Easter Word Search for Kids With Egg Hunt and Easter Story Lists

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DONALRDCOODCOBO

YNLECHOCOLATEUH

AHSAEBYEWCFFDNW

GIMZPNJLATFOSNQ

FZOHIDEGGOOSDYY

NIBYTULIPCDPNDU

EGIEPILCBUIRPRM

STHDCHYNAILIFBT

TLAMBIBCSSXNTON

DSTTOKEUKUPGANM

YMCQMWAOENOEANS

WUHBGCNETDYNTEH

GRASSHSHRABBITA

BTBRAUIXSYRHNHI

NYDWEFOAEYEPBIE

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EggEGG
BasketBASKET
HideHIDE
GrassGRASS
ChocolateCHOCOLATE
JellybeanJELLYBEAN
BunnyBUNNY
RabbitRABBIT
LambLAMB
NestNEST
HatchHATCH
SpringSPRING
TulipTULIP
DaffodilDAFFODIL
BonnetBONNET
SundaySUNDAY

16 of 24 words from the Easter Favorites list.

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DONALRDCOODCOBO

YNLECHOCOLATEUH

AHSAEBYEWCFFDNW

GIMZPNJLATFOSNQ

FZOHIDEGGOOSDYY

NIBYTULIPCDPNDU

EGIEPILCBUIRPRM

STHDCHYNAILIFBT

TLAMBIBCSSXNTON

DSTTOKEUKUPGANM

YMCQMWAOENOEANS

WUHBGCNETDYNTEH

GRASSHSHRABBITA

BTBRAUIXSYRHNHI

NYDWEFOAEYEPBIE

EGG, BASKET, HIDE, GRASS, CHOCOLATE, JELLYBEAN, BUNNY, RABBIT, LAMB, NEST, HATCH, SPRING, TULIP, DAFFODIL, BONNET, SUNDAY

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Easter Egg Hunt 22

Backyard Where many families hold the hunt, between the fence and the kitchen door.
Basket You carry it on the hunt and fill it as you go. Most are wicker with one tall handle.
Chocolate Bunnies and eggs are molded from it. The first hollow egg made of it dates from 1873.
Crack What a shell does when two eggs are knocked together. In that game the last whole egg wins.
Decorate To add color, stickers or wax patterns to a plain white shell.
Dozen Twelve of anything. Eggs are sold this way.
Dye Colored liquid in a cup. Lower a hard-boiled egg in on a wire loop and wait.
Egg Dyed, hidden, rolled across a lawn or molded in chocolate. At Easter it stands for new life.
Grass On a lawn it is real. In a basket it is shredded green paper.
Hide What a grown-up does with the eggs while the children wait indoors.
Hunt The search across the yard for everything that was tucked away before breakfast.
Jellybean A small, chewy sweet shaped like a kidney, with a hard sugar coat, in every color of the basket.

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Easter Egg Hunt, continued

Lawn Mown grass around a house. A good one for a hunt has bushes, flower beds and tree roots to hide things in.
Pastel A soft, pale shade, such as baby blue, mint or light pink.
Roll To push an egg along the grass in a race. American presidents first hosted a race like this in 1878.
Shell The thin, hard outside of an egg. Peel it away before you eat what is inside.
Speckled Covered in tiny spots, like the egg of a quail.
Spoon In one race you balance an egg on it and walk as fast as you dare.
Stripes Bands of color. Snap rubber bands around the egg before it goes in the cup to get them.
Treats Small sweet rewards. They rattle inside the hollow eggs.
Vinegar A sour kitchen liquid. Many recipes for coloring eggs call for a spoonful of it.
Yolk The yellow center of an egg.

Easter Animals 17

Bilby A rare Australian marsupial with long ears. Shops there sell chocolate ones as a swap for the bunny.
Bunny The long-eared visitor said to bring the baskets. The tale reached America with German settlers in the 1700s.
Carrot An orange root vegetable, left out as a snack for the bunny.
Caterpillar A many-legged larva that eats leaves until it is ready to become a butterfly.
Chick A baby hen or rooster, yellow and downy.
Cottontail A wild American rabbit named for the white puff at its back end.
Duckling A baby duck, following its mother to the pond in a line.
Fluffy Soft, light and puffy, like a day-old chick.
Hare A bigger, longer-legged cousin of the rabbit. In the first German tales it was this animal that brought the eggs.
Hatch To break out of an egg.
Hop How a bunny gets from here to there.
Lamb A baby sheep. Most are born as winter ends.
Nest Where a bird lays her eggs. German children once made one in a cap for the hare to fill.
Rabbit A small, furry mammal with long ears and a short puff of a tail.
Robin An American songbird with an orange breast, an early sign that winter is over. Its eggs are sky blue.
Warren A network of rabbit tunnels under the ground.
Whiskers Long, stiff hairs beside the nose that help an animal feel its way.

