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Fruit Crossword Puzzle

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Here is a printable fruit crossword puzzle for elementary students around 3rd grade.

It’s a fun activity for kids to work on vocabulary and spelling of 13 common types of fruit.

The crossword puzzle for kids is free to download and print.

Printable fruit crossword puzzle for kids. Image clues of a banana, cherries, grapes, pear, pineapple, apple, strawberry, and a lemon. 5 of the words have word clues. Images are black and white and can be coloured by kids if desired. A spelling and vocabulary worksheet for kids around grade 3. Pdf includes answers.

About This Crossword Puzzle

This fruit themed crossword puzzle has 13 types of fruit for kids to identify.

The puzzle’s words are from the fruit themed 3rd grade spelling list (plus a 2nd grade word). It’s a fun worksheet for kids to practice the spelling of these words.

Picture Clues

Eight of the words have picture clues. For each of these clues, children will need to write the name of the fruit they see.

All the fruit are well known and common. They will have to identify and spell:

  1. grapes
  2. banana
  3. strawberry
  4. apple
  5. pear
  6. lemon
  7. pineapple
  8. cherries

The images are in black and white. With a few pencil crayons, the young learners can also have fun coloring the fruit.

Word Clues

The other 5 words have word clues.

These will be slightly more difficult to solve as kids will need to identify each fruit based on its description. This will be both a vocabulary and a spelling exercise.

The fruit kids will have to solve based on word clues are:

  • peaches (round, sweet fruit with juicy yellow flesh and fuzzy pinkish-yellow skin, and a large, hard seed at the center)
  • berries (small fruit that have many small seeds)
  • grapefruit (a round citrus fruit with yellow skin)
  • melon (honeydew ___)
  • plum (a round juicy fruit that has red or purple skin, sweet yellow flesh and a hard seed at the center)

Printable Fruit Crossword Puzzle

You can download a printable copy of the fruit crossword puzzle for kids below.

The second page of the pdf is the answer key.

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Fruit Crossword Answer Key

Here is the answer key for this fruit crossword puzzle:

Answer key for printable fruit crossword puzzle for kids. The words across are: peaches, banana, berries, pear, strawberry, and pineapple. The words down are: grapefruit, cherries, lemon, apple, plum, melon, and grapes.

Down:

1 – CHERRIES
2 – GRAPEFRUIT
3 – LEMON
7 – MELON
8 – GRAPES
12 – APPLE
13 – PLUM

Across:

4 – PEACHES
5 – BANANA
6 – BERRIES
9 – PEAR
10 – STRAWBERRY
11 – PINEAPPLE