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Difficult Spring Word Search

Celebrate spring in your classroom with this difficult spring word search.

For elementary aged kids looking for a challenge, let them try this free printable word search for kids.

To add some fun, there’s a few fun spring images for children to color.

A challenging spring word search for elementary aged kids.  This difficult spring word search has 25 hidden words, many of them upside down, backwards, or diagonally backwards.  It's free and printable with answers included. The black and white printable word search is decorated with images of flowers, a worm, a snail, and baby birds on a branch, that kids can color.

Difficulty Level

This spring word search was designed for kids in the elementary grades. It’s a hard word search for that age group.

There are 25 spring words for kids to find and circle in an 18 X 18 grid of uppercase letters.

The words are not difficult, but finding them can prove challenging. Just the fact that the words are smaller, with not too many letters, adds to the level of difficulty. And trying to find smaller words in a sea of letters can be tough.

The words of this difficult spring word search are hidden in every possible direction – horizontally, vertically and diagonally: forwards and backwards.

To make it even harder, a large percentage of the words are hidden upside down, backwards, and diagonally backwards.

Kids will really have to hunt to find all the words in this puzzle.

The printable hard spring word search can be downloaded using any of the forms below.

The answers are included in the pdf file.

More Fun Spring Word Puzzles

Looking for some more spring word puzzles for kids? Here’s a fun list:

Grab a few and have them for kids during their spring break. The puzzles are both a relaxing and educational activity for their week off.

More Difficult Word Search Puzzles

Here are a few more printable hard word searches for kids:

Answer Key

Here is the answer key for this spring word search:

answer key for spring word search

Looking for some more fun printable spring activities? Find more free word puzzles for kids here.

MARIA SILVIA

Tuesday 18th of March 2025

Excelentes ejercicios que ayudan a los niños para adquirir más vocabulario. Gracias por compartir.

betzaida

Monday 22nd of March 2021

i need answer key

Melanie Thomas

Monday 22nd of March 2021

The answer page is the 2nd page of the pdf.