Grades 1–2
Ocean Animals Word Search
A 10 by 10 word search with 10 ocean animals that run only across and down, just right for new readers.
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Free printables · kindergarten to 5th grade
Free classroom activities and games for K to 5th grade
50 free printable games and activities in 10 topics, five per topic from easy to harder: word searches, crosswords, coloring pages, bingo, sorts, mazes, memory games, scavenger hunts, early finisher pages and logic puzzles. Answer keys included, and every page has one of Kevin Coulston’s cartoon characters.
Word search puzzles Grades 1–5
Five themed word searches that grow from across-and-down grids for 1st grade to 15 by 15 grids with backwards words.
Grades 1–2
Classroom Supplies Word Search
Twelve school supply words hidden across and down in an 11 by 11 grid. A good first-week-of-school puzzle.
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Grades 2–3
Garden Bugs Word Search
Twelve garden bug words in a 12 by 12 grid. They run across, down and diagonally, but never backwards.
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Grades 3–4
Sports and Games Word Search
Fourteen sports in a 13 by 13 grid. Some words run backwards, so it is a real challenge for 3rd and 4th grade.
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Grades 4–5
Musical Instruments Word Search
Sixteen instruments in a 15 by 15 grid, hidden in all eight directions. The hardest word search in the set.
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Animal babies, opposites, shape and math words, synonyms and measurement, with numbered clues and a word bank on the easy ones.
Grades 2–3
Animal Babies Crossword
Ten animal babies, from kitten to joey, with a word bank so 2nd graders can check their spelling.
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Grades 2–3
Opposites Crossword
Ten pairs of opposites in a crossword with a word bank: hot and cold, full and empty, top and bottom.
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Grades 3–4
Shapes and Math Words Crossword
Math vocabulary as a crossword: triangle to octagon, sum, product, dozen and cube.
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Grades 4–5
Synonyms Crossword
A synonyms crossword with no word bank: the letter counts and the crossing words are the only help.
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Grades 4–5
Measurement Crossword
US and metric units in one crossword: inches, feet, yards and miles, quarts and gallons, meters, liters and grams.
Print this sheet (PDF)Educational coloring pages Grades K–5
Color by shape, letter, sum, product and part of speech. Each square tells kids which color to use, and a picture appears.
Grades K–1
Color by Shape: Apple
Kindergarten shape practice: color every circle, triangle and square to match the key and find the picture.
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Grades K–1
Color by Letter: Fish
Color by lowercase letter with the tricky look-alikes b, d, p and q. A fish swims out of the squares.
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Grades 1–2
Color by Addition: Rocket
Addition facts within 10 in every square. Solve, color and blast off: a rocket appears.
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Grades 3–4
Color by Multiplication: Butterfly
Multiplication facts that share products (3 × 4 and 2 × 6 are both 12). Solve every square to see a butterfly.
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Grades 3–5
Color by Part of Speech: Sailboat
Grammar meets coloring: five parts of speech, five colors and a sailboat on the water.
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Eight different cards per game plus cut-apart caller cards: shapes, numbers, addition, multiplication and word meanings.
Grades K–1
Shapes Bingo
Eight different 3 by 3 cards with outline shapes and a free middle square, plus caller cards for the grown-up.
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Grades K–1
Number Bingo: 1 to 20
Eight different 4 by 4 cards with the numbers 1 to 20. The caller cards show ten frames, so kids count before they cover.
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Grades 1–2
Addition Facts Bingo
Sums from 2 to 18 on eight different cards. The caller reads a fact like 7 + 5, and kids find 12.
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Grades 3–4
Multiplication Bingo
Thirty products from the 2 to 9 times tables on eight different 5 by 5 cards with a free middle square.
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Grades 3–5
Word Meaning Bingo
Vocabulary bingo: the caller reads a meaning like “very tired” and kids find exhausted. Thirty words, eight cards.
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Cut out the cards and glue each one where it belongs: shapes, more or less, animal homes, odd and even, nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Grades K–1
Shape Sort: Cut and Paste
Twelve big and small, turned and tilted shapes to sort into circles, squares and triangles.
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Grades K–1
Less Than 5 or More Than 5?
Count the dots on each card, then sort: fewer than 5 or more than 5. Number sense with scissors and glue.
