Printable Animal Flash Cards

It’s pretty generally true that kids love animals, and learning about different kinds of animals is a fun way to learn about the natural world.

I recently came across this set of printable wild animal flash cards from 123 Homeschool 4 Me, which includes pictures of 32 different animals that are labeled with their names. I like these because they are actual photographs, not drawings, which makes them great for kids learning the names of animals.

But there are lots of other options out there for printable animal flash cards. These from Super Simple have cartoony drawings but are really cute for little kids to use. This set includes 38 cards.

Flashcards for Kindergarten has a set of 100 animal flash cards with the animal names on them, perfect for kindergarten, grade school or ESL learners.

And MES Learning has printable and online flashcards, as well as worksheets, bingo cards and other printables to supplement learning.

Of course you can just use the pictures to learn the names of different animals, but animal flash cards are also great to use to expand learning. Here are a few ideas.

Choose an animal and share/learn facts about that animal.
Match the cards to animal toys
Print a set of animal pictures that aren’t labeled and match the labeled animal to the unlabeled one
Make a scavenger hunt by hiding animals around the room
Sort animals by habitat or different features such as feathers vs. fur, lives in water or on land, where it is cold, where it is hot, etc.
Use as a writing or storytelling prompt
Set up a pretend play or sensory box with an animal theme and use the flash cards to identify animals that might live there (or hide cards in the sensory box for kids to find)
add a spelling element with alphabet magnets or write the words for kids to trace to practice writing

I’m sure there are lots of other ways you can use animal flash cards; I’d love to hear your ideas!

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I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

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