12 puzzles · all free to play and print
Skeletal System Word Search
Free Skeletal System word search puzzles to print or play online.
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Big Bones
8 words to find
- SKULL
- SPINE
- RIBS
- ARM
- LEG
- HAND
- FOOT
- BONE
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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12 printable Skeletal System word search puzzles
twelve puzzles in three levels. Easy puzzles are 10 by 10 grids with eight words across and down, medium puzzles are 13 by 13 grids with twelve words and diagonals, and hard puzzles are 16 by 16 grids with eighteen words in every direction, backwards too. Themes include Bones of the Body, Hand and Foot Bones, Types of Joints and Skull Bones. Every puzzle has an answer key and prints on US Letter or A4. Every one of these 12 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 4 puzzles
Medium: across, down and diagonal 4 puzzles
Hard: every direction, backwards too 4 puzzles
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How to use these Skeletal System word searches
Use them as a warm-up for an anatomy lesson, a center in a human body unit, or a review before a quiz on bones. Homeschool families can pair the easy puzzles with a skeleton model, and nursing and EMT students can use the hard puzzles to drill terms. A Halloween skeleton craft day also works. Each PDF has the puzzle on page 1 and the answer key on page 2.
Make your own Skeletal System word search
Add your own words, a name or a class list to these skeletal system words and pick a level. The preview is free; the printable PDF with its answer key is $1.99.
Good to know about Skeletal System word search
Every Skeletal System 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 12 puzzles bundled into one print-ready file, costs money.
Bones of the Body, a medium puzzle, has skull, mandible, clavicle, sternum, humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia, fibula, patella and pelvis. The easy puzzle Big Bones uses plain words like spine, ribs, arm and leg.
Joints is an easy puzzle with hip, knee, elbow and wrist. Types of Joints is medium, with hinge, pivot, saddle, socket, ligament, tendon and synovial. Both can go with a skeleton diagram.
Skull Bones has frontal, parietal, sphenoid and ethmoid. Spine and Chest has cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacrum. Anatomy Pioneers names historical anatomists such as Vesalius, Galen and Roentgen.
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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