Little bugs — English games for kids (online + printable)
Aylara A.
Kids' teacher · founder of AylaraTalks
The Insects topic gives you 14 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 (14)
- 🦋 butterfly — бабочка
- 🐝 bee — пчела
- 🐞 ladybug — божья коровка
- 🐜 ant — муравей
- 🕷️ spider — паук
- 🐌 snail — улитка
- 🐛 caterpillar — гусеница
- 🦗 grasshopper — кузнечик
- 🦟 mosquito — комар
- 🪱 worm — червячок
- 🪲 beetle — жук
- 🪰 fly — муха
- 🦂 scorpion — скорпион
- 🕸️ web — паутина
Five ways to play them
- Memory Match — picture↔word pairs from the Insects 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 topic's shorter 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 Insects 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.
Take this with you
One topic, 14 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
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.
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Little Bugs Vocabulary Presentation (Free PPT)
Free little bugs vocabulary presentation for ESL kids: 14 picture slides with audio, a quick check and a review grid. Present online or get PPT.