Crosswords for kids have 6 short answers, and every one is a familiar animal, like a cat, a frog or a bee. Each clue comes with a picture and a short, friendly sentence, so a child who is still learning to read can solve with the picture and the number of letters. A wrong letter shows at once, big letters are easy to tap, and the clues stay kind: no hunting and no food made from animals. Help can check or reveal a letter or a word whenever a little one needs it. Print a kids crossword on A4 or Letter for the car, the classroom or a rainy afternoon.
How to play
Every answer is an animal. Tap a square and read its clue on the label above the keyboard, then type the answer; the cursor moves along the answer and skips the squares already filled. Tap the same square again, or the label, to switch between across and down. A square where two answers cross belongs to both. Help can check or reveal a letter, an answer or the whole grid as often as you like, and the crossword is solved when every square holds the right letter.
Questions about Crossword Puzzles for Kids
Is this crossword good for kids?
The kids crossword has 6 short animal answers, a picture with every clue, big letters, and mistakes shown as you type.
Can I print a kids crossword for class?
Yes. Press Print and add the answer sheet for a second page with every answer filled in.
Crossword puzzles about animals, free to play online on your phone or computer. Read a clue, tap a square and type the answer with the keyboard under the grid — every answer is an animal, from fox to snow leopard. Pick a 5-answer mini, an easy or a hard grid, solve the daily crossword with everyone else, make your own crossword or print any of them.
A crossword rewards an order: start with the answers you are sure of, then let every crossing square give letters to the next.
New to crosswords? Each numbered answer has a clue in the Across or Down list. Tap a square of the answer, type the animal, and the letters land along the answer; a square where two answers cross belongs to both.
Before your next move
Typing a guess over a crossing letter you were sure of breaks two answers at once.
Revealing the whole grid ends the crossword without a win: check one answer first.
Browser edition
Play in your browser. No app download is needed.
Questions about Crossword
Are all answers animals?
Yes. Every crossword in the game is about animals: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians, insects and sea life. Only your own crossword can use other words.
What is the Bestiary?
Every animal you solve joins the Bestiary, a field notebook of the animals you have met, with a card for each.
Does the game keep score?
No. The top bar shows your time, the answers solved and the help you used. Your progress is saved in this browser.
Original ManyPlay game. Controls and examples were checked against the browser edition; cover illustrations are labelled separately from gameplay captures. Report a changed rule or control.
