Easter word search for the egg hunt

Rules

• Look in the grid for the Easter words listed beneath it. Each sits in one straight line.
• Easy grids hide words across and down, the way you read.
• Hard grids add slanted words and words that read from the end to the start.
• One letter can be part of two words. A word is never hidden twice.
• Touch the first and last letter of a word to colour it in.

Words from the basket, the garden and Sunday morning

Most words in the Easter list have six letters or fewer, which is why this page suits beginners. The animals come first: bunny, rabbit, chick, lamb and duckling, with a nest to hatch in. Then the hunt: eggs that are painted and hidden in the grass, a basket to collect them, jelly sweets, candy, chocolate and other treats, and a carrot for the rabbit. The flowers of the season are lily, tulip, daffodil and blossom in a garden in april. The day itself is a sunday with church, bells, a bonnet, a parade, family and brunch.

An egg hunt ends quickly, and a puzzle is a calm way to follow it. One idea is to roll a printed word search into each basket in place of one more sweet. Another is to make the puzzle part of the hunt: hide the sheets with the eggs, and give a small prize to the child who finds the most words, not the most eggs.

In Sunday school or an ordinary classroom, the easy grid can be finished by children who have only just begun to read, because the words are short and go in the two directions they know. Read the list aloud together first. Older brothers and sisters can take the hard grid, where the same small words become much harder to see once they may be written backwards.

Tips

• Short words hide well. Say each one letter by letter as you look: L, A, M, B.
• Bunny, bonnet, basket, brunch, bells and blossom all start with B, so find every B in the grid and test each one.
• Daffodil has a double F, which makes it the easiest long word to find.
• The words change from day to day through the weeks before Easter, so a child can do one each morning.
• Tick Large print for small children; the bigger letters leave more room for a crayon.

How these puzzles are made and checked

A separate scan reads the finished grid from every cell in all eight directions. Every listed word must be found exactly once, at the stored position, and the grid must not spell a word from our deny list outside the listed words.

The puzzle of the day is chosen by the date on your device: puzzle 1 was the puzzle for 1 January 2026, and the number goes up by one each day. Easy: 366 puzzles, so the same puzzle comes round again after 366 days. Hard: 366 puzzles, so the same puzzle comes round again after 366 days. Every number stays open in the archive control above the grid. More detail is on the page how the puzzles are made and checked.