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Insects word search

Creepy crawlies from the ant to the dragonfly. A word search for spring, when the class heads into the school garden with bug pots.

  • 20 words
  • 14 by 14
  • Standard

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Drag across the letters, straight or diagonal. Seven words from the list on an eight by eight board.

The 20 words

These words are in the grid. In the maker you can remove words or add your own.

  • Ant
  • Bee
  • Wasp
  • Butterfly
  • Dragonfly
  • Beetle
  • Caterpillar
  • Spider
  • Mosquito
  • Fly
  • Bumblebee
  • Grasshopper
  • Ladybird
  • Moth
  • Woodlouse
  • Flea
  • Cricket
  • Larva
  • Wing
  • Antenna

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Insects

Give it a try: drag a line across the letters.

FOUND0 of 7
  • Mosquito
  • Beetle
  • Spider
  • Wasp
  • Ant
  • Bee
  • Fly

Print

Print the word search

20 words in a 14 by 14 grid. Print the sheet, or add the answer key first for whoever is marking. The QR code on the sheet opens the answer key.

Insects

Name

CRICKETSPIDERT
OEDLADYBIRDOHY
NOMEITTHHPAELR
IOOPBEETLEOFSE
PASBSEORFCNBSE
IDQUHMEFPOSUBP
WUUTLGHTGIOMBA
MOITAHHAGLLBEN
SGTENGRNDAILAM
IRORTDIOLRFEAR
NNTFEWOIAVWBTR
FLYLNWTLAAAEHE
DVEYNNFWUOSEPS
ECGRASSHOPPERS

Find these words

  • Ant
  • Antenna
  • Bee
  • Beetle
  • Bumblebee
  • Butterfly
  • Caterpillar
  • Cricket
  • Dragonfly
  • Flea
  • Fly
  • Grasshopper
  • Ladybird
  • Larva
  • Mosquito
  • Moth
  • Spider
  • Wasp
  • Wing
  • Woodlouse

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Try it in Dutch too

The same theme also exists in Dutch, French, 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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