AnimalsFarm
Sheep Fun facts for kids
Ovis aries
The sheep lives on farms and hills all over the world and eats grass and clover.
- Where it lives
- on farms and hills all over the world
- What it eats
- grass and clover
- How big it is
- as tall as your waist
Fun facts about the sheep
The ones Sammy likes best. She tells them in the game, too.
A runaway sheep called Shrek hid from shearing for six years and grew a huge, heavy coat of wool.
A sheep can see behind itself without turning its head, thanks to its wide, rectangle-shaped pupils.
Sheep can remember the faces of about 50 other sheep, and people's faces too, for years.
Sheep have no top front teeth, so they press grass against a hard pad in their mouth and tear it off.
A mother sheep and her lamb can find each other in a big noisy flock just by voice and smell.
In New Zealand there were once about five sheep for every person!
Sheep wool has a greasy wax that keeps it dry, and people use it in lip balm and skin cream.
Sheep bring their swallowed food back up into their mouths to chew it all over again.
Riddle
Can a friend guess it?
Read the clues to someone, one at a time, without saying the animal. How many clues do they need? Fewer is better, just like in the game.
I live in a big flock on farms and hills all over the world.
I have no top front teeth, so I tear grass against a hard pad in my mouth.
My pupils are shaped like rectangles, so I can see behind me without turning my head.
I can remember the faces of about fifty friends, and people's faces too, for years.
Once a year people cut off my thick, warm wool, and I say baa.
Sammy might be thinking of a sheep.
In Thought Zoo, Sammy picks an animal and you ask her yes-or-no questions to find it. You'll find the sheep in the Farm adventure. It's free to play.
Play the FarmComing to iPad, iPhone and Android on 12 January 2027
