Easy sea life word search
Orca, shark, crab and pāua: ten short sea words in a ten by ten grid. The words only go across and down, so young beachcombers can find them on their own.
- Crab
- Kina
- Octopus
- Orca
- Pāua
- Penguin
- Seal
- Shark
- Shell
- Whale
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 versionSea life for young kids
Name
| I | P | E | N | G | U | I | N | S | E |
| I | O | H | H | A | I | K | M | W | I |
| T | S | F | X | T | Y | I | B | T | H |
| E | H | T | A | E | T | N | N | S | Y |
| R | A | O | T | W | P | A | U | A | T |
| A | R | R | R | H | E | S | A | W | B |
| A | K | C | R | A | B | E | H | H | D |
| L | L | A | N | L | S | A | T | O | A |
| Y | F | S | H | E | L | L | T | E | B |
| O | C | T | O | P | U | S | A | U | Y |
Find these words
- Crab
- Kina
- Octopus
- Orca
- Pāua
- Penguin
- Seal
- Shark
- Shell
- Whale
Done? Keep playing in the appA new puzzle every day and 2,500+ levels per language. Free at wordswithmia.com
Keep playing in the appwordswithmia.com
Get the app
Scan for the answer key
Sea life for young kids
Give it a try: drag a line across the letters.
All words found!
About this word search
Around the coast of New Zealand you can see seals on the rocks, penguins coming ashore at night and sometimes an orca in the harbour. Pāua and kina live on the rocks under the water, and the beach is full of shells.
The grid is ten by ten and every word runs across or down. Penguin and octopus are the longest at seven letters. Orca, seal, crab, pāua and kina have four letters each. Pāua is written PAUA in the grid, without the line over the A.
When the words are found, children can draw an underwater picture with all ten animals in it. Ask which ones they have seen at the beach themselves.
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.
More word searches
All 93 themes- Native birds for young kids
- Bugs and insects for young kids
- Zoo for young kids
- Dinosaurs for young kids
- In the bush for young kids
- Flowers for young kids
Is your theme missing? Type your own words into the word search maker. You get a grid with the answer key straight away, in the size you want.
Make your own word search
A new word search every day?
Words with Mia is a calm word search app in 25+ languages, with a daily puzzle and 2,500+ levels per language. Free to download.
