New Year's Puzzle Pack — Free Printable
Three large-print New Year's puzzles in one printout: a word search, a word scramble and a crossword. The puzzles come first and every answer key is at the back, so you can hand out the puzzles and keep the answers. Seven Letter pages in all.
Another New Year's packWord banks:HiddenShow them (easier)
Sunroom GamesLarge-print word search · Puzzle 1
New Year's Word Search
Find all 12 words. They go across, down or diagonally — never backwards.
Name Date
MCELEBRATETILASHOETSCYOTWSETHDPUTJAOIIANASCSBASASNHGFRCTFNTRHGOKOBTCRUEAEIPEEACMEALMSNETRULOSRABYGIEYKESHYTRTASTREAMERSAEIRBALLOONSGFRIENDSMGECE
- BALLOONS
- FRIENDS
- SINGING
- START
- CELEBRATE
- WISHES
- GOALS
- FRESH
- STREAMERS
- HOPE
- JANUARY
- TOAST
Answers at the back of this packMore free large-print puzzles at sunroomgames.com
Sunroom GamesLarge-print word scramble · Puzzle 1
New Year's Word Scramble
Unscramble the letters to spell 12 words about New Year's. Write each word on its line.
Name Date
- 1.TSTOA5 letters
- 2.AYPTR5 letters
- 3.RSWOEFIRK9 letters
- 4.RTEBECLAE9 letters
- 5.OCKLC5 letters
- 6.SLPKERA7 letters
- 7.GNSIIGN7 letters
- 8.HMNIDIGT8 letters
- 9.ICENOFTT8 letters
- 10.RAANJUY7 letters
- 11.SHSIEW6 letters
- 12.ERFSDNI7 letters
Answers at the back of this packsunroomgames.com
Sunroom GamesLarge-print crossword · Puzzle 1
New Year's Crossword
Solve the clues on the next page and write the answers in the squares. Every answer is about New Year's.
Name Date
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Clues on the next page · Answers at the back of this packsunroomgames.com
Sunroom GamesLarge-print crossword · Puzzle 1
Clues
Across
- 1It strikes twelve as the year ends (5)
- 7Promise to do better in the year ahead (10)
- 10Optimism for the year ahead (4)
- 11Joining in on 'Auld Lang Syne' (7)
- 12Beginning, as of a new year (5)
Down
- 2Chart of months you replace yearly (8)
- 3First month of the year (7)
- 4Tiny paper bits tossed in the air (8)
- 5Numbers called out just before twelve (9)
- 6Bursts of color in the night sky (9)
- 8Pals to share the evening with (7)
- 9Short speech before everyone sips (5)
The number after each clue is how many letters the answer hassunroomgames.com
Sunroom GamesLarge-print word search · Puzzle 1 · Answer key
Answer key
New Year's Word Search
MCELEBRATETILASHOETSCYOTWSETHDPUTJAOIIANASCSBASASNHGFRCTFNTRHGOKOBTCRUEAEIPEEACMEALMSNETRULOSRABYGIEYKESHYTRTASTREAMERSAEIRBALLOONSGFRIENDSMGECE
Where each word starts
- BALLOONS — row 11, column 4, across →
- FRIENDS — row 12, column 1, across →
- SINGING — row 3, column 2, down ↓
- START — row 2, column 3, diagonally ↘
- CELEBRATE — row 1, column 2, across →
- WISHES — row 3, column 1, down ↓
- GOALS — row 5, column 4, diagonally ↘
- FRESH — row 5, column 9, down ↓
- STREAMERS — row 10, column 3, across →
- HOPE — row 5, column 3, down ↓
- JANUARY — row 3, column 10, down ↓
- TOAST — row 1, column 11, down ↓
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Sunroom GamesLarge-print word scramble · Puzzle 1 · Answer key
Answer key
New Year's Word Scramble
- 1.TSTOA → TOAST
- 2.AYPTR → PARTY
- 3.RSWOEFIRK → FIREWORKS
- 4.RTEBECLAE → CELEBRATE
- 5.OCKLC → CLOCK
- 6.SLPKERA → SPARKLE
- 7.GNSIIGN → SINGING
- 8.HMNIDIGT → MIDNIGHT
- 9.ICENOFTT → CONFETTI
- 10.RAANJUY → JANUARY
- 11.SHSIEW → WISHES
- 12.ERFSDNI → FRIENDS
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Sunroom GamesLarge-print crossword · Puzzle 1 · Answer key
Answer key
New Year's Crossword
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Across
- 1CLOCK
- 7RESOLUTION
- 10HOPE
- 11SINGING
- 12START
Down
- 2CALENDAR
- 3JANUARY
- 4CONFETTI
- 5COUNTDOWN
- 6FIREWORKS
- 8FRIENDS
- 9TOAST
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What's in the pack
- Page 1: a word search with twelve New Year's words in a 12 × 12 grid of big, bold letters. Words go across, down and diagonally, never backwards.
- Page 2: a word scramble of twelve New Year's words with their letters mixed up, in large letter tiles with a line to write each answer.
- Pages 3 and 4: a crossword of twelve New Year's answers, with the grid on page 3 and plain clues in 18-point type on page 4.
- Pages 5 to 7: the answer keys for all three puzzles.
"Word banks" adds the list of answers to the scramble and the crossword, which makes them gentler: good for a mixed group or a first try. "Another New Year's pack" makes a new set of three puzzles.
Ideas for using the pack
- In the activity room: start everyone on the word search, which needs no explaining, then read the crossword clues aloud and solve them together as a group.
- At a family gathering: print a pack with the word banks shown for the younger ones and one without for the keen solvers, and see who finishes first.
- For a quiet afternoon: print a pack to enjoy over a cup of tea, one puzzle at a time, and check your answers at the back when you're done.
- In the classroom: the word search and scramble suit younger children, and the crossword makes a good challenge for older ones.
Printing tips
- Use Letter paper (8.5 × 11 in). The pack is seven pages: the puzzles on pages 1 to 4 and the answers on 5 to 7.
- To keep the answers back, choose to print pages 1 to 4 only, and print pages 5 to 7 separately.
- Print on one side of the paper, so the crossword's grid and clues can lie side by side.
- To keep a copy, pick "Save as PDF" as the printer.
- Free to print and copy for home, classroom and care-home use.
Want just one of the puzzles? Print the New Year's word search, the New Year's word scramble or the New Year's crossword on its own. Each puzzle in pack 1 is puzzle 1 on its own page, and so on. For more ideas, see our holiday activities guide.