Hard back to school word search
Stationery, the walking school bus and the no hat no play rule: twenty-eight words for the start of the school year. They hide forwards, backwards and diagonally in an eighteen by eighteen grid.
- Assembly
- Book bag
- Calculator
- Covering books
- Drink bottle
- Excited
- February
- Glue sticks
- Haircut
- Highlighters
- Lunchbox
- Name labels
- Nerves
- New friends
- New teacher
- No hat no play
- Pencil case
- Pencils
- School bag
- School shoes
- Scooter
- Stationery
- Sunblock
- Sunhat
- Term one
- Timetable
- Uniform
- Walking school bus
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 versionBack to school, extra hard
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| O | S | O | Y | P | O | Y | A | L | P | O | N | T | A | H | O | N | B |
| S | I | M | R | S | E | N | G | A | B | L | O | O | H | C | S | N | O |
| U | I | R | A | L | S | N | E | T | H | R | E | T | O | O | C | S | O |
| B | I | O | U | I | R | K | C | O | L | B | N | U | S | D | H | L | K |
| L | F | F | R | C | E | T | A | I | K | F | A | R | I | S | O | E | B |
| O | N | I | B | N | T | S | B | I | L | C | R | U | S | K | O | B | A |
| O | N | N | E | E | H | V | L | L | M | C | W | I | T | C | L | A | G |
| H | X | U | F | P | G | T | U | C | R | I | A | H | I | I | S | L | T |
| C | O | V | E | R | I | N | G | B | O | O | K | S | M | T | H | E | X |
| S | B | A | P | H | L | T | U | F | A | V | F | U | E | S | O | M | I |
| G | H | S | R | E | H | C | A | E | T | W | E | N | T | E | E | A | H |
| N | C | S | E | N | G | I | C | H | T | A | A | H | A | U | S | N | T |
| I | N | E | X | C | I | T | E | D | A | D | T | A | B | L | N | M | E |
| K | U | M | Y | E | H | S | E | V | R | E | N | T | L | G | H | E | R |
| L | L | B | N | E | W | F | R | I | E | N | D | S | E | S | Y | E | M |
| A | A | L | S | T | A | T | I | O | N | E | R | Y | G | E | X | C | O |
| W | X | Y | C | O | R | O | T | A | L | U | C | L | A | C | Y | A | N |
| O | T | P | F | T | O | S | D | R | I | N | K | B | O | T | T | L | E |
Find these words
- Assembly
- Book bag
- Calculator
- Covering books
- Drink bottle
- Excited
- February
- Glue sticks
- Haircut
- Highlighters
- Lunchbox
- Name labels
- Nerves
- New friends
- New teacher
- No hat no play
- Pencil case
- Pencils
- School bag
- School shoes
- Scooter
- Stationery
- Sunblock
- Sunhat
- Term one
- Timetable
- Uniform
- Walking school bus
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Back to school, extra hard
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About this word search
Many New Zealand schools run a walking school bus, where parent volunteers walk a group of children to school along a set route. Together with the stationery list, the sunblock and the no hat no play rule of the summer terms, it belongs to the start of every school year.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and the words run in all eight directions, backwards included. Walking school bus is the longest with sixteen letters, then covering books at thirteen and highlighters at twelve. Nerves and sunhat are the shortest at six. No hat no play becomes NOHATNOPLAY in the grid, and term one, book bag and glue sticks also lose their spaces. Look for the W of walking school bus and the Y of stationery and assembly.
For older siblings, make it a race against the clock on the night before school starts. Then let them check the real stationery list against the words they found.
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, 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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