Colours word search
Red, yellow, blue and the rest: ten colours in a small ten by ten grid for young children who are just learning to read colour names. Straight lines only, from left to right and from top to bottom.
- Black
- Blue
- Brown
- Green
- Orange
- Pink
- Purple
- Red
- White
- Yellow
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionColours
Name
| M | M | X | H | R | C | A | A | N | E |
| S | K | O | M | A | U | G | M | B | H |
| E | U | D | E | P | U | R | P | L | E |
| B | R | O | W | N | T | E | B | A | M |
| O | R | P | I | N | K | E | L | C | S |
| Y | E | L | L | O | W | N | U | K | M |
| D | D | G | W | H | I | T | E | W | E |
| T | S | W | M | G | S | W | P | U | I |
| O | R | A | N | G | E | T | M | T | Y |
| N | T | N | O | T | I | T | N | T | R |
Find these words
- Black
- Blue
- Brown
- Green
- Orange
- Pink
- Purple
- Red
- White
- Yellow
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Colours
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About this word search
Colour words tend to be some of the earliest a young reader recognises on sight, because they turn up on pencils, books and paint pots everywhere. Red, Blue and Pink are short and friendly, while Yellow and Purple ask for a bit more patience.
Say each colour out loud and point to something in the room that matches it. In the grid the words only go across or down, so rest a fingertip on the opening letter and slide it to the right or straight down the page.
When all ten are found, hand over the pencils and let your child colour each word in its own shade. White usually gets a laugh.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, pupils check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or the holidays. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
Play together
Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in English (New Zealand) too
The same theme also exists in English (New Zealand), Spanish, French and German, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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