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Hard parts of the body word search

Collarbone, kidneys and a puku with a belly button: twenty-eight body words for a proper health lesson. They run in every direction in an eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards and diagonal included.

FOUND0 of 28
  • Ankle
  • Belly button
  • Brain
  • Collarbone
  • Elbow
  • Eyebrows
  • Eyelashes
  • Fingers
  • Head
  • Heart
  • Kidneys
  • Knees
  • Lungs
  • Muscles
  • Nostrils
  • Puku
  • Ribs
  • Shin
  • Shoulders
  • Skeleton
  • Skin
  • Spine
  • Stomach
  • Teeth
  • Thumb
  • Toes
  • Tongue
  • Wrist

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The body, extra hard

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Find these words

  • Ankle
  • Belly button
  • Brain
  • Collarbone
  • Elbow
  • Eyebrows
  • Eyelashes
  • Fingers
  • Head
  • Heart
  • Kidneys
  • Knees
  • Lungs
  • Muscles
  • Nostrils
  • Puku
  • Ribs
  • Shin
  • Shoulders
  • Skeleton
  • Skin
  • Spine
  • Stomach
  • Teeth
  • Thumb
  • Toes
  • Tongue
  • Wrist

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The body, extra hard

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About this word search

An adult skeleton has more than two hundred bones, and the collarbone is one of the most often broken, usually in a fall from a bike or a hard tackle on the rugby field. Kidneys, stomach and spine sit next to the everyday words on this sheet, ready for a science lesson in the senior school.

The grid is eighteen by eighteen and the words hide in all eight directions, backwards too. Belly button is the longest at eleven letters, followed by collarbone at ten and shoulders and eyelashes at nine. Shin, ribs, skin, puku, head and toes are only four letters long. Shin and skin differ by one letter, so check twice. The Y in kidneys, eyebrows and eyelashes is a good place to start.

Ask older children to sort the found words into the outside and the inside of the body, and then the inside words into bones and organs.

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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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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