Make learning about biology and animals engaging and educational. Whether you are teaching in a classroom or at home, our projects offer a hands-on approach that will captivate kids and enhance their understanding of the animal kingdom. Don’t forget to check out our free printables to help you get started!
Awesome Animal Activities For Kids
These animal-themed activities are designed to engage students from early elementary through middle school! Our activities cover various fascinating topics, including animal adaptations, animal habitats, life cycles, ocean animals, animal crafts, and more.
These projects are perfect for hands-on learning and can easily be integrated into your classroom or home education plan. Throughout, look for free printable animal worksheets.
Animal Adaptations
Animal Adaptation Worksheets: Teach kids about animal adaptations with this printable animal adaptation pack. Includes printable crafts, games, word searches and more.
Migrating Animals: Download our free migration activities guide, which is packed with exciting facts and examples, and learn about the incredible journeys migrating animals take.
Hibernating Animals: Learning about hibernating animals is a great way to introduce kids to an important adaption that some animals have to living in a very cold climate. Grab the free hibernating animal pack.
Winter Food Chains: From snowy forests to the icy Arctic tundra, plants, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers must work together to ensure survival.
Winter Animal Adaptions Experiment: Winter can be harsh, but animals have unique adaptations to survive freezing temperatures. This fun experiment explores how different materials mimic the insulating properties of animal adaptations to the cold.
Diurnal and Nocturnal Animals: Explore how animals can be active during the day or at night, and the role that being diurnal or nocturnal plays in survival. Grab the diurnal and nocturnal activities pack!
Pollinators: Learn about pollinators with our printable pollinators guide. Includes fun facts, a bingo game, a word search, and a pollinator research worksheet.
Animal Bingo: Have fun with these picture based pollinator bingo cards. Great for younger students!
Animal Classification
Non-Living and Living: These free printable worksheets and activities are a great way to teach younger students how to classify things as living or non-living.
Animal Classification: Printable activities that will help kids build foundational knowledge about animals, their traits, and how scientists classify living things.
Invertebrates and Vertebrates: Explore the characteristics of vertebrates and invertebrates with these printable worksheets and activities.
Reptiles: Add these free printable reptile worksheets to your study of the animal kingdom and use them to put together a lapbook project about the fascinating world of reptiles.
Animal Habitats
LEGO Animal Habitat Challenges: This printable LEGO animal habitats building challenge pack features eight animal habitats to learn about.
Animal Habitats Color by Number: Exploring animal habitats with this free printable color-by-number activity for quick math practice.
Preschool Animal Habitats: Introduce preschoolers to the diverse environments where animals and plants live with over 16 printable activities.
Animal Habitat Diorama: Kids can explore different environments by creating an animal habitat diorama.
Animals of the World: Introduce the wonders of the seven continents and learn about the different animals that inhabit them with an awesome printable continents activities pack.
Biomes of the World: Learn about what a biome is, and what animals live in specific biomes with this printable biome lapbook project.
Taiga Diorama: Explore the characteristics of the taiga biome and its inhabitants with our printable diorama.
Savannah Diorama: Explore the main characteristics of the Savannah biome and the animals and plants that live there.
Animal Science
Animal Needs: From food to shelter, air to water, explore the basic needs of plants and animals with printable worksheets and fun, hands-on activities!
Build An Animal Shelter: Explore one of the basic needs of animals, shelter with this fun STEM challenge. Use items you collect from nature or craft supplies to build a shelter for your specific animal.
Animal Cells: Color in and label the parts of an animal cell as you explore what makes animal cells different from plant cells.
Animal Cell Diorama: Make an animal cell diorama with the free printable to visualize and understand cell anatomy creatively.
Blubber Experiment: Have do Arctic animals stay warm in freezing cold weather? Here’s a simple way to explore the properties of blubber in animals.
How Do Fish Breathe: Here is a simple science activity to explore how fish breathe underwater.
Food Chains: Learn about the important role animals have as consumers in the food chain. Includes food chain worksheets.
Ocean Animals
💡 Look through our complete Ocean Animal Resources for more fantastic under-the-sea theme ocean animal activities.
Narwhals: Learn about the amazing unicorns of the sea, Narwhals with these fun and easy printable activities. Plus, we share with you fun facts we’ve discovered about Narwhals.
Sea Turtles: Use this sea turtle activity pack with younger kids to explore this fantastic creature! Our family has been fortunate to swim alongside sea turtles in the wild in the Caribbean. They are truly beautiful creatures.
Penguins: Penguins are so much fun to learn about for an ocean theme. These printable penguin activities are just right for preschool hands-on learning too!
