Animal Flashcards

100 animal flashcards for kids! Download these FREE printable animal cards for your kindergarten or preschool. The cards come in 3 packs designed to offer maximum flexibility for ESL students.

These bright colorful flashcards can be used to teach about animals, where they live, and even animal phonics! As an added bonus, I have included an alphabet animal poster and an animal phonics poster too! Now you can combine what your students learn in class and teach them how to read too!

100 Animal flashcards DOWNLOAD Pack 1 (Pre-k level / Elementary level)

Pack 1 of the animal flashcards contains all animals and their animal vocabulary words. The cards are simple, colorful, and easy for children to understand. There are over 100 animals, so I recommend that after making the flashcards, you should select maybe 12 animals that live in the same habitat and start there. Talk about where the animals live and what they eat.

These cards are a great way to teach food chains too. Be mindful of what animals you choose, as it will affect the difficulty of your lesson. Please select the most common animals first. Within the animal, flashcards are animals that live in the sea, forest, jungle, desert, farm, savanna, and more!

Animal flashcards explanation video

100 Animal Flashcards for reading DOWNLOAD Pack 2 (Pre-k level / Elementary level)

Pack 2 comes with the same 100 animals, but each beginning letter of the animal vocabulary word is highlighted. This pack of flashcards is designed to be used as a way to focus on reading. Ask the students what the animals’ name begins with! Please be careful about the difficulty level of the animal. I would recommend using shorter animal names first.

Animals included in Flashcards set 1 & 2

alligator	frog	octopus	skunk
anteater	girraffe	ostritch	sloth
arctic fox	goat	otter	snake (forest)
badger	gorrilla	owl	snake 2 (jungle)
bat	guinea pig	panda	snake 3 (desert)
bear	hawk	parrot	squid
beaver	hedgehog	peacock	squirrel
bird	hen	penguin	starfish
bison	hippo	pig	stingray
bugs	horse	pigeon	swordfish
camel	hyena	plankton	tarantular
cat	iguana	platypus	tiger
chicken	jellyfish	polar bear	toucan
cow	kangaroo	puffin	turtle
coyote	killer whale	quail	urchin
crab	koala	queen bee	vulture
crocodile	lemur	rabbit	walrus
deer	leopard	racoon	whale
dog	lion	rat	wolf
dolphin	lizard	rhino	x-ray fish
donkey	llama	rooster	yak
duck	lobster	scorpion	zebra
eagle	mole	seagul
eel	monkey	seahorse
elephant	moose	seal
fish	mouse	shark
flamingo	narwhal	sheep
fox	newt	shrimp

Suggested Grammar & Phrases: Phonics / letter sounds

Question	Answers
What sound does (Aa) begin with?	a-a-lligator.
What sound does (Bb) begin with?	b-b-bear.
What sound does (Cc) begin with?	c-c-cow.

Animal Alphabet Flashcards Aa-Zz DOWNLOAD Pack 3 (Kindergarten level / elementary level)

Pack 3 of the animal flashcards are actually animal phonics! These animal alphabet flashcards are designed to help children practice the sounds of letters using animal names. These flashcards are great if children are getting bored of their regular phonics cards.

Feel free to play a matching game with pack 2 of the animal cards, the children will have to search through 100 animals to find the 26 animals that match the alphabet! If you have a big class, you could even go one step further. Why not lay the cards of pack 2 in a row and then ask the children to organize all 100 cards under the correct letter! If you would like to see more phonics cards which are not just animals, check out the alphabet flashcards page!

If you need any help downloading the flashcards, or would like to see a step by step guide of how to make flashcards click here!