Hard kaimoana word search
Green-lipped mussel, toheroa, tarakihi and rāhui: twenty-eight words from the shore and the sea in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions. For divers, fishers and anyone who knows their catch limits.
- Blue cod
- Bluff oysters
- Catch limit
- Cockles
- Crayfish
- Fritters
- Green-lipped mussel
- Gurnard
- Hāpuku
- Kahawai
- Kaitiaki
- Kina
- Kingfish
- Kōura
- Low tide
- Pātiki
- Pāua
- Pipi
- Pupu
- Rāhui
- Scallops
- Smoked fish
- Snapper
- Snorkel
- Tarakihi
- Toheroa
- Tuatua
- Whitebait
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- Blue cod
- Bluff oysters
- Catch limit
- Cockles
- Crayfish
- Fritters
- Green-lipped mussel
- Gurnard
- Hāpuku
- Kahawai
- Kaitiaki
- Kina
- Kingfish
- Kōura
- Low tide
- Pātiki
- Pāua
- Pipi
- Pupu
- Rāhui
- Scallops
- Smoked fish
- Snapper
- Snorkel
- Tarakihi
- Toheroa
- Tuatua
- Whitebait
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Kaimoana, extra hard
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About this word search
Kaimoana is a taonga, and gathering it comes with responsibilities. A rāhui is a temporary closure of an area, placed by tangata whenua to let it recover, and kaitiaki look after the fishery for the generations to come. Toheroa, a large clam from beaches like Ninety Mile Beach, have been mostly off limits for decades, while green-lipped mussels are farmed in the Marlborough Sounds and sent around the world.
This grid is eighteen by eighteen and words can run in all eight directions, backwards included. Green-lipped mussel is the longest with seventeen letters and loses its hyphen in the grid. Bluff oysters has twelve. Pāua, kina, pipi and pupu are only four letters each, and pipi and pupu look alike, so read them carefully. Kingfish, crayfish and smoked fish all end in fish.
Use it with a group of older kids before a trip to the coast. Each person picks one word and finds out the catch limit or the story behind it, then shares it on the drive.
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Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the ferry or the bach. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
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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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