Download and print 15 free August word search puzzles — the last stretch of summer and the first stirrings of school, all in one place. Every puzzle is a free printable PDF with the answer key on page two, sized for standard letter paper, so you can print one for a rainy afternoon or a whole stack for the classroom.
August is the month that does both jobs at once. On one side there’s the beach day, the water park, the county fair, summer camp and the farmers market at its ripest; on the other there’s the first back-to-school list and the sharpening of pencils. This collection covers both, from an easy August puzzle for kids to a harder one for adults built around the dog days, the Perseid meteor shower and the long twilight evenings. Fifteen hidden words in every grid, forwards, backwards and diagonal.
15 words to find, starting with COMET and METEORITE.
How Teachers Use August Word Searches
For most classrooms August is either the last week of the holidays or the first week back, and either way a themed word search is the easiest warm-up there is. The back-to-school puzzle settles a new class on day one while you learn names; the summer camp and beach puzzles let students tell you what they did over the break without having to write an essay about it; and the meteor-shower and garden puzzles are a soft opening for a science unit. Print a stack and keep them for early finishers — they’ll be gone by September.
More Free Word Searches for the Season
When the calendar turns, the September word search collection picks up exactly where this one leaves off, and the Labor Day puzzles cover the long weekend that closes the summer. For more sun, the summer word searches go deeper; for the return to class, start with back to school. Every month of the year is in the months collection, and everything on the site starts from the free printable word searches hub.