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Grades 1–2
Land, Water or Air? Animal Sort
Sort twelve animals by where they live and move: on land, in water or in the air. Some are Kevin’s characters.
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Grades 1–3
Odd or Even? Number Sort
Twelve numbers to 20 to sort into odd and even, with a reminder of what even means.
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Grades 2–3
Noun, Verb or Adjective? Word Sort
Twelve words to sort into nouns, verbs and adjectives, with a one-line reminder of each.
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Mazes from a big easy one to a giant one, an ABC path and a number path puzzle that takes real thinking.
Grades K–1
Big Easy Maze
A big, wide-path maze for little hands: six squares across, with lots of room for a crayon.
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Grades K–1
ABC Path Puzzle
Follow the alphabet from A to T through a grid of letters. Letter order practice that feels like a maze.
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Grades 1–3
Medium Maze
An 11 by 13 maze with a few long dead ends. Right for 1st to 3rd grade.
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Grades 3–5
Giant Maze
A 20 by 24 maze that fills the page. One path through and plenty of tricky dead ends.
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Grades 3–5
Number Path Puzzles
Three number grids. Move only right or down and find the one path that adds up to the target. Adding plus planning.
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Cut-apart memory cards with Kevin’s characters, letters, rhymes and contractions, and a compound word match.
Grades K–1
Character Memory Match
Sixteen cut-apart memory cards with eight of Kevin’s characters. Print on card stock for a game that lasts.
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Grades K–1
Uppercase and Lowercase Memory Match
Memory cards that pair each uppercase letter with its lowercase partner, including the tricky ones: b, d, g and q.
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Grades 1–2
Rhyming Words Memory Match
Eight rhyming pairs on cut-apart cards: read both words out loud to check for a match.
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Grades 2–3
Compound Word Match
Join two small words to make a compound word: sun + flower, cup + cake, butter + fly. Then write it out.
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Grades 2–3
Contractions Memory Match
Match two words to their contraction (do not and don’t, we are and we’re) in a cut-apart memory game.
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Hunt for shapes in the classroom, treasures outside, an ABC hunt, a book hunt and a measuring hunt.
Grades K–1
Classroom Shape Scavenger Hunt
Find a circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval and star in the classroom, then draw each one.
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Grades K–2
Nature Scavenger Hunt
Twelve things to find outside, from a smooth rock to a cloud shape, and a box to draw the best one.
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Grades 1–2
Alphabet Scavenger Hunt
Find something for every letter from A to Z, at school or at home. Letters like Q, X and Z are the fun ones.
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Grades 2–4
Book Scavenger Hunt
Works with any book: hunt for a three-syllable word, a question, a compound word, a character and more.
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Grades 3–5
Measurement Scavenger Hunt
Find things that match each length, estimate first, then measure with a ruler in inches or centimeters.
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One page of quick, quiet puzzles for each grade, for the kids who finish first. Keep a stack by the door.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten Early Finisher Page
Count the stars, finish a pattern, spot the odd one out, trace the paths and draw a silly monster.
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Grade 1
1st Grade Early Finisher Page
Missing numbers, animal word scrambles, rhymes, tic-tac-toe and a drawing box.
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Grade 2
2nd Grade Early Finisher Page
A secret-code dinosaur joke, a word ladder from CAT to DOG, a number pyramid and a flag to design.
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Grade 3
3rd Grade Early Finisher Page
School word scrambles, a magic square, a multiplication riddle and a would-you-rather writing prompt.
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Grades 4–5
4th and 5th Grade Early Finisher Page
A 6 by 6 sudoku, a five-row number pyramid, a backwards-alphabet code riddle and a make-the-words challenge.
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Logic grids, mini sudoku, number riddles and brain teasers that build careful, step-by-step thinking.
Grades 2–3
First Logic Grid Puzzles
Two small 3 by 3 logic grids with two clues each: the perfect first logic puzzle.
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Grades 2–3
Mini Sudoku Puzzles
Four 4 by 4 sudoku puzzles with the numbers 1 to 4. Each one has exactly one answer.
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Grades 3–5
Brain Teaser Riddles
Ten classic brain teasers like “What gets wetter the more it dries?” Great for morning meeting.
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Grades 3–5
Mystery Number Riddles
Eight “Who am I?” number riddles about digits, odd and even, multiples and square numbers.
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Grades 4–5
Logic Grid: After-School Clubs
Two 4 by 4 logic grids with five clues and three clues. Kids cross out, then reason out the rest.
