🦉 Professor Owl explains: A habitat is an animal's home area. It gives the animal everything it needs: food 🍽️, water 💧, shelter 🏠 and space to live and play. Different animals need very different habitats!
✏️ Draw a line to match each animal to its habitat.
🐪 Camel Ocean 🌊
🐬 Dolphin Arctic ❄️
🐻 Polar bear Desert 🏜️
🦁 Lion Forest 🌲
🦊 Fox Savanna 🌾
💭 Think and write: what does YOUR habitat (your home) give you?
🌲
PawSteps · Habitat Explorer 1
The Forest
Name:
Date:
🌲 Forest facts: Forests are full of trees that give animals food and shelter. The forest floor is covered in leaves — perfect for hiding! Many forest animals build homes in trees, logs and burrows.
Meet the locals!
🦊 🦉 🐿️ 🦌 🦡
⭕ Circle the animals that live in the forest. Cross out the ones that don't belong!
🦊 🐙 🐿️ 🦈 🦉 🐬 🦌
🎨 The squirrel needs a home! Draw a cosy home for it in the tree.
🌳🐿️
🏜️
PawSteps · Habitat Explorer 2
The Desert
Name:
Date:
🏜️ Desert facts: Deserts are very dry — hardly any rain falls all year! Days can be scorching hot, but nights get surprisingly cold. Desert animals are experts at saving water.
Meet the locals!
🐪 🦎 🦂 🐍 🦅
✅ True or false? Circle your answer.
1. A camel's hump stores fat for energy.TRUEFALSE
2. Deserts are hot all day AND all night.TRUEFALSE
3. Lizards lie in the sun to warm their bodies.TRUEFALSE
4. It rains almost every day in the desert.TRUEFALSE
5. Many desert animals hide underground when it's hot.TRUEFALSE
💭 Why do you think many desert animals come out at night? Write your idea:
🌊
PawSteps · Habitat Explorer 3
The Ocean
Name:
Date:
🌊 Ocean facts: Oceans cover more than two-thirds of our planet! Near the sunny surface it's bright and busy; deep down it's dark and mysterious. Fish breathe underwater using gills.
Meet the locals!
🐬 🦈 🐙 🐠 🐳
🔍 Odd one out! Circle the animal in each row that does NOT live in the ocean.
🐬 🐠 🐄 🦈
🐙 🦒 🐳 🦀
🐢 ⭐ 🐹 🐡
✏️ Finish the sentences.
1. Fish breathe underwater using their .
2. The biggest animal in the whole ocean is the .
3. An octopus has arms.
❄️
PawSteps · Habitat Explorer 4
The Arctic
Name:
Date:
❄️ Arctic facts: The Arctic is one of the coldest places on Earth — ice and snow everywhere! Animals that live here have clever ways of keeping warm. (Fun fact: polar bears live in the Arctic, but penguins live at the OTHER end of the world — Antarctica!)
Meet the locals!
🐻 🦭 🦊 🐋 🦉
✏️ How do they keep warm? Draw a line to match the animal to its winter trick.
🦭 Seal Thick white fur coat
🐻 Polar bear A thick layer of fat called blubber
🦊 Arctic fox Wraps its fluffy tail around itself like a scarf
🎨 Brrr! Draw yourself dressed for an Arctic expedition. What would you wear?
🌾
PawSteps · Habitat Explorer 5
The Savanna
Name:
Date:
🌾 Savanna facts: The savanna is a huge grassland with just a few trees, found in warm places like Africa. Giant herds of animals roam here — and speedy hunters watch them carefully!
Meet the locals!
🦁 🐘 🦒 🦓 🐆
🕵️ Who am I? Read the riddle and write the answer.
1. I am the tallest animal in the world. My long neck helps me eat leaves from the treetops. I am a .
2. I am the biggest land animal. I use my long trunk to drink, wash and grab tasty plants. I am an .
3. I look like a stripy horse. No two of us have exactly the same stripes! I am a .
4. I am called the king of the savanna. My roar can be heard far, far away. I am a .
⭐ Challenge: why do you think zebras stick together in big herds?
🌴
PawSteps · Habitat Explorer 6
The Rainforest
Name:
Date:
🌴 Rainforest facts: Rainforests are warm, wet and BURSTING with life — more animals live here than anywhere else on Earth! The treetops are called the canopy, and the dark, damp bottom is the forest floor.
Meet the locals!
🐒 🦜 🐸 🦥 🐍
✏️ High or low? Write each animal's name in the right layer: 🐒 monkey · 🦜 parrot · 🐍 snake · 🦥 sloth · 🐸 frog
☀️ Up in the canopy (treetops):
🍂 Down on the forest floor:
👂 A rainforest is NOISY! Write three sounds you might hear:
1. 2. 3.
🐸
PawSteps · Habitat Explorer 7
The Pond & Wetland
Name:
Date:
🐸 Pond facts: Ponds and wetlands are small watery worlds packed with life — above the water, on the surface AND underneath! Frogs start life in the pond as wriggly tadpoles.
Meet the locals!
🐸 🦆 🐟 🦢 🐢
🔢 The frog life cycle is muddled! Write 1, 2, 3, 4 to put it in order.
🐸
Grown-up frog
🥚
Eggs (frogspawn)
🐸🦵
Froglet with legs
🪱
Wriggly tadpole
⭕ Circle the animals you could spot at a pond.
🦆 🐪 🐸 🦈 🦢 🐢 🦁
🏠
PawSteps · Page 9
Animals and Their Homes
Name:
Date:
✏️ Every animal needs a home! Draw a line from each animal to the name of its home.
🐝 Bee Nest
🐦 Bird Web
🐰 Rabbit Hive
🕷️ Spider Kennel
🐶 Dog Stable
🐴 Horse Burrow
🐻 Bear Den
⭐ Challenge: which of these homes are BUILT by the animal, and which are given by people? Talk about it!
🍽️
PawSteps · Page 10
Herbivore, Carnivore or Omnivore?
Name:
Date:
🍽️ Dinner time!Herbivores 🌿 eat plants. Carnivores 🍖 eat meat. Omnivores 🌿+🍖 eat both — like most humans!
✂️ Sort the animals into the right column (write or draw them): 🐄 cow · 🦁 lion · 🐻 bear · 🐰 rabbit · 🦈 shark · 🐷 pig · 🦒 giraffe · 🦊 fox
🌿 Herbivores plants only
🍖 Carnivores meat only
🌿🍖 Omnivores both!
💚
PawSteps · Page 11
Endangered Animals
Name:
Date:
💚 Some animals need our help. An animal is endangered when there are only a few left in the wild — often because their habitat is disappearing. Kind humans all over the world are working to protect them!
⭕ Circle the animals that are endangered in the wild.
🐼 🐕 🐅 🐈 🦧 🐹 🐢
(Hint: pets are not endangered — they have humans looking after them!)
✏️ Pick one endangered animal. What does it need to be safe and happy?
My animal:
It needs:
🌍 My helping pledge — write ONE thing you can do to help animals and their habitats:
🐾
PawSteps · Page 12
Whose Track is This?
Name:
Date:
🕵️ Animal detectives look for footprints! Draw a line from each track to the animal that made it.
🦆
🐴
🐦
🐻
🐈
⭐ Challenge: whose track has claws showing — the cat's or the bear's? Why do cat tracks have no claw marks? Talk about it!
🔍
PawSteps · Page 13
Habitat Wordsearch
Name:
Date:
🔍 Find all 10 hidden words! Words go across ➡️ and down ⬇️.