Hard native bush word search
Bush lawyer, kiekie, mataī and rangiora: twenty-eight trees, ferns and forest words in an eighteen by eighteen grid. They run in all eight directions, for trampers and anyone who reads the labels on the track.
- Beech
- Bush lawyer
- Canopy
- Crown fern
- Fungi
- Kahikatea
- Kānuka
- Kauri
- Kawakawa
- Kiekie
- Leaf litter
- Lichen
- Mamaku
- Mānuka
- Mataī
- Miro
- Moss
- Nīkau
- Ponga
- Pūriri
- Rangiora
- Rimu
- Stream
- Supplejack
- Tawa
- Tōtara
- Undergrowth
- Waterfall
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- Beech
- Bush lawyer
- Canopy
- Crown fern
- Fungi
- Kahikatea
- Kānuka
- Kauri
- Kawakawa
- Kiekie
- Leaf litter
- Lichen
- Mamaku
- Mānuka
- Mataī
- Miro
- Moss
- Nīkau
- Ponga
- Pūriri
- Rangiora
- Rimu
- Stream
- Supplejack
- Tawa
- Tōtara
- Undergrowth
- Waterfall
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About this word search
Walk into the bush in Aotearoa and you are surrounded by trees found nowhere else: rimu, mataī, miro, tōtara and kahikatea, the tall podocarps that once covered much of the country. Bush lawyer is a climbing bramble with hooks that catch your clothes, kiekie climbs up tree trunks, and the leaves of the rangiora are soft and pale underneath. The crown fern carpets the forest floor in many places.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and the words go in all eight directions, backwards included. Undergrowth is the longest at eleven letters, followed by supplejack, bush lawyer and leaf litter at ten. Rimu, moss, miro and tawa are only four letters and hide well. Macrons drop out, so mataī becomes MATAI and pūriri becomes PURIRI. Kiekie has a repeating pattern that is easy to spot once you see it.
Use this sheet for a bush walk with older children or adults who want to learn the names of native trees. Each person can choose three trees from the list and learn to recognise them by bark or leaf.
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