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Thanksgiving Cryptograms

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Thanksgiving Cryptograms

A cryptogram is a word puzzle that has a small piece of encrypted text. The difficulty level for a cipher used in a cryptogram is easy. The most commonly used ciphers are substitution ciphers, where every alternate letter is substituted by a different letter or number. Thanksgiving is a national holiday in countries like the US and Canada, to commemorate the quality of appreciation and gratitude for all the positive things that have happened in the previous year.

These printable cryptograms are designed with thanksgiving themes and the solutions for them are attached below. Solving these free cryptogram puzzles is interesting and also they might help you and your children or students get an extra piece of knowledge about the thanksgiving feast. Try them and remind yourself to be thankful for everything you have.

Thanksgiving Cryptograms 1

Centered on quotes about Thanksgiving, here are three cryptograms. Each one is a replacement cipher (each letter has been replaced by a new letter consistently) and the solution key for each one is different.

They, as well as the solution, are free for you to print and use as you wish.

Thanksgiving Cryptogram

The solutions for all the three quotes arranged as cryptograms in the above thanksgiving puzzle is given here. Use it to check your answers.

Thanksgiving Cryptogram Solution

Here are some more thanksgiving puzzles like word search, crossword, and scramble. Try solving them and share them with your students and loved ones so they can enjoy their thanksgiving too.

Thanksgiving Word Search

Thanksgiving Crossword

Thanksgiving Word Scramble

Animal Word Search Puzzles

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Animal Word Search Puzzles

Animals constitute a major portion of the ecosystem. Animals are the gifts of mother nature and they have equal rights as we humans do to live. Like we do, they also have their own names, groups, habitats, etc. Knowing about them is important for you or for your kids and students is important to know their contribution and importance to the ecosystem.

These animal word search puzzles are designed with the names of different animals hidden in different directions. Find them all to explore more information about animals.

Animal Word Search Puzzles 1

Each animal in the environment we live in has a specific name. Isn’t it obvious that their gangs should have names too? Well, this animal word search puzzle is all about the names of the groups of animals. Solve this puzzle to explore them. The words are hidden in all the directions, even in reverse.

The number of words hidden here is 27. The words hidden here are: bed, bevy, brace, brood, cackle, clan, clutch, coalition, colony, congress, drove, flock, herd, hive, horde, mob, nest, pack, pod, pride, rabble, rookery, school, shrewdness, sleuth, swarm, troop.

Animal Word Search 1

The solution for the word search puzzle is given here for you to print.

Animal Word Search 1 Solution

Animal Word Search Puzzles 2

The extra large-sized animals in the animal kingdom have their place for being fierce and cute at the same time in an ecosystem.  Find these big animals in the word search puzzle hidden vertically, horizontally, diagonally, and in reverse directions.

The names of animals hidden in this grid are the African elephant, Asian elephant, basking shark, beluga whale, bison, black marlin, blue whale, bluefin tuna, bowhead whale, dromedary, elephant seal, gaur, giraffe, great white shark, grizzly bear, hippopotamus, humpback whale, moose, Nile crocodile, orca, rhinoceros, sperm whale, tiger shark, walrus, yak. The number of words hidden is 25.

Animal Word Search 2

The solution for the puzzle above is attached here so you can check your answers.

Animal Word Search 2 Solution

Animal Word Search Puzzles 3

This word search puzzle is designed with the names of various tundra dwellers hidden in the grid. The words are hidden in all directions, i.e; left to right, right to left, top to bottom, diagonally, and even in reverse. Make sure to find all of them to win.

The words hidden here in this word search grid are arctic fox, arctic hare, bald eagles, bumblebee, caribou, ermine, gray falcons, grizzly bear, gyrfalcon, moose, mosquito, musk ox, Norway lemming, pocket gopher, polar bear, ptarmigan, raven, ruddy turnstone, shrew, sled god, snowy owl, squirrel, tundra swan, vole, water bird, white wolf, wolverine. The number of words is 27.

Animal Word Search 3

The answer key is given here for your convenience.

Animal Word Search 3 Solution

Science Word Search Puzzles

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Science Word Search Puzzles

Science is an amazing thing that happened to mankind. It has a lot of disciplines, a lot of tools are used for the safety of the researchers and scientists, and a variety of measuring units and instruments are used in a science lab. Solving these word search puzzles can lead you to know about science, its branches, and the tools used in it. Find the hidden words and circle them so you differentiate the rest of the grid.

