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Summer Word Search Printable – Free Word Search & Answer Key

Summer is here, which means it’s time for warmer weather, grilling outdoors, and our free printable summer word search!

Beat the heat with an indoor activity that will help exercise your kids brain power. There are 12 words hidden in this summer word find printable that capture the feeling of the season.

The words can be found horizontally and vertically (both forwards and backwards). There are no words hidden diagonally in this summer search and find puzzle.

This word search is part of our collection of free printables. For more fun this season check out our summer word scramble puzzle too!

The words summer word search printable for kids under a watermelon slice, ice cream cone, life saver ring, mocktail, camera and sunglasses hanging from strings.

Get the summer printable word search

You can either click here to download the summer word find, 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. Printing this way will give you a full page printout.

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

Check back often, as we frequently add new holiday word searches, word scrambles and coloring pages!

A bright teal background with the word summer in white letters surrounded by summer items like sunglasses, watermelon, starfish, a beach ball, the sun and seashells.

Get the summer word search answers

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 this puzzle, you can click here for the word search answers.

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You can also watch our word games video on YouTube.

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Summer Word Search Printable for Kids - Free Word Search & Answer Key

A bright teal background with the word summer in white letters surrounded by summer items like sunglasses, watermelon, starfish, a beach ball, the sun and seashells.

Want to give your kids a screen-free activity they'll love this summer?

Look no further than our free word search printable for summer.

It has 12 words hidden in the puzzle for your kids to find.

Don't forget to look at the answer key to this summer word search printable if they need a little extra help!

Prep Time 5 minutes
Active Time 30 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Difficulty Moderate
Estimated Cost $1

Materials

  • Computer paper
  • Highlighter

Tools

  • Computer
  • Printer

Instructions

  1. Load your computer paper into your Deskjet printer.
  1. Using this print function on this card will print a word search for summer that fills about 1/2 - 3/4 of an 8 x 11 sheet of paper.
  2. To fill the entire page, choose 125% or "fit to page" on your printer if you have this setting.
  3. Alternatively, you can also print directly from your browser window by using this link.
  4. After you've printed the puzzle, try to find the words about summer in it.
  5. The words in this summer word search puzzle are found horizontally and vertically (both forward and backwards). There are no diagonal words in this word search for summer.
  6. Search for the words relating to summer, highlight them and then cross them off the list at the bottom.
  7. See how quickly you can solve this printable word search for summer!
  8. Please note: These custom word search printables take a long time to make. These puzzles are for personal use only. If you are sharing this word search for summer (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. The printable word searches may not be used for any retail purpose or for mass distribution.

Notes

A printable summer word search for kids in with a word bank at the bottom, and the word summer at the top surrounded by beach day items.

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