Free Play-Based Spanish Learning Resources for Kids
This page brings together free, practical Spanish learning resources you can use at home, in a classroom, or for homeschooling.
Everything here is play-based, easy to use, and designed to help kids learn Spanish words naturally through games, listening, and repetition, without drills or pressure.
You do not need to be fluent in Spanish to use these resources. Many include English support, clear instructions, and ready-to-use materials so you can learn alongside the child.
Free Online Spanish Vocabulary Games
BBC offers 6 free online Spanish vocabulary games for kids, with colorful graphics and playful characters. These games work well as short listening or review activities.
PandaTree provides 25 free online Spanish vocabulary games based on matching images with Spanish words. For example, the word fresa is matched with a picture of a strawberry. These games feel similar to memory games. The Spanish words are not explained beforehand, so some prior knowledge of common Spanish vocabulary is needed. They are best suited for intermediate learners.
PBS Kids offers 38 free Spanish word games with bright visuals, clear scenes, and friendly characters. These are especially appealing for younger children and early learners.
Free Spanish Word Puzzle Games for Kids
LingoLina offers 50+ free printable bilingual Spanish–English word search puzzles.
What makes these puzzles different is that the words come from stories for kids, not just random lists. Each puzzle is paired with free bilingual Spanish–English stories and audiobooks.
The stories show how words are used in real situations and natural dialogue. As children imagine the scenes, they connect new Spanish words to sounds, images, and emotions. The word search puzzles then reinforce the same words the child already heard and understood.
These resources are designed to work together, so Spanish vocabulary learning stays clear, enjoyable, and stress-free instead of confusing or overwhelming.
WordMint offers a large library of free printable Spanish-only word search games, puzzles, and crosswords. Their sheets are often organized by themes such as greetings, food, clothing, body parts, or country capitals.
Many of their puzzles focus on finding short phrases or full sentence chunks rather than single words. For example, a child might search for “cuál es tu nombre” instead of just “nombre” or “azul.” This makes WordMint more suitable for intermediate to advanced learners or older kids who already understand basic Spanish vocabulary.
Spanish Word Search offers 15 free printable word search puzzles for beginners. These focus on basic vocabulary such as months, days of the week, foods, animals, and everyday objects. The words are simple and appropriate for early learners.
BrightSprout provides free online Spanish word search games created by its user community. Because the puzzles are community-made, quality, age appropriateness, and word accuracy can vary. Content is rated by members, not moderators. Educators can also use BrightSprout’s tools to create their own word search games.
These puzzles are played online only and are not printable, which may limit how they can be used in classrooms or at home.
Free Spanish Activity Games & Ideas
LingoLina also offers 200+ free Spanish activity games and game ideas for kids.
Some of these are classic, well-loved children’s games adapted for Spanish learning. Others are original, creative games. All are designed to teach Spanish colors, verbs, objects, food, animals, everyday vocabulary, numbers, family words, and more.
All PDFs are free to download and print. Many include Spanish vocabulary with English translations, along with ready-made questions, answers, and simple dialogue you can use during the games.
You will also find printable resources for all 14 games taught in this course, including vocabulary lists, instructions, and play ideas, so you do not have to prepare everything yourself.
Free Spanish Stories & Bilingual Stories for Kids
Below is a curated selection of platforms where parents and educators can find bilingual English–Spanish stories for children of different ages and reading levels. Each resource varies in format, cost, and depth of content.
Kindle Unlimited
Kindle Unlimited is one of the largest sources of bilingual Spanish–English children’s books.
Searching phrases like “bilingual Spanish English stories for kids” or age-specific queries such as “bilingual Spanish English fantasy story for 9-year-old” returns a wide range of results.
At the time of writing, the platform offered roughly 1,000 bilingual English–Spanish children’s books in digital Kindle format.
Kindle books can be read on phones, tablets, or computers and require no physical printing.
Kindle Unlimited typically costs around $12 per month and includes access to over one million Kindle titles across all genres.
Non-members can purchase individual bilingual children’s books, usually priced between $0.99 and $8.
Amazon members can often access a 1-month free trial, allowing unlimited downloads during that period.
Browse bilingual books on Amazon here.
Learn more about Kindle Unlimited.
