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Easy Christmas Word Search
11 words · 12×12 grid
How to play: click (or tap) the first letter, drag to the last letter, then release. Words go in any direction, including backwards. Or download the PDF to solve on paper.
Find these words
Want a challenge? Try the hard Christmas word search.
Electric Christmas lights first glowed in 1882, when Edward Johnson, a business partner of Thomas Edison, wired 80 red, white and blue bulbs onto a tree in his New York home. This is the gentle grid: every word runs left to right or top to bottom, so young solvers can find SANTA, the PRESENTS and the CANDYCANE without reading backwards. Older kids who want a real fight can move on to the main Christmas word search, the hard version with words in all eight directions.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from the other Christmas word search?
This is the easy version: words only run across or down. The main Christmas grid is the hard one, with words in all eight directions, some of them backwards. STOCKING, REINDEER and SNOWMAN appear in both lists.
What age is this Christmas word find for?
Roughly ages 5 to 8. The words are familiar holiday things, and none of them run backwards. Younger children can solve it with a grown-up reading the list aloud.
Why do children hang a stocking on Christmas Eve?
An old legend says Saint Nicholas dropped gold coins down a chimney for three poor sisters, and the coins landed in stockings hung by the fire to dry. The story is probably not literal, but it is why a STOCKING still goes up by the fireplace.
