Hard colours word search
Kahurangi, parauri, magenta and turquoise: twenty-eight colours in English and te reo Māori. They hide forwards, backwards and diagonally in an eighteen by eighteen grid.
- Black
- Blue
- Brown
- Crimson
- Gold
- Green
- Grey
- Indigo
- Kahurangi
- Kākāriki
- Karaka
- Kōwhai
- Magenta
- Maroon
- Orange
- Pango
- Parauri
- Pink
- Purple
- Red
- Scarlet
- Silver
- Teal
- Turquoise
- Violet
- Whero
- White
- Yellow
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 versionColours, extra hard
Name
| A | P | N | D | B | O | O | V | A | H | V | G | U | L | I | B | V | I |
| T | T | I | E | N | T | I | D | N | T | H | N | S | A | H | L | T | B |
| G | S | N | E | E | O | E | F | A | K | Y | X | A | E | O | A | H | K |
| E | I | T | E | L | R | A | C | S | A | W | N | M | T | G | C | A | T |
| S | P | B | E | G | O | G | M | O | K | C | T | I | S | I | K | T | I |
| N | M | T | P | M | A | P | L | O | A | I | I | W | O | D | O | D | E |
| T | E | O | U | E | X | M | W | C | R | I | M | S | O | N | E | L | S |
| H | N | G | T | B | A | H | A | H | I | R | C | I | T | I | T | O | A |
| T | L | N | S | U | A | S | N | M | K | X | F | U | N | P | G | G | D |
| D | E | A | M | I | R | E | V | L | I | S | R | C | A | D | R | B | T |
| N | U | P | O | E | T | I | H | W | V | Q | X | R | S | Y | E | L | T |
| V | W | H | E | R | O | E | I | S | U | P | A | T | G | T | Y | E | O |
| L | Y | O | B | D | C | T | C | O | B | U | G | X | N | O | M | A | G |
| F | W | B | L | U | E | E | I | P | R | R | C | R | T | R | A | P | I |
| O | N | D | E | L | R | S | I | I | O | P | O | A | K | A | R | A | K |
| L | T | K | N | T | E | N | A | U | I | L | B | W | E | N | O | G | S |
| P | B | T | I | U | K | Y | T | L | O | E | A | U | N | G | O | M | I |
| A | N | N | R | Y | I | G | N | A | R | U | H | A | K | E | N | E | U |
Find these words
- Black
- Blue
- Brown
- Crimson
- Gold
- Green
- Grey
- Indigo
- Kahurangi
- Kākāriki
- Karaka
- Kōwhai
- Magenta
- Maroon
- Orange
- Pango
- Parauri
- Pink
- Purple
- Red
- Scarlet
- Silver
- Teal
- Turquoise
- Violet
- Whero
- White
- Yellow
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Colours, extra hard
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About this word search
Red, black and white are the colours of traditional kōwhaiwhai, the painted patterns on the rafters of a wharenui, and the red came from kōkōwai, a red ochre earth. This sheet mixes te reo colours with crimson, magenta, indigo and other shades from the paint chart.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and the words run in all eight directions, backwards included. Kahurangi and turquoise are the longest with nine letters. Red, at three, is the shortest, with teal, blue, pink, grey and gold at four. Karaka, kākāriki and kahurangi all begin with KA, so check the letter that follows. Parauri, brown in te reo, has a double R spread across the word, not side by side.
Make it a matching game. Once both are found, draw a line between each te reo colour and its English partner. There are seven pairs on the sheet.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
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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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