Insects word search
Creepy crawlies from the ant to the dragonfly, twenty in all. A word search for spring, when the class heads into the school garden with bug pots to look for ladybugs and caterpillars.
- Ant
- Bee
- Butterfly
- Caterpillar
- Cricket
- Dragonfly
- Earwig
- Flea
- Gnat
- Grasshopper
- Hornet
- Ladybug
- Larva
- Mosquito
- Moth
- Sow bug
- Spider
- Termite
- Wasp
- Wing
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 versionInsects
Name
| O | D | E | C | L | D | M | O | H | N | O | E | I | T |
| H | R | P | A | A | E | R | O | I | O | P | O | S | P |
| A | A | S | F | D | T | C | E | S | I | D | H | F | F |
| S | G | B | W | Y | P | E | W | U | Q | L | G | H | L |
| T | O | T | I | B | E | E | R | B | M | U | O | M | E |
| E | N | H | N | U | H | N | S | P | G | G | I | O | A |
| A | F | I | G | G | A | M | C | I | I | R | L | T | R |
| R | L | N | B | U | T | T | E | R | F | L | Y | H | O |
| W | Y | S | P | I | D | E | R | N | I | T | L | I | A |
| I | T | O | L | L | A | H | E | D | V | C | E | A | F |
| G | W | W | U | A | W | A | S | P | O | P | K | S | R |
| N | E | B | C | R | S | T | E | R | M | I | T | E | K |
| A | O | U | E | V | O | T | I | H | O | R | N | E | T |
| T | F | G | R | A | S | S | H | O | P | P | E | R | U |
Find these words
- Ant
- Bee
- Butterfly
- Caterpillar
- Cricket
- Dragonfly
- Earwig
- Flea
- Gnat
- Grasshopper
- Hornet
- Ladybug
- Larva
- Mosquito
- Moth
- Sow bug
- Spider
- Termite
- Wasp
- Wing
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About this word search
Mosquito season starts in late spring across much of Canada, and anyone who has spent an evening at the cottage knows the whine. This list puts such nuisances next to garden helpers like the Ladybug, which eats aphids, and the Bee, which carries pollen from flower to flower. A male Cricket chirps by rubbing its wings together, a fact that makes a good opener for a science lesson.
Words in this grid go across, down and diagonally, always forwards. The two longest bugs, Grasshopper and Caterpillar, give themselves away quickly. Ant and Bee do not, since such short letter groups pop up by chance in many places, so check those twice.
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 English (New Zealand) too
The same theme also exists in English (New Zealand) and French, 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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