Christmas word searches

Recognize the theme vocabulary before scanning the grid. Examples include tree, star, gift, bell, ornament, light.

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Levels

Easy
8 × 8 · 6 words · across and down
Medium
11 × 11 · 10 words · diagonals too
Hard
15 × 15 · 16 words · all 8 directions

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Vocabulary for the search

Recognize the theme vocabulary before scanning the grid. Examples include tree, star, gift, bell, ornament, light. Follow the activity’s own list; these examples are conversation starters, not an inventory of every sheet.

After the activity

Design an ornament from two geometric shapes and explain how you would repeat its pattern in a garland. Connect Christmas vocabulary with decorations and scenes that participants can interpret in their own way.

Use a search method

Find a word’s first letter and check its next letter before following the whole sequence. Mark from the first letter to the last and cross the entry off the list. Words can share letters: finding one does not remove those cells from other searches.