42 free animals and their homes pictures

Once you have printed and cut out the pictures there are a few different ways that they can be used. The obvious thing to do is to simply match the cards together to make correct sentences. Here are a few other ideas –

1. Put students into teams with full sets of shuffled cards each and have a race. See which team can match all 42 cards correctly as fast as possible.
2. Cut the sentences off the cards. You can do this to make the activity harder or for older/more advanced classes. Once this is done you can completely omit the broken sentences and ask students to create their own. You can also give the sentences to the students so that each sentence is a 4 piece puzzle.
3. Arrange the cards into categories. Get students to sort the picture cards into groups such as – water and land, big and small, fast and slow animals, or plant or meat-eaters. You could even arrange the animals into food chains or rank them from the most comfortable place to sleep to the worst!
4. Make silly sentences for fun. By matching the picture cards incorrectly students can create ridiculous sentences like – A bear lives in an aquarium, a horse lives in the ocean, or a hippo lives in a web.
5.  Change the sentences. You can get older students to change the verb lives into a more accurate verb. For example, A spider spins a web, a bear hibernates in a cave, a goldfish swims in an aquarium, or a beaver builds a lodge.
6. Remove a few cards. If you want to make this activity tricky, take out a few of the animals and their homes pictures so that there are missing pieces. Depending on which ones you remove it may cause a bit of confusion and make it much more difficult. It’s best to let your class know you have done this before they start.