Hard fruit word search
Tamarillo, nashi pear, boysenberry and a Braeburn apple hide in an eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards and on the diagonal too. A long puzzle for older kids and grown-ups who know their way around an orchard.
- Apricot
- Avocado
- Blackcurrant
- Blueberry
- Boysenberry
- Braeburn
- Cherry
- Feijoa
- Gooseberry
- Grapefruit
- Kiwiberry
- Kiwifruit
- Lemonade
- Loquat
- Mandarin
- Nashi pear
- Nectarine
- Passionfruit
- Persimmon
- Plum
- Quince
- Raspberry
- Rockmelon
- Royal Gala
- Strawberry
- Tamarillo
- Tangelo
- Watermelon
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 versionFruit, extra hard
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Find these words
- Apricot
- Avocado
- Blackcurrant
- Blueberry
- Boysenberry
- Braeburn
- Cherry
- Feijoa
- Gooseberry
- Grapefruit
- Kiwiberry
- Kiwifruit
- Lemonade
- Loquat
- Mandarin
- Nashi pear
- Nectarine
- Passionfruit
- Persimmon
- Plum
- Quince
- Raspberry
- Rockmelon
- Royal Gala
- Strawberry
- Tamarillo
- Tangelo
- Watermelon
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About this word search
Several well-known fruits got their start in New Zealand. The Braeburn apple grew from a chance seedling near Nelson, the Gala apple was bred here, and golden kiwifruit came out of New Zealand breeding work. Nashi pears, loquats and quinces are backyard regulars in many older suburbs, and the feijoa season is still the main event of autumn.
This grid is eighteen by eighteen and words can run in all eight directions, backwards too. Blackcurrant and passionfruit are the longest with twelve letters each. Plum, with four, is the shortest and the easiest to miss. The Q of quince and loquat is rare, and the J in feijoa appears just once. Nashi pear and Royal Gala are written as one block, without the space.
For a family quiz, read out a fruit before anyone has found it and ask where it grows best in New Zealand. Whoever gets it right circles the word, and the others keep searching.
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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