Easy native birds word search
Kiwi, tūī, kea and pūkeko: ten native birds in a ten by ten grid. The words run straight across or straight down, so it works for children who are just starting to read.
- Fantail
- Kea
- Kererū
- Kiwi
- Morepork
- Pūkeko
- Robin
- Takahē
- Tūī
- Weka
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 versionNative birds for young kids
Name
| H | V | F | P | R | F | N | D | U | I |
| S | S | A | U | T | A | K | A | H | E |
| M | T | N | K | V | M | K | I | W | I |
| R | C | T | E | R | O | B | I | N | A |
| T | E | A | K | E | R | I | M | R | T |
| E | F | I | O | K | E | R | E | R | U |
| P | K | L | T | E | P | I | A | W | I |
| T | E | E | E | K | O | D | O | A | H |
| T | A | A | L | F | R | S | N | P | H |
| H | P | H | W | E | K | A | N | A | C |
Find these words
- Fantail
- Kea
- Kererū
- Kiwi
- Morepork
- Pūkeko
- Robin
- Takahē
- Tūī
- Weka
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About this word search
Kiwi, tūī, kea and pūkeko are birds that live in Aotearoa. The kiwi cannot fly, the kea lives in the mountains and the pūkeko with its red beak walks around in wet paddocks. The morepork is an owl that calls at night, and its name sounds like its call.
The grid is ten by ten and the words run from left to right or from top to bottom. Morepork is the longest with eight letters. Tūī and kea have only three letters each. Some birds have little lines over their letters, but in the grid they are plain, so tūī is TUI and takahē is TAKAHE.
When the words are found, go outside and listen. Can you hear a tūī, a fantail or a morepork? Children can draw the bird they heard or saw.
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 Italian too
The same theme also exists in 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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