March Word Search for Kids

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March Word Search

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ZIAICEIDIGITSLR

LTSYRUPGNCNHBOC

ESPRINGKAVWADLJ

POIFIBOOQROWDCD

RHEKOOTEUOMYADC

EPKIEOOIATEANWK

CUPTSGILMSNBHPK

HSBERMTIALAMBAB

AVOMNOCARTISTRA

URDAFFODILFTHRS

NNJPWLSJNTGSADE

AVILGGREENQMBHB

PUCEHIZNRGLFTUA

DHJCREADINGKCFL

WYMKEATDGXCNGRL

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LeprechaunLEPRECHAUN
GreenGREEN
DigitsDIGITS
PiePIE
KiteKITE
ThawTHAW
SyrupSYRUP
MapleMAPLE
BaseballBASEBALL
ReadingREADING
ArtistARTIST
SpringSPRING
LambLAMB
WomenWOMEN
AquamarineAQUAMARINE
DaffodilDAFFODIL

16 of 23 words from the March Favorites list.

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Answer key: March Word Search

ZIAICEIDIGITSLR

LTSYRUPGNCNHBOC

ESPRINGKAVWADLJ

POIFIBOOQROWDCD

RHEKOOTEUOMYADC

EPKIEOOIATEANWK

CUPTSGILMSNBHPK

HSBERMTIALAMBAB

AVOMNOCARTISTRA

URDAFFODILFTHRS

NNJPWLSJNTGSADE

AVILGGREENQMBHB

PUCEHIZNRGLFTUA

DHJCREADINGKCFL

WYMKEATDGXCNGRL

LEPRECHAUN, GREEN, DIGITS, PIE, KITE, THAW, SYRUP, MAPLE, BASEBALL, READING, ARTIST, SPRING, LAMB, WOMEN, AQUAMARINE, DAFFODIL

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March Holidays 17

Circle Pi is the distance around one of these divided by the distance across it.
Diameter The distance across a circle through its center.
Digits Pi begins 3.14 and these never end, which is why fans recite them on the 14th.
Festival A day or more of celebration. Holi is one of colors.
Fourteen Pi Day's date, taken from 3.14. The first one was held in San Francisco in 1988.
Green The color to wear on the 17th, a custom since at least the 1680s.
Holi The Hindu festival of colors, when people toss bright powder and water.
Ireland The island country whose patron saint is honored on the 17th.
Leek A mild vegetable of the onion family, worn as a badge in Wales on the 1st for Saint David.
Leprechaun A tiny shoemaker in Irish folk tales, said to hide a pot of gold.
Mathematics The 14th is also the international day of this subject.
Patron A saint said to watch over a country. Ireland and Wales both honor theirs this month.
Pie A round dessert eaten on the 14th for the sake of a pun.
Powder Thrown in every bright color during the festival of Holi.
Ratio One number divided by another. Pi is the most famous one in math.
Shamrock A three-leaf clover, worn on the 17th and linked by legend with Saint Patrick.
Wales Its patron saint, David, is honored on the 1st with daffodils and leeks.

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Outdoors in March 20

Alaska The state where sled dog teams race from Anchorage to the town of Nome.
Baseball Since 2023 most big-league teams have played their first game of the season in the last week of this month.
Basketball The college tournament in this sport is played mostly this month, and one loss sends a team home.
Blustery Windy in sudden, noisy bursts.
Boil To heat a liquid until it bubbles and steams away.
Bracket The chart that shows who plays whom in a knockout tournament.
Breeze A light, steady wind.
Gale A very strong wind.
Kite A light frame with a tail, flown on a long line when the wind is up.
Maple The tree tapped in late winter and early spring for its sweet liquid.
Melt To turn from ice to water.
Musher The driver of a dog sled. A famous race of about 1,000 miles starts on the first Saturday.
Nome The Alaskan town at the finish line of the long sled dog race.
Quebec The Canadian province that makes most of the maple syrup in the world.
Sap The watery, faintly sweet liquid that rises in a tree when nights freeze and days warm.
Soar To fly high without flapping.
Spout A small tube tapped into a tree trunk so that the sweet liquid can drip out.
Syrup It takes 20 to 50 buckets of maple sap, cooked down, to make one bucket of this.
Thaw What frozen ground and ponds do as the days warm up.
Vermont The state that makes the most maple syrup in the United States.

Reading, Music and Art 13

Artist A person who draws, paints or sculpts. Youth Art Month shows the work of young ones.
Author The person who wrote the book.
Bookmark A strip of paper that keeps your place between pages.
Chapter One numbered part of a long book.
Choir A group that sings together.
Melody The tune of a song, the part you hum.
Music The subject honored all month in schools, from band to choir.
Nutrition How food helps the body grow and work. It has a national month of its own.
Orchestra A large group of players with strings, woodwinds, brass and drums.
Reading A nationwide day for this falls on the school day nearest the 2nd.
Rhythm The pattern of beats you can clap along to.
Sketch A quick drawing, often in pencil.
Vegetable A plant food such as a carrot, a pea or spinach.

