Hard birthday word search
Pass the parcel, musical statues, fairy bread and party pies: twenty-eight words from a Kiwi birthday party in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions. For older kids, sleepover guests and the grown-ups doing the dishes.
- Balloons
- Bouncy castle
- Cake
- Candles
- Cheerios
- Face paint
- Fairy bread
- Friends
- Games
- Happy birthday
- Invitation
- Lollies
- Lolly bags
- Musical chairs
- Musical statues
- Party hats
- Party pies
- Pass the parcel
- Presents
- Sausage rolls
- Sleepover
- Sprinkles
- Streamers
- Thank you card
- Tomato sauce
- Treasure hunt
- Wish
- Wrapping paper
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 versionBirthday, extra hard
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Find these words
- Balloons
- Bouncy castle
- Cake
- Candles
- Cheerios
- Face paint
- Fairy bread
- Friends
- Games
- Happy birthday
- Invitation
- Lollies
- Lolly bags
- Musical chairs
- Musical statues
- Party hats
- Party pies
- Pass the parcel
- Presents
- Sausage rolls
- Sleepover
- Sprinkles
- Streamers
- Thank you card
- Tomato sauce
- Treasure hunt
- Wish
- Wrapping paper
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About this word search
Kiwi birthday parties follow a pattern many parents remember from their own childhood: fairy bread, cheerios with tomato sauce, party pies and sausage rolls, a game of pass the parcel or musical statues, and a thank you card afterwards. Older kids often swap the party for a sleepover or a treasure hunt.
Musical statues is the longest, at fourteen letters, then Pass the parcel, Musical chairs, Wrapping paper and Happy birthday with thirteen. Two entries start with MUSICAL and two with PARTY, so read every letter. Cake and Wish are the shortest, at four letters. The V appears only in Invitation and Sleepover, a good place to start. The grid is eighteen by eighteen with words in all eight directions, backwards too.
Older kids can race in pairs, one reading the list and one searching. Swap roles halfway, and the pair with the most words picks the next party game.
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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