About Us

Poppy Fox Founder & Educational Editor

Worksheet Zoo is a small independent project run by Poppy Fox, a web builder and a big believer in learning by doing, with one simple mission: give families and teachers beautiful, well-made worksheets that are always free to download and print.

There is no big company behind this site. One person plans every collection, checks every page and reads every message that arrives through the contact form. That is exactly why the worksheets stay free, unwatermarked and pleasant to use.

How we make our worksheets

Every worksheet is built in-house as a pure vector PDF: tracing pages use a proper three-line handwriting guide with the SIL Andika literacy font (designed specifically for beginning readers), math pages keep twelve large problems per sheet, and every chart uses the same letterforms kids practice on. Each page is print-tested on both US Letter and A4 before it goes live.

How a collection gets built

A collection starts with a question someone is actually asking, usually a parent trying to find one specific thing: cursive k, the 7 times table, name tags for a class of thirty. I build the sheets for it, then keep adding until the collection answers the awkward follow-up questions too, not just the obvious one. That is why the times table pages carry the chart, the strips, the flashcards and the shuffled recall sheets rather than one page of sums.

There are 64 collections here now, holding about 4,370 worksheets across English, Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese. Each language gets its own sheets rather than a translated header on an English page, which matters most for the reading and spelling sets: Spanish children learn to read through syllable families, not through the consonant-vowel-consonant words English children start with, so those pages are built separately from the ground up.

What I will not do

No accounts, no email walls, no watermark across the middle of the page, and no sheet that asks a child to do something I have not done myself first. If a page is meant to teach rounding to the nearest hundred, every number on it has to actually round to a hundred. That sounds obvious. It is the thing that goes wrong most often on worksheet sites, including, sometimes, on this one, in which case I take the page down and rebuild it.

Who is this site for?

Parents, teachers, grandparents, homeschoolers and therapists. Everything is free for personal and classroom use, every year, for as many children as you teach (see our licensing policy). If something is broken, or you need a collection that does not exist yet, the contact form comes straight to me.

Last updated: September 2026.