Zoo File Folder Games Mini-Bundle | Zoo Animals Matching | SLP SPED Autism

Zoo File Folder Games Mini-Bundle | 13 Zoo Animal Games for Matching, Sorting, Letters, Numbers & More!

The ultimate zoo animals file folder games bundle for spring units, special education, autism classrooms, speech therapy, and elementary classrooms — featuring 13 hands-on zoo-themed file folder games! This multi-skill set covers matching, sorting, beginning sounds, numbers, letters, colors, sizes, and visual discrimination — all with engaging zoo animal visuals.

Perfect for preschool, Pre-K, kindergarten, special education, autism classrooms, speech therapy, and early intervention settings. With a variety of skill levels and activity types included, this bundle makes it easy to target multiple goals while keeping students engaged with fun zoo animals.

★ Perfect for: Special Education Teachers, Autism Classrooms, Self-Contained Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Life Skills Classes, ELL/ESL Teachers, Paraprofessionals, ABA Therapists, Early Intervention, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade

What's Included — 13 Zoo File Folder Games:

📏 Size Concept Games:

• Big and Little Zoo Animals Sort

👀 Visual Discrimination Games:

• Same and Different Zoo Animals Sort

🔊 Phonics Skills:

• Zoo Animals Beginning Sounds

🔷 Matching Skills:

• Silly Shaped Bears Match
• Silly Bears Words (shape-to-word match)
• Hippos Numbers Match (numbers in order)
• Hippos Numbers Match (numbers out of order)
• Little Lions Letters Match (capital to lowercase letters)

🔢 Number Skills:

• Little Lions Number Sequence

🎨 Color Sorting:

• Silly Monkeys Color Sort 1
• Silly Monkeys Color Sort 2

📐 Matching by Size:

• Match the Flamingos by Size
• Match the Elephants by Size

Skills Targeted Across This Mini-Bundle:

• Zoo animal vocabulary
• Animal classification awareness
• Size discrimination (big/little, size match)
• Visual discrimination (same and different)
• Beginning sounds / phonological awareness
• Shape recognition and matching (with shape-to-word!)
• Number recognition (in order AND out of order)
• Number sequencing
• Letter matching (capital to lowercase)
• Color identification and sorting
• Matching skills
• Categorization
• Receptive and expressive language
• Following directions
• Independent work skills

How to Use These Zoo File Folder Games:

In independent workstations, learning centers, or small group activities, students sort or match pieces onto the correct side of each file folder. Perfect for zoo animal units, spring lessons (zoo field trip prep!), and year-round animal vocabulary instruction.

Ways to Use:

• Zoo animal thematic units
• Spring units (perfect for zoo trip preparation!)
• Animal classification lessons
• Independent work systems (perfect for TEACCH-style structured work!)
• Centers and learning stations
• Task box rotations
• Morning work bins
• Small group instruction
• 1:1 teaching sessions
• Speech therapy (vocabulary, matching, sorting, beginning sounds!)
• ELL/ESL animal vocabulary instruction
• Para-led skill practice
• Differentiated centers

If your students enjoy file folder games, there are many more in my collection. Please see the complete file folder games collection below:

Complete File Folder Games Collection

For more hands-on spring, or zoo themed activities, please see the links below:

Hands-On Spring Activities

Hands-On Zoo Activities