St Patrick's Day Word Search
- CLOVER
- LEPRECHAUN
- TRINITY
- TREFOIL
- RIBBON
- PIPER
- CHARM
- PARADE
- FESTIVAL
- HORSESHOE
- VILLAGE
- DANCER
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St Patrick's Day Word Search
Shamrocks, harps and the words that come round in March.
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St Patrick's Day Word Search, Answer Key
- CLOVER
- LEPRECHAUN
- TRINITY
- TREFOIL
- RIBBON
- PIPER
- CHARM
- PARADE
- FESTIVAL
- HORSESHOE
- VILLAGE
- DANCER
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Four sheets, each with a different job. Every one is a two-page PDF, the puzzle, then the answer key on its own page.
St Patrick’s Day is a small holiday with a strong visual vocabulary, which suits a word search better than a larger one might. Shamrock, emerald, leprechaun and blarney are specific to the day in a way that autumn words are not specific to autumn.
The list reaches past the shorthand. Harp, trefoil, gaelic and patron are the actual furniture of the day rather than the greetings-card version of it, so a sheet can carry a little of where the thing came from.
Leprechaun is ten letters and blarney seven, which makes this a comfortable list for a fifteen-square grid and a stretch for a ten. If you are printing for younger children, drop the count rather than the grid.
It is a single afternoon in the year, so the sheets are worth printing in the week before rather than the day itself. A class that has met the words already gets more out of the day than one meeting them cold.
Common questions
Why are IRELAND, DUBLIN and GAELIC in here?
Because the day has somewhere it comes from, and a sheet made only of shamrocks and rainbows leaves that out. HARP, TREFOIL, PATRON and CELTIC do the same job. The greetings-card words are still there; they are just not the whole list.
Are the Irish words going to confuse anyone?
BLARNEY, TREFOIL and GAELIC are the three that need a sentence of explanation, and they sit on the later sheets rather than the first. That is deliberate: they arrive with children old enough to be curious about where a word comes from, which is most of what this theme is good for.
How many words can I use?
Up to twenty-five. Ten to fifteen is comfortable for most grids. If you add more than the grid can hold, the tool tells you which words did not fit rather than silently leaving them out.
Why did one of my words not fit?
Either it is longer than the grid is wide, or the grid filled up before it could be placed. Try the next size up, remove a word, or press New puzzle for a different arrangement, a word that fails one layout often places fine in the next.
Can I make it easier for younger children?
Yes. Set difficulty to Easy so words only run left to right and top to bottom, and use a 10 by 10 grid with five to eight short words. That combination is manageable for most children who can read the words on the list.
Is there an answer key?
Always, and it prints on its own page so you can hand out the puzzle without it. Each answer is marked directly on a copy of the grid.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up, no email, and no watermark on the printed sheet. Puzzles are built in your browser, so your word list never reaches us.
Can I use these puzzles in my classroom?
Yes, use them with your class, your family, your club, or your care home, and print as many copies as you need. The one thing we ask is that you do not resell the sheets themselves.
Want to know when new printables go up?
New printables when they go up, mostly seasonal, a few times a year.