Skip to Content

Chinese New Year Word Search – Free Printable with Answer Key

Celebrate the Chinese New Year by teaching your kids about the symbols and traditions of this holiday with our free Chinese New Year word search printable.

This holiday word find is part of our collection of free printables. There are twelve words hidden in this Lunar New Year word search printable. They can be found horizontally, vertically and diagonally (both forwards and backwards).

This moderately challenging word find printable would be perfect for older kids and adults, but might be too challenging for very young kids. It also comes with an answer key if you need extra help!

In addition to this free word search, we also have a Chinese Zodiac word find. It includes the twelve Chinese Zodiac animals that represent the new year (Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig).

A background filled with red fans, with a text overlay on top with yellow lettering that has a black outline that reads "Get a free Chinese New Year word search printable".

Get the free Chinese New Year word search printable

You can either click here to download the Chinese New Year word find as a high resolution image, or print it out in the project card at the bottom of the page. 

Be sure choose portrait orientation and “fit to page” for the printable area on your printer settings. Doing this will give you a full page printout.

If you prefer to print the Chinese New Year word search free printable from the project card at the bottom of the page, scroll down and press “print”. It will give you the puzzle in a slightly smaller size.

Printable Chinese New Year word search answer key

Some free printable word searches are easy to solve and others leave you scratching your head looking for that one last word.

If you are having hard time solving the holiday word find, you can click here for the Chinese New Year word search answers.
Tiny images of Chinese New Year symbols filling a white square background, including fish, drums, coins, dumplings, ingots, red lanterns, mystic knots, fireworks, firecrackers and gold coins all surrounding a banner that says Happy Chinese New Year.

Share this Chinese New Year printable word search on Twitter

Let your friends and family know about this Chinese New Year word puzzle. Here’s a tweet to get you started:

The Chinese New Year is here! Head to Always the Holidays to get a free Chinese New Year word find printable to celebrate! 🎋🧧🐲 #ChineseNewYearPrintable #ChineseNewYearWordSearch Share on X

Pin this Lunar New Year word search printable for later

Would you like a reminder of this post for this Chinese New Year free printable? Just pin this image to one of your puzzle boards on Pinterest so that you can easily find it later.

You can also watch our Chinese New Year video on YouTube to learn more about the symbols and traditions of this holiday.

For more free printables be sure to check out these collections of word searchesword scramblescrosswords and coloring pages.

A Lunar New Year printable consisting of a word find with a word bank in gold and red, with a red banner across is and text that reads Download a free Chinese New Year word search printable.

Yield: 1 Chinese New Year word search printable

Chinese New Year Word Search - Free Printable with Answer Key

Tiny images of the symbols of Chinese New Year filling a white square background, including fish, drums, old coins, dumplings, red lanterns, mystic knots, fireworks, firecrackers all surrounding a banner that says Happy Chinese New Year in black text.

Celebrate the Chinese New Year with a free word search printable! It is a moderate difficulty word find that would be perfect for older kids and adults.

This Chinese New Year word search printable has twelve word hidden within it that relate to the symbols and traditions of the Lunar New Year.

Grab your highlighter and get ready to solve this Chinese New Year printable word search!

Prep Time 5 minutes
Active Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Difficulty Moderate
Estimated Cost $1

Materials

  • Highlighter
  • Computer paper

Tools

  • Computer
  • Printer

Instructions

  1. Load your computer paper into your printer.
  2. Using the print function on this card will print a Lunar New Year word search puzzle that fills about 3/4 of an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper.
  3. Choose portrait layout and if possible "fit to page" in your settings. Doing this will fill the entire page.
  4. Alternatively, you can use this link to print the free Chinese New Year word search using the print feature in your browser window.
  5. After you print this Chinese New Year printable, try to find the words related to the holiday in it.
  6. The words in this Chinese New Year printable are hidden horizontally, vertically and diagonally, both forwards and backwards.
  7. After you find the words, highlight them and then cross them off the list at the bottom of this printable word find.
  8. See how quickly you can solve this free Chinese New Year word search printable!
  9. Please note: Lunar New Year free printables like this one take a long time to make. This free word find printable is for personal use only. If you are sharing this Lunar New Year printable (and thank you for that!), please link directly to this post and not to the actual puzzle image. We appreciate your help in supporting the site. This free Chinese New Year printable word search printable may not be used for any retail purpose or for mass distribution.

Notes

A printable Chinese New Year word search with a word bank containing words that represent the Chinese New Year symbols which are hidden within the word puzzle, and a title at the top in red lettering over a gold text box that reads "Chinese New Year word search".

Did you make this project?

Please leave a comment on the blog or share a photo on Facebook

Share on Social Media

Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the post above are "affiliate links." This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive a small commission from the sale, but the price is the same for you. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."

Skip to Instructions