Collection · 11 puzzles

Animal Word Searches

Animal puzzles from the everyday to the long extinct. Dog breeds, cat breeds and pets cover the animals at home; farm animals, safari animals and sea animals take you further out; birds, reptiles, fish and dinosaurs fill in the rest. The mammals puzzle runs from aardvark to zebra.

Dog breeds make one of the longest lists on the site for a simple reason: there are a great many of them. The American Kennel Club recognizes more than two hundred, from the Chihuahua to the Irish Wolfhound, and most of them were shaped by people for a job such as herding, guarding or retrieving.

Printable Animal Word Searches

Animal Word Search Puzzles

Every puzzle prints in three levels: easy hides 5 words in a 10 by 10 grid, reading only across and down; medium hides 15 in a 12 by 12 grid; hard hides up to 23 in a 15 by 15 grid. Each print is a fresh draw from the topic's word list, and every sheet comes with an answer key. The same puzzles play online, on your own or against a friend in real time.