkins, check out the pumpkin life cycle worksheets from 24 Hour Family that include parts of a pumpkin, life cycle, vocabulary, shape and counting activities. Rock Your Homeschool also has a cute printable and foldable life cycle worksheet for the life cycle of a pumpkin that kids can color and put together.

Inspire the Mom has ideas for a pumpkin unit study as well as printables (free with email signup) that include parts of the pumpkin, letter recognition, lesson plans and more. The blog post also includes more ideas for things like pretend play and centers, as well as books and videos with a pumpkin theme you can include in your study.

Do some pumpkin themed color by number with these printable coloring pages from The Artisan Life. Or try your hand at pumpkin I-spy with this printable from The Best Ideas for Kids.

Work on shape recognition and matching with this color, cut and paste activity from Free 4 Classrooms. And get some cutting practice with a pumpkin twist with these worksheets from Simple Everyday Mom.

These last two have a bunch of different fall themed worksheets to choose from, some of which include pumpkins. Willa Bean and Co. has a pumpkin themed alphabet set that includes pumpkins with the letters inside them and sets of upper and lower case letters on seeds you can use for matching.

And Worksheeto has a bunch of fall themed phonics worksheets, including pumpkin sight words with fall themed words and pumpkin letter matching.

For more pumpkin learning fun, see our pumpkin printables for kids and pumpkin STEM activities lists.

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