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Shaped word search

The grid is cut to the shape of a picture: a heart, a star, your logo. The words hide inside the outline.

When to use it

A kindness week or anti-bullying assembly, with the words inside a heart. A club night or open day where the grid takes the shape of your crest. A lesson before a holiday, where the outline carries the season and the words carry the topic.

What makes it this

Built on the Word search generator with these changed. Everything else is the default.

  1. Grid shape: Your own

    The grid follows the outline of this picture. A shape on a plain or transparent background reads best.

    In the builder: Words & grid

Preview

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Kind words, in the shape of a heart

The grid is cut to the shape of a picture, so the empty space around the heart is not a mistake — there are simply no letters there. Fourteen kind words are hidden inside it, in every direction.

14 words

Why the example is built this way

  1. A solid silhouette on a plain background.

    The grid follows the outline of the picture. One filled shape cuts cleanly; inner lines, shading or a second object turn into holes in the grid.

  2. A bigger grid than a plain square needs.

    The shape cuts cells away, so the same words need more room. This example sets Smallest grid to 16 to leave them enough of the heart.

  3. No word longer than ten letters.

    A shape has fewer long straight runs than a square. A very long word only fits across the widest part and pushes the whole grid bigger.

Build it yourself

  1. 1 Open the Word search builder and fill in the Words & grid tab.
  2. 2 Share the link with your players, or embed the activity in your own site.

Or skip the building: copy this example and swap in your own content.

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