Printable Crossword Puzzle on Moral Values

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Moral Values Crossword

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  • Courage
  • Fairness
  • Forgive
  • Gratitude
  • Honesty
  • Loyalty
  • Patience
  • Promise
  • Respect
  • Share
  • Truth
  • Try

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Answer key: Moral Values Crossword

1L2COURA3GE4P5HYRAO6SHAREATNLTIET7FAIRNESS8TRYOTNTRUCY9TGDE10PROMISEUVT11RESPECTH

Across 2 COURAGE · 6 SHARE · 7 FAIRNESS · 8 TRY · 10 PROMISE · 11 RESPECT

Down 1 LOYALTY · 3 GRATITUDE · 4 PATIENCE · 5 HONESTY · 7 FORGIVE · 9 TRUTH

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Honesty and Trust 20

  • Admit To say "Yes, I did it" instead of hiding it
  • Apology Words that show you feel bad about how you acted
  • Blame To say that something bad was another person's fault
  • Cheat To copy answers from a neighbor's test paper
  • Confess To own up to something you did wrong
  • Excuse Something said to get out of trouble or out of a task
  • Faithful Staying true to someone year after year
  • Fib Child's word for a little untruth
  • Honesty Handing back the extra change a cashier gave you in error shows this
  • Integrity Being the same honest person in private as in public
  • Lie Something a speaker says while knowing it is not so
  • Loyalty Sticking by a friend in good times and bad
  • Oath A solemn vow, such as the one a witness makes in court
  • Promise What a pinky swear seals
  • Reliable Like a watch that never runs late, or a friend who never lets you down
  • Return What to do with a library book or a lost wallet
  • Sincere Real and from deep down, like a compliment with no flattery in it
  • Sorry Word you say when you have hurt someone
  • Trust What a friend earns from you by keeping your secrets
  • Truth "Tell the ___": what a witness is sworn to do

Kindness and Caring 26

  • Care Take ___ of a pet by feeding it every day
  • Charity Giving money or goods to people in need
  • Comfort To soothe someone who is crying
  • Compassion Wanting to ease the suffering you see in another
  • Donate To give away outgrown coats to a shelter
  • Empathy Feeling a friend's sadness almost as if it were yours
  • Forgive To let go of your anger at someone who did you wrong
  • Friendship What grows between classmates who stick up for each other
  • Generosity Giving more than you have to, of your time or your things
  • Gentle Not rough: the right touch for a newborn baby
  • Gratitude Being glad about what you have and what others do for you
  • Heart A kind person is said to have a big one
  • Help To give a hand to someone who needs it
  • Include To invite someone who is left out to join your game
  • Kindness Carrying a neighbor's bags just because they look heavy shows this
  • Listen What you do with both ears when a friend needs to talk
  • Love Strong feeling of affection for your family
  • Mercy Choosing not to punish someone you could punish
  • Please Magic word added when you make a request
  • Selfless Putting what others need ahead of what you want
  • Service Work done for your school or town, not for pay
  • Share To let a classmate use half of your crayons
  • Thanks One-word reply to "Here, this is for you"
  • Thoughtful Like a classmate who remembers your birthday with a handmade card
  • Volunteer Someone who signs up to serve meals at a shelter for free
  • Welcome To greet a new student warmly

Courage and Effort 22

  • Brave Like a firefighter who goes into a burning house
  • Calm How a cool head stays when others panic
  • Challenge A climb, a contest or a tough puzzle can be one
  • Courage What a shy pupil needs to speak in front of the class for the first time
  • Diligence Careful, constant work on what you have to do
  • Duty A job you must do because it is yours
  • Effort What a coach wants when saying "give it your all"
  • Fear The scared feeling you may have to face to do a hard thing
  • Finish What you should do with every job you start
  • Goal "Read ten books this summer" is one
  • Grit Short word for the toughness that keeps you going
  • Hero Someone admired for great deeds, such as a rescuer
  • Hope What keeps you going when you expect a brighter tomorrow
  • Mistake An error; owning up to one is better than hiding it
  • Patience Waiting in a long line without complaining takes this
  • Perseverance Keeping at a hard task until it is done
  • Practice Daily piano scales or free throws are this
  • Resilience Bouncing back after things go badly
  • Responsible Word for someone who does their chores without being reminded
  • Self-control Stopping yourself from grabbing the last cookie takes this
  • Stand ___ up for someone: to speak in their defense
  • Try If at first you do not succeed, do this again

Fairness and Respect 26

  • Ask What to do before you borrow something
  • Bully Someone who picks on people who seem weaker
  • Cooperate What rowers in one boat must do to move it
  • Courtesy Gracious behavior, such as letting someone else go first
  • Dignity The quiet pride and worth that no one should be robbed of
  • Envy The green-eyed feeling when a friend gets the prize you wanted
  • Equal The same in size or worth, like two halves of a sandwich
  • Fairness Giving every player the same chance and the same rules
  • Gossip Idle talk about other people's private business
  • Greed Wanting far more than you need
  • Honor "On my ___": old way to swear that you mean it
  • Humility Not thinking you are better than anyone else
  • Manners Good ones are shown by chewing with your mouth closed and not interrupting
  • Modest Like a champion who says "my team did the work"
  • Obey What a driver must do at a stop sign, and a class when the fire bell rings
  • Peace What there is when people settle arguments without fighting
  • Polite Word for someone who says "after you" and holds the door
  • Respect What you show by keeping your hands off what is not yours and your voice down in a library
  • Rude Like someone who cuts in line and talks over everyone
  • Selfish Like someone who takes the biggest slice every time
  • Sportsmanship Saying "good game" and meaning it, win or lose
  • Teamwork Many hands joining to get one big job done
  • Tease To make fun of someone in a way that can hurt
  • Tolerance Living peacefully beside people who think or worship differently
  • Turn In a board game, each player waits for theirs
  • Unity The state of being one; a class that sticks together has it

