These printable free printable animal tracks flashcards will be a great reference when searching for animal prints on the trail! The best place to find animal tracks are on soft muddy areas or shortly after a fresh rain! This is an especially fun activity for kids because not only are they on a great treasure hunt for animal footprints but they are also outdoors in nature!
We are a HUGE outdoorsy nature loving and geocaching family so searching for animals, their tracks, and even their scat is pretty normal for my kids! You can see that with our collection of skulls and bones here! (One of our favorite books to take on a nature hike is Tracks, Scat, and Signs!) But I realize some kids need a little extra prompting to get outdoors or help properly identify animal tracks that they come across on a nature hike.
There are several things that you can do when you find animal footprints! You can take a picture of them. Measure them and record them in a journal. Or even try your hand at making a plaster cast
of them for kids to show off later! See how Surviving a Teacher’s Salary took this animal footprints idea and turned it into beautiful artwork!
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Below are a couple of images that you will find in the Printable Animal Footprint Cards set:
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Animal Tracks featured in this set are as listed below:
- Bear
- Cat
- Coyote
- Crow
- Deer
- Dog
- Fox
- Squirrel
- Skunk
How to Make Your Printable Animal Flashcards Last Longer:
I HIGHLY recommend laminating these free printable cards with a simple at home laminator so that it will be water resistant and last longer outdoors. You can even use a hole punch
and thread them onto a notebook ring
. Stash them in a field bag along with any nature items or clues you come across! If you prefer a more digital version for identifying animal tracks consider the MyNature Animal Tracks app.
PRINT HERE ==> Animal Tracks Explorer ID Cards
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This is so fun! Thanks for sharing! My kids will absolutely love these printables. I hope it’s ok, but I featured your post in my June Family Focus on getting kids outside and learning to love nature. Happy travels and many adventures to you! -Missy
Thank you so much for sharing them! We love the outdoors!
I love these so much!! Thank You!!!!!!
Wondering if there’s any way you could make additional tracks? I’m making both my kids a Nature Bag for our Cottage Summer and there’s a lot of Moose, Beavers and Rabbits in our neighbourhood. We see these tracks quite often as well! (I’m in Northern Ontario)
Thanks so much for these! I’ve printed them out, laminated them and put them together for my daughter to take with us on our upcoming camping trip! I’ve also shared your printable with my readers. Very grateful for your work and beautiful cards!
I absolutely adore this! I thought you might want to know though, the word ‘bite’ in the fun facts for beat is misspelled “bit”.
These are Amazing! We are about to go camping and will definitely use these with our
kiddos! Thank you!
I just found your site and I am loving it! Just wondering if you have been to the Land of the Fire & Ice in New Mexico? Our family went out of our way to go visit it.
No I unfortunately haven’t!!! I really wanted to when we did our big cross-country trip but it just didn’t fit into our schedule! It looks amazing!