These animal tracks printable cards are such a great way to get your kids outside and enjoying the great outdoors. There are so many fun ways to use these free printable cards, they are perfect for the little explorer in your life!
These animal track cards are perfect for kids of all ages and a great introduction to animal track identification skills. You can also play some really fun games with these cards which I have listed below!
As you come across a grey squirrel, white-tailed deer or grey wolf you can now take out your animal track cards to identify the footprints and learn more about the animal that matches the track you found!
These cards are perfect for all seasons. In the warmer months look in muddy areas or go out after a fresh rain to find some awesome animal footprints. In the winter months it is so much fun to find animal tracks in fresh snow.
As you go out keep note of the different animals you find and the season you found them in. You can have your child journal about the tracks they found including the size, identifying factors and where they found them at.
About These Free Animal Track Cards
This printable includes 14 different animal footprints and a picture of the animal that matches the track. The animals include:
- Bear
- Fox
- Deer
- Owl
- Beaver
- Moose
- Dog
- Squirrel
- Wolf
- Raccoon
- Badger
- Rabbit
- Porcupine
- Skunk
I printed a set on card stock and this seemed to be the perfect thickness to protect the cards from little hands that will be playing with them. If you print on regular printer paper I recommend laminating them.
Ways To Use Your Animal Track Cards
Take your cards and single hole punch the top corner and connect together with a clasp or string to take with you on your outdoor adventures. They are a great reference to turn to when you find an animal track.
When your child identifies an animal track have them look up an interesting fact about that animal.
Have the adult hold the animal track cards and when a child finds animal prints and is able to identify the animal it belongs to give them the matching animal card, see how many animal cards each child can get!
Practice matching the animal track to the animal card, the memory game outlined below is really fun for kids and a great activity for center time or independent play time.
Lay out each animal card and have your child put the matching foot print next to the animal it matches to. While doing this have them identify 3 unique things about that track (it has 3 toes, it has sharp claws, the foot is webbed). This matching game allows them to start identifying different tracks based off of their unique characteristics and understand the wide variety of different kinds of footprints.
Animal Tracks Printable Memory Game
This is such a fun animal track game for kids!
Just flip all of the cards over so you can’t see the picture or track. Then each child gets to take a turn to try to flip over the animal and right track card that matches with the animal. Keep going until all of the animals have been matched with their track.
I have included the animal’s name on all of the cards to help with those early reading skills/word exposure. My kiddo in 1st grade loves playing this game. It is a welcome, fun break from day to day activities. If you are playing with younger kids they may need a little extra prompting but it is amazing how fast they pick up on the game!
For older kids take your laminated cards and black out the animal name with tape or a black erase marker to provide an added challenge.
Your Free Printable Animal Tracks Cards
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These animal track cards are for personal use or classroom use. I hope your kids love this interactive way to learn about animal tracking and identification!
Other Fun Animal Games & Activities
- This animal tracks bingo game was created to be a great partner to these cards
- I love using these farm animal flashcards with my preschooler
- Don’t forget your toilet paper roll binoculars before you go out on your animal tracking adventure
I would love to hear from you if you have used these animal track cards with your kids and what your favorite way to use them was!
Wow! Beautiful! In our yard we need to include kitty and chicken prints too, haha!
Thank you Jen! It sounds like you have a fun backyard 🙂
What an adorable game we actually bought a similar match the tracks card game. Very beautiful and fun!
How fun! So glad you like them!
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I have entered my email address to recieve the beautiful free printable animal cards but unfortunately it doesn‘t work. Would you please send it again to my mail address? [email protected]
That would be awesome! The printable looks so great, my kids would love these ❤️ thank u!
Hi Eva-Maria! Thanks so much for reaching out- I just sent you an email with the link- be sure to check your junk/spam folders as sometimes our emails get caught in spam filters. Thank you so much for your kind words- I hope your kids enjoy these fun cards! 🙂
I would love to use these beautiful animal track cards at the outdoor preschool I work at.