Spring Garden 18

April Western Easter can fall as late as the 25th of this month.
Bloom To open into flower.
Blossom The flowers on a cherry or apple tree, before the fruit comes.
Bud A flower or leaf that has not opened yet.
Bulb The rounded underground part that tulips and daffodils grow from.
Crocus A small purple, white or yellow flower, often the first to push up through late snow.
Daffodil A yellow trumpet flower, the national flower of Wales. In England the wild kind is called the Lent lily.
Dandelion A yellow lawn flower that turns into a ball of fluffy seeds you can blow away.
Hyacinth A garden bulb with a spike of small, strongly scented flowers.
Lily A tall white flower shaped like a trumpet. It decorates churches on Easter Sunday.
March Western Easter can fall as early as the 22nd of this month.
Petal One of the colored parts of a flower.
Rainbow An arc of seven colors, seen when the sun shines through a shower.
Spring The season of Easter in the northern half of the world. It begins at the March equinox.
Sprout A seed's first tiny shoot.
Sunshine Bright light and warmth on a clear day.
Tulip A cup-shaped flower on a straight stem, grown from a bulb planted the autumn before.
Umbrella It opens over your head to keep off a shower.

Easter Traditions 20

Australia The country where a chocolate bilby can take the bunny's place.
Beeswax What the pattern on a Ukrainian egg is drawn in. It keeps the color off the shell.
Bonnet A hat trimmed with flowers and ribbon, the star of the Easter parade.
Brunch A late-morning meal that is part breakfast, part lunch. A favorite once the hunt is over.
Buns Spiced ones dotted with raisins and marked with a cross are a Good Friday food in Britain and Australia.
Cascarones Hollow eggshells filled with confetti, broken over a friend's head in Latin America.
Children In 1878 they asked if they could roll their eggs at the White House. The answer was yes.
Eostre A goddess named by the monk Bede in the 700s. The English word Easter may come from her name.
Equinox One of two days a year when day and night are about equal. Easter's date is counted from the March one.
Germany The country where the tale of a hare that brings eggs began.
Marzipan A sweet paste of ground almonds and sugar. It tops a British Easter cake.
Monday The day after Easter, when the White House holds its egg roll.
Moon Easter is the Sunday after the first full one on or after March 21.
Onion Boil eggs with the dry skins of this vegetable and the shells turn golden brown.
Parade New York's Easter one began in the 1870s on Fifth Avenue. Anyone can join, and tall hats are the point.
President Rutherford B. Hayes held this office when the White House egg roll began in 1878.
Pysanka A Ukrainian Easter egg. The pattern is written on in beeswax before each bath of color.
Simnel A British Easter fruitcake topped with 11 balls of marzipan.
Sunday Easter always falls on this day of the week.
Tapping A game: knock your hard-boiled egg against a friend's. The last one left whole wins.

Easter Story 23

Alleluia From Hebrew words meaning praise the Lord. Western churches drop it in Lent and bring it back at Easter.
Angel In the Gospel of Matthew, one rolls back the stone and sits on it.
Ashes Made by burning last year's palm branches, and used on the first day of Lent.
Church Where Christians gather to worship. White lilies often fill it on Easter morning.
Cross The main symbol of Christianity. On Good Friday, Christians remember that Jesus died on one.
Dawn First light. The Gospel of Matthew sets the finding of the empty tomb at this hour.
Disciples The followers of Jesus. Twelve of them were closest to him.
Donkey The animal Jesus rode into Jerusalem, a sign of peace where a horse meant war.
Friday The day of Holy Week called Good, when Christians remember the crucifixion.
Gospel One of the four books of the Bible that tell the life of Jesus: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Hosanna The shout of the crowd as Jesus rode into Jerusalem.
Jerusalem The city Jesus entered on a donkey at the start of Holy Week.
Lent The 40 days of fasting and prayer that lead up to Easter.
Palms Branches laid on the road as Jesus entered Jerusalem. Churches hand them out the Sunday before Easter.
Passover The Jewish festival of early spring. In most languages the name for Easter comes from the Hebrew word for it.
Pentecost The 50th day of the Easter season, which brings it to a close.
Resurrection The rising of Jesus from the dead, which Christians celebrate at Easter.
Risen Up again from the dead. The key word of the message at the empty tomb.
Stone In the Gospels, a very large one had been rolled away from the entrance of the tomb.
Sunrise Easter services at this hour go back to a Moravian group in Saxony in 1732.
Tomb A burial place cut in rock. The Gospels say that of Jesus was found empty.
Wednesday In Western churches, Lent begins on the one named for ashes.
Women In all four Gospels, they are the first to find the tomb empty.