“Science is the key to our future. And if you don’t believe in science, then you are holding everyone back.” said a great man named Bill Nye. Challenge yourself to solve these puzzles with the knowledge that you already have or use them as worksheets for your students or kids. These word search puzzles with science as their themes are free to use and easily printable!

Science Tools And Safety Word Search Puzzle

The words hidden in this word search grid are: microscope, hand lens, thermometer, pan balance, triple beam balance, spring scale, beaker, pipette, eyewash, graduated cylinder, apron, gloves, stopwatch, scale, goggles, ruler, fire extinguisher, first aid. The number of words is 18.

This science word search puzzle with the terms related to the tools and safety hidden is suitable for third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, twelfth grades and students at your homeschool.

Science Word Search 2

The answer key for this word search puzzle is given here. Make sure to check your answers by referring to this.

Science Word Search 2 Soltution

Science Word Search Puzzle (Branches Of Study)

This science word search puzzle is designed with terms related to different branches of study in science. The words hidden here are anatomy, anthropology, archeology, astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, computer science, ecology, electronics, engineering, entomology, forestry, genetics, geology, mathematics, medicine, meteorology, oceanography, paleontology, physics, physiology, seismology, taxonomy, zoology. The number of words is 25. Find them all and test your knowledge.

Science Word Search 1

The solution for the word search puzzle is given here for you to use for crosschecking.

Science Word Search 1 Solution

Science Measurement And Measuring Units Word Search Puzzle

This word search puzzle with science as its theme is designed with the terms related to measurement and measuring units, and states of matter. This puzzle is easy to solve and free to print. Find all the words and circle them.

The number of words hidden for you to hunt is 15.  The words hidden here are: convert, displacement, density, gravity, graduated cylinder, liquid, matter, measure, measuring tape, metric system, solid, spring scale, triple beam balance, volume, weight.

This is suitable for fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth grades.

Science Word Search 3

The solution for the Science word search puzzle given above is attached here so you can cross-check with your answers.

Science Word Search 3 Solution

Here are a few more sets of puzzles for you to print and continue to enjoy and have fun.

Chemistry Word Search

The Elements Word Search

Types Of Word Puzzles

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types of word puzzles

Different Types Of Word Puzzles

Word puzzles are a type of puzzle where the puzzles are made from information of words or sentences in some cases. There are different types of puzzles in numbers, ciphers, pictures, words, etc., using the same or other types of information as a clue to solve the type of puzzle.

1. Word Search Puzzles

Word Search is the most used among the types of word puzzles. Easy to make and can be challenged to all age groups by choosing the right words to do the puzzle for each age group.

The word search puzzle is a puzzle with words hidden in a grid of random letters. The list of letters is given for you to find those words in the grid.

  • These puzzles improve problem-solving skills just as any other puzzle is useful.
  • Also, in the quest to find the word, your spellings are improved.
  • Printable puzzles reduce screen time.
  • On regular solving, you become quick to find out what you want in general.

2. Spellings

Any word puzzle will inevitably make you learn spellings. However, the below picture-word puzzle is especially helpful for kids to learn spellings by completing the picture with the spelling below. There are also different types of puzzles to learn spellings, such as word searches, crossword puzzles, etc.

word spellings puzzle

3. Anagrams

In Anagram puzzles, you use the same letters of the given word to make a different word, and that word also possesses meaning. This applies the same to sentences also. You’ll have to rearrange the letters to form a new sentence from a given sentence, and that sentence possesses meaning. Here is a simple example with 4 letter words rearranged as Dear => Read, Tone => Note, and so on.

anagram example

4. Matching Puzzles

Matching puzzles are word puzzles where you’ll have to match the word to its corresponding picture, like in the example below or as per the question in the puzzle. This is an easy matching puzzle example for toddlers. As you can see, the word ‘fox’ is matched to the image of a fox.

word matching puzzle

5. Ciphers

Ciphers are coded messages where the actual words or sentences are encrypted with symbols, different letters or numbers, etc. Here’s an example where the alphabets are coded with symbols. ciphers example

6. Word Scramble Or Jumbled Words Puzzles

These word scramble or jumbled word puzzles are similar to anagrams, but here you’ll be given a rearranged word letters, and you have to find the actual word with the clue given. Below is an easy word scramble puzzle for kids with images as clues and a jumbled word. Find out the actual word.

