Let’s learn about the forest biome with these printable two-part forest animal and plant cards.
Printable forest animal picture cards
Come and use these printable forest animal and plant cards with our forest activity ideas to build your knowledge about the forest biome. This forest printable is a great resource to use as part of your forest school activities.
With these animal picture cards, your children can:
:: colour in and cut out a set of two-part forest animal and plant cards
:: use the cards in our biomes lesson
:: use the cards in our forest food chains lesson
:: use the cards to build and consolidate their knowledge of the forest biome
:: develop their language skills including forest vocabulary
Download your complete Nature Journal kit
This activity and printable is taken from our Nature Explorers: Forest nature journal kit. This is the perfect nature curriculum for children who have a special interest in animals, love drawing, being outdoors, and being active.
Every page of the Nature Explorers journal gives your children something interesting to read, draw, colour, write or make. You can use the whole book in the given order or mix-and-match to suit you alongside your time outdoors. You’ll know your children are developing their reading and writing fluency and their science knowledge, while still spending a childhood outdoors in the fresh air.
The journal is full of special animal feature pages, activity ideas, and art projects to try in the forest, plus quizzes and questions to consolidate their learning. And your kids will love the two sets of animal cut-out models that are included: forest animals and bugs! They can colour them in, cut them out, and easily assemble them for play or to create model forest dioramas.
See more and get your copy of Nature Explorers: Forest here.
What’s in the animal picture cards set?
Our Nature Explorers: Forest kit comes with a set of printable picture cards featuring plants and animals that live in the forest biome. The illustrations are hand-drawn, realistic images, create for NurtureStore by the artist Ruth Toner.
The set includes the following: acorn, pinecone, fern, mushroom, owl, fox, deer, squirrel, elderberry, butterfly, leaf, nectar, blackberry, snake, frog, bee, spider, worm, woodlouse, woodpecker, moth, beetle, fox, wild garlic, wolf, hedgehog, mouse, bear, snail, stoat, bird, hawthorn, and strawberry.
There are also a few blank cards included so you can add other plants and animals you see in your forest, to personalise your set to match your own local forest space.
How to make the picture card set
Print these pages from the Nature Explorers: Forest kit onto card, so they are more robust for playing with.
Colour in the animals and plants using pencils, pens or paints.
Cut out the individual cards along the thicker inner lines.
You can use the set as one-piece cards, like flashcards. Alternatively, you might prefer to make two-piece cards by cutting along the line to separate the name and the picture. You will then be able to use the cards as a matching activity: pairing up the right picture with the right name.
How to use the animal picture cards
You can use the cards in many ways:
:: as flashcards and ID cards to get to know the names of the plants and animals in your forest and as part of our forest biome lesson.
:: take them with you on a nature walk in your forest and see if you can spot all the plants and animals in the set
:: make food chain and food web illustrations as part of our forest food chains lesson
:: start conversations and share knowledge. Pick a card and share what you know about that plant or animal. You could do this in pairs or as part of circle time around the forest campfire
:: as story starters. Pick a card to be the main character of your story. Pick a second card to be something or someone they meet. Use your imagination to create a story around the cards you pick. Take a new card anytime you want a new twist to include in your tale. You could write up this story in your nature journal, or tell the story as a collaborative activity with each child pulling a card and adding the next part of the ongoing story
:: use the cards as sorting exercises: sort the food producers from the consumers; sort the things that live on the ground, those that live underground, and those that live high up
Download your complete Nature Journal kit
This activity and printable is taken from our Nature Explorers: Forest nature journal kit. This is the perfect nature curriculum for children who have a special interest in animals, love drawing, being outdoors, and being active.
Every page of the Nature Explorers journal gives your children something interesting to read, draw, colour, write or make. You can use the whole book in the given order or mix-and-match to suit you alongside your time outdoors. You’ll know your children are developing their reading and writing fluency and their science knowledge, while still spending a childhood outdoors in the fresh air.
The journal is full of special animal feature pages, activity ideas, and art projects to try in the forest, plus quizzes and questions to consolidate their learning. And your kids will love the two sets of animal cut-out models that are included: forest animals and bugs! They can colour them in, cut them out, and easily assemble them for play or to create model forest dioramas.
See more and get your copy of Nature Explorers: Forest and all the printables here.
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