Hard Christmas word search
Pōhutukawa, glazed ham, Christmas crackers and Boxing Day at the campground: twenty-eight words from a Kiwi Christmas in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions. A puzzle for the long, lazy afternoon after lunch.
- Barbecue
- Beach cricket
- Boxing Day
- Carols
- Cherries
- Christmas crackers
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas tree
- Fairy lights
- Glazed ham
- Hāngī
- Jandals
- Mince pies
- Nativity
- New potatoes
- Pavlova
- Pōhutukawa
- Present
- Reindeer
- Santa parade
- Sleigh
- Stocking
- Strawberries
- Summer holidays
- Sunblock
- Tinsel
- Trifle
- Wrapping paper
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
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Find these words
- Barbecue
- Beach cricket
- Boxing Day
- Carols
- Cherries
- Christmas crackers
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas tree
- Fairy lights
- Glazed ham
- Hāngī
- Jandals
- Mince pies
- Nativity
- New potatoes
- Pavlova
- Pōhutukawa
- Present
- Reindeer
- Santa parade
- Sleigh
- Stocking
- Strawberries
- Summer holidays
- Sunblock
- Tinsel
- Trifle
- Wrapping paper
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About this word search
A Kiwi Christmas mixes old traditions with summer. The pōhutukawa, often called the New Zealand Christmas tree, flowers red along the coast in December. Lunch might be glazed ham, new potatoes and strawberries, or a hāngī for a big whānau gathering, and Boxing Day often means the start of the holidays at a campground or bach.
Christmas crackers is the longest entry, with seventeen letters in the eighteen by eighteen grid. Summer holidays has fourteen, Christmas tree and Wrapping paper thirteen, and Christmas Eve twelve. Three entries start with CHRISTMAS, so do not stop at the first match. Hāngī is the shortest, at five letters, and without its macrons it becomes HANGI. The Z appears only in Glazed ham. Words run in all eight directions, backwards too.
Print a few copies for the table after Christmas lunch. Whoever finishes first gets the last slice of pavlova, and whoever finds Christmas crackers gets to pull the first one.
Ways to use the puzzle
In the classroom
Print it for the last week of Term 4, right before the summer holidays. Anyone who finishes early comes up with three Christmas words that aren't in it yet.
At the table
Put a printed copy next to every plate at Christmas lunch. The first one to find all twenty words gets the first slice of pav.
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The app has its own seasonal themes and a daily puzzle in 25+ languages. This Christmas word search was made especially for the website.
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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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