Hard summer word search
An icy pole, the esky and Boxing Day at the beach. This summer grid is eighteen squares wide and words go backwards and diagonally too, for teenagers and grown-ups during the long school holidays.
- Boxing Day
- Campervan
- Deckchair
- Dragonfly
- Esky
- Festival
- Freckles
- Heatwave
- Hose
- Ice cubes
- Icy pole
- Paddleboard
- Paddling pool
- Picnic blanket
- Postcard
- Rock pool
- Sandcastle
- Shorts
- Sprinkler
- Strawberries
- Sunburn
- Sunglasses
- Sunhat
- Suntan
- Surf club
- Swimmers
- Thunderstorm
- Water fight
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 versionSummer, extra hard
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| E | C | B | H | S | M | T | I | B | F | O | N | K | L | X | C | A | L |
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Find these words
- Boxing Day
- Campervan
- Deckchair
- Dragonfly
- Esky
- Festival
- Freckles
- Heatwave
- Hose
- Ice cubes
- Icy pole
- Paddleboard
- Paddling pool
- Picnic blanket
- Postcard
- Rock pool
- Sandcastle
- Shorts
- Sprinkler
- Strawberries
- Sunburn
- Sunglasses
- Sunhat
- Suntan
- Surf club
- Swimmers
- Thunderstorm
- Water fight
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Summer, extra hard
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About this word search
Several words here are distinctly Australian. An Icy pole is a frozen treat on a stick, Swimmers is what many people call a swimming costume, and the Surf club is where volunteer lifesavers patrol the beach between the red and yellow flags. For many families, Boxing Day also means the start of the Test cricket in Melbourne.
With twenty-eight words in every direction, backwards included, start with Thunderstorm and Picnic blanket, the two longest. Then find the groups that share a beginning: Sunhat, Sunburn and Suntan, or Paddling pool and Paddleboard. Telling them apart is the hardest part of the grid.
On a heatwave afternoon indoors, this makes a slow puzzle for the whole family around the table with a fan going.
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 Spanish too
The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, 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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