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Zoo Animal Worksheets For Preschool

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These zoo animal worksheets are a fun and engaging way to help preschoolers and pre-k kids build essential early learning skills. With adorable zoo-themed illustrations, these printables make practicing letters, numbers, and fine motor activities exciting and enjoyable.

Whether you’re teaching at home or in the classroom, they’re perfect for keeping little ones focused while having fun. Kids will love learning alongside their favorite animals like lions, elephants, and monkeys. Don’t forget to explore our preschool worksheets for even more educational and entertaining activities to support your child’s development.

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Zoo Animal Printables

Your child will work on topics such as letter recognition, counting, memory, patterns, simple addition, handwriting, and much more!

Letter Mazes

We tend to include these simple letter mazes in our worksheet bundles because kids love playing with them! All they need to do is begin at the start and follow the designated letter through the maze to get to the finish box!

You can print them out for one-time use and have them color the boxes in, or you can laminate them and use markers like pom poms, beans, cereal, or anything else small enough to fit inside the box.

Set of six alphabet letter mazes for children, each featuring a different letter (M, O, P, T, H, and L) and an animal illustration that begins with that letter. Each page includes a grid of mixed uppercase and lowercase letters where kids follow a path by identifying the target letter.Pin

Zoo Animal Flashcards

These cute zoo flashcards can be used in a variety of ways! We suggest laminating them before first use so they can be used over and over again. Print two sets out and use as a simple matching game for your child. You can also find lots of other engaging ways to use flashcards with kids, here.

Six illustrated animal flashcards featuring a giraffe, rhino, lion, elephant, tiger, and zebra, each labeled with the corresponding animal name in lowercase letters beneath the image.Pin

Letter Recognition Pages

We also included these zoo animal letter recognition worksheets. There are seven worksheets that cover the letters E, L, M, O, P, T and Z.

On the left side of the page, kids need to find the designated letter in the boxes. They can use do a dot markers to dab each of the letters they find.

On the right side of the page, kids will practice making uppercase and lowercase letters. There is one line that has dotted letters for them to trace and then the line below is empty for children to write in the letter by themselves.

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Free Printable Number Strip Puzzles

These number strip puzzles are a fun way for kids to build a puzzle and work on counting skills. We suggest laminating the pieces first, then cutting them.

If you want to turn this worksheet set into a 3-ring binder set, we suggest using adhesive Velcro on the back of each strip. Then, laminate an empty sheet of white paper and place the matching adhesive Velcro on that blank page.

Two animal-themed number puzzles featuring illustrated images of a tiger and a giraffe. Each puzzle is divided into vertical strips labeled with sequential numbers from 1 to 10.Pin

Silhouette Matching Worksheets

This worksheet is great for kids to practice visual discrimination. We’ve included two different styles.

The first worksheet has both the silhouettes and the matches on one page. Simply cut out the dashed boxes at the bottom and have your child paste them onto the correct boxes.

The second worksheet is a full page and works better when you’re creating a 3-ring binder. Laminate both pages, then add the adhesive velcro dots to the back of the animal and the top of the silhouette for kids. These are a lot of fun!

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More Preschool Worksheets

We’ve also included a variety of other worksheets for kids to work on a variety of skills. These include:

  • a color matching worksheet
  • an animal counting worksheet
  • a what doesn’t belong worksheet
  • a basic addition with pictures worksheet
  • a finish the pattern worksheet

These might be our favorite part of the bundle because these worksheets are colorful and feel more like a game than worksheets!

Our preschooler’s favorite out of the whole bunch is the finish the pattern printable. He’ll do them over and over again! He loves cutting and pasting the monkeys, lions, and tigers in this activity.

You can get the entire set of zoo printables below. If you want to try a sample first, you can download the free printable pack of animal strip puzzles by entering your email in the form at the end of this post.

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Zoo Books For Kindergarten

Reading aloud offers many benefits for a child’s development, making it a great activity to do together. Not only does reading help grow their vocabularies and develop language skills, but it’s a nice way to spend quality time.

Try out these fun zoo animal books:

The Fascinating Animal Book For Kids is a great book for curious kiddos! Find facts on almost any animal your child is learning about. This is a great resource to have in your home library collection.

