Hāngī word search
Hot stones in a pit, baskets of pork, chicken and kūmara under wet sacks and a few hours of waiting. Twenty words from the hāngī, the Māori earth oven.
- Baskets
- Chicken
- Earth oven
- Embers
- Firewood
- Fried bread
- Hāngī
- Kai
- Kūmara
- Mutton
- Pit
- Pork
- Potatoes
- Pumpkin
- Rēwena
- Shovel
- Steamed pudding
- Stones
- Stuffing
- Wet sacks
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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Name
| N | H | D | S | N | V | I | P | U | M | P | K | I | N |
| G | A | D | T | N | G | H | B | A | T | A | R | K | W |
| G | L | E | E | N | L | E | A | P | F | G | S | U | H |
| D | F | F | A | F | E | A | S | O | I | R | T | M | E |
| T | I | H | M | C | M | T | K | T | A | T | U | A | E |
| F | R | I | E | D | B | R | E | A | D | K | F | R | W |
| R | E | V | D | A | E | A | T | T | R | F | F | A | E |
| E | W | O | P | C | R | S | S | O | R | C | I | N | T |
| W | O | B | U | O | S | T | P | E | R | H | N | T | S |
| E | O | K | D | R | O | O | H | S | N | I | G | T | A |
| N | D | T | D | E | E | N | H | O | A | C | L | F | C |
| A | K | A | I | R | U | E | N | O | V | K | V | R | K |
| N | A | E | N | F | D | S | H | O | V | E | L | A | S |
| F | V | T | G | S | M | U | T | T | O | N | N | O | T |
Find these words
- Baskets
- Chicken
- Earth oven
- Embers
- Firewood
- Fried bread
- Hāngī
- Kai
- Kūmara
- Mutton
- Pit
- Pork
- Potatoes
- Pumpkin
- Rēwena
- Shovel
- Steamed pudding
- Stones
- Stuffing
- Wet sacks
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About this word search
A hāngī is a Māori way of cooking food in an earth oven. Stones are heated in a fire until they glow and placed in a pit, and baskets of meat and vegetables go on top under wet cloths or sacks and a layer of earth. A few hours later the food is lifted out, tender and smoky, and shared at a marae, a school fundraiser or a whānau celebration.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen, with words across, down or diagonally and never backwards. Steamed pudding is the longest with fourteen letters, the full width of the grid. Pit and kai have only three letters each. Hāngī and kūmara lose their macrons in the grid, so look for HANGI and KUMARA. Earth oven, wet sacks and fried bread are written without a space.
Before a hāngī at school or on the marae, use the sheet to talk through each step, from lighting the fire to lifting the food. Children can number the words in the order they happen.
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.
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Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the ferry or the bach. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
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