Hard knights and castles word search
Portcullis, battlements, crossbow and jester: twenty-eight words from the age of knights in an eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards and diagonal included. For older kids and adults who like their history with a siege.
- Archer
- Armour
- Banner
- Battlements
- Blacksmith
- Castle
- Catapult
- Chain mail
- Crossbow
- Drawbridge
- Dungeon
- Feast
- Gauntlet
- Helmet
- Horse
- Jester
- Joust
- King
- Knight
- Lance
- Moat
- Portcullis
- Queen
- Shield
- Siege
- Squire
- Sword
- Tower
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Find these words
- Archer
- Armour
- Banner
- Battlements
- Blacksmith
- Castle
- Catapult
- Chain mail
- Crossbow
- Drawbridge
- Dungeon
- Feast
- Gauntlet
- Helmet
- Horse
- Jester
- Joust
- King
- Knight
- Lance
- Moat
- Portcullis
- Queen
- Shield
- Siege
- Squire
- Sword
- Tower
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About this word search
Students in New Zealand meet these words in history lessons about medieval Europe. A castle under siege had layers of defence: a moat, a drawbridge, a portcullis of iron bars and battlements from which archers shot down. Inside, the blacksmith made and mended weapons, the squire served his knight and the jester entertained at the feast.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and words run in all eight directions, backwards included. Battlements is the longest with eleven letters, then Drawbridge, Portcullis and Blacksmith with ten. Moat and King are just four letters and easy to miss, especially backwards. Look for the Q in Queen and Squire, the J in Joust and Jester, the double T in Battlements and the double L in Portcullis. Chain mail runs together without a space.
Draw a castle together and label every part from the list in the right place, from the portcullis to the dungeon. Older students can write a short siege story that uses ten of the words.
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.
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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.
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 French too
The same theme also exists in French and German, 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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