Hard playground word search
Monkey bars, the zip line and hopscotch: twenty-eight outdoor games and playground words for older kids. They hide backwards, forwards and diagonally in a large grid.
- Balance beam
- Bubble wand
- Cartwheel
- Climbing wall
- Handstand
- Hopscotch
- Kickball
- Leapfrog
- Merry-go-round
- Monkey bars
- Mud kitchen
- Obstacle course
- Piggyback
- Puddles
- Relay race
- Road hockey
- Roller skates
- Rope swing
- Sack race
- Scavenger hunt
- Skipping
- Snow fort
- Tire swing
- Tree climbing
- Wading pool
- Water balloon
- Wheelbarrow race
- Zip line
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 versionPlaying outside, extra hard
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Find these words
- Balance beam
- Bubble wand
- Cartwheel
- Climbing wall
- Handstand
- Hopscotch
- Kickball
- Leapfrog
- Merry-go-round
- Monkey bars
- Mud kitchen
- Obstacle course
- Piggyback
- Puddles
- Relay race
- Road hockey
- Roller skates
- Rope swing
- Sack race
- Scavenger hunt
- Skipping
- Snow fort
- Tire swing
- Tree climbing
- Wading pool
- Water balloon
- Wheelbarrow race
- Zip line
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About this word search
Road hockey and a Snow fort are about as Canadian as childhood gets. Anyone who grew up playing on a quiet street knows the shout of car when a vehicle turns the corner and the nets get dragged to the curb.
With eighteen squares a side and words free to run reversed or on the diagonal, this one takes a while. Wheelbarrow race and Obstacle course are long and good starting points. Merry-go-round, Zip line and Tire swing hide without spaces.
Older kids can sort the list into summer and winter games, then add a few from their own school or neighbourhood.
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.
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