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Christmas Word Search

This christmas word search hides words like santa, reindeer, sleigh to find. Play it free online or print the PDF with the answer key, a handy christmas vocabulary activity.

10 words · 11×11 grid · Medium · Answer key included · Free printable PDF

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Tap the first and last letter of a word — or use arrow keys and Enter. Dragging works too.

  • GINGERBREAD
  • MISTLETOE
  • REINDEER
  • STOCKING
  • ORNAMENT
  • SNOWMAN
  • PRESENT
  • CHIMNEY
  • SLEIGH
  • SANTA
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Did you know?

santa
Coca-Cola did not invent the red Santa suit. Haddon Sundblom's ads from 1931 just made an older look famous.
reindeer
Reindeer are the only deer in which both sexes grow antlers, and their eyes shift from gold to blue in winter.
sleigh
Sleigh bells once warned road users that horses were approaching, giving a sound now associated with holiday music a practical traffic-signal job.
snowman
One of the oldest known snowman drawings appears in a prayer book from 1380, sketched in the margin by a medieval artist.
present
Furoshiki wrapping cloths take their name from Japanese for bath and spread, recalling cloth bundles used for clothing at bathhouses.
stocking
In one Saint Nicholas legend, secretly delivered gold lands in drying stockings, turning laundry beside a fire into a gift tradition.
ornament
Glassblowers in Lauscha, Germany, began making hollow glass ball ornaments around 1847, and the town still handcrafts them today.
chimney
Chimney swifts cling to upright walls instead of perching on branches, turning a chimney's inside surface into a place where birds rest.
mistletoe
Mistletoe is a parasite that roots into tree branches to steal water and minerals, and its white berries are toxic to people.
gingerbread
A medieval English gingerbread recipe lists honey, breadcrumbs, saffron, and pepper, but no ginger, making its familiar name surprisingly misleading.
nutcracker
Tchaikovsky secretly ordered a celesta, a bell-like keyboard instrument, to keep rival composers from using its sound before The Nutcracker.
poinsettia
The poinsettia is named after Joel Poinsett, the American diplomat who brought the plant home from Mexico in the 1820s.
snowflake
Some snowflakes have twelve arms when two six-sided crystal structures grow together, giving one star twice the familiar number of points.
shepherd
Luke's shepherd scene describes angels praising God and saying their message, without explicitly calling it a song as many Christmas carols do.
nativity
Saint Francis of Assisi is credited with creating the first live nativity scene in 1223 to teach the Christmas story.

Trivia

  1. In Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, what is the surname of the miser visited by three spirits?

    Scrooge (Ebenezer Scrooge).

  2. Which country is widely credited with starting the tradition of the decorated indoor Christmas tree?

    Germany.

  3. In the song The Twelve Days of Christmas, what gift is given on the first day?

    A partridge in a pear tree.

  4. What red and green flowering plant, named after a U.S. diplomat, is a popular Christmas houseplant?

    The poinsettia.

  5. Saint Nicholas, the inspiration for Santa Claus, was a bishop in which ancient region, now part of Turkey?

    Myra, in Lycia (Asia Minor).

Trivia · 1 / 5
In Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, what is the surname of the miser visited by three spirits?
Scrooge (Ebenezer Scrooge).

In their words

What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

Dr. Seuss

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

Is this christmas word search free to print?

This christmas word search is a free printable puzzle with 10 hidden words in an 11×11 grid. Find words like GINGERBREAD, MISTLETOE, REINDEER hidden across, down, and diagonally. You can play it right here in your browser — tap the first and last letter of a word — or download it as a printable PDF with the full answer key on page two. It's free for personal and classroom use, so teachers can print copies for a whole class with no sign-up and no account. Word searches like this one are a proven way to build vocabulary, spelling, and word-shape recognition, which is why they're a favourite with ESL learners, elementary classrooms, and anyone who likes a quiet puzzle with their coffee.

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Sources: Gavle goat history · Silent Night history (Stille Nacht Gesellschaft) · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Smithsonian) · Haddon Sundblom and the Coca-Cola Santas

Word list, facts & trivia researched and compiled by Sam Letterman — spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.