FREE Printable Animal Habitats Activities for Preschool & Kindergarten

Children will have fun learning about animal habitats for kids with this super cute, FREE printable Animal Habitats Matching Activity. This animal habitat activities for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students has two parts – matching animal cards AND sorting animal cookies by habitat. Simply print pdf file with animal printables and you are ready to play and learn about animal activity for kids with this habitat activities for kindergarten.

Animal habitat activities for preschool

Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love this low prep, easy animal habitat activities for kindergarten. Use this animal habitats for kids as a science center, summer learning, or hands-on learning activity that works as an enrichment to any science curriculum or program you use. Use this animal habitat project with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students.  This is such a great way to help kids learn about animal habitats! This LOW PREP activity works great on its own or paired with kid favorite animal crackers.

Animal habitat project for kindergarten

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

Animal habitat activities for kindergarten

Now print the 5 pages in color. I suggest laminating the habitat activities kindergarten for durability. Then cut out each item.

animal habitat activities

Kids will learn about the animals that live in these 9 animal habitats kindergarten:

• desert for kids – camel, kit fox, gerboa, horned viper
• coniferous forest for kids – fox, squirrel, weasel
• rainforest for kids – monkey, tiger, butterfly toucan
• australian woodlands for kids – beetle, dingo, koala, possum
• mountains for kids – cougar, jack rabbit, sheep, frog
• river, lake, or marsh for kids – hippo, herring gull, crab
• grasslands for kids – giraffee, zebra, bison, lion, elephant
• arctic for kids – polar bear, arctic cod, ringed seal
• ocean for kids – stingray, shark, eel, fish

animal habitats for preschoolers

This animal activity for kids is such a fun, simple habitat activities for kids. They will sort the animals onto the correct habitat mat.

HINT: This activity is color coded so students will match all the items with the same colored border. This makes this habitats activity perfect for kindergarten science.

habitat activities for preschoolers

You can do the activity as a simple printable sorting activity as pictured above, but for a more playful engaging actiity for young learners – try using animal crackers! My kids loved using animal cookies to make the activity even more fun! Kids can practice sorting animal cookies by habitats. This activity was made so that we have the correct habitat for every animal in a box / bag of animal crackers!

We liked to combine the activities.  First we sorted our animal cookies by habitats. Then, we sorted the remaining animals onto their correct habitat mat.

Kindergarten Science

Looking for more fun, hands on science experiments for kindergartners? You will love these kindergarten science projects:

• Water Balloon Density Experiment
• Red White and Blue Science Project
• Heart Salt Crystals Experiment
• Egg Density Experiment
• Fizzing Christmas Science Experiment
• Frost in a Can Experiment
• Coloring Flowers Science Experiment
• Month-by-Month Science Experiments for Kindergartners
• Colorful Oil and Water Science Experiment

animal habitats for kindergarten

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