Bible Word Search Puzzles

Choose Easy for children in grades 2–3: ten words on a 10 × 10 grid, running only across and down. Medium adds diagonals and suits grades 4–6, and Hard hides all twenty words in every direction for older children and teens. A puzzle on the week’s story makes a calm start while families arrive, or a take-home sheet after the lesson. With story themes such as Noah’s Ark, David and Goliath and the Nativity, children can use the words they find to retell the story in their own words.

The Hard level, the Parables, Women of the Bible and Books of the Bible puzzles give adults a real challenge. Books of the Bible also has an Expert 20 × 20 grid with all thirty words. The crosswords about the Old Testament and the life of Jesus work well as a review at the end of a study series.

The large print editions are made for senior ministries, care homes and anyone who prefers bigger letters. Each one includes questions to talk about while solving and an activity idea, such as reading the matching passage aloud once everyone has finished. For something new every morning, see today’s puzzles, and for all large print formats in one place, printable puzzles for seniors.

The names use the familiar English spellings found in the King James Version and most modern translations, such as REBEKAH and THADDAEUS. A few everyday words, like DONKEY and TOMB, are used where they are easier for children than older terms. The puzzles stay with the stories themselves and add no commentary, so they suit churches of any denomination.