18 puzzles · all free to play and print
Plants Word Search
Free Plants word search puzzles to print or play online.
Play online or print
Parts of a Plant
8 words to find
- ROOT
- STEM
- LEAF
- PETAL
- SEED
- BUD
- THORN
- VINE
Drag from the first to the last letter of a word, or tap the first letter and then the last. The PDF has the puzzle on page 1 and the answer key on page 2.
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18 printable Plants word search puzzles
eighteen puzzles in three levels. Easy puzzles are 10 by 10 grids with eight words across and down. Medium puzzles are 13 by 13 with twelve words and diagonals. Hard puzzles are 16 by 16 with eighteen words in every direction, backwards too. The sub-themes include Garden Flowers, Trees, Herb Garden, Desert Plants, Plant Anatomy and Strange Plants. Every puzzle has an answer key and prints on US Letter or A4. Every one of these 18 puzzles is free: play it online above or print its PDF, with the answer key on page 2. No account, no email.
Easy: across and down 6 puzzles
Medium: across, down and diagonal 6 puzzles
Hard: every direction, backwards too 6 puzzles
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You do not need it: every Plants puzzle above is free to play and to download one by one. The booklet is only for printing them all at once, a 38-page PDF with a cover, a contents page and the answer keys at the back. Buying it also keeps this site free for everyone.
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How to use these Plants word searches
Use them to start or finish a unit on plants and seeds, or leave a stack in the garden club meeting room. Teachers can pair the life cycle puzzle with a bean sprouting jar on the windowsill. Parents can print one for a day at the botanical garden. Each PDF has the puzzle on page 1 and the answer key on page 2.
Make your own Plants word search
Add your own words, a name or a class list to these plants words and pick a level. The preview is free; the printable PDF with its answer key is $1.99.
Good to know about Plants word search
Every Plants puzzle on this page is free to play online and free to print as a PDF with its answer key, one by one. Only the optional booklet, all 18 puzzles bundled into one print-ready file, costs money.
Try Parts of a Plant, Garden Flowers or Trees. Each is a 10 by 10 grid with eight short words like root, rose and oak that run across and down only, so beginning readers can find them.
How Plants Make Food is a medium puzzle with chlorophyll, stomata, glucose and sunlight, and Life Cycle of a Flower covers pollen, pistil, stamen and germinate. Plant Anatomy goes further with xylem and phloem.
Desert Plants has saguaro, agave and ocotillo, Strange Plants has the Venus flytrap, pitcher plant and sundew, and Trees of the World includes baobab, teak and eucalyptus.
Easy puzzles (10 by 10, words across and down) work from about age 6. Medium puzzles (13 by 13, diagonals added) suit ages 8 to 11. Hard puzzles (16 by 16, every direction, backwards too) are for older kids and adults.
Page 2 of every PDF is the answer key, with each word marked where it hides. When you play online, the Show answers button marks them on the grid.
Every puzzle comes as a US Letter PDF (8.5 by 11 inches) and an A4 PDF (210 by 297 mm). Print at 100% or Actual size.
Every puzzle on this page plays in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer: drag or tap from the first to the last letter of a word. Nothing to install and no account.
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