Hard summer word search
Slip slop slap, a paddleboard on the lake and fish and chips on the sand: twenty-eight words from a Kiwi summer in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions. For a hot afternoon when it is too hot to be outside.
- Bach
- Barbecue
- Beach
- Boogie board
- Camping
- Chilly bin
- Cicadas
- Cricket
- December
- Fish and chips
- Hammock
- Heatwave
- Hokey pokey
- Ice block
- Jandals
- Lilo
- Long days
- Paddleboard
- Pōhutukawa
- Sandflies
- Slip slop slap
- Sprinkler
- Sunblock
- Sunburn
- Sunhat
- Swimming
- Togs
- Watermelon
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 versionSummer, extra hard
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Find these words
- Bach
- Barbecue
- Beach
- Boogie board
- Camping
- Chilly bin
- Cicadas
- Cricket
- December
- Fish and chips
- Hammock
- Heatwave
- Hokey pokey
- Ice block
- Jandals
- Lilo
- Long days
- Paddleboard
- Pōhutukawa
- Sandflies
- Slip slop slap
- Sprinkler
- Sunblock
- Sunburn
- Sunhat
- Swimming
- Togs
- Watermelon
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Summer, extra hard
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About this word search
New Zealand has some of the highest UV levels in the world in summer, which is why Kiwi kids grow up with Slip, Slop, Slap and Wrap: slip on a shirt, slop on sunblock, slap on a hat and wrap on sunglasses. Between the sunblock and the sunhat there is still time for cricket on the beach, a lilo on the lake and fish and chips on the sand.
Slip slop slap and Fish and chips are the longest, with twelve letters each once the spaces go. Boogie board and Paddleboard have eleven and both end in BOARD. Togs, Bach and Lilo are the shortest, at four. Three entries start with SUN: Sunblock, Sunhat and Sunburn. Words run in all eight directions in the eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards too.
For a rainy day at the bach, give everyone a copy and play in teams. The winning team chooses what goes on the barbecue that night.
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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