Printable packs · 🐻 Week 3 of 52
Arctic Animals — printable activity pack
Mid-January, when being outside has stopped being fun: eleven pages about animals that live somewhere it is always like this. One honest thing before you print — the cover drawing and the page-sized coloring sheet are a fish, so the polar bear in this pack stays a word rather than a picture. The puzzles are where the Arctic is.
Four levels of the same theme — ages 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 and a harder grown-up level — so a mixed-age class or family works on the same puzzles, each at their own level. 11 pages, US Letter PDF, ready to print at home or in a classroom.
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Pay as a guest — no account needed. You get the Arctic Animals pack at the level you pick, as a PDF, straight after checkout, and you can print it as often as you like for your own family or class.
Three pages from this pack
Rendered from the Arctic Animals PDF itself, at ages 6–8. The puzzles are generated, so your copy’s grids and maze won’t be these exact ones.
Puffins, not penguins
Penguins live only in the far south, so this pack doesn’t teach them. At ages 6–8 the list is PUFFIN, WALRUS, HUSKY, REINDEER, TUNDRA and NARWHAL — the puffin being the Arctic seabird a penguin gets mistaken for. The oldest level turns into cold-climate biology: POLARBEAR, MIGRATION, BLUBBER, HABITAT, SNOWYOWL and CARIBOU. Two of those print as single words, POLARBEAR and SNOWYOWL, which a nine-year-old spots before you do. At ages 3–5 the crossword interlocks four of the six; ICE and FISH wait in the word search.
Try the Arctic Animals pack free
The free sample is this theme: a 6-page Arctic Animals PDF with the cover, a mini sudoku, the word search, the maze and a coloring page, plus a page about the full pack. No account, no email.
What’s in the Arctic Animals pack
- Cover, with the theme and the level on it
- Mini sudoku, sized for the level
- Themed word search
- Word scramble
- Mini crossword
- Maze
- Dot-to-dot
- Coloring page
- Trace-and-write practice
- Answer key: the sudoku, the word search, the word scramble and the crossword
- A last page about the weekly subscription, with a discount code
11 pages, US Letter PDF, ready to print at home or in a classroom.
The answer key solves the sudoku, the word search, the word scramble and the crossword. The maze doesn’t have an answer — a maze doesn’t need one.
The words your child will be hunting for
These are the words each level’s puzzles are built from: the word search grid is filled with them and prints them under it as the list to find, the scramble jumbles up to seven of them one per line, and the crossword interlocks as many as will fit. Same theme at every level, different words — that’s what makes a mixed-age table work.
The grown-up level isn’t written separately: it’s the longest words from the 6–8 and 9–12 lists, on a bigger grid and a harder sudoku.
Where it sits in the year
Week 3 of the 52-week calendar, so it lands in the middle of January. Subscribers get it that week as part of the weekly pack; on this page you can buy it on any day of the year, and the free sample above is always this theme.
Other packs like this one
- This week’s free pack — whatever theme the calendar is on today.
- All the printable packs, including the five seasonal mega-packs.
- For teachers and homeschool — classroom use, and seats for a whole class.