Hard fairy tales word search
Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel and the gingerbread house: twenty-eight fairy tale words in an eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards and diagonal included. Happily ever after is in there too, if you can find it.
- Beanstalk
- Big bad wolf
- Castle
- Cinderella
- Dragon
- Fairy godmother
- Giant
- Gingerbread house
- Glass slipper
- Goldilocks
- Hansel and Gretel
- Happily ever after
- Magic wand
- Mermaid
- Once upon a time
- Prince
- Pumpkin
- Rapunzel
- Red Riding Hood
- Rumpelstiltskin
- Sleeping Beauty
- Snow White
- Spell
- Three little pigs
- Tower
- Troll
- Witch
- Wizard
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 versionFairy tales, extra hard
Name
| T | N | O | G | A | R | D | I | A | M | R | E | M | A | P | E | A | S |
| H | I | A | T | R | E | W | O | T | U | A | B | L | H | H | H | W | T |
| R | E | H | T | O | M | D | O | G | Y | R | I | A | F | C | A | O | A |
| E | C | N | I | R | P | S | O | E | T | N | A | I | G | T | T | K | S |
| E | R | C | A | S | T | L | E | F | L | O | W | D | A | B | G | I | B |
| L | A | X | M | O | N | C | E | U | P | O | N | A | T | I | M | E | W |
| I | R | R | E | D | R | I | D | I | N | G | H | O | O | D | U | R | R |
| T | R | E | T | F | A | R | E | V | E | Y | L | I | P | P | A | H | E |
| T | R | O | L | L | O | L | L | X | C | I | N | I | K | P | M | U | P |
| L | N | I | K | S | T | L | I | T | S | L | E | P | M | U | R | K | P |
| E | T | I | H | W | W | O | N | S | A | A | S | P | E | L | L | L | I |
| P | E | U | R | O | A | S | K | C | O | L | I | D | L | O | G | A | L |
| I | R | D | N | A | W | C | I | G | A | M | I | H | T | L | A | T | S |
| G | I | N | G | E | R | B | R | E | A | D | H | O | U | S | E | S | S |
| S | L | E | E | P | I | N | G | B | E | A | U | T | Y | T | C | N | S |
| T | I | T | M | O | T | A | L | L | E | R | E | D | N | I | C | A | A |
| T | V | A | H | A | N | S | E | L | A | N | D | G | R | E | T | E | L |
| W | I | L | E | Z | N | U | P | A | R | D | R | A | Z | I | W | B | G |
Find these words
- Beanstalk
- Big bad wolf
- Castle
- Cinderella
- Dragon
- Fairy godmother
- Giant
- Gingerbread house
- Glass slipper
- Goldilocks
- Hansel and Gretel
- Happily ever after
- Magic wand
- Mermaid
- Once upon a time
- Prince
- Pumpkin
- Rapunzel
- Red Riding Hood
- Rumpelstiltskin
- Sleeping Beauty
- Snow White
- Spell
- Three little pigs
- Tower
- Troll
- Witch
- Wizard
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About this word search
Many of these stories are hundreds of years old. Charles Perrault published Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty in France in 1697, and the Brothers Grimm collected Hansel and Gretel and Rumpelstiltskin in Germany in the early nineteenth century. The Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks come from English storytelling.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and words run in all eight directions, backwards included. Gingerbread house and Happily ever after are the longest with sixteen letters, then Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin and Three little pigs with fifteen. Giant, Troll, Witch, Spell and Tower are five letters and hide easily, especially backwards. Look for the Z in Wizard and Rapunzel, the K in Pumpkin and Rumpelstiltskin, and the Y in Happily ever after. Every multi-word title runs together without spaces.
Use the sheet for a quiz: for every word found, name the fairy tale it comes from. Spell and Tower fit more than one story, so let the players argue for their answer.
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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