LingoLina
LingoLina.com publishes free bilingual English–Spanish stories for children ages 3 to 12 (in text and audiobook formats), bilingual fiction for teens and adults, and bilingual nonfiction podcasts covering topics such as history, geography, food, mysteries, animals, travel, psychology, entrepreneurship, biographies, and more.
The platform uses sentence-by-sentence paired translations to support natural comprehension at any level. Spanish-only books and audio are also available for advanced learners who want full immersion.
They currently offer 30 free bilingual stories for ages 3 to 12, 10 free stories for ages 6 to 14, and plan on releasing 350 more stories for kids over the coming year.
Content is available in text, print, audio, and illustrated formats.
Fable Cottage
Fable Cottage offers 10 free, short, illustrated stories for young children based on classic fairy tales. Each story appears in Spanish, with an optional English translation that can be shown or hidden.
The stories are best suited for ages 3–6 and are available as text, audio, and video.
Free Spanish or English Stories for Kids
The resources below offer free books in either English or Spanish. Many classic titles exist in both languages. Spanish-only materials work best for intermediate to advanced learners.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg provides free public-domain books, including classics such as Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer, Around the World in 80 Days, and many traditional fairy tales.
Most children’s titles are written in older English. A small number are available in Spanish as separate editions. Families can pair a free English version with a Spanish translation found elsewhere online to create informal parallel reading.
Project Gutenberg offers many English children’s books but very few Spanish children’s titles. Most Spanish works are literary texts originally written for adults.
A practical approach is to download the English edition from Gutenberg and then search for a matching Spanish translation online. For example, searching “Tom Sawyer en español PDF” leads to a free Spanish edition from the Mexican Department of Education.
Library of Miguel de Cervantes
This digital library offers Spanish editions and translations of many classic works, with selected titles available as free PDFs.
Searching by author name rather than book title is usually more effective. For example, searching “Lewis Carroll” retrieves Spanish editions of Alice in Wonderland.
LibriVox
LibriVox is a volunteer-run project that produces free audiobooks from public-domain texts.
At the time of writing, the platform included over 500 English children’s fiction titles and more than 900 Spanish audiobooks across genres, including a limited number for children.
The audiobooks are not bilingual and follow natural native-speaker pacing, as they are not designed specifically for language learners.
This makes LibriVox best suited for advanced learners seeking full Spanish immersion.
Simple Stories in Spanish
Small Town Spanish Teacher (also known as Simple Stories in Spanish on Spotify) creates short, simple stories and classic fairy tales entirely in Spanish. These are designed for children and beginner learners but work best as immersion material for intermediate to advanced students.
The stories are available free as podcasts on Spotify, with free transcripts on the website.
Free Amazon Prime Books
Amazon Prime members can access free or discounted children’s books through several options:
Top 100 Free
Amazon’s rotating list of free Kindle books sometimes includes Spanish or bilingual titles for children.
Prime Reading
Prime members can borrow selected Spanish or bilingual Kindle books at no extra cost.
Stuff Your Kindle Day
Occasional 24-hour events where many authors offer free downloads.
Library Apps
Using apps like Libby, families can borrow free e-books from local libraries.
External Sites
Websites such as BookBub, Freebooksy, and JustKindleBooks list daily free Kindle book offers.
WilBooks
Wilbooks provides 27 free Spanish books for kindergarten-level readers.
These short nonfiction titles focus on everyday topics such as objects, activities, and animals. Each page contains one or two Spanish sentences with no English translation.
The books are available to read online for free with ads, and are best suited for ages 0–4.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy offers 30 free Spanish-only books for young children. These short, illustrated books focus on basic vocabulary such as colors, numbers, and familiar objects.
Cuentos X Contar
Cuentos X Contar features 16 short Spanish-only children’s stories. Each includes a single illustration and an accompanying audio recording.
How to Use These Free Learning Resources
You do not need to use everything at once. Pick one or two resources that fit your child or students best.
Mix short games with listening, reading, and movement.
Keep sessions brief and enjoyable.
Games build vocabulary and confidence. Stories and listening deepen understanding. Together, they create steady progress without stress.
This page is meant to save you time, remove guesswork, and give you reliable tools you can return to again and again.