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All 50 sheets in one PDF, with every answer key and caller card page at the back.
Print all 50 (PDF)Answer keys
Every answer key and the bingo caller cards in one PDF, for the grown-up’s folder.
Print the answer keys (PDF)One topic
Each topic has a pack of its five sheets and their keys: word searches, crosswords, coloring pages, bingo games, cut-and-paste sorts, mazes & puzzles, matching & memory, scavenger hunts, early finishers, logic puzzles.
How to use them
- Early finishers: keep a stack of the 3rd Grade Early Finisher Page (or your grade’s page) by the door for kids who finish first.
- Whole-class games: Multiplication Bingo and Word Meaning Bingo turn review into a game. The caller cards are in the PDF.
- Centers: the cut-and-paste sorts and memory games, like Noun, Verb or Adjective? Word Sort and Rhyming Words Memory Match, work with a partner.
- Brain breaks: one of the Brain Teaser Riddles at morning meeting, or a maze after lunch.
- Get moving: the scavenger hunts send kids around the room, the school or the playground.
Start here by grade
- Kindergarten: Color by Shape: Apple, Shapes Bingo, Character Memory Match, Kindergarten Early Finisher Page.
- 1st grade: Ocean Animals Word Search, ABC Path Puzzle, Land, Water or Air? Animal Sort, Alphabet Scavenger Hunt.
- 2nd grade: Animal Babies Crossword, Addition Facts Bingo, Compound Word Match, First Logic Grid Puzzles.
- 3rd grade: Garden Bugs Word Search, Shapes and Math Words Crossword, Color by Multiplication: Butterfly, Mini Sudoku Puzzles.
- 4th grade: Sports and Games Word Search, Synonyms Crossword, Number Path Puzzles, Mystery Number Riddles.
- 5th grade: Musical Instruments Word Search, Measurement Crossword, Giant Maze, Logic Grid: After-School Clubs.
More free printables for the classroom
- Math worksheetsCounting, facts, fractions, place value, time and money.
- Sight word worksheetsRead, trace and write pages and games for K and 1st grade.
- Thinking sheets500 one-page draw-and-write sheets for any subject.
- Pixel art makerColor squares on a grid, then print it as a color-by-number puzzle.
- Early-finisher cardsCut-apart drawing cards for the art center.
- No-prep sub plansA 45-minute art lesson for a sub day.
Books for quiet time
Kevin Coulston’s activity, drawing and tracing books are made for the same moments as these sheets: indoor recess, early finishers and the last ten minutes of the day.
Mermaids, Unicorns, and Other Cute Stuff Coloring and Activity Book
Shape Drawing Challenge
Draw by Grid: Cool Stuff
Trace Then Color: Cute Cartoon AnimalsAs an Amazon Associate, FirstArtBooks earns from qualifying purchases.
Questions
Are these classroom games free?
Yes. All 50 games and activities, their answer keys and the topic packs are free to print for home and classroom use. Print one sheet, a topic pack of five or the whole set in one PDF.
Which grades are they for?
Kindergarten to 5th grade. Each topic starts with the easiest sheet and ends with the hardest, and every card shows its grade range. The grade buttons filter the list.
Is there an answer key?
Yes. 36 of the sheets have an answer key: the same page with the answers filled in, as the last page of the sheet’s PDF. All the keys are in one PDF too. The memory cards and scavenger hunts don’t need one.
How do the bingo games work?
Each bingo PDF has eight different cards, two to a page, and a page of caller cards. Cut the caller cards apart and draw them from a cup. For a big class, print two sets and let the players with the same card share the win.
What topics do the sheets cover?
word search puzzles, crossword puzzles, educational coloring pages, printable bingo games, cut-and-paste sorting activities, mazes and problem-solving puzzles, matching and memory games, scavenger hunt worksheets, early finisher activity packets, logic puzzles and brain teasers. That is five sheets for each topic, from the easiest to the hardest.
Do they print in black and white?
Yes. The headers are light colors that look fine in gray, and the coloring pages name each color in words. Sheets are US Letter and also print on A4. Print the memory cards on card stock so they last.
All sheets are US Letter, print well in black and white, and are free for home and classroom use. The letters and numbers are set in Andika, a font made for young readers. More for teachers in the teacher resources library.
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