Jungle Animals for Kids: Gorillas, Sloths, Toucans and Jaguars

Eight animals of the world's rainforests: the gorilla of Africa, the tiger of Asia, the leopard of Africa and Asia, and from the Amazon, the jaguar, the sloth hanging upside down, the toucan with its huge bill and the colorful parrot. Monkeys live in rainforests on several continents.

Most of the words run up or down: only sloth and tiger lie across the grid, and tiger reads backwards.

Jungle Animals Vocabulary: 8 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 4 of the 8 read backwards. The longest words are Gorilla and Leopard, with 7 letters each.

Gorilla: The largest ape, a gentle plant-eater that lives in family groups in the forests of central Africa.
Jaguar: The biggest cat of the Americas, a strong swimmer that hunts in the rainforests of Central and South America.
Leopard: A spotted big cat of Africa and Asia that hunts at night and stores its prey in trees.
Monkey: A primate, usually with a tail, that lives in the trees of tropical forests.
Parrot: A colorful rainforest bird with a curved beak, able to copy sounds.
Sloth: A slow-moving rainforest mammal that hangs upside down from branches.
Tiger: The largest wild cat, found in the forests and jungles of Asia.
Toucan: A rainforest bird with a huge, colorful bill that is surprisingly light, because it is hollow inside.

How to Solve the Jungle Animals Word Search

"Jaguar" has the only J and "monkey" the only K and Y; both run upward. "Gorilla", with its double L, and "parrot", with its double R, run down. "Sloth" is the only word that reads normally across.

Rainforest Activities for Kids

Find the world's rainforests on a map: the Amazon, the Congo and Southeast Asia.
Ask children which animals climb, which fly and which stay on the ground.
Move like a sloth, then like a jaguar, and talk about why each animal moves the way it does.