Hard New Year word search
From the Sky Tower fireworks to Rhythm and Vines in Gisborne: twenty-eight New Year words in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions. For the long summer evening on New Year's Day.
- Auld Lang Syne
- Barbecue
- Bubbles
- Calendar
- Campground
- Celebration
- Chatham Islands
- Cheers
- Clock
- Concert
- Countdown
- Dancing
- Festival
- Fireworks
- Fresh start
- Gisborne
- Goals
- January
- Midnight
- New Year's Day
- New Year's Eve
- Party
- Resolution
- Rhythm and Vines
- Sky Tower
- Sparklers
- Summer
- Sunrise
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 versionNew Year, extra hard
Name
| C | L | N | E | W | Y | E | A | R | S | E | V | E | N | O | E | N | Y |
| H | S | V | P | D | M | C | C | O | N | C | E | R | T | D | L | Y | H |
| E | W | E | A | S | E | E | A | E | G | C | A | L | E | N | D | A | R |
| E | S | D | N | A | L | S | I | M | A | H | T | A | H | C | E | D | N |
| R | E | Y | I | I | O | C | P | H | P | M | L | P | F | Y | B | S | O |
| S | N | L | T | R | V | V | E | T | H | G | I | N | D | I | M | R | I |
| L | K | O | A | R | E | D | G | S | M | B | R | T | S | G | K | A | T |
| O | Y | Y | P | V | A | F | N | E | I | O | G | O | A | L | S | E | A |
| N | R | V | T | A | I | P | R | A | S | R | G | A | U | V | E | Y | R |
| W | A | R | K | O | I | T | S | E | M | P | N | N | S | N | N | W | B |
| O | U | B | A | C | W | R | S | E | S | H | A | U | I | V | D | E | E |
| D | N | R | A | S | O | E | A | E | L | H | T | R | S | C | T | N | L |
| T | A | R | A | R | A | L | R | S | F | B | S | Y | K | O | N | T | E |
| N | J | B | A | R | B | E | C | U | E | S | B | T | H | L | M | A | C |
| U | A | E | N | Y | S | G | N | A | L | D | L | U | A | R | E | L | D |
| O | L | G | I | S | B | O | R | N | E | N | B | A | B | R | L | R | L |
| C | F | I | R | E | W | O | R | K | S | U | M | M | E | R | T | A | S |
| U | S | T | R | E | S | O | L | U | T | I | O | N | E | H | F | U | T |
Find these words
- Auld Lang Syne
- Barbecue
- Bubbles
- Calendar
- Campground
- Celebration
- Chatham Islands
- Cheers
- Clock
- Concert
- Countdown
- Dancing
- Festival
- Fireworks
- Fresh start
- Gisborne
- Goals
- January
- Midnight
- New Year's Day
- New Year's Eve
- Party
- Resolution
- Rhythm and Vines
- Sky Tower
- Sparklers
- Summer
- Sunrise
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About this word search
The Chatham Islands keep their own time, forty-five minutes ahead of the mainland, so they see the new year before the rest of the country. On the mainland Gisborne claims the first sunrise, and the Rhythm and Vines festival near the city counts down to midnight with music. In Auckland the fireworks are launched from the Sky Tower.
Chatham Islands and Rhythm and Vines are the longest, with fourteen letters each. Auld Lang Syne has twelve, and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day have eleven each once the apostrophe and spaces go. Those two differ only in their last three letters. Party, Clock and Goals are the shortest, at five letters. Words run in all eight directions in the eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards too.
Print a sheet for each guest on New Year's Eve and start at eleven. Anyone who finds all twenty-eight words before midnight gets to lead the countdown.
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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