FREE Printable Animal Habitat Game – Exploring Biomes for Kids

August 12, 2021
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In our homeschool science we’ve been learning about the biosphere. To help my children better understand the different biomes and animal habitats for kids, I created this habitat game to help kids learn about he different major biomes and animal habitat for kids.  Instead of animal habitat project or habitat worksheets, this Habitat Adventure game is a FUN, re0usable way for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6 the graders learn about 8 Major Biomes of the World, 60+ amazing animals with free printable animal cards, as well as what is Taxonomy for kids. Simply print free animal habitat printables and you are ready to play and learn!
In our homeschool science we’ve been learning about the biosphere. To help my children better understand the different biomes and animal habitats for kids, I created this habitat game to help kids learn about he different major biomes and animal habitat for kids.  Instead of animal habitat project or habitat worksheets, this Habitat Adventure game is a FUN, re0usable way for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6 the graders learn about 8 Major Biomes of the World, 60+ amazing animals with free printable animal cards, as well as what is Taxonomy for kids. Simply print free animal habitat printables and you are ready to play and learn!

Habitat Game

Help children learn about the 8 major Biomes of our World – Desert, Mountains, Grassland, Ocean, Arctic Tundra, Deciduous Forest, Coniferous Forest, and Tropical Rain Forest with this fun, free printable habitat game. Simple grab the pdf file and print the super cute game filled with beautiful full color animal photographs that make up the playing cards. The science game board has cute clipart and the game play is super simple to play. This is such a fun, hands on habitat activity for kids from preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, and grade 6 students.

Whether you are a parent sneaking in a fun, hands on educational activity or a teacher looking for a new science activity for your science center, or perhaps you are a homeschooler supplementing your science curriculum – either way this free printable habitats for kids game is sure to make learning fun!

Free animal habitat printables

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> ______ <<. The pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the pages in the template.

free printable animal flashcards

Animal habitat game

Print the real animal flash cards printable and board game in color on cardstock for durability. Cute the animal cards printable apart and tape the 2 page gameboard together.
FREE Biome Science Game for kids

Habitat games for 2nd grade

Habitat Adventure is a fun, easy to play, educational game for kids in Kindergarten – 6th Grade. In the game you will travel around the board helping put the animals back in their correct Biome (or habitat). While doing so your child will become familiar with animal habitats.

Free Printable Science game - Biomes, Animals, taxonomy for Homeschool kids

Habitat games for 1st grade

You will need to print the free game at the bottom of this post and print off the following on cardstock for durability:

  • 22” x 8” gameboard (that is 2 sheets of paper taped together)
  • Animal fact Cards (optional – you can print back on cards too)
  • Get a dice and game markers (I suggest small stamps with lids, pom poms, animals, etc.)

FREE Animal Fact Cards

Habitat games

Each Animal Fact Card is filled with with information. So besides using with the Habitat Adventure Game, these cards are great to teach your kids about some amazing Animals from all over the world.  Each card includes the Biome the animal is native to, Taxonomy information, beautiful photograph, animal name, information about the animal, plus for those just studying North America, you can sort your cards by animals found in North America!

Taxonomy Hands on Science for Homeschool Kids

Taxonomy for Kids

Using the Animal Fact Cards from the FREE Printable Habitat Adventure Game, my kids started sorting animals by their taxonomy. We started with putting all the animals part of the Kingdom Animalia in a pile (Hint: that will be all of them). Next we sorted them by Phylum, Class, Order, and Family. It was a great hands on way for kids to understand Taxonomy.

Here is a fun way to turn a trip to the zoo into a fun, educational sceince field trip! These zoo field trip worksheet will help your kids to explore the zoo more in-depth.  We've included zoo animals worksheet for first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students. Plus preschool zoo activities including zoo coloring pages perfect for toddler, preschool, and pre-k students. Finally create an animal report where kindergarten and elementary age students can draw animals they see and write down interesting information too. Simply print pdf file with zoo animal printables and you are ready to play and learn!  biome coloring pages

Animal Science

  FREE Life Cycle of Salmon Worksheets for preschool, prek, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students including not only life cycle information, but uppercase / lowercase salmon matching puzzles, salmon counting, letter find, and so much more! 67 pages!!! LOW PREP! #lifecycle #science #kindergarten Children will love learning about these fascinating animals from around the world that are sadly endangered animals. Grab these free printable Endangered Animals Worksheets for kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students to make learning about animals fun and easy!   In our homeschool science we’ve been learning about the Biosphere. To help my kids better understand the different Biomes, I created this habitat game to help kids learn about he different major biomes and habitats animals live in. Habitat Adventure is a free printable Science game that teaches pre k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6 the grade students about 8 Major Biomes of the World, 60+ animals, as well as Taxonomy.

Animal Classifications for Kids Cootie Catchers Dive in to this fun Ocean Animals Lesson filled with fascinating information about the oceans, whales, star fish, sharks, and more amazing creatures. You will find engaging text, science experiments, printable worksheets, life cycles, printable crafts, label the anatomy, report templates, creative writing prompts, beautiful color flashcards, and so much more! Spring is the time for field trips to the local zoo. In an attempt to make our homeschool field trips extra fun (and educational) I created these super cute, zoo scavenger hunt templates. We have lots of choices with these zoo scavenger hunt printable pack to accomidate kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten to elementary age students in first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students. Whether you use the simple animal scavenger hunt or learn about endagered animals or animal habitats in one of these zoo scavenger hunt ideas - kids will have fun learning about zoology in science. Simply print free printable scavenger hunt pdf file and you are ready to learn about animals with this printable scavenger hunt at your local zoo. Children will love learning about these fascinating animals from around the world that are sadly endangered animals. Grab these free printable Endangered Animals Worksheets for kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students to make learning about animals fun and easy!  

Animal Printables for Kids

We have lots of fun, hands on activities to teach kids about animals! Whether you are completing a zoology lesson , supplementing your homeschool science lesson, or just learning about your child’s favorite animals, we’ve got some fantastic resources filled with cute clipart and engaging activities:

free printable color by number worksheets with a fun zoo animals theme - fun preschool math actiity for mumber recognition Zoo Animals Counting Book 7 adorable animal masks perfect for celebrating zoo day

Animals for Kids

Sneak in some additional learning activities featuring these amazing animals with these clever resources:

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Science Experiments for Kids

Make learning Science fun with these clever science projects and ideas for kids of all ages!

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Science Activities for Kids

These science ideas will be so memorable for children:

animal habitats for kids

Habitats for Kids

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Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! With over 20 years educating children, she has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids alphabet, math, science, English grammar, history, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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  1. Girl Scout Leader says:

    Thank you for creating and gifting the Habitat game to all of us!!! I am using it to teach my Girl Scouts about habitats. I field tested it out on my two children first and it was a HUGE HIT!

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  2. Very good activities to keep little ones busy

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  3. Mariellen says:

    I’m excited to try out the habitat game. Thanks so much!!

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  4. Thank you for creating this awesome animal habitats matching game. My Girl Scout troop will be so excited to learn about animal habitats as they earn their animal observer and animal habitat badges.

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