Colours word search
The world is painted in every colour you can imagine. The shades children know best, along with a few they might not, are hidden in the grid. A bright and simple challenge for younger readers.
Easy hides words across and down; Hard adds diagonals, backwards words and heavier camouflage.
Smaller grids print larger.
How the answer key marks each hidden word.
Customise colours
Clean drops the page-number footer.
Two pages: the puzzle and its answer key. Loop each hidden word or shade its letters, the answer page updates as you choose.
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Preview
The puzzle and its answer key, as they print.
Words to find in this colours word search
These 16 words are hidden in the grid above, and they print alongside the puzzle so solvers know what to look for.
- Red
- Blue
- Green
- Yellow
- Orange
- Purple
- Pink
- Brown
- Black
- White
- Grey
- Violet
- Maroon
- Turquoise
- Magenta
- Crimson
Making a whole colours book?
This page makes one colours puzzle. To publish a themed book on Amazon KDP, the KDP word-search maker generates hundreds of puzzles at any trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and answer-key PDF. Generate once, export unlimited sizes.
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Questions
- Is this colours word search free to print?
- Yes. Generate the colours puzzle above, with its 16 hidden words and an answer key, and print it at no cost and with no sign-up. It is free for classroom, home and personal use.
- Can I change the colours word list?
- Yes. The generator is pre-filled with a themed list, but you can edit the words or the title and generate a fresh grid. It runs entirely in your browser.
- Can I make a colours word search book to sell on KDP?
- Yes. The free tool makes one puzzle. Publisher Studio generates hundreds of puzzles at any KDP trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and answer-key PDF, so you can publish a themed book.