Jellyfish: Make a glowing jellyfish craft, learn about the life cycle of a jellyfish, the cool science behind bioluminescence, and more with the printable jellyfish activity pack.
Sharks: Explore shark science experiments, LEGO builds and also shark facts, shark games, and more shark fun in a free shark activity printable pack.
Ocean Animal I Spy: Investigate like a scientist with a fun Ocean Animals I Spy activity. Make sure to provide a magnifying glass, too!
Ocean Animal Color By Number: Practice basic math skills and color fun ocean animal pictures with our ocean color by number printable pack.
Ocean Animals Coloring Pages: Free printable ocean animals for kids coloring pages are perfect for an under the sea theme!
Ocean Animals Pattern Blocks: Grab this free ocean animals pattern blocks mat set to add to your ocean unit and create a simple center in minutes!
Ocean Animal Pin Crafts: Make these cute printable ocean animal crafts using split pins or brads! They move!
Animal Life Cycles
💡 Look through our complete list of Animal Life Cycles for more fantastic printable life cycle activities.
Frogs: Learn about the life cycle of frogs and add a bit of math with these fun color by number worksheets.
Honey Bees: Learn about the life cycle of a bee with this fun and free printable bee life cycle activity pair. Make a bee hotel for more hands-on learning.
Ladybugs: Ever had a ladybug land on you? Learn about amazing ladybugs with these fun and printable life cycle of ladybug worksheets.
Earthworms: Make some ooey gooey wormy magic mud, and extend the learning with this free printable earthworm life cycle pack!
Butterfly: Use soft candy to make the stages of the butterfly cycle, and extend the learning with our butterfly life cycle worksheets.
More Animals To Learn About
Reindeers: Check out some interesting facts about reindeer and enjoy the free printable reindeer activities!
Reptiles: Add these free printable reptile worksheets to your study of the animal kingdom and use them to put together a lapbook project about the fascinating world of reptiles.
Koalas: Learn about what koalas eat, where koalas live, and more. Plus, enjoy printable koala theme games and activities!
Bats: Bats might seem mysterious and spooky creatures, but they are beneficial! Use this animal activity pack to explore this creature and try two fun bat crafts!
Turkeys: Put together this fun turkey lapbook while learning about the turkey’s fascinating life cycle and anatomy.
Vertebrates and Invertebrates: Explore the characteristics of vertebrates and invertebrates with these printable worksheets and activities.
Animal Crafts & Art Projects
Build an Animal Crafts: Printable build an animal crafts that are perfect for young kids learning about animal groups.
Monkey Craft: This toilet paper roll monkey craft makes a great animal craft for any time of the year.
Ladybug Craft: Use a toilet paper tube and construction paper to make this cute animal craft for preschoolers!
Bumble Bee Craft: Learn about the amazing honey bee with this simple preschool craft.
Frog Paper Craft: Make this adorable frog craft using our printable frog template. It also has a fantastic, free frog life cycle fold-out activity.
Tissue Paper Butterflies: Simple materials and our free printable butterfly template makes this a must do butterfly craft for all ages.
Polka Dot Butterfly Painting: Use paint and a few cotton swabs to create your own colorful butterfly artwork inspired by artist Yayoi Kusama! Printable butterfly template included.
Tiger Jungle Art: Explore mixed media art with colored markers, real leaves, and our printable tiger template.
Ashevak Bird Art: This owl art activity is inspired by indigenous artist Ashevak’s Preening Owl print.
Bird Collage: Use shapes, colors, and patterns to create a Kenojuak-inspired bird collage.
Matisse Bird Collage: What do birds do in winter? When the birds head south, make your own winter collage of birds inspired by artist, Henri Matisse.
Owl Printing: Get stamping with a fun animal art activity that uses potatoes as paintbrushes.
Snowy Owl Craft: How do snowy owls live in some of the coldest parts of the world? Make your own snowy owls with our fun pinecone owl ornaments.
Polar Bear Paper Plate Craft – Make your own paper plate polar bears.
Polar Bear Puppet Craft – Learning about amazing Arctic animals with these easy to make polar bear puppets!
Free Animal Activity Guide Here
Printable Animal STEAM Bundle
Grades: K-5
Discover a world of animal-themed science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) with our Animal STEAM Bundle [here]! This comprehensive bundle (12 packs) is perfect for both classroom and home use, offering a wide range of hands-on projects that make learning fun and engaging for kids.
Whether you teach vertebrates, invertebrates, animal life cycles, or food chains, this pack has everything you need to captivate Kindergarten to 5th-grade students.
