Hard beach word search
Twenty-eight words from a day at the beach, from the rip current to the oystercatcher, in an eighteen by eighteen grid. Words run in all eight directions, backwards included.
- Beach umbrella
- Boogie board
- Bucket
- Chilly bin
- Dotterel
- Driftwood
- Flags
- Jandals
- Lifeguard
- Oystercatcher
- Pipi
- Pōhutukawa
- Rip current
- Rock pool
- Sand dunes
- Sandcastle
- Seagull
- Shells
- Snorkel
- Spade
- Sunblock
- Sunhat
- Surf Life Saving
- Tide
- Togs
- Towel
- Waves
- Windbreak
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 versionAt the beach, extra hard
Name
| H | I | T | S | A | K | C | O | L | B | N | U | S | E | N | S | F | T |
| M | I | O | E | G | I | S | L | T | O | D | L | R | L | T | D | O | O |
| O | A | L | I | R | I | P | C | U | R | R | E | N | T | A | G | E | O |
| A | A | F | S | L | L | E | H | S | P | A | R | F | S | S | N | S | F |
| D | L | I | K | V | L | W | I | H | A | U | E | L | A | P | I | P | I |
| R | L | L | A | A | A | A | L | I | G | G | T | A | C | P | V | P | B |
| A | E | I | E | V | E | A | L | L | L | E | T | G | D | L | A | U | U |
| O | R | H | E | K | C | R | Y | I | T | F | O | S | N | D | S | N | C |
| B | B | S | C | C | R | U | B | S | A | I | D | R | A | R | E | D | K |
| E | M | E | S | T | M | O | I | D | H | L | I | O | S | I | F | R | E |
| I | U | A | S | A | A | C | N | T | N | N | I | C | A | F | I | X | T |
| G | H | G | N | I | N | C | I | S | U | I | T | K | W | T | L | C | U |
| O | C | U | E | I | A | D | R | S | S | R | W | P | L | W | F | O | A |
| O | A | L | S | S | E | E | D | E | L | E | W | O | T | O | R | A | R |
| B | E | L | U | A | W | A | K | U | T | U | H | O | P | O | U | R | T |
| W | B | A | S | S | P | A | D | E | N | S | W | L | T | D | S | P | I |
| O | F | E | T | D | S | T | R | B | F | E | Y | H | D | T | R | E | E |
| T | T | R | H | N | J | A | N | D | A | L | S | O | N | L | F | F | A |
Find these words
- Beach umbrella
- Boogie board
- Bucket
- Chilly bin
- Dotterel
- Driftwood
- Flags
- Jandals
- Lifeguard
- Oystercatcher
- Pipi
- Pōhutukawa
- Rip current
- Rock pool
- Sand dunes
- Sandcastle
- Seagull
- Shells
- Snorkel
- Spade
- Sunblock
- Sunhat
- Surf Life Saving
- Tide
- Togs
- Towel
- Waves
- Windbreak
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About this word search
New Zealand beaches have their own wildlife and their own rules. Surf Life Saving volunteers patrol popular beaches in summer, rip currents catch out swimmers every year, and on the sand you might see a variable oystercatcher or a New Zealand dotterel, whose nests are often roped off in spring and summer. Above it all, the pōhutukawa flowers red in December.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and words run in all eight directions, backwards included. Surf Life Saving is the longest with fourteen letters, followed by Beach umbrella and Oystercatcher with thirteen. Togs, Tide and Pipi have four letters and hide easily. Pōhutukawa goes into the grid without its macron, as POHUTUKAWA. Look for the J in Jandals, the K in Snorkel and Windbreak, and the Y in Oystercatcher and Chilly bin. Two-word names run together without a space.
Save the sheet for a rainy afternoon on a beach holiday. Each person picks five words and gives a beach safety tip for each one, from where to swim to why you keep away from a dotterel nest.
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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