Hard summer word search
A wading pool, popsicles and a Muskoka chair by the lake. This summer grid is eighteen squares wide and words go backwards and diagonally too, for teenagers and grown-ups.
- Bathing suit
- Camper
- Cottage
- Dragonfly
- Freckles
- Garden hose
- Heatwave
- Ice cubes
- Lakeside
- Midsummer
- Muskoka chair
- Paddleboard
- Picnic blanket
- Popsicle
- Postcard
- Sandcastle
- Shorts
- Sprinkler
- Strawberries
- Summer camp
- Sunburn
- Sunglasses
- Sunhat
- Suntan
- Thunderstorm
- Tide pool
- Wading pool
- 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
Name
| I | S | E | N | C | H | E | A | T | W | A | V | E | H | T | N | D | T |
| E | T | X | L | S | T | R | A | W | B | E | R | R | I | E | S | H | H |
| T | R | W | H | G | A | R | D | E | N | H | O | S | E | A | U | R | G |
| U | O | A | T | O | E | C | O | T | T | A | G | E | G | N | B | A | I |
| D | H | D | P | A | D | D | L | E | B | O | A | R | D | P | A | E | F |
| S | S | I | S | P | R | I | N | K | L | E | R | E | I | R | T | L | R |
| E | U | N | S | N | A | T | N | U | S | C | R | C | I | L | H | C | E |
| B | M | G | A | N | G | U | L | O | O | S | N | A | A | O | I | I | T |
| U | M | P | N | R | O | I | F | P | T | I | H | I | F | O | N | S | A |
| C | E | O | D | U | N | E | P | O | C | C | D | R | R | P | G | P | W |
| E | R | O | C | B | F | I | R | B | A | T | R | E | E | E | S | O | P |
| C | C | L | A | N | L | M | L | K | G | S | A | M | C | D | U | P | S |
| I | A | V | S | U | Y | A | O | G | S | I | C | M | K | I | I | U | U |
| R | M | O | T | S | N | K | I | T | O | D | T | U | L | T | T | H | N |
| R | P | E | L | K | S | U | N | G | L | A | S | S | E | S | O | K | H |
| L | E | T | E | U | C | A | M | P | E | R | O | D | S | M | R | I | A |
| O | F | T | M | A | N | A | I | R | A | H | P | I | E | S | A | L | T |
| E | D | I | S | E | K | A | L | B | R | H | T | M | G | A | E | T | W |
Find these words
- Bathing suit
- Camper
- Cottage
- Dragonfly
- Freckles
- Garden hose
- Heatwave
- Ice cubes
- Lakeside
- Midsummer
- Muskoka chair
- Paddleboard
- Picnic blanket
- Popsicle
- Postcard
- Sandcastle
- Shorts
- Sprinkler
- Strawberries
- Summer camp
- Sunburn
- Sunglasses
- Sunhat
- Suntan
- Thunderstorm
- Tide pool
- Wading pool
- Water fight
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Summer, extra hard
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About this word search
In Ontario, the wooden lawn chair with the wide armrests and the slanted back is called a Muskoka chair, after the lake district north of Toronto. South of the border, the same chair goes by Adirondack. Cottage and Lakeside fit right next to it on this list.
Hunt first for words with uncommon letters. The K in Muskoka and in Paddleboard is a good anchor, and so are the W and V that sit close together in Heatwave. Words in this eighteen-wide grid go in all eight directions, and some read in reverse, so Popsicle could show up as ELCISPOP.
Bring it along on the drive to cottage country, or keep it at camp for a rainy afternoon when the canoes stay on the shore.
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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