jumbled words example

7. Crossword Puzzles

A crossword puzzle is a square or rectangular grid with white boxes filled in with letters forming a word based on the given clues. This simple crossword example will give you an idea of how crossword puzzles work. There are numbers indicated of where the word should start. For example, to identify the word that fits 2 across look at the image clue of 2, it’s a ‘fan’. Now when you look at clue 1, it could be a bus or a van. But, the word ‘van’ fits, as the middle letter ‘a’ is already filled.

simple crossword puzzle example with pictures as clues

8. Rebus Puzzles

Rebus puzzle is more of a picture puzzle. The picture clues lead to a word or sentence. For example, the picture of cap + ‘E’ => cape.

rebus puzzle example

9. Semantics

Semantics are words with very close meanings but are different in context.

semantic example

10. Letter Arrangement Puzzles

In a letter arrangement puzzle, you will be required to structure meaningful words based on the given set of alphabets. This type of word puzzle is curated to test one’s command of language and different words and the potential to solve a problem in a unique and creative approach. Categories of letter arrangement games include Scrabble, Upwords, Bananagrams, Countdown, and Paperback, etc.

Valentine’s Day Word Search

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Valentine’s Day Word Search

Did you know that the names of two men who were executed by Emperor Claudius were Valentine’s? The origins of modern-day love and the celebrations date back to the 3rd century AD. It is interesting to know that today’s valentine’s day celebrations are linked to the history related to Emperor Claudius II of the third century, Pope Gelasius I of the fifth century, the romanticization of some dark history by Shakespear, industrialization in the New World, etc.

Well, I was about to find the link and an internet link with word search puzzles popped up. Valentine’s day is about spending time with loved ones, so why not use these word search puzzles featuring words related to Valentine’s day celebration for having fun. These Valentine word search puzzles are free for you to print and the answers for the puzzles are attached below each puzzle for you to use for crosschecking your answers.

Valentine Word Search 1

This valentine’s word search is a great way to have fun on Valentine’s day. The words hidden in the word puzzle grid are love, loneliness, valentine, dinner, hold hands, party, dancing, letters, sweets, card, romance, roses, whisper, flowers, date, couple, hearts, movies, kiss, flirt. The number of words for you to hunt is twenty. Mind you that the words are hidden in all directions, even in reverse.

Valentine Word Search 2

The solution for the same is attached here for your convenience.

Valentine Word Search 2 Solution

Valentine’s Day Word Search 2

The words hidden for you to hunt for this valentines day are: adore, affection, arrow, be mine, beloved, boyfriend, candy, champagne, cherub, chocolate, cupid, darling, dearest, flowers, gifts, girlfriend, hearts, hug, I love you, kiss, love, pink, poem, red, romance, roses, sweetheart, valentine. The number of words hidden is twenty-eight. find them all to celebrate February 14th in an interesting way. Keep in mind that the words are hidden in forward, upward, downward, and reverse directions. Search for the hidden words like you do to search for your valentine!!

Valentine Word Search Puzzle 1

 

The answer key for the word search puzzle given above is attached here.

Valentine Word Search Puzzle 1 Solution

Valentine’s Day Word Search 3

Look in all the directions (even in reverse) like you do to search for your valentine. The number of words hidden in the grid is thirty-six. This word search puzzle is suitable for third, fourth, fifth, sixth grades and homeschool students.

Valentine Word Search 3

The solution for the word search puzzle featuring words about Valentine’s day is attached here for you to print.

Valentine Word Search 3 Solution

 

Here are some more sets of puzzles for you to celebrate various occasions in more fun and interesting ways.

Valentines Day Word Scramble

Mother’s Day Word Search

Memorial Day Word Search

Chemistry Word Search Puzzles

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Chemistry Word Search Puzzles

For someone, Chemistry is all about fancy aprons, complex names, and high technology equipment. And for someone chemistry is the art of combining chemicals in a laboratory, being a pro at remembering the names of the elements of a periodic table, spending days and nights together on research, etc. Here are a few word search puzzles featuring words related to chemistry to let both types of people have fun and learn more about chemistry.

These puzzles are designed with words related to the equipment used in a chemistry lab, the names and chemical properties of elements, states of matter, and various other terms related to a variety of chemical processes that takes place. These are free printables for you to use as worksheets for your students before they put their apron on.

Chemistry Word Search Puzzle 1 (Properties, Nature, etc.)

Here is a word search puzzle with words related to properties of elements, their nature, and various processes that they are involved in. The words are hidden in all directions. make sure to find them all.

