Insects word search
Creepy crawlies from the ant to the dragonfly, twenty in all. A word search for spring, when the class heads into the school garden with bug pots to look for ladybirds and caterpillars.
- Ant
- Bee
- Butterfly
- Caterpillar
- Cricket
- Dragonfly
- Earwig
- Flea
- Gnat
- Grasshopper
- Hornet
- Ladybird
- Larva
- Mosquito
- Moth
- Spider
- Termite
- Wasp
- Wing
- Woodlouse
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 versionInsects
Name
| O | D | E | C | R | I | C | K | E | T | F | D | O | H |
| N | R | O | E | A | I | T | H | P | A | L | E | T | R |
| L | A | R | V | A | T | I | O | T | P | E | O | E | W |
| S | G | P | L | A | S | E | N | F | C | A | E | R | I |
| I | O | W | A | D | E | A | R | W | I | G | H | M | N |
| F | N | O | D | M | S | B | P | P | W | U | L | I | G |
| G | F | O | Y | M | O | S | Q | U | I | T | O | T | H |
| G | L | D | B | U | T | T | E | R | F | L | Y | E | T |
| N | Y | L | I | B | M | O | H | H | H | N | L | S | H |
| A | G | O | R | G | I | A | M | I | R | L | R | A | O |
| T | N | U | D | N | T | I | A | S | P | I | D | E | R |
| T | L | S | A | H | E | W | A | S | P | D | V | E | N |
| B | E | E | F | W | U | O | P | S | E | C | S | K | E |
| O | E | G | R | A | S | S | H | O | P | P | E | R | T |
Find these words
- Ant
- Bee
- Butterfly
- Caterpillar
- Cricket
- Dragonfly
- Earwig
- Flea
- Gnat
- Grasshopper
- Hornet
- Ladybird
- Larva
- Mosquito
- Moth
- Spider
- Termite
- Wasp
- Wing
- Woodlouse
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Insects
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About this word search
Not everything on this list is an insect. A Spider has eight legs and a Woodlouse is a crustacean, related to crabs and shrimps rather than to beetles. Insects have six legs and three body parts, which is a good test to apply to every word once the puzzle is done.
Grasshopper and Caterpillar are long and easy to spot. The fourteen-square grid has words across, down and diagonally, but none of them backwards. Ant, Bee and Gnat need a sharper eye.
It works well before or after a bug hunt in the school garden. Children can tick off the creatures they actually found.
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 English (New Zealand) too
The same theme also exists in English (New Zealand) and French, 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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