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A Buzzy Bee, a Fun Ho truck, a pogo stick and a homemade trolley: twenty-eight toys in an eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards and diagonal included. For older kids and the grown-ups who still remember their favourite.

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  • Ball
  • Blocks
  • Board game
  • Bubbles
  • Buzzy Bee
  • Doll
  • Fun Ho
  • Hula hoop
  • Jack-in-the-box
  • Jigsaw
  • Kaleidoscope
  • Kite
  • Marbles
  • Play dough
  • Pogo stick
  • Puzzle
  • Robot
  • Rocking horse
  • Scooter
  • Skateboard
  • Skipping rope
  • Slinky
  • Spinning top
  • Teddy bear
  • Train set
  • Trolley
  • Water pistol
  • Yo-yo

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Toys, extra hard

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Find these words

  • Ball
  • Blocks
  • Board game
  • Bubbles
  • Buzzy Bee
  • Doll
  • Fun Ho
  • Hula hoop
  • Jack-in-the-box
  • Jigsaw
  • Kaleidoscope
  • Kite
  • Marbles
  • Play dough
  • Pogo stick
  • Puzzle
  • Robot
  • Rocking horse
  • Scooter
  • Skateboard
  • Skipping rope
  • Slinky
  • Spinning top
  • Teddy bear
  • Train set
  • Trolley
  • Water pistol
  • Yo-yo

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About this word search

Fun Ho! toys, cast from metal in Inglewood in Taranaki, are collector's items now, and a homemade trolley built from planks and old pram wheels has sent many Kiwi kids flying down a hill. The Buzzy Bee, the pogo stick and the kaleidoscope are classics that parents and grandparents remember too.

This grid is eighteen by eighteen and words can run in all eight directions, backwards included. Skipping rope, rocking horse, kaleidoscope and jack-in-the-box have twelve letters each. Fun Ho is only five letters in the grid and easy to lose. Doll, kite, ball and yo-yo have four. The J of jigsaw and jack-in-the-box and the double Z of puzzle and Buzzy Bee are good places to start.

Use it at a family gathering: older relatives say which toys they had, and the kids search for those first.

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 and French, 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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