Hard pizza and pasta word search
Tagliatelle, bruschetta and panna cotta: Italian dishes with long names in a large grid. For older kids and adults, with twenty-eight words hiding backwards and diagonally.
- Antipasti
- Bolognese
- Bruschetta
- Calzone
- Cannelloni
- Cannoli
- Carbonara
- Espresso
- Focaccia
- Fusilli
- Gnocchi
- Macaroni
- Margherita
- Mascarpone
- Minestrone
- Olive oil
- Oregano
- Panna cotta
- Penne
- Pepperoni
- Pine nuts
- Pizza oven
- Pizzeria
- Prosciutto
- Ricotta
- Risotto
- Tagliatelle
- Tortellini
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 versionPizza and pasta, extra hard
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| R | O | U | T | G | O | L | I | V | E | O | I | L | N | B | N | A | P |
| I | S | N | S | N | C | A | L | Z | O | N | E | H | N | R | E | N | R |
| C | C | E | E | C | W | N | P | A | O | N | I | S | A | I | E | I | I |
| O | I | N | S | N | H | S | N | L | O | T | T | D | C | V | S | H | M |
| T | U | I | R | T | N | E | L | R | S | P | R | M | O | O | I | A | P |
| T | T | P | E | L | L | E | T | A | I | L | G | A | T | C | S | T | G |
| A | T | G | Y | H | N | S | P | T | E | M | Z | T | T | C | O | B | A |
| R | O | F | A | N | E | I | E | K | A | Z | O | I | A | R | O | B | I |
| A | E | A | A | N | T | E | E | G | I | O | R | R | T | N | O | M | R |
| N | S | C | I | N | E | S | N | P | E | L | P | E | W | L | N | W | E |
| O | F | M | A | C | P | O | N | A | E | O | L | H | O | E | A | S | Z |
| B | G | E | V | R | C | L | H | R | N | L | N | G | T | U | G | L | Z |
| R | E | K | E | C | H | A | Y | E | I | I | N | R | T | L | E | O | I |
| A | I | S | H | U | S | R | C | N | A | E | S | A | R | E | R | T | P |
| C | S | I | O | T | F | T | I | O | S | K | I | M | T | R | O | G | W |
| O | C | A | N | N | O | L | I | E | F | U | S | I | L | L | I | E | W |
Find these words
- Antipasti
- Bolognese
- Bruschetta
- Calzone
- Cannelloni
- Cannoli
- Carbonara
- Espresso
- Focaccia
- Fusilli
- Gnocchi
- Macaroni
- Margherita
- Mascarpone
- Minestrone
- Olive oil
- Oregano
- Panna cotta
- Penne
- Pepperoni
- Pine nuts
- Pizza oven
- Pizzeria
- Prosciutto
- Ricotta
- Risotto
- Tagliatelle
- Tortellini
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About this word search
Many of these words are Italian descriptions. Tagliatelle comes from tagliare, to cut, and Penne means quills, after the shape of an old pen nib. Antipasti means before the meal.
Prosciutto and Mascarpone are long. With all eight directions in play across eighteen squares, double letters are good clues: the CC in Gnocchi and Focaccia, the NN and LL in Cannelloni.
Older children can sort the list into pasta shapes, dishes and ingredients, which shows how much Italian cooking vocabulary British menus already use.
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, pupils check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or the holidays. 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 Italian too
The same theme also exists in 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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