Hard winter word search
Electric blanket, a dehumidifier humming in the hallway and first chair at Cardrona: twenty-eight winter words in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions. For the shortest day and the long evenings around it.
- August
- Beanie
- Cardrona
- Chairlift
- Dehumidifier
- Electric blanket
- Frost
- Gloves
- Hail
- Hot water bottle
- July
- June
- Log burner
- Matariki
- Netball
- Porridge
- Puffer jacket
- Rugby
- Scarf
- Shortest day
- Ski field
- Snow
- Soup
- Southerly
- Toboggan
- Ugg boots
- Whakapapa
- Woolly socks
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Find these words
- August
- Beanie
- Cardrona
- Chairlift
- Dehumidifier
- Electric blanket
- Frost
- Gloves
- Hail
- Hot water bottle
- July
- June
- Log burner
- Matariki
- Netball
- Porridge
- Puffer jacket
- Rugby
- Scarf
- Shortest day
- Ski field
- Snow
- Soup
- Southerly
- Toboggan
- Ugg boots
- Whakapapa
- Woolly socks
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About this word search
Plenty of Kiwi houses are hard to keep warm and dry, which is why the electric blanket, the hot water bottle and the dehumidifier are such familiar winter words. The ski season starts in June on fields such as Cardrona near Wānaka and Whakapapa on Mount Ruapehu, and the shortest day falls around 21 June, close to Matariki.
Electric blanket is the longest, with fifteen letters, followed by Hot water bottle with fourteen. Puffer jacket and Dehumidifier have twelve. Snow, Soup, Hail, June and July are the shortest, at four letters. The J appears only in June, July and Puffer jacket. Words run in all eight directions in the eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards too.
Print a copy for the drive to the mountain or for a snow day at home. The first to find both Cardrona and Whakapapa chooses where the next ski day goes.
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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