The words hidden in this puzzle are Acidic, basic, carbon dioxide, chemistry, compound, distillation, elements, emulsion, filtering, fluids, gas, heterogenous, homogenous, hydrogen, liquid, matter, mixture, oxygen, separating, sieve, solid, soluble, solution, solution, solvent, sorting.

Chemistry Word Search 2

The solution for this chemistry word search puzzle is given here for you to crosscheck.

Chemistry Word Search 2 Solution

Chemistry Word Search Puzzle 2 (Items From Chemistry Lab)

Here is a word search puzzle featuring the terms related to the chemistry laboratory. The words hidden in this puzzle are acid, atoms, base, beaker, bunsen burner, chemical, density, electrode, element, experiment, flask, funnel, gas, ion, kelvin, liquid, litmus paper, microscope, molecule, nucleus, petri dish, solid, solution, sublimation, test tube, thermometer, volume. The number of words hidden in this word search puzzle is 27.

Chemistry Word Search 1

The answer key for the same is attached here for your convenience.

Chemistry Word Search 1 Solution

Chemistry Word Search Puzzle 3

Remembering the names of elements in the periodic table is always a tough nut to crack. Here is the tougher nut to crack for you! This is a chemistry themed word search puzzle designed with the names of a few elements in different directions. But the clues given in this puzzle to solve are in the form of their respective chemical symbols. Based on the clues given here, find out the name in the grid and circle the term that you have found. The names for the elements you need to find are CO2, Cr, N2, Na, B, H2, Zn, Mn, Pb, W.

Chemistry Word Search 3

Here is the solution for the above word search puzzle for you to check.

Chemistry Word Search 3 Solution

Here are a few more of our puzzles for you to use to teach your kids or students about the elements, US presidents, and a little about Science.

The Elements Word Search

US Presidents Word Search

Science Word Search

Fall Word Search

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Fall Word Search

Autumn or Fall is a season for enjoying a lot of occasions like Halloween, Thanksgiving, and harvest. Our fall word search puzzles could be a great way to start your autumn or to teach your kids or children about the fall season. These word search puzzles with fall as the theme are free to use and printable. Use them just to have fun on an evening during fall or as worksheets for your students right before the autumn or occasions like thanksgiving or Halloween is about to arrive. Happy Autumn and happy puzzling!!

Here are some more sets of puzzles for you to print and have fun or teach your kids about various topics like thanksgiving, Valentine’s day, etc.

Thanksgiving Word Search

Valentine Word Search

Fall Word Search 1

The words hidden in this puzzle are fall, autumn, September, October, November, pumpkin, apple, corn, turkey, hayride, scarecrow, pinecone, sunflower, acorn, sweater, leaves, rake, squirrel, migrate, cider, blanket. This word search is suitable for first, second, third, fourth, fifth grade students. The number of words is twenty-one.

Fall Word Search 2

The solution for the fall word search above is attached here for you to check.

Fall Word Search 2 Solution

Fall Word Search 2

The words hidden in this puzzle for you to hunt are acorn, apple, autumn, chestnuts, chilly, cider, cobweb, fall, football, gourd, Halloween, harvest, hay bale, hayride, leaves, maize, November, nuts, October, pumpkin, quilt, rake, scarecrow, September, sleet, thanksgiving. Watch out for the words hidden in all directions including reverse direction. The number of words hidden in this puzzle is twenty-six.

Fall Word Search 1

The solution for the word search puzzle is given here for you to print.

Fall Word Search 1 Solution

Fall Word Search 3

This fall word search puzzle is all about the recipes, months, traditions, and activities related to autumn. Use it to have fun or as a worksheet. This is suitable for the kids and students of second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth grades. The number of words is twenty-one.

Fall Word Search 3

The answer key for the word search with fall as its theme is given here.

Fall Word Search 3 Solution

Witches’ Brew Word Search

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Witches’ Brew Word Search

Halloween is celebrated right before the day of All Saints. People on that day dress up in spooky costumes to make the ghosts run away. Several things like weird costumes, candies, etc are involved in these traditions. The Witches’ Brew Word Search Puzzles are designed to give you chills in the spine or to use them as a fun activity for your students or children this Halloween season.

Solving the word search puzzles featuring witch as their themes might make you have fun or you might as well see a witch in black clothes, a sharp-pointed hat on the head, and a broom along with an evil potion in her hands behind you in the mirror. Check it yourself. Happy Halloween to you and the witch behind you !!!

