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3 Free Printable Forest Animal Matching Activities

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I love forest animals and learning about them is so much fun. They are not the most talked about animals, so some of the animal names can be new to preschoolers. We had a blast learning to say “hedgehog” today! Shiloh, my preschooler, is really into matching right now. I’m glad that she is finally starting to utilize some of the skills we’ve been demonstrating to her for so long, so I was happy to make her this set of 3 free printable forest animal matching activities and also happy to share them with you for this week’s #TeachECE forest animal theme.

3 free printable forest animal matching activities for your preschoolers! Memory, spin & cover, and graphing activities for your forest animal theme.

Materials needed for the FREE Ocean Matching Pack:

Paper

Laminating pouches

2 Brads (paper fasteners)

2 Small paper clips

Dry-erase crayon

Game markers (we used mini-erasers)

Scissors (or other pointy object to make a hole)

What’s included in the Forest Animal Matching Pack?

Spin & Cover Game

3 free printable forest animal matching activities for your preschoolers! Memory, spin & cover, and graphing activities for your forest animal theme.

To prep: Print and laminate the Spin & Cover Game. Use the scissors to gently poke a hole at the center of the spinner. Place the paper clip on the brad and slip the brad into the hole that you created. Open the backing of the brad and tape the “legs” of the brad to the back of the game board to secure it.

To play: Spin the spinner. Cover a picture that matches the animal that the paper clip landed on. You can play with two players using two colors of game markers or you can just play with one player.

Spin & Graph Game

3 free printable forest animal matching activities for your preschoolers! Memory, spin & cover, and graphing activities for your forest animal theme.

To prep: Print and laminate the Spin & Cover Game. Use the scissors to gently poke a hole at the center of the spinner. Place the paper clip on the brad and slip the brad into the hole that you created. Open the backing of the brad and tape the “legs” of the brad to the back of the game board to secure it.

To play: Spin the spinner. Color one box on the graph to show which picture the paper clip landed on. Continue spinning until one of the graph lines reaches the top. Then, fill in the blanks with the correct number to show how many times each animal was spun.

Memory Game

3 free printable forest animal matching activities for your preschoolers! Memory, spin & cover, and graphing activities for your forest animal theme.

To Prep: Print on the white side of scrapbook paper and laminate. The scrapbook paper makes it so that the kids can’t see through the cards to cheat. Cut out the cards.

https://lifeovercs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Forest-Animal-Matching-Pack.pdf

To Play: Place the cards face-down on the table. The first player turns over two cards to find a match. If a match is found they try again, if a match is not found it’s the next player’s turn. Winner has the most matches at the end of the game.

3 free printable forest animal matching activities for your preschoolers! Memory, spin & cover, and graphing activities for your forest animal theme.

Check out these other great Forest Animal activities from the #TeachECE Team!

Learning About Trees in the Forest – Coniferous and Deciduous by Capri + 3
Forest Animal Rhyming Treasure Hunt by Growing Book by Book
Forest Animals Beginning Sounds Activity by Mom Inspired Life
Roll a Story Woodland Animals: An Early Writing Activity by The Educators’ Spin On It
Forest Animal Play Dough Small World by Fun-A-Day
Forest Animals Preschool Theme Movable Scene by Learning 2 Walk

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  1. Emma says

    October 22, 2015 at 3:49 am

    Your graphics are always so cute! Love these adorable animals!

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  2. Alecia says

    October 19, 2015 at 4:36 am

    These are great! I know my kids are going to love them. I’m adding brads to our list of materials. 🙂

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  3. Jodie @ Growing Book by Book says

    October 18, 2015 at 9:15 am

    My kids will love the memory game. Thanks!

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  4. Mary Catherine says

    October 18, 2015 at 9:03 am

    Thanks so much for these awesome games! I know some kids who are going to love them. 🙂

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  5. Theresa says

    October 14, 2015 at 4:19 pm

    I just bought brads yesterday! Perfect timing. We are going to try this adorable game this week. Thank you!

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    • Kim says

      October 14, 2015 at 8:32 pm

      You’re welcome! Enjoy! And if you ever run out of brads, you can always use the tip of a pencil held to the center of the circle to hold the paper clip in place.

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  6. Natasha says

    October 14, 2015 at 8:16 am

    So cute, and every kid loves matching gmes.

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    • Kim says

      October 14, 2015 at 9:15 am

      Thanks!

      Reply
  7. Amanda says

    October 14, 2015 at 7:48 am

    These are adorable. Printing to do today!

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    • Kim says

      October 14, 2015 at 9:15 am

      Enjoy!

      Reply

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