Free printable · 18 words · answer key included
Earth Day Word Search: Free Printable, Large Print
Plant a tree, ride a bicycle, sort the recycling and join the neighborhood cleanup. Earth Day falls on April 22, and this word search is a small, paper-and-pencil way to mark it with the family.

Easy: 12 x 12 grid, extra large print
12 words that read across or down only. Big letters with plenty of space, and a tick box beside each word.

Medium: 15 x 15 grid, large print
All 18 words, running across, down or diagonally. No backwards words.
How to print
Open the PDF for your paper size and print at 100% / Actual size (not “fit to page”) for the biggest letters. Every sheet keeps a half-inch margin, so it prints cleanly on home printers. The answer key is a separate file.
Words in this puzzle
The medium grid hides all 18 words. The easy grid uses the first 12 (shown in bold).
- RECYCLE
- COMPOST
- REUSE
- LITTER
- CLEANUP
- SEEDS
- OCEANS
- FORESTS
- BICYCLE
- PLANET
- SOLAR
- WILDLIFE
- NATURE
- APRIL
- NEIGHBORS
- PLANT A TREE
- CANVAS BAG
- RAIN BARREL
Checked by our software
Every grid is generated and then verified by our own puzzle software: each word appears exactly once, and the filler letters are screened so they do not spell anything unfortunate.