School gala word search
A sausage sizzle by the gate, a white elephant stall in the hall and a lolly scramble on the field. Twenty words from the school gala, the day the whole community turns up.
- Book stall
- Bric-a-brac
- Cake stall
- Dunk tank
- Fudge
- Hāngī
- Hook a duck
- Hot dogs
- Kapa haka
- Lolly scramble
- Lucky dip
- Pikelets
- Pony rides
- Prizes
- PTA
- Raffle
- Sack race
- Sausage sizzle
- Tug of war
- White elephant
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
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Name
| W | S | A | U | S | A | G | E | S | I | Z | Z | L | E |
| W | P | O | N | Y | R | I | D | E | S | N | U | N | E |
| K | H | T | K | A | B | O | O | K | S | T | A | L | L |
| B | R | I | C | A | B | R | A | C | S | E | B | F | U |
| I | T | C | T | I | P | R | N | T | D | M | A | P | C |
| A | E | U | A | E | L | A | E | I | A | A | S | D | K |
| F | P | F | G | K | E | L | H | R | R | G | D | R | Y |
| U | H | R | O | O | E | L | C | A | O | H | U | A | D |
| D | A | G | I | K | F | S | E | D | K | I | N | F | I |
| G | N | E | I | Z | Y | W | T | P | I | A | K | F | P |
| E | G | P | S | L | E | O | A | A | H | E | T | L | T |
| X | I | T | L | I | H | S | N | R | L | A | A | E | A |
| H | O | O | K | A | D | U | C | K | I | L | N | O | T |
| I | L | F | S | A | C | K | R | A | C | E | K | T | P |
Find these words
- Book stall
- Bric-a-brac
- Cake stall
- Dunk tank
- Fudge
- Hāngī
- Hook a duck
- Hot dogs
- Kapa haka
- Lolly scramble
- Lucky dip
- Pikelets
- Pony rides
- Prizes
- PTA
- Raffle
- Sack race
- Sausage sizzle
- Tug of war
- White elephant
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School gala
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About this word search
A school gala is how many New Zealand schools raise money for things like a new playground or library books. Parents run the sausage sizzle by the gate, the cake stall sells pikelets, families donate to the white elephant stall, and the day often ends with a lolly scramble on the field.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen, with words across, down or diagonally, never backwards. Sausage sizzle, white elephant and lolly scramble are the longest at thirteen letters each. PTA is the shortest at just three letters and easy to miss. Bric-a-brac loses its hyphens and reads BRICABRAC, Hāngī drops its macrons as HANGI, and hook a duck and tug of war run together too. Look for the double Z in sausage sizzle and the double F in raffle.
Use the sheet to plan your own gala: give each stall on the list to a group and ask what they would need to run it.
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