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Hard A&P show word search

Clydesdales, sheepdog trials and the home industries tent: twenty-eight words from the agricultural and pastoral show in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions. For older kids and the grown-ups who still enter the baking.

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  • Alpacas
  • Baking
  • Calf club
  • Candy floss
  • Cattle
  • Champion
  • Clydesdale
  • Dodgems
  • Ferris wheel
  • Fleece
  • Friesian
  • Grand parade
  • Home industries
  • Hot dog
  • Judges
  • Pet lambs
  • Pony club
  • Poultry
  • Ribbons
  • Rosette
  • Shearing
  • Sheepdog trials
  • Show day
  • Showground
  • Showjumping
  • Sideshows
  • Tractor
  • Woodchopping

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A&P show, extra hard

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  • Alpacas
  • Baking
  • Calf club
  • Candy floss
  • Cattle
  • Champion
  • Clydesdale
  • Dodgems
  • Ferris wheel
  • Fleece
  • Friesian
  • Grand parade
  • Home industries
  • Hot dog
  • Judges
  • Pet lambs
  • Pony club
  • Poultry
  • Ribbons
  • Rosette
  • Shearing
  • Sheepdog trials
  • Show day
  • Showground
  • Showjumping
  • Sideshows
  • Tractor
  • Woodchopping

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About this word search

A&P shows have been part of country life in New Zealand since the nineteenth century. Heavy horses such as the Clydesdale parade in the ring, sheepdog trials test dog and handler, and the home industries hall fills with jams, preserves, baking and knitting competing for a champion ribbon. Friesian cows, poultry pens and, more recently, alpacas fill the stock lines.

Sheepdog trials and Home industries are the longest, with fourteen letters each. Woodchopping has twelve. Cattle, Baking, Judges, Hot dog and Fleece are the shortest, with six. Four entries contain SHOW, so check each before marking. The grid is eighteen by eighteen and words run in all eight directions, backwards too.

Give the sheet to the kids in the car on the way to the show. Whoever finds Clydesdale first picks the first animal pen to visit.

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.

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