Free Printable Jungle Animals Word Search
A rainforest list that goes well past the usual few. OKAPI, PANGOLIN, CASSOWARY, QUETZAL, MANDRILL and TAPIR are all here, which makes it a good starting point for a research project. Answer key included, and New puzzle lays out a different grid from the same 59 words every time.
Free and unlimited, no account. Press “New puzzle” for a different grid from the same 59 words.
How the jungle animals words fit each size
Every one of the 59 jungle animals words is short enough for the 11 × 11 easy grid, so easy, medium (15 × 15) and hard (19 × 19) all draw on the full list.
18 words have five letters or fewer, APE, BAT and BOA among them, and those are the first ones young solvers spot. The longest, HUMMINGBIRD, CHIMPANZEE and ARMADILLO, are the last to be found.
A way to use the jungle animals word search
Have each student choose one animal they circled but had never heard of, then find out where it lives and what it eats.
All 59 words in the jungle animals list
- APE
- BAT
- BOA
- ANACONDA
- ANTEATER
- ARMADILLO
- BABOON
- BONOBO
- CAIMAN
- CAPUCHIN
- CAPYBARA
- CASSOWARY
- CENTIPEDE
- CHAMELEON
- CHIMPANZEE
- CIVET
- COBRA
- COCKATOO
- CROCODILE
- ELEPHANT
- FROG
- GECKO
- GIBBON
- GORILLA
- HORNBILL
- HUMMINGBIRD
- IGUANA
- JAGUAR
- LEMUR
- LEOPARD
- LORIS
- MACAQUE
- MACAW
- MAMBA
- MANDRILL
- MARMOSET
- MILLIPEDE
- MONGOOSE
- MONKEY
- MOSQUITO
- OCELOT
- OKAPI
- ORANGUTAN
- PANGOLIN
- PANTHER
- PARAKEET
- PARROT
- PEACOCK
- PIRANHA
- PUMA
- PYTHON
- QUETZAL
- SLOTH
- SNAKE
- TAPIR
- TARANTULA
- TIGER
- TOUCAN
- VIPER
Printing and the answer key
Print hides the controls; the PNG is rendered at 3× so letters stay crisp, and the answer key saves under its own filename. Need a whole book of these at KDP trim? KDP Creator builds the pages.
