Animals ๐ฆ โ English games for kids (online + printable)
Aylara A.
Kids' teacher ยท founder of AylaraTalks
The animals topic gives you 26 concrete, drawable, act-out-able words โ ideal game material for young learners. Below: the full word list, five ways to play it (each opens a game with this topic already loaded), and the printables for offline lessons.
A word becomes the child's own after roughly seven meetings. One topic, several different games โ that's how the meetings happen without a single drill.
The words (26)
- ๐ฑ cat โ ะบะพั
- ๐ถ dog โ ัะพะฑะฐะบะฐ
- ๐ฆ fox โ ะปะธัะฐ
- ๐ป bear โ ะผะตะดะฒะตะดั
- ๐ฆ lion โ ะปะตะฒ
- ๐ฏ tiger โ ัะธะณั
- ๐ธ frog โ ะปัะณััะบะฐ
- ๐ fish โ ััะฑะฐ
- ๐ฆ bird โ ะฟัะธัะฐ
- ๐ด horse โ ะปะพัะฐะดั
- ๐ฎ cow โ ะบะพัะพะฒะฐ
- ๐ท pig โ ัะฒะธะฝัั
- ๐ sheep โ ะพะฒัะฐ
- ๐ chicken โ ะบััะธัะฐ
- ๐ฆ duck โ ััะบะฐ
- ๐ญ mouse โ ะผััั
Five ways to play them
- Memory Match โ pictureโword pairs from the animals set; every flip is said aloud. Two-player mode for student vs teacher.
- Bingo โ you call the words, kids hunt their cards: listening practice with a winner's shout at the end.
- Flip Cards โ the deck on screen: picture first, the child names it, flip to check. Great for the first meeting with the words.
- Word Scramble โ the shorter animals words letter by letter: spelling dressed as a puzzle.
- Balloon Words โ save the word before the balloons fly away: the alphabet drill children ask to repeat.
Print & go
For offline lessons (or online students with a printer), the same animals words come as A4 printables: cut-out flashcards with three label options, a one-page poster for the wall, unique bingo sheets with a caller's list, and a matching worksheet with an upside-down answer key.
โญ Take this with you
One topic, 26 words, five games and four printables: enough material for two or three lessons plus the review that makes it stick. Pick six words to master per lesson โ the rest will follow.
๐ Put it into play
Everything here pairs with our free classroom games โ no prep, no accounts.
About the author
Aylara A.
Kids' teacher ยท founder of AylaraTalks
Aylara is a kids' teacher who spent years hand-making every classroom game โ cutting cards and drawing boards on paper sheets. She created AylaraTalks so no teacher has to start from a blank page again.