Arctic Animals for Kids: Narwhals, Walruses, Lemmings and Reindeer

Six animals of the frozen north: the narwhal, the whale with a long spiral tusk; the walrus and the seal on the sea ice; the lemming, a small rodent that lives under the snow; and the reindeer, which in North America is called the caribou.

That last pair is a trick: reindeer and caribou are the same species, so two of the six words name one animal. Reindeer fills a whole row of the grid.

Arctic Animals Vocabulary: 6 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 3 of the 6 read backwards. The longest word is Reindeer, with 8 letters.

Caribou: The North American name for the reindeer, which migrates across the Arctic tundra in huge herds.
Lemming: A small, round Arctic rodent that lives in tunnels under the snow in winter.
Narwhal: An Arctic whale whose males grow a long spiral tusk, actually a tooth.
Reindeer: An Arctic deer, called caribou in North America. Both males and females grow antlers.
Seal: A sea mammal with flippers that hunts fish and rests on the ice.
Walrus: A large Arctic sea mammal with long tusks that it uses to haul itself onto the ice.

How to Solve the Arctic Animals Word Search

"Reindeer" fills a whole row from edge to edge, with a double E. "Lemming" has the only G and a double M. "Narwhal" and "walrus" both have a W: narwhal runs upward and walrus reads backwards.

Arctic Animal Activities for Winter

Find the Arctic on a globe and compare it with Antarctica: which one has penguins?
Ask children how each animal keeps warm: blubber, thick fur or living under the snow.
Explain why reindeer and caribou are the same animal with two names.