Children love finding and guessing animal footprints. When you hunt for them you can’t always find them either, especially if you live in the city. So, I’ve made you five footprint printables with some suggested activities below.
To download the footprints, click on animal name.
Bear Duck Koala
Snake Frog
1. Footprint Tracking game
Place one set of animal footprints, in a trail like manner around your yard or house. The children have to guess what the animal is by identifying its footprints. Place little clues through the trail for younger children. At the end of the trail put a picture of the animal.
|
Animal |
Clue One |
Clue two |
|
Duck |
Feather |
Picture of a pond |
|
Bear |
A jar of honey |
Picture of a cave |
|
Frog |
Picture of flies |
Picture of a pond |
|
Koala |
Gum leaf |
Grey fur picture |
|
Snake |
Picture of a rat |
Picture of scales or a snake skin |
2. Use the footprints to announce a surprise
Like activity one, trail the prints around the house and have the surprise at the end.
|
Animal |
Surprise |
Clue at the end of the trail |
|
Duck |
Going to the park |
Gourmet duck food |
|
Bear |
Teddy bear picnic |
Teddy bear picnic |
|
Frog |
Going to hunt for tadpoles |
A small fish net |
|
Koala |
Going on bush walk- spotlighting |
Boots and a camera or a torch |
|
Snake |
- |
- |
|
All the animals |
We are going to the zoo |
Zoo tickets |
3. Guess the animal
Print off pictures of each animal (the internet has plenty) and help your child match them with their footprints. When finding pictures, try to get the animal’s foot in the photo to help your child work out the correct footprint match.
4. Use the footprint as a template to make look-alike dirt prints
We used the sand pit to make our prints.
5. Use the prints for party decorations and activities
Make sure you keep your animal foot prints in an envelope so you can use them again and again! Have you found any animal prints lately?
Penny…You never fail to amaze me with your genius ideas for including animals/wild-life in everyday activity and play. Great post and fabulous resources!
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Wow ! These are all amazing ideas ! Love the templates for dirt prints and pin the footprint on the duck ! Won’t be long till the twinlets get to enjoy all these goodies !
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We have a lot of frog prints around our house at the moment and the snakes (tiger) are loving this! They have been spotted by several neighbours but thankfully I haven’t seen any snake prints yet.
I totally love these prints and will be printing them off to add to my resources collection…..thank you so much Penny! x
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Thanks so much Janice. I’m glad you and Tiger like them!
Aww …such a cute game
Love it !! M sure the kids would too 
This is so fun! Two thumbs up for you because you manage to think about these ideas. Very helpful for the kids specially those toddlers. Great job!
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Cool very exciting game for children. I must try this with my kids. Do you still have more of these games?
Thanks for sharing them here!
-Evert
These are some exciting stuff. My kids would love these.
Thanks for sharing.
-Jason
This is cool! Downloadable and printable animal footprints and activities for the kids. Thanks for sharing this.. Keep up the good work!
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I love the cute Koala foot print!
Thanks for this printable footprint.. My kids will surely love playing this game..
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This looks like so much fun, thanks for the ideas and actually doing all the work for all the lazy parents out there and creating the footprints sheets!
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