Word Search

A classic letter grid with the words hidden in it. Pick a word bank or paste your own spelling list, and the grid sizes itself to the words unless you say otherwise. Difficulty is a real change, not a label: the easiest setting hides words only left-to-right and top-to-bottom, the hardest allows all eight directions including backwards. For children who cannot yet cope with a full grid, turn the filler letters off and the words sit alone in the squares, which turns the page into a gentle spotting activity. The word list can print below the grid, beside it, or not at all.

Age

ages 5–12

Answer key

Included, free

Skills

spellingvisual discriminationconcentrationvocabulary

What you can change

• How many words

  4–18

• Difficulty

  Easy, Medium, Hard

• Only words that

  Any word, Start with…, Have the syllable…, Contain the letters…

• Grid size

  Fit to the words, Small, Medium, Large, Huge

• Fill the empty squares

• Keep accents in the grid

• Word list

  Under the grid, Beside the grid, Do not print it

• Every page also takes the book's language, page size, theme and pictures.