Fables and Sayings 25

  • Actions They speak louder than words, a saying goes
  • Aesop Ancient Greek teller of animal tales, said to have been a slave
  • Ant Insect that stores food all summer in a tale, while its neighbor sings
  • Chickens An old saying warns not to count these before they hatch
  • Cloak What the traveler takes off in the tale of the North Wind's contest
  • Cover A saying warns: do not judge a book by this
  • Crow Thirsty bird in a tale that drops stones into a jug to raise the water
  • Fable Animal story, brief and pointed, of a kind told since ancient times
  • Golden Word before "Rule" in the saying about treating others as you would want to be treated
  • Goose Bird that lays eggs of gold in a tale about wanting too much at once
  • Grapes Fruit that a fox in a tale cannot reach, then says it never wanted
  • Grasshopper Insect that sings all summer in a tale and is hungry when winter comes
  • Hare Long-eared runner who naps in the middle of a race and loses it
  • Lion Big cat caught in a hunters' trap in an old tale, then freed by a tiny rodent
  • Moral "The ___ of the story is...": the point it wants you to learn
  • Mouse Tiny animal that gnaws through ropes to free a king of beasts who once spared it
  • Net Hunters' trap in the tale of the tiny rodent and the big cat
  • Pitcher Jug with too little water in the tale of the thirsty bird and the stones
  • Proverb "A stitch in time saves nine" is one
  • Sheep Flock the boy in the tale of the false alarms was supposed to guard
  • Sour Taste word in the saying, from a fox's tale, for scorning what you cannot have
  • Steady "Slow and ___ wins the race"
  • Sun Winner of a contest with the North Wind in a tale: its warmth works where force fails
  • Tortoise In an old tale, this slow walker wins a race against a fast runner who naps
  • Wolf Animal a shepherd boy falsely cried out about, until nobody believed him

Right and Wrong 29

  • Belief An idea that a person accepts as so
  • Cardinal Word, from the Latin for "hinge", for the four chief good qualities of classical thought
  • Character The sum of a person's good and bad qualities
  • Choice What you make when you pick one thing to do over another
  • Conduct The way a person behaves
  • Conscience The small voice inside that objects when you are about to do wrong
  • Consequence A missed recess for breaking a rule, for one
  • Decide To settle on one answer after weighing a few
  • Dilemma A hard pick between options that each have a downside
  • Ethics Branch of philosophy about good and bad ways to act
  • Example "Lead by ___": show others the way by doing it yourself
  • Fortitude Strength of mind that lets a person bear pain or danger
  • Guilt What makes your stomach sink after you break a friend's toy and hide it
  • Habit Brushing your teeth every night is a good one
  • Ideal A standard of what is best, worth aiming for
  • Justice Giving each person what is fair and due
  • Model Role ___: someone whose behavior others look up to and copy
  • Motto A short phrase that sums up what a school or a family believes in
  • Ought "You ___ to tell her" means that telling her is the right thing to do
  • Principle A firm rule of right behavior that a person refuses to break
  • Prudence Looking ahead and choosing wisely before you act
  • Reason The "why" behind what someone did
  • Regret To look back on something you did and wish it undone
  • Reward A gold star or extra recess, for one
  • Temperance Moderation: not taking too much of anything
  • Values Honest work and family time may be among yours: the things you hold dear
  • Vice A failing such as laziness, the opposite of a good quality
  • Virtue A good quality in a person's nature, the opposite of a failing
  • Wisdom Knowing what is right and acting on it; elders are said to have it

How this list was compiled: Clues written for this site: small everyday moments, old sayings and short retellings of Aesop's fables. Word meanings were checked in Wiktionary (en.wiktionary.org), and the fables, the Golden Rule and the four cardinal virtues in English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA 4.0). No faith or holy book is named, and no clue was copied from a published puzzle. Licence: own work

How it works

This printable crossword puzzle on moral values opens on 12 easy words with a word bank, among them Honesty, Respect, Courage, Fairness, Patience and Gratitude. It prints on Letter or A4, and the answer key prints last.

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Five value sets after the easy one

Honesty and Trust has Integrity, Sincere and Oath. Kindness and Caring has Compassion, Empathy and Mercy. Courage and Effort has Perseverance, Grit and Resilience. Fairness and Respect has Tolerance, Dignity and Sportsmanship. Right and Wrong, for older students, has Conscience, Dilemma and the four cardinal virtues.

Morals from fables

For a printable crossword puzzle on morals drawn from stories, pick Fables and Sayings. Its clues retell Aesop: the tortoise that outlasts the hare, the shepherd boy who cried wolf, the mouse that frees the lion.

  • Read a fable aloud first, then hand out Fables and Sayings as a retelling check.

Questions and answers

Is the printable moral values crossword puzzle free?

Yes, and no sign-up is needed. Print gives the puzzle first and the answer key last, on a sheet of its own.

Is there an easy moral values crossword for younger children?

Yes. Easy Values Words has short answers such as Truth, Share and Sorry. The word bank stays under the clues because more than one value can fit a moment.

What are moral values?

They are the standards a person or a community uses to judge actions and character as right or wrong. Honesty, respect, fairness, courage and kindness are common examples, and each is an answer here.

What grade is the moral values crossword for?

Easy Values Words suits grades 2 to 4 and the value sets grades 4 to 8. Right and Wrong, with Conscience and Prudence, suits middle school and up. These bands are our judgment, not a published standard.

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