How it works
Pick a level
Easy for early readers. Hard hides words in all eight directions, including backwards.
Download or print
One clean US Letter page, with the answer key on page two. Nothing to sign up for.
Grab a pencil
Or solve on screen: tap the first and last letter of each word you find.
About this puzzle
Big, bold letters and fewer, longer words: an easier-on-the-eyes February word search. The shortest month packs in a lot: Groundhog Day on February 2, Valentine’s Day on the 14th and Presidents’ Day on the third Monday, when we remember Washington and Lincoln. It is Black History Month and National Cherry Month, the birthstone is the amethyst and the birth flowers are the violet and the primrose. Every fourth year it even gets an extra day.
The large print edition uses an 11×11 grid that fills a letter-size page, and words only run across, down or diagonally down.
All 20 words in this theme: Valentine, Groundhog, Shadow, Hearts, Cupid, Lincoln, Washington, Cherry, Chocolate, Kindness, Violet, Roses, Amethyst, Presidents, History, Primrose, Pisces, Birdfeeder, Shortest, Snowdrift.
Talk about it
Questions to share while solving, for activity groups, memory care or a visit with family:
- Did you ever wait to hear whether the groundhog saw his shadow?
- What is the sweetest valentine you ever gave or received?
- Which president did you learn the most about in school?
- Do you prefer chocolates or flowers on Valentine’s Day?
- Do you know anyone with a leap-day birthday on February 29?
Activity tip: February is National Bird-Feeding Month. Put a feeder outside a window before the session and let people call out birds they spot between words.
Questions
How big are the letters?
The grid fills most of a letter-size page, with letters about one and a half times the size of a regular (Medium) word search, and the word list is printed in large type too.
Are these suitable for memory care or activity groups?
Yes. Words only run left to right, top to bottom or diagonally down, so the puzzles are relaxing rather than tricky. Print as many copies as your group needs.
Is there a harder version?
Every theme also has a regular print edition with Easy, Medium and Hard levels.