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Hanukkah word search
18 words to find, at three difficulties, and it prints with the answer key.
Print the page above, or take the easy grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.
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- SUFGANIYOT runs top to bottom, starting at row 7, column 7.
- JERUSALEM runs top to bottom, starting at row 6, column 1.
- MACCABEE runs top to bottom, starting at row 3, column 3.
- BLESSING runs top to bottom, starting at row 10, column 5.
- MENORAH runs left to right, starting at row 3, column 5.
- DREIDEL runs top to bottom, starting at row 4, column 10.
- SHAMASH runs left to right, starting at row 16, column 9.
- MIRACLE runs top to bottom, starting at row 8, column 13.
- LATKES runs top to bottom, starting at row 11, column 6.
- CANDLE runs top to bottom, starting at row 3, column 16.
- TEMPLE runs left to right, starting at row 2, column 5.
- FLAME runs left to right, starting at row 1, column 7.
- EIGHT runs top to bottom, starting at row 7, column 14.
- JELLY runs top to bottom, starting at row 13, column 8.
- GELT runs left to right, starting at row 2, column 13.
- WICK runs top to bottom, starting at row 13, column 17.
- GIFT runs top to bottom, starting at row 5, column 5.
- OIL runs left to right, starting at row 6, column 6.
Print the page above, or take the medium grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.
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- SUFGANIYOT runs top to bottom, starting at row 3, column 12.
- JERUSALEM runs top to bottom, starting at row 2, column 15.
- MACCABEE runs top to bottom, starting at row 3, column 4.
- BLESSING runs diagonally up and to the right, starting at row 13, column 4.
- MENORAH runs top to bottom, starting at row 7, column 14.
- DREIDEL runs left to right, starting at row 15, column 9.
- SHAMASH runs diagonally down and to the right, starting at row 9, column 1.
- MIRACLE runs top to bottom, starting at row 4, column 3.
- LATKES runs top to bottom, starting at row 9, column 9.
- CANDLE runs left to right, starting at row 6, column 5.
- TEMPLE runs diagonally up and to the right, starting at row 11, column 5.
- FLAME runs top to bottom, starting at row 10, column 11.
- EIGHT runs top to bottom, starting at row 8, column 10.
- JELLY runs top to bottom, starting at row 10, column 8.
- GELT runs top to bottom, starting at row 2, column 10.
- WICK runs diagonally up and to the right, starting at row 5, column 5.
- GIFT runs left to right, starting at row 2, column 1.
- OIL runs left to right, starting at row 4, column 5.
Print the page above, or take the hard grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.
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- SUFGANIYOT runs right to left, starting at row 6, column 11.
- JERUSALEM runs left to right, starting at row 8, column 1.
- MACCABEE runs diagonally up and to the left, starting at row 14, column 14.
- BLESSING runs top to bottom, starting at row 6, column 14.
- MENORAH runs right to left, starting at row 5, column 9.
- DREIDEL runs left to right, starting at row 3, column 3.
- SHAMASH runs left to right, starting at row 12, column 4.
- MIRACLE runs left to right, starting at row 7, column 1.
- LATKES runs left to right, starting at row 14, column 4.
- CANDLE runs bottom to top, starting at row 13, column 2.
- TEMPLE runs bottom to top, starting at row 10, column 13.
- FLAME runs left to right, starting at row 4, column 2.
- EIGHT runs bottom to top, starting at row 6, column 12.
- JELLY runs diagonally down and to the right, starting at row 10, column 9.
- GELT runs diagonally up and to the right, starting at row 4, column 1.
- WICK runs bottom to top, starting at row 12, column 3.
- GIFT runs right to left, starting at row 2, column 9.
- OIL runs left to right, starting at row 11, column 4.
About Hanukkah
Hanukkah marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees reclaimed it. The holiday runs eight nights, and the menorah holds nine candles: eight for the nights plus the shamash, the helper candle used to light the others. Because oil sits at the center of the story, families fry latkes and sufganiyot, the jelly-filled doughnuts. The grid below gathers the dreidel, the gelt, the flame and the blessing that fill those evenings.
Reach for this sheet in early winter, when a classroom or family table is talking through what the eight nights mean.
What is in this word search
A 17 by 17 word search hiding 18 words about Hanukkah, 0 of them diagonally and 0 written backwards.
- Grid
- 17 x 17
- Words to find
- 18
- Diagonal words
- 0
- Backward words
- 0
Words to find
- MENORAH
- DREIDEL
- LATKES
- CANDLE
- SHAMASH
- MIRACLE
- JERUSALEM
- MACCABEE
- OIL
- GELT
- SUFGANIYOT
- BLESSING
- TEMPLE
- FLAME
- EIGHT
- JELLY
- WICK
- GIFT