Hard colours word search
Vermilion, aquamarine and fuchsia come from the paint chart and the art room. Twenty-eight colours in an eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards and diagonal ones included, for older children and adults.
- Amber
- Apricot
- Aquamarine
- Burgundy
- Charcoal
- Cobalt
- Colour wheel
- Coral
- Emerald
- Fuchsia
- Indigo
- Ivory
- Jade
- Khaki
- Lavender
- Magenta
- Maroon
- Mauve
- Mustard
- Ochre
- Olive green
- Primary colour
- Rainbow
- Salmon pink
- Scarlet
- Sky blue
- Teal
- Vermilion
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, extra hard
Name
| I | F | N | N | E | E | R | G | E | V | I | L | O | G | Y | U | S | T |
| D | U | Y | R | O | V | I | M | H | W | O | B | N | I | A | R | L | T |
| V | O | O | U | R | G | V | C | O | R | A | L | O | P | P | A | A | U |
| C | O | L | O | U | R | W | H | E | E | L | E | I | L | S | S | V | E |
| V | O | D | L | A | R | E | M | E | K | O | A | L | A | E | U | E | H |
| M | A | R | O | O | N | E | M | N | B | F | E | I | P | B | C | N | N |
| A | C | E | C | D | A | G | I | M | T | S | S | M | U | N | E | D | I |
| U | H | P | Y | D | I | P | E | C | U | W | E | R | R | Y | U | E | G |
| V | A | E | R | T | N | W | A | L | I | S | G | E | O | E | L | R | E |
| E | R | O | A | O | P | I | A | K | L | U | T | V | O | D | B | D | N |
| E | C | E | M | C | T | I | A | T | N | E | G | A | M | A | Y | T | I |
| G | O | L | I | I | A | H | B | D | R | T | U | N | R | J | K | P | R |
| M | A | D | R | R | K | E | Y | C | O | O | E | E | T | D | S | U | A |
| S | L | S | P | P | I | N | S | C | T | D | T | L | B | E | L | T | M |
| T | D | D | L | A | I | S | H | C | U | F | L | G | R | F | G | E | A |
| O | G | I | D | N | I | R | Y | T | H | R | E | B | M | A | O | A | U |
| U | B | H | N | T | E | F | E | E | T | L | A | B | O | C | C | L | Q |
| O | O | G | O | A | F | A | E | O | T | A | U | N | O | M | T | S | A |
Find these words
- Amber
- Apricot
- Aquamarine
- Burgundy
- Charcoal
- Cobalt
- Colour wheel
- Coral
- Emerald
- Fuchsia
- Indigo
- Ivory
- Jade
- Khaki
- Lavender
- Magenta
- Maroon
- Mauve
- Mustard
- Ochre
- Olive green
- Primary colour
- Rainbow
- Salmon pink
- Scarlet
- Sky blue
- Teal
- Vermilion
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About this word search
Many colour names are borrowed from other things. Fuchsia comes from a plant named after the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs, Burgundy from a French wine region, and Ochre from an earth pigment people have painted with for thousands of years. Mauve has its own story as one of the first synthetic dyes, made in the 1850s.
Eighteen by eighteen, with words in all eight directions, backwards too. PRIMARYCOLOUR and COLOURWHEEL use the Canadian spelling, so look for the OU pair. Teal and Jade are short and easily buried among the longer names.
Art teachers in the upper grades can follow up by mixing paints to match five words from the list.
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, students check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or a family vacation. 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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