Animals 🦊 — English games for kids (online + printable)
Aylara A.
Kids' teacher · founder of AylaraTalks
The animals topic gives you 26 concrete, drawable, act-out-able words — 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 — that's how the meetings happen without a single drill.
The words (26)
- 🐱 cat — кот
- 🐶 dog — собака
- 🦊 fox — лиса
- 🐻 bear — медведь
- 🦁 lion — лев
- 🐯 tiger — тигр
- 🐸 frog — лягушка
- 🐟 fish — рыба
- 🐦 bird — птица
- 🐴 horse — лошадь
- 🐮 cow — корова
- 🐷 pig — свинья
- 🐑 sheep — овца
- 🐔 chicken — курица
- 🦆 duck — утка
- 🐭 mouse — мышь
Five ways to play them
- Memory Match — picture↔word pairs from the animals set; every flip is said aloud. Two-player mode for student vs teacher.
- Bingo — you call the words, kids hunt their cards: listening practice with a winner's shout at the end.
- Flip Cards — the deck on screen: picture first, the child names it, flip to check. Great for the first meeting with the words.
- Word Scramble — the shorter animals words letter by letter: spelling dressed as a puzzle.
- Balloon Words — 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.
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⭐ 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 — the rest will follow.
🎈 Put it into play
Everything here pairs with our free classroom games — no prep, no accounts.
About the author
Aylara A.
Kids' teacher · founder of AylaraTalks
Aylara is a kids' teacher who spent years hand-making every classroom game — cutting cards and drawing boards on paper sheets. She created AylaraTalks so no teacher has to start from a blank page again.