Thank you
Hi Laurea- that sounds like a perfect use for these! You can put your information in the green box towards the end of the post and we will get the PDF file emailed to you. I hope the kids you work with enjoy these!
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Magnifique travail ! Les dessins sont si doux !
C’est possible de l’avoir sur mon adresse mail : [email protected]
Merci et bonne continuation
I’m not able to find where to sign up so i can get the printable emailed to me. Please send to my email.
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Hi Janell- There is a box under the section “Your Free Printable Animal Tracks Cards” that you can fill in with your email address and the cards will be sent to you immediately, sometimes the box takes a few seconds to load. Please let me know if you still don’t receive them after completing that form. I hope you enjoy them!
Hello. I have subscribed but have not received the flashcards yet. Can you resend them?
Hi Karen- I just resent them to you. Be sure to check your junk/spam folder as sometimes our emails get filtered out by some servers. I hope you enjoy them!
Hello,
I signed up for your newsletter by filling out the green box to get the PDF of the animal footprints. I confirmed my email address but I have not yet received a copy of the PDF. I have checked my spam folder as well. Would be able to please email that to me? Thank you so much for you help and for the animal track cards!
Hi Kriby, I just sent you an email with the PDF for the animal tracks cards. Thanks so much for letting us know you didn’t get them!
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I haven’t received the PDF. I have confirmed my email, but it’s not in Spam either. Could you please send it to me? Thank you.
Hi Silvia- I just sent you an email with the link to the animal tracks cards. Be sure to check you junk and promotion folders as well as some email carriers filter our emails into those folders. I hope you enjoy them!
Hello, I have not received an email with a printable! Wondering if you could resend it?
Hi Jenna- I just resent them to you, be sure to check you spam and junk folder as some email providers filter our emails out into those folders. Please let me know if you still didn’t get them!
Hello, although i singed up, still haven’t received the printable cards.
Hi Anna- Thanks so much for reaching out! I just resent you the animal track cards, make sure to check your spam, junk or promotion folders as often email carriers will filter out our emails into one of those folders. I hope you enjoy these!
Hi, Could you please email the tracks and the nature workbook to me too ([email protected])? I registered for both, confirmed the email and checked spam but nothing there. Thanks so much for these beautiful resources!
Hi Christina- Thanks so much for reaching out! I just resent you the animal track cards & nature journal, make sure to check your spam, junk or promotion folders as often email carriers will filter out our emails into one of those folders. I hope you enjoy these!
Hello! Would love to use these for a summer camp I’m doing next week. I filled out the form, but haven’t received the cards…not in spam, promotional, etc…can I please get the file emailed to me? Thanks!
You bet! I just resent them to you- please let me know if you still didn’t receive them!
I received your email to sign up for the newsletter but no link for the animal tracks printables? Am I missing something? Thanks!!
Hi Cynthia- once you confirm your email a 2nd email will be sent to you with the link to the PDF file of the animal tracks cards- sometimes this second email will fall under a promotions folder depending on your email provider (and sometimes even falls into junk/spam folders). It does take a few minutes for that 2nd email to come after confirmation. Please let me know if you don’t get it after confirming your email and I’ll personally send it to you! 🙂
I would love these cards for my classroom camping unit! I filled out the green box, confirmed my email, and checked the spam folder. could you please send again to [email protected]
thank you
I’m so glad you reached out! I just sent the animal tracks cards your way and included a few extra activities that may be fun for your camping unit! 🙂
Hi! I filled out the form and did not receive the cards in the email. I’d love to get them for my classroom. My email is [email protected]
Thanks so much for letting us know! I just sent you an email with the animal tracks cards- I hope they work well for your classroom!
Hello! I filled out the form and never received an email. Would love to use them for my class! My email is [email protected]
We just sent an email your way- I hope your students enjoy these!