Download and print free January word searches — fifteen puzzles covering New Year resolutions and traditions, snow days, winter sports and clothing, hibernation and the animals that stay awake through it, and Martin Luther King Day. Every puzzle is a free PDF with the answer key included, sized for standard printer paper.
Each grid is built from its own corner of the month rather than one long list of winter words. The resolutions puzzle hides DECLUTTER and MILESTONE. The snow day puzzle hides a SNOWFORT and SCHOOLCLOSED. The arctic grid goes looking for the NARWHAL and the ARCTICFOX, and the skating puzzle buries the SALCHOW and the ZAMBONI.
From JOURNAL to DISCIPLINE, 15 words are hiding in this grid.
From FIREWORKS to AULDLANGSYNE, 15 words are hiding in this grid.
New Year, Deep Winter and MLK Day
January starts with the new year — the traditions on the night itself and the resolutions that follow — then settles into the coldest part of the winter. There are grids for snow days, winter sports, what to wear, ice skating and a ski trip, plus the animals: penguins, arctic wildlife and the ones that sleep through it. Martin Luther King Day and an Inuit puzzle round out the month.
What’s in Every Puzzle
Each download is a two-page PDF: the puzzle grid on page one, the completed answer key on page two. Fifteen words per grid, hidden in every direction. Nothing to sign up for and nothing to install — click a card, print the page.
How to Use These January Word Searches
January is the long month, so these get used as morning starters and wet-break fillers more than party activities. The hibernation and arctic animal grids double as a science tie-in. If you want more of one theme there is a winter collection, a New Year collection, a Black history collection, and a word search for every month of the year.