The View At The Zoo is a silly book about all the animals at the zoo. When the people come to take a look at the animals, they see all sorts of sights! But, there’s a twist to this book that you have to read for yourself and laugh about!

Giraffes Can’t Dance is a sweet and fun book about Gerald the Giraffe. He can’t dance, but doesn’t stop trying! He finally finds his own rhythm when he meets an unlikely friend.

Easy Zoo Animal Craft For Kids

Sloth Handprint Craft – Don’t leave your kids hanging around; get them to make this cute sloth! This fun and easy project is perfect for kids of all ages and will give them a tree-mendous amount of joy. All you need is some basic craft supplies and our free downloadable to get started.

Zebra Paper Bag Puppet Craft – Move over boring paper bags; it’s time for a wild and wonderful zebra puppet to take the stage! This is the perfect pre-k creation to enjoy in the classroom and at home.

This fun craft will look stripes above the rest – kids simply reuse a paper bag and decorate it to look like a sweet zebra. It’s an easy project they’ll love galloping through!

A collage of four animal-themed paper crafts for kids, featuring sloths hanging from branches, zebra puppets, elephant headbands, and tiger puppets, all displayed on a white surface with green fabric in the background.Pin

Elephant Headband Craft – Let your little ones’ imaginations run wild as they transform into an elephant. They’ll love assembling the different parts of an elephant’s face onto a paper headband.

And you’ll love that it makes for great imaginative play and animal recognition. Grab your trunks; we’re going on a crafty adventure!

Brown Paper Bag Tiger Craft – Kids will have a ton of fun creating a roaring, striped tiger using an ordinary paper bag. Paper bag crafts are always super easy and affordable, making them perfect for creative cubs of all ages.

Kids will also love stowing away their other zoo-themed crafts in this special tiger bag. Get ready to roar!

Zoo Animal Activities For Kids

These animal do a dot printables are a great way for kids to flex their creative muscles while learning about animals.

Each page features a different animal-themed task for kids to dot in the blanks. This activity helps improve their concentration and teaches them about different animals’ appearances, colors, and shapes.

For some paws-itively awesome fun, download these polar bear cutting activity pages. Not only will kids get to practice fine motor skills as they manipulate scissors, but they can also explore the fun polar bear theme. Watch as your kids cut along the line on each page – it’s sure to be a beary cool way to pass the time!

A collage of preschool worksheets, including animal-themed alphabet coloring pages, color-by-number crocodile sheets, and a cutting practice page with dashed lines and polar bears.Pin

Color by numbers is a fantastic way to introduce kids to the basics of numbers and counting. With our Pre k color by numbers, they’ll get to practice their number recognition skills while developing creativity! All they need to do is match each number in the picture with its corresponding color. It’s easy peasy for any young learner!

Downloads these zoo animal handwriting worksheets and explore the wild side of handwriting! This activity is perfect for improving kids’ writing skills as they learn about animals.

Kids will love tracing each letter in the animal worksheets, so break out your pencils and get ready for a roar-some learning experience.

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Jen

Wednesday 5th of March 2025

These would be great for my class.

Kamille - Community Support Assistant

Thursday 6th of March 2025

That’s awesome! All you need to do is enter your email in the form at the end of this post to have the confirmation link sent to you. Or if you’re already a subscriber, you just need to enter your email in the form at the end of the post and it’ll automatically redirect you to the download page ◡̈

Katie

Monday 22nd of April 2024

These would be great for my special needs pre-k's.

Sam

Monday 22nd of April 2024

Oh, perfect!

Kara

Monday 12th of February 2024

3 yr old room please

Sam

Monday 12th of February 2024

Hi Kara! I'm not sure what you're asking, but these are available in our shop here: https://shop.simpleeverydaymom.com/products/zoo-animal-printables-for-kids

Me Cappa

Friday 28th of July 2023

Looking forward to doing these. Thank you!

Sam

Friday 28th of July 2023

Oh, great! You're very welcome!

jane

Monday 3rd of July 2023

how can I get these?

Sam

Monday 3rd of July 2023

All you need to do is enter your email in the form at the end of this post to have the link sent to you. Once you've been confirmed as an email subscriber (by clicking the link in the first email), you simply enter your email in any of the forms and it'll automatically redirect you to the download page.

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