How this list was compiled: 100 Easter words chosen and defined for this site, in five themed lists (the egg hunt, Easter animals, the spring garden, Easter traditions, and one list for the Easter story as Christians tell it) plus three cross-cutting lists: 24 favorites that open the page, the 42 short words of 3 to 5 letters and the 26 long words of 8 to 12 letters. Every religious word sits in the Easter Story list and nowhere in the favorites, so the opening puzzle suits a public school and the story list suits a Sunday school. Every entry is a single word of 3 to 12 letters with no spaces, hyphens or apostrophes. No clue contains its own word, because the clue replaces the word in clue mode. No brand, product, character or living person's name is an entry. Definitions are our own wording for readers of about 6 to 12. Facts with a date, a place or a number in them were checked on 2026-09-19 against these English Wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter (the Sunday that follows the first full moon falling on or after the equinox, fixed by convention on 21 March; Western Easter always between 22 March and 25 April; Lent as a 40-day period beginning on Ash Wednesday in the West; Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday; the Easter lily decorating churches; Eastertide ending on the 50th day, Pentecost; the English word may derive from the goddess Eostre named by Bede in the 8th century; most other languages use names from Pascha, cognate with Hebrew Pesach, Passover), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Bunny (originated among German Lutherans as the Easter Hare; taken to the United States in the 18th century by German immigrants; children made nests in their caps and bonnets), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg (egg hunts; egg rolling moved to the White House under Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878 at the request of children, still held on the South Lawn on Easter Monday; egg tapping, where the holder of the last intact egg wins; pysanky written with beeswax by a wax-resist method; the first hollow chocolate egg in 1873; cascarones as a Latin American tradition; onion skins dyeing shells brown and gold; vinegar in egg dyeing), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Bilby (Australia; an endangered native marsupial; chocolate bilbies sold as an alternative to the bunny), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_parade (Fifth Avenue, New York; began in the 1870s; anyone may take part; bonnets), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_cross_bun (spiced, with raisins or currants and a cross on top; a Good Friday food in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries, Australia among them), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simnel_cake (fruitcake with marzipan, 11 marzipan balls by convention; United Kingdom and Ireland), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_pseudonarcissus (wild daffodil or Lent lily in England and Wales; Wales has the daffodil as its national flower), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Sunday (the Sunday before Easter; Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem, an animal of peace unlike the horse of war; palm fronds in the Gospel of John; Hosanna; old palms burned to make the ashes for Ash Wednesday), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_tomb (in all four Gospels women find the tomb; at dawn in Matthew; the very large stone rolled away; in Matthew an angel rolls back the stone and sits on it; the message He is not here, he has risen), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleluia (from Hebrew, glossed as praise the Lord; not sung in Lent in Western churches and restored at Easter) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_service (first recorded Easter sunrise service, 1732, the Moravian congregation at Herrnhut in Saxony). The one-word spelling Jellybean was checked on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jellybean the same day. The page's "updated" date is the launch date of the run, 2026-09-18. Rechecked 2026-09-20 after the truth review: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_bilby lists the greater bilby as vulnerable (IUCN and Australia's national EPBC Act) and as endangered in Queensland only, so the Bilby clue says rare; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling (brought to the White House lawns in 1878 under Rutherford B. Hayes; not held there in 1917, 1918 to 1920, 1942 to 1952, 2020 and 2021), so the Roll clue says presidents first hosted it in 1878 and not that they have hosted it since; the Risen clue no longer says the message ends with the word (the truth review points to Luke 24:6, where the message goes on after it). Licence: own work

How it works

This Easter word search for kids opens on 16 words about eggs, animals and flowers, Bunny, Jellybean and Daffodil among them, which suits a public school. The 23 words of the Easter Story wait on a list of their own.

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A school list and a Sunday school list

In Start from a list, four lists keep to eggs, animals, flowers and customs: Easter Egg Hunt (22 words), Easter Animals (17), Spring Garden (18) and Easter Traditions (20). Easter Story holds 23 words, Tomb, Risen and Hosanna among them, with clues that say what the Gospels describe.

A worksheet easy for kindergarten or hard for fifth grade

For an Easter word search easy enough for kindergarten, pick Easy Easter, 42 words of 3 to 5 letters such as Egg, Hop and Yolk, then open More options for Large print. On Hard, the 26 words of Hard Easter can run backwards. Both levels draw on the whole bank, Story words included.

For Easter words read aloud as a test, see the Easter spelling word list.
Pick Easter Egg Hunt, tick Show clues, not words: "Twelve of anything. Eggs are sold this way." stands for Dozen.

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Can I save the Easter word search as a PDF?

Yes. Press Print or save as PDF and pick Save as PDF in the print dialog. The Easter word search PDF holds the puzzle and its answer key. Save page 1 alone to send the puzzle home and keep the key back.

Is a word find the same as a word search?

Yes, both names mean words hidden in a grid of letters. For an Easter word find printable that differs from table to table, press New puzzle between prints: Easter Egg Hunt has 22 words and each grid takes 16.

Why does the date of Easter move?

Western churches keep Easter on the Sunday that follows the first full moon falling on or after March 21, so it falls between March 22 and April 25. Orthodox churches count by the Julian calendar, which puts theirs between April 4 and May 8.

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Easter Egg Hunt 22

Easter Egg Hunt, continued

Easter Animals 17

Spring Garden 18

Easter Traditions 20

Easter Story 23

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