Parts of the body word search
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, with a puku in the middle. Twenty body words for a health lesson or a game of point and name.
- Ankle
- Belly button
- Brain
- Elbow
- Eyebrows
- Fingers
- Head
- Heart
- Knees
- Lungs
- Muscles
- Nostrils
- Puku
- Shoulders
- Skin
- Teeth
- Thumb
- Toes
- Tongue
- Wrist
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 versionThe body
Name
| U | E | E | O | E | E | L | B | O | W | T | P | M | K |
| N | T | R | O | Y | T | U | K | N | E | E | S | U | O |
| T | O | G | B | M | F | D | M | K | R | A | H | S | U |
| E | E | Y | E | B | R | O | W | S | U | W | P | C | A |
| E | S | S | L | R | B | H | P | U | K | U | A | L | H |
| T | E | O | L | A | E | P | H | S | S | E | N | E | O |
| H | T | C | Y | I | T | H | E | R | S | W | K | S | N |
| H | E | O | B | N | O | O | E | G | E | R | L | F | I |
| E | T | H | U | M | B | D | N | A | R | I | E | I | W |
| A | H | F | T | O | L | U | S | G | R | S | T | N | P |
| D | N | F | T | U | L | M | O | G | U | T | H | G | E |
| U | D | D | O | W | A | X | T | L | D | E | G | E | B |
| A | D | H | N | U | A | K | K | X | I | A | N | R | L |
| E | S | K | I | N | N | O | S | T | R | I | L | S | D |
Find these words
- Ankle
- Belly button
- Brain
- Elbow
- Eyebrows
- Fingers
- Head
- Heart
- Knees
- Lungs
- Muscles
- Nostrils
- Puku
- Shoulders
- Skin
- Teeth
- Thumb
- Toes
- Tongue
- Wrist
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About this word search
In New Zealand English the belly is often the puku, a te reo Māori word most children know before they start school. Health lessons often use Te Whare Tapa Whā, a model by Sir Mason Durie that compares wellbeing to a house with four walls, and taha tinana, the body, is one of them.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and the words run across, down or diagonally, never backwards. Belly button is the longest with eleven letters and runs together as one word. Shoulders follows with nine. Head, toes, puku and skin have only four letters each. Watch for the K in puku, knees, ankle and skin, and the double letters in belly button and teeth.
Play head, shoulders, knees and toes while you search. Every time someone finds a body part, everyone touches it on their own body.
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 ferry or the bach. 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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