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Hard Mother's Day word search

Breakfast in bed, a scented candle and a photo album full of memories: twenty-eight Mother's Day words in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions. For older kids, teens and the mums themselves.

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  • Bouquet
  • Breakfast in bed
  • Brunch
  • Card
  • Chocolates
  • Coffee
  • Cuppa
  • Flowers
  • Grandma
  • Handmade
  • Hugs
  • Kindness
  • Love
  • Māmā
  • Mother
  • Mum
  • Nana
  • Pancakes
  • Photo album
  • Picnic
  • Poem
  • Present
  • Scented candle
  • Sleep in
  • Smile
  • Sunday
  • Thank you
  • Whaea

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Mother's Day, extra hard

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  • Bouquet
  • Breakfast in bed
  • Brunch
  • Card
  • Chocolates
  • Coffee
  • Cuppa
  • Flowers
  • Grandma
  • Handmade
  • Hugs
  • Kindness
  • Love
  • Māmā
  • Mother
  • Mum
  • Nana
  • Pancakes
  • Photo album
  • Picnic
  • Poem
  • Present
  • Scented candle
  • Sleep in
  • Smile
  • Sunday
  • Thank you
  • Whaea

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About this word search

In New Zealand Mother's Day falls in May, so the flowers on the breakfast tray are often autumn ones. Brunch at a café, a walk together or a photo album of old family pictures are just as popular as chocolates or a scented candle. Many families also remember their grandmothers and the other women who raised them.

Breakfast in bed is the longest, with fourteen letters, and Scented candle has thirteen. Mum is the shortest, at three letters, and Card, Hugs, Love, Nana, Māmā and Poem have four. Mother and Grandma share the board, as do Coffee and Cuppa. The Q in Bouquet is the only one. Words run in all eight directions in the eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards too.

Older kids can do the puzzle with Mum over a cuppa. Afterwards, everyone picks one word from the list and shares a memory that goes with it.

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.

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