Fairy tales word search
A glass slipper, a beanstalk and a troll under the bridge. Twenty words from the fairy tales told at bedtime, from once upon a time to the very last page.
- Beanstalk
- Castle
- Cinderella
- Dragon
- Fairy godmother
- Giant
- Glass slipper
- Goldilocks
- Magic wand
- Mermaid
- Once upon a time
- Prince
- Rapunzel
- Red Riding Hood
- Snow White
- Spell
- Tower
- Troll
- Witch
- Wizard
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
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Find these words
- Beanstalk
- Castle
- Cinderella
- Dragon
- Fairy godmother
- Giant
- Glass slipper
- Goldilocks
- Magic wand
- Mermaid
- Once upon a time
- Prince
- Rapunzel
- Red Riding Hood
- Snow White
- Spell
- Tower
- Troll
- Witch
- Wizard
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About this word search
The fairy tales Kiwi children grow up with mostly came here from Europe, written down long ago by collectors like Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel still turn up in picture books, school productions and on dress-up days.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and words run across, down and diagonally, never backwards. Fairy godmother is the longest with fourteen letters and fills a whole row, column or diagonal. Red Riding Hood and Once upon a time have thirteen. Giant, Troll, Witch, Spell and Tower are just five letters. Look for the Z in Wizard and Rapunzel, the double L in Troll, Spell and Cinderella, and the three S's in a row in Glass slipper, GLASSSLIPPER. Titles with more than one word run together, so Once upon a time is ONCEUPONATIME.
After the puzzle, each child picks three words and writes a new fairy tale with them, set somewhere in New Zealand. A dragon on Aoraki or a mermaid at Piha works surprisingly well.
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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