Spring word search
September to November: lambs in the paddock, kōwhai in flower and the clocks going forward. Twenty spring words for the classroom wall or a wet afternoon inside.
- Bees
- Blossom
- Buds
- Calves
- Daffodils
- Daylight saving
- Hay fever
- Kōwhai
- Lambs
- Magnolia
- Nest
- November
- October
- Puddles
- Rainbow
- Seedlings
- September
- Showers
- Tūī
- Tulips
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 versionSpring
Name
| M | P | S | E | W | S | V | C | N | M | O | L | D | H |
| H | A | D | F | O | T | B | U | O | A | C | A | A | G |
| M | T | G | N | E | T | U | I | V | R | T | M | Y | F |
| T | I | U | N | E | T | D | T | E | K | O | B | L | A |
| T | A | B | L | O | S | S | O | M | P | B | S | I | I |
| R | E | N | I | I | L | T | S | B | E | E | E | G | S |
| O | H | T | D | G | P | I | A | E | O | R | E | H | K |
| M | C | A | L | V | E | S | A | R | L | A | D | T | O |
| N | G | F | Y | D | A | F | F | O | D | I | L | S | W |
| O | R | G | D | F | A | E | I | I | R | N | I | A | H |
| P | U | D | D | L | E | S | N | I | F | B | N | V | A |
| K | I | B | E | E | S | V | P | K | H | O | G | I | I |
| L | N | I | S | H | O | W | E | R | S | W | S | N | D |
| S | E | P | T | E | M | B | E | R | H | R | L | G | P |
Find these words
- Bees
- Blossom
- Buds
- Calves
- Daffodils
- Daylight saving
- Hay fever
- Kōwhai
- Lambs
- Magnolia
- Nest
- November
- October
- Puddles
- Rainbow
- Seedlings
- September
- Showers
- Tūī
- Tulips
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About this word search
Spring in New Zealand runs from September to November. Lambs and calves fill the paddocks, the kōwhai flowers gold and tūī come to feed on its nectar. At the end of September the clocks go forward for daylight saving, and for many people hay fever arrives with the blossom.
Daylight saving is the longest entry, with fourteen letters, a whole row of the fourteen by fourteen grid. Daffodils, Seedlings and September have nine. Tūī is the shortest, with three letters, and in the grid it is just TUI without macrons, while Kōwhai becomes KOWHAI. Words run across, down and diagonally but never backwards. All three spring months are on the list and all three end in BER, so check the start of each.
Take the sheet outside and tick off anything you can actually see or hear: a tūī, blossom, lambs or a rainbow after a shower. It turns the puzzle into a small spring walk.
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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