Animal Sound Safari
Six animal friends are playing on the playground today. Tap them to hear their real sounds, guess who is speaking, find them hiding and copy their moves. Grown-ups read the words; little ones do the tapping — and the hopping.
No scores, no timers — just animal friends.
Six friends, six voices.
Tap an animal to hear its sound and watch it gently move. Say the sound together — animal sounds are twice as fun in two voices.
Every animal plays a real recording. The sound word is written right on the card too — saying it in your own voice is the best version of all.
A listening game.
Tap the play button to hear a sound — then tap the animal who said it. Need another listen? Tap play again.
Who made that sound?
Who made that sound?
Who made that sound?
Who made that sound?
Who made that sound?
Who made that sound?
All six sounds come from the site’s real recordings — the same ones the Animals & Their Sounds class plays.
Find the animal.
You read the words, your child taps the animal. A miss is just another look.
Tap the duck!
Tap the frog!
Tap the dog!
Tap the sheep!
Tap the cat!
Move like the animals do.
Tap an animal to see how it moves — then stand up and copy it. Frogs hop, ducks waddle, cats stretch… your living room is the playground.
Copy me
- After each tap, do the move together: hop for the frog, waddle for the duck, stretch for the cat. Moving is how three-year-olds remember.
Your kitchen is a barnyard.
The animals follow you off the screen. Pick one of these — five minutes is plenty.
Sound and move parade
- March around the room together: each player picks an animal and does its sound AND its move while everyone guesses. “Quack, quack!” — waddle, waddle — “A duck!”
Stuffed animal choir
- Line up stuffed animals and give each one a voice. Your child is the choir leader — point at a toy and let them bring it to life.
Bedtime barnyard
- At story time, whisper the sounds: a sleepy cow says a slow moooo. Quiet animal sounds are a gentle way to land the day.
What a playground day!
You heard six animal voices, guessed who was speaking, found every hiding animal and hopped, waddled and swayed along. Whether you met two animals or all six, that was the whole game — and there was never a score to worry about. The barnyard will be waiting next time you visit.
About the sounds.
Every animal in this game plays a real recording. Dog, cat, cow and sheep use the very same files as the Animals & Their Sounds class, so the sounds stay consistent across the school. The duck recording is “Anas platyrhynchos - Mallard - XC62258” by Jonathon Jongsma (xeno-canto via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) — a close-up of a mallard giving the classic quack — and the frog is “Single Frog Croak” by MichaeltheFox8621 (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0); both are trimmed and volume-matched, with the full credits kept in the sound folder. The sound word is written under every animal so you can perform it yourself, which is honestly the best version.
Every movement in Step 5 is deliberately small and calm. If your child is sensitive to motion, the parent Calm Mode toggle in the footer (or your device’s reduced-motion setting) stills every animation while all sounds, words and games keep working.
Being the frog is still the most popular role in this school. Assign accordingly.
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