Witches’ Brew Word Search 1

Here is Shakespear’s recipe for Witch’s brew. He wrote a play named Macbeth where he mentions the witch brew recipe and different ingredients used in the preparation of it. Find all the 29 words related to the brew and circle them to win with the witch!

There are 29 words to look for covering all 15 creepy sounding ingredients: Adder’s, bat, Blind worm’s, dog, dragon, Eye, fenny snake, Filet, fork, frog, hemlock, Leg, lizard, mummy, newt, Root, Salt sea, Scales, shark, Slip, sting, Toad, Toe, Tongue, Tooth, witches, wolf, Wool, and yew.

Witches Brew Word Search Puzzle 1

The solution key for the witch’s brew puzzle is given here for you to print and check for the right answers.

Witches Brew Word Search Puzzle 1 Solution

Try some more of our Halloween themed puzzles and continue having a little fun and fright for this Halloween.

Macbeth Word Search

Halloween Crossword

HalloweenWord Scramble

Easter Crossword Puzzle

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Easter Crossword Puzzle

How about solving these interesting crossword puzzle for having fun and spending some quality time with family this Easter Sunday? These crossword puzzles are designed with Easter as their themes and can be an interesting and fun activity for your students or kids.

Crossword puzzles are vocabulary-based puzzles where a list of clues is given and one has to guess the words by checking out those clues. And fill the letters in the allotted spaces to finish solving the crossword puzzle. Solve these Easter crossword puzzles and have fun during this Easter. These can make a great educational and fun activity for your kids or students.

Easter Crossword Puzzle 1

Did you know that a few of the traditions followed on Easter Sunday were already followed during pre-Christian days? This crossword puzzle is not merely based on the Christian faith and is secular in nature. This puzzle has a list of thirteen clues and you will need to make your students or kids find them and fill them in the boxes.

This crossword puzzle is great for fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade.

Easter Crossword Puzzle 1

The solution for the crossword puzzle given here is attached for your students to cross-check while solving it.

Easter Crossword Puzzle 1 Solution

Easter Crossword Puzzle 2

This cute easter crossword puzzle is designed with nine words related to easter. The clues for solving this crossword are given in the form of pictures. Match the clue with the right word and write the letters of the word in the boxes while you check for the right numbers and directions allotted to them.

This crossword is suitable for first, second, third, fourth, and fifth grades.

Easter Crossword Puzzle 2

The solution for the puzzle is given here. Check this to find out if you have found them all.

Easter Crossword Puzzle 2 Solution

 

These sets of puzzles are linked here so you don’t have to stop having fun on an Easter Sunday.

Easter Maze

Easy Easter Word Search

Easter Word Search

Easy Easter Word Search

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Easy Easter Word Search

A typical word search puzzle is a word-based puzzle where alphabets are arranged randomly on a rectangular or square grid such that a few words are hidden in them. The words might be hidden vertically, horizontally, diagonally, or even in the reverse direction. To solve a word search puzzle, all you have to do is mark the words which you have found to differentiate them from the rest of the grid.

These easter themed word search puzzles are designed to be easy and are suitable for kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, and fifth grades. These word search puzzles require no preparation and can be used to teach your children or students a few words related to easter. The puzzles given below are free of cost and printable.

Easy Easter Word Search 1

This easter word search puzzle is designed with a square grid. The words related to Easter are hidden in the grid in vertical and horizontal directions. The words hidden in this puzzle are basket, eggs, hop, bunny, find, spring, carrot, grass, rabbit, easter, hide. Find them all and circle them to finish this puzzle.

This easy Easter word search puzzle can be a fun activity for the students and kids of kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, and fifth grades.

 

Easy Easter Word Search 2

 

Easy Easter Word Search 2

This easy and no prep word search puzzle with Easter as its theme has ten words hidden in it. The words hidden in this puzzle are to be hunted in all the directions i.e; from left to right, right to left, downwards to upwards, and upwards to downwards. Find all the hidden words to finish solving this puzzle.

This puzzle is suitable for kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, and fifth grades.

Easy Easter Word Search 1

 

The solution for this puzzle is attached below so you can check for the answers and help your students or kids to finish this puzzle.

Easy Easter Word Search 1 Solution

These are some more fun activities with easter as their themes. Make sure to try them all for having fun this Easter Sunday.

Easter Maze

Easter Crossword Puzzle

Easter Word Search