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Hard Valentine's Day word search

Secret admirer, love letter and a beach walk at sunset: twenty-eight Valentine's words in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions. For teens, couples and anyone who likes a slow puzzle in the summer evening.

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  • Aroha
  • Arrow
  • Beach walk
  • Bouquet
  • Candlelight
  • Card
  • Chocolates
  • Crush
  • Cupid
  • Darling
  • Dinner date
  • Friendship
  • Heart
  • Holding hands
  • Hug
  • Kiss
  • Love letter
  • Lovebirds
  • Picnic
  • Pink
  • Poem
  • Red roses
  • Ribbon
  • Romance
  • Secret admirer
  • Sunset
  • Teddy bear
  • Valentine

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Valentine's Day, extra hard

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  • Aroha
  • Arrow
  • Beach walk
  • Bouquet
  • Candlelight
  • Card
  • Chocolates
  • Crush
  • Cupid
  • Darling
  • Dinner date
  • Friendship
  • Heart
  • Holding hands
  • Hug
  • Kiss
  • Love letter
  • Lovebirds
  • Picnic
  • Pink
  • Poem
  • Red roses
  • Ribbon
  • Romance
  • Secret admirer
  • Sunset
  • Teddy bear
  • Valentine

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About this word search

Valentine's Day takes its name from Saint Valentine, and its link with love goes back centuries in Europe. In New Zealand it lands in high summer, so a beach walk at sunset or a picnic is as likely as a candlelit dinner date. Lovebirds are small parrots, named for the way pairs stay close together.

Secret admirer is the longest, at thirteen letters, followed by Holding hands with twelve and Candlelight with eleven. Hug is the shortest, with three letters, and Card, Kiss, Pink and Poem have four. Love letter and Lovebirds both start with LOVE, so check the next letters before marking. The Q in Bouquet and the Y in Teddy bear are the rarest letters on the board. The grid is eighteen by eighteen and words run in all eight directions, backwards too.

Leave a copy on the kitchen table with one word circled as a hint for the evening. A circled Picnic or Beach walk makes a nice surprise.

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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