FREE Animal Habitat Printables: Land Animals, Ponds and Rivers, Oceans

My children love animals and love learning about animals in our homeschool studies. We find ourselves constantly reading books and stories about animals and learning about them in science. We also like to do lots of animal themed nature studies and incorporate literature books that are about animals.

When you are teaching your children about animals, they will not only learn about the type and kind of animal, they will learn about where they live. An animal’s home is called their habitat. Learning about animal homes is so much fun! This is something that you can do with all ages.

If you have small children, you can read books about animal homes. You can use free worksheets and printables to reinforce the concepts of where an animal lives. Take a field trip to nature centers, parks, and zoos to see examples of different animal habitats. This can expand into more detailed unit studies or animal habitat research and report projects for your older children. 

Here are some animal habitat printables broken down by habitat to help you get started on your very own animal habitat study with your children:

Forest/Woodland Animals:

Squirrels and their Habitats Unit Study and Lapbook Printables – Homeschool Helper Online

Forest Friends Kindergarten Kit – Homeschool Share

Woodland Animal Scavenger Hunt Game – B Nute Productions

I love all of these Woodland Animal themed printables from In All You Do:

Notebooking Pages
Coloring Pages
Emergent Readers
Tot/Pre-K Packet

Desert:

Desert Animals 3 Part Cards – Welcome to Mommyhood

Desert Animals Unit Study and Lapbook – Homeschool Share

Desert Animal Home Cut, Sort and Paste Activity – No Stress Homeschooling

Desert Animal Printable Packet – Kindergarten Worksheets and Games

Printable Desert Animals File Folder Game – Itsy Bitsy Fun

Who Belongs in the Desert Coloring Worksheet – Education.com

Arctic:

Animals of the Frozen Lands Printable Pack – Large Family Table

Arctic Animals Worksheets for Kids – 123 Homeschool 4 Me

Polar Animals Fact Sheets and Games – In the Playroom

Tundra Animal Worksheet and Wordsearch – Education.com

Grassland/Savannah:

Printable Savannah Animals File Folder Game – Itsy Bitsy Fun

Grassland Ecosystem Worksheet and Wordsearch – Education.com

Printable African Animal Cards – Welcome to Mommyhood

Ponds and River Animals:

Color the Freshwater Habitat – Education.com

Freshwater Animal Habitat Printables – Enchanted Learning

Wetlands Printable Learning Pages – Living Worlds Apart

Pond Life Preschool Pack – Homeschool Creations

We love these Outdoor Hour Challenges from Handbook of Nature Study: 

Pond Nature Study and Notebooking Page 
Dragonflies and Damselflies Study and Notebooking Page  
Pond Study Fish and Insects
Turtles and Duckweed Nature Study 
Geese and Ducks Nature Study

Ocean Animals:

Printable Ocean Animals File Folder Game – Itsy Bitsy Fun

Ocean Unit Study Worksheet and Printables – The Happy Housewife

Animal Habitats Ocean Worksheet – Education.com

Connections: Oceans Unit Study Printables – Homeschool Share

Coral Reef Unit Study and Lapbook – Homeschool Share

Recommended Resource: Ocean Notebook – Companion to Ocean Anatomy by Julia Rothman

In the Ocean Notebook, students will use a combination of written narration, drawing, and labeling alongside Ocean Anatomy by Julia Rothman to learn all about life in the ocean, layers of the ocean, the ocean floor, coral reefs, tide pools, and much more.

FREE Types of Whales Matching Game – this printable game is a great way to introduce your elementary students to twelve different types of whales.

Annette has written a post that goes deeper into what a habitat is and how to study the different landforms and habitats that make up our world. There are tons of free resources included as well:

Resources for Studying Landforms and Habitats of the World

These are our favorite books for learning about animal habitats:

Welcome Home, Bear: A Book of Animal HabitatsCreatures of the Desert WorldI See a Kookaburra!: Discovering Animal Habitats Around the WorldWhat Animals Live in the Desert? Animal Book 4-6 Years Old | Children’s Animal BooksGrasslands! – Animal Habitats for Kids! Environment Where Wildlife Lives for Kids – Children’s Environment BooksAbout Habitats: WetlandsAnimals of the Serengeti | Wildlife of East Africa | Encyclopedias for ChildrenOver in the Wetlands: A Hurricane-on-the-Bayou StoryAll About Wetlands (Habitats)Arctic Animals (Who’s That?)The Arctic Habitat (Introducing Habitats)

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Sarah Shelton

Sarah is a wife, daughter of the King and Mama to 4 children (one who is a homeschool graduate)! She is a an eclectic, Charlotte Mason style homeschooler that has been homeschooling for over 16 years now. She is still trying to find the balance between work and keeping a home and says she can only do it by the Grace of God, and Coffee!