Hard forest word search
Paperbark, tree ferns and the sugar glider: twenty-eight bush words in a big eighteen by eighteen grid for older bushwalkers. Some are hidden backwards or diagonally, so take your time.
- Bandicoot
- Banksia
- Billabong
- Bush track
- Bushwalk
- Canopy
- Clearing
- Creek
- Echidna
- Eucalyptus
- Goanna
- Grevillea
- Gum tree
- Gumnut
- Ironbark
- Koala
- Leaf litter
- Lichen
- Lyrebird
- Paperbark
- Possum
- Ranger
- Stringybark
- Sugar glider
- Tree fern
- Undergrowth
- Wattle
- Wombat
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
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Name
| B | I | L | L | A | B | O | N | G | C | I | D | H | W | H | T | K | N |
| I | K | O | B | H | L | M | E | D | D | S | F | A | T | D | R | N | G |
| M | M | H | P | U | L | A | O | T | N | O | T | W | D | A | E | E | U |
| A | S | I | N | A | S | Y | O | U | T | T | O | K | B | B | E | E | M |
| N | F | N | S | H | G | H | R | K | L | R | R | R | A | E | F | R | N |
| B | P | O | S | S | U | M | T | E | G | A | E | N | D | K | E | T | U |
| U | W | O | M | B | A | T | O | R | B | P | D | G | E | U | R | M | T |
| S | E | I | F | I | R | T | E | Y | A | I | V | E | N | N | N | U | T |
| H | U | A | M | M | T | D | G | P | C | C | R | D | N | A | O | G | O |
| W | C | G | R | F | N | N | C | O | T | C | K | D | S | V | R | N | E |
| A | A | L | A | U | I | D | O | F | O | F | E | C | H | I | D | N | A |
| L | L | T | N | R | E | T | T | I | L | F | A | E | L | E | I | I | C |
| K | Y | A | T | E | G | R | E | V | I | L | L | E | A | R | S | A | P |
| S | P | S | N | H | H | L | I | R | O | N | B | A | R | K | N | N | H |
| P | T | N | D | N | K | C | I | C | A | N | A | P | N | O | V | R | T |
| H | U | L | T | B | A | R | I | D | F | T | I | A | P | H | A | L | H |
| T | S | D | E | E | E | O | U | L | E | S | B | Y | O | A | K | I | L |
| N | U | R | K | N | H | H | G | N | I | R | A | E | L | C | E | C | H |
Find these words
- Bandicoot
- Banksia
- Billabong
- Bush track
- Bushwalk
- Canopy
- Clearing
- Creek
- Echidna
- Eucalyptus
- Goanna
- Grevillea
- Gum tree
- Gumnut
- Ironbark
- Koala
- Leaf litter
- Lichen
- Lyrebird
- Paperbark
- Possum
- Ranger
- Stringybark
- Sugar glider
- Tree fern
- Undergrowth
- Wattle
- Wombat
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About this word search
Three of the trees on this list are named for their bark. Paperbark peels off in soft layers, Ironbark is hard and deeply furrowed, and Stringybark comes away in long fibres. Billabong, a word borrowed from an Aboriginal language, means a pool left behind when a river changes course, and it turns up in Waltzing Matilda.
Hidden names can point backwards, forwards, up, down or along either diagonal. Sugar glider and Leaf litter run as single strings without a space. The Y in Stringybark and Canopy is a useful starting point, as is the double L in Grevillea.
Older students on a school camp could take the list on a walk and record which plants and animals they actually find.
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