March Calendar and History 17

Aries The ram star sign, which begins around the 21st.
Daylight Saving time for this begins in most of the United States at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday.
Equator The imaginary line around the middle of the Earth. The Sun stands right above it at the equinox.
Equinox Around the 20th the Sun crosses the equator heading north, and day and night are nearly equal.
First The place this month held in the oldest calendar of Rome. Today it is third.
Forward The way the clocks jump, by one hour, on the second Sunday.
Ides What people in old Rome called the 15th, the middle of the month.
Lamb A mild end to the month is said to go out like this young sheep.
Lion A stormy start to the month is said to come in like this big cat.
March Named for Mars, the god of war. The same spelling means to walk in step, as a band does.
Mars The god of war in old Rome, and the red planet that shares his name.
Patent The legal paper that protects an invention. Bell received his on the 7th in 1876.
Proverb A short old saying. The one about this month, a big cat and a young sheep was in print by 1732.
Roman Of old Rome, whose first calendar began the year with this month.
Spring The season that starts at the equinox in the northern half of the world.
Telephone Alexander Graham Bell made the first call on one on the 10th in 1876.
Women Their history is honored all month in the United States, by an act of Congress in 1987.

March Birthstones and Flowers 11

Aquamarine A pale blue gem and a birthstone of the month. Its Latin name means sea water.
Beryl The mineral called aquamarine when it is blue and emerald when it is green.
Bloodstone A dark green gem with red spots, the other birthstone of the month.
Brazil A South American country with famous aquamarine mines.
Colorado Aquamarine is dug high on Mount Antero in this state.
Daffodil The birth flower of the month: six petals around a trumpet, grown from a bulb.
Hematite The iron mineral that makes the red spots in a bloodstone.
Jonquil Another common name for some daffodils.
Narcissus The Latin name that botanists give to daffodils.
Trumpet The cup in the middle of a daffodil is shaped like the bell of this brass instrument.
Yellow The color of most daffodils.

How this list was compiled: 78 March words with plain meanings written for this site: the month's holidays, the outdoors in March, the reading, music and art months, the March calendar and history, and the birthstones and birth flower. The facts in the clues were checked on 2026-09-18 against English Wikipedia, chiefly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_equinox, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotrope_%28mineral%29 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28plant%29. The baseball and leek clues were corrected on 2026-09-20 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_Day and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leek, and the clock-change clues were read again that day at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States. Licence: own work

How it works

Kites, lambs and leprechauns hide in this March word search for kids. Its first grid holds 16 words across and down, never backwards, and seven more lists cover Pi Day, maple syrup and the first day of spring.

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Short words first, long words later

Easy March is the kindergarten list: 29 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Pie, Lamb, Kite and Mars. For that age, open More options and tick Large print. Hard March ends on Mathematics, the longest of its 21 words; press Hard, and it may run backwards or on a diagonal.

A March word search free to print, and a PDF

Of the 8 lists under Start from a list, March Holidays has 17 words, Outdoors in March 20, from Kite to Musher by way of the sugar maples, and Reading, Music and Art 13. The print window's Save as PDF turns any of them into a March word search PDF.

On Pi Day, pick March Holidays and tick Show clues, not words: Diameter is the "distance across a circle".
For the 17th, follow Shamrock and Leprechaun with the Rainbow to the Pot of Gold maze in printable mazes.

Questions and answers

What does in like a lion, out like a lamb mean?

The proverb says a stormy start to March, like a lion, leads to a mild end, like a lamb. It was in print by 1732. Lion, Lamb and Proverb are all on March Calendar and History, and Lamb is in the first grid.

Why is Pi Day on March 14?

The date, 3/14, matches 3.14, the first digits of pi, and the first Pi Day was held in San Francisco in 1988. March Holidays carries the vocabulary: Circle, Ratio, Diameter, Digits, Fourteen and Pie, the dessert eaten for the pun.

Which March holidays and events are in the word search?

Saint David's Day, Pi Day, Saint Patrick's Day and Holi share March Holidays. Reading, Music and Art covers the school months. March Calendar and History has the Equinox, Women for Women's History Month, and the Telephone, first used on March 10, 1876.

All 78 words

March Holidays 17

Outdoors in March 20

Reading, Music and Art 13

March Calendar and History 17

March Birthstones and Flowers 11

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Short words first, long words later

A March word search free to print, and a PDF

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