Hard autumn word search
Quinces, persimmons, the firewood pile and the golden trees of Arrowtown: twenty-eight autumn words in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions. For older kids and adults on a misty morning.
- Acorns
- Apples
- April
- Arrowtown
- Autumn colours
- Chestnuts
- Daylight saving
- Feijoas
- Firewood
- Fog
- Frost
- Golden
- Gumboots
- Harvest
- Hot chocolate
- Kūmara
- Leaves
- March
- Mist
- Mushrooms
- Persimmons
- Puddles
- Pumpkins
- Quinces
- Raincoat
- Rake
- Scarf
- Walnuts
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 versionAutumn, extra hard
Name
| V | A | H | G | U | M | B | O | O | T | S | U | T | I | R | D | D | T |
| G | P | D | N | H | G | M | N | H | F | E | T | H | E | B | S | R | C |
| T | P | T | A | N | S | N | U | Q | U | I | N | C | E | S | M | O | T |
| G | L | C | C | S | G | F | A | S | O | M | R | S | F | K | H | O | S |
| S | E | P | O | E | N | S | M | C | H | T | I | E | O | A | D | R | E |
| S | S | T | R | V | I | O | C | A | I | R | H | S | W | A | U | N | V |
| A | H | F | N | A | V | E | M | A | R | R | O | W | T | O | W | N | R |
| N | M | O | S | E | A | G | R | M | R | C | E | O | L | D | O | E | A |
| L | Y | G | T | L | S | M | S | A | I | F | H | O | M | E | T | D | H |
| S | W | A | U | C | T | N | K | T | I | S | C | T | F | S | K | L | D |
| F | A | N | N | O | H | S | I | U | R | N | R | E | U | G | I | O | X |
| U | L | F | T | L | G | O | N | K | M | P | C | E | R | R | E | G | A |
| I | N | R | S | L | I | P | C | U | P | A | U | O | P | K | D | R | P |
| M | U | O | E | R | L | A | T | O | X | M | R | L | A | D | M | A | L |
| E | T | S | H | E | Y | U | L | I | L | C | U | A | I | T | I | O | Y |
| S | S | T | C | S | A | E | L | O | L | A | E | P | H | R | A | T | R |
| T | C | P | P | U | D | D | L | E | S | D | T | N | M | X | P | W | D |
| W | E | T | B | R | O | E | K | A | R | T | F | E | I | J | O | A | S |
Find these words
- Acorns
- Apples
- April
- Arrowtown
- Autumn colours
- Chestnuts
- Daylight saving
- Feijoas
- Firewood
- Fog
- Frost
- Golden
- Gumboots
- Harvest
- Hot chocolate
- Kūmara
- Leaves
- March
- Mist
- Mushrooms
- Persimmons
- Puddles
- Pumpkins
- Quinces
- Raincoat
- Rake
- Scarf
- Walnuts
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Autumn, extra hard
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About this word search
Autumn in New Zealand brings quinces, persimmons and the feijoa glut, and in early April the clocks go back when daylight saving ends. Near Queenstown, Arrowtown is famous for the gold and red of its autumn trees and holds an autumn festival every year. At home the firewood gets stacked for winter and the kūmara harvest comes in.
Daylight saving is the longest, with fourteen letters, then Autumn colours with thirteen and Hot chocolate with twelve. Fog is the shortest, at three letters, and Rake and Mist have four. Leaves, Apples and Acorns are all six letters long and end in S. Kūmara loses its macron and becomes KUMARA. Words run in all eight directions in the eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards too, so check both ways.
Use the sheet on a wet weekend while the soup simmers. Whoever finds Arrowtown first gets to plan the next autumn day trip.
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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