Colours word search
Red and whero, blue and kahurangi, green and kākāriki. Twenty colour words in English and te reo Māori, the way Kiwi kids learn them side by side.
- Black
- Blue
- Brown
- Gold
- Green
- Grey
- Kahurangi
- Kākāriki
- Karaka
- Kōwhai
- Orange
- Pango
- Pink
- Purple
- Red
- Silver
- Turquoise
- Whero
- White
- Yellow
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
Name
| W | I | S | I | E | E | K | O | M | T | K | H | T | I |
| U | H | T | O | U | D | A | T | Y | T | A | B | N | L |
| F | K | E | K | T | B | K | N | K | N | H | A | T | S |
| F | B | O | R | E | U | A | E | R | A | U | H | A | E |
| L | E | L | W | O | L | R | H | P | Y | R | U | V | I |
| Y | T | B | A | H | T | I | Q | A | I | A | A | D | P |
| E | E | H | L | C | A | K | G | U | O | N | E | K | P |
| L | B | E | H | U | K | I | P | S | O | G | K | S | A |
| L | R | H | K | L | E | R | S | E | I | I | N | G | L |
| O | O | R | A | N | G | E | U | D | D | L | S | R | D |
| W | W | H | I | T | E | D | L | R | G | T | V | E | E |
| S | N | I | C | I | D | O | P | U | R | P | L | E | G |
| O | T | H | N | C | G | H | N | V | E | M | C | N | R |
| E | T | E | P | A | N | G | O | G | Y | E | P | H | D |
Find these words
- Black
- Blue
- Brown
- Gold
- Green
- Grey
- Kahurangi
- Kākāriki
- Karaka
- Kōwhai
- Orange
- Pango
- Pink
- Purple
- Red
- Silver
- Turquoise
- Whero
- White
- Yellow
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About this word search
Kiwi children learn their colours in English and te reo Māori side by side. Whero is red, kōwhai is yellow like the tree that flowers gold in spring, kākāriki is green like the native parakeet, and kahurangi is blue, a word that can also mean treasured or precious.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen, with words across, down or diagonally, never backwards. Kahurangi and turquoise are the longest at nine letters. Red has only three. Kākāriki loses its macrons in the grid and reads KAKARIKI, with three Ks. The Q of turquoise and the W of whero, kōwhai, yellow, white and brown help you start.
Colour each found word in its own colour. For the te reo words, ask children to say the English colour out loud as they colour.
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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