Large-Print Christmas Word Search — 3 Puzzles + Answer Keys, Free PDF
You will finish this with three Christmas word searches printed in letters you can read across a lit room — Around the Tree, Christmas Baking, and Wrapping Presents — with the three answer keys together after them. Print it, and you are done.
Every free Christmas word search says large print. None of the ones we looked at says how large. That is the whole difference here: the capitals on these sheets measure 6.7mm on US Letter and 6.4mm on A4, which is a shade over a quarter of an inch, and the file will not build at all if they come out under 4.5mm. The number is checked by the machine that makes the sheet, not typed into this paragraph by hand.
Download: Large-print Christmas word searches — free PDF, Letter + A4 — no signup, no tricks.
What you need
- The PDF
- Plain printer paper — ordinary 80gsm, there is nothing to cut out
- A pen, or a soft pencil if someone might want a second go
That is genuinely it.
What is in the file
Twelve sheets: the three puzzles first, then the three answer keys in the same order, once at US Letter and once at A4.
- Around the Tree — tinsel, bauble, pinecone and nine more.
- Christmas Baking — marzipan, shortbread, cranberry and nine more.
- Wrapping Presents — parcel, stickers, envelope and nine more.
Twelve words each, in a twelve-by-twelve grid. Words run across, down and diagonally, forwards and backwards. That is the usual sort of word search, not a mean one.
On an answer sheet the found words stay solid black with a line drawn through each, and every other letter drops back to a soft grey — so the answers read at a glance instead of turning into a second puzzle.
How to print it
- Print the page size that matches your paper. Both are in the one file. Letter comes first, A4 second.
- Set your printer to Actual Size, not Fit to Page. Fit to Page shrinks the sheet by a few percent, and a few percent off is exactly what you are trying to avoid here.
- Print the puzzle pages only if you want to keep the answers back. They are separate pages for exactly that reason.
- Black and white is fine. There is no colour in the file.
A puzzle page is about 7 and a half percent ink and an answer page about 4 to 5%, so a set of three costs very little to run off. If you are printing for a group, a photocopier handles the puzzle sheets well — every letter on them is solid black with nothing behind it, so nothing turns muddy on the second or third copy. The answer sheets use grey on purpose and will copy less crisply, which is worth knowing before you feed thirty through.
If it is going to a care home or a classroom
Two things worth knowing before you print thirty.
Cardstock is the wrong choice here. It jams when it stacks, and there is nothing to cut out, so plain paper is both cheaper and better.
And if someone finds twelve words heavy going, hand them the answer sheet as a hint sheet instead of a scorecard. Reading a word off the key and then hunting it down in the grid is still the same nice bit of searching, and nobody has to feel stuck.
Why these three lists
Christmas word searches tend to lean entirely on the tree and the presents. That is one good list and then two thin ones. Baking earns its own sheet because the words are lovely to say and half of them are things you only meet in December — marzipan, cloves, brandy — and wrapping earns one because it is the job that actually eats the evening.
If you want the tags to go with them, the Christmas gift tags to colour sheet is free too, and prints on the same paper. And if these go down well, the everyday large-print word searches are the same size letters with nothing seasonal about them — kitchen, garden and craft-cupboard lists for the rest of the year.
