Spanish Word Search Christmas Lists, Navidad to Reyes Magos
A Christmas word search in Spanish: Ñ in the grid, English clues to switch on, and a hidden Feliz Navidad.
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Spanish Christmas Word Search
Find every word hidden in the grid. Words go across and down.
0 of 16 words found
VFPENAVIDADULIZ
INIAVIDADBNVLCH
LCÑLNÑEDVCMABON
LEALOUAREYESBMO
ANTUCANFNASPAQC
NNAMHUARDRTCMAH
CPFAENEUIJREEOE
IEEGBIÑGEMEIRAV
CSTOUEBTBLLOIUI
OEASEVRUFLLTOFE
GBFCNEERITAZSTJ
QRASAIOREGALOEA
AETOUOAOSUFHIOF
BELENLTNTHELBYM
NOSGOEEIARBOLIL
This grid is wider and taller than its box. Slide it to see every letter.To drag, hold the first letter for a moment, then slide.Keyboard: Tab to the grid, arrow keys to move, Enter on the first and last letter.
NAVIDAD
ÁRBOL
ESTRELLA
REGALO
NIEVE
BELÉN
PESEBRE
REYES
MAGOS
TURRÓN
PIÑATA
VILLANCICO
NOCHEBUENA
FIESTA
NOCHEVIEJA
UVAS
16 of 24 words from the Spanish Christmas Favorites list.
The first 12 letters left over, read row by row, spell a hidden message:
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Tap or click the first letter of a word, then its last letter. Or drag across the word. On a touch screen, hold the first letter for a moment before you drag. On a keyboard, the arrow keys move, Enter marks the first and the last letter, and Escape clears a first letter.
Easy: words go across and down.
More options
Your message has 12 letters and this grid has 125 unused squares. 113 random letters follow it. A smaller grid or more words brings a perfect fit closer.
A Spanish word search, Christmas edition. It opens on 16 words, Nochebuena, Villancico and Turrón among them, in a 15 by 15 grid where Ñ is its own letter. The first twelve unused squares spell Feliz Navidad.
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Easy and hard lists for Spanish class
Beginners pick Easy Spanish Christmas, the 35 words of 3 to 5 letters (Vela, Reno, Uvas), with Large print from More options. Hard Spanish Christmas has 32 words of 8 to 11 letters, Champurrado and Felicidades among them: press Hard and set 20 by 20. Accents stay in the word list and drop out of the grid, so Árbol is hidden as ARBOL.
Three customs the lists cover
Las Posadas and Carols follows Mexico's nine nights of processions, December 16 to 24, where children break a piñata. Spanish New Year and Three Kings holds Uvas, the twelve grapes Spain eats at midnight on December 31, and Zapatos, the shoes children leave out on January 5 for the kings' gifts.
In More options, set Word list to Show clues, not words: "midnight: la ___" is then the only hint for Medianoche.
The printed list has a ruled line beside each word, where pupils write the English meaning as they find it.
Fast finishers copy the first twelve unused squares, row by row, into the blanks. The answer key prints the message.
Questions and answers
Does the Spanish Christmas word search print with an answer key?
Print makes the puzzle sheet, with a Name and Date line and a ruled line beside each word, then the answer key on its own page with every word ringed. Save as PDF in the print window keeps a file.
How do Ñ and the accents appear in the grid?
Ñ is a letter of its own: Piñata is hidden with its Ñ, and the filler letters include Ñ too. Accents and the dieresis drop out of the grid only: Belén is hidden as BELEN and Güiro as GUIRO. The word list keeps both marks.
What does Feliz Navidad mean?
Merry Christmas: feliz is happy or merry, and Navidad is Christmas. It is the hidden message here: once the words are found, the first twelve unused squares, read row by row, spell it.
Which countries do the Christmas words come from?
Mostly Spain and Mexico, with Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba and Puerto Rico in the food and carol lists. Names change by country: a nativity scene is a belén, a pesebre or a nacimiento, and the Three Kings cake is roscón in Spain, rosca in Mexico.