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Now that in the summer, it's time too many projects to keep your children. Making word search puzzles for friends and family is a great hobby. But your children do not have to do with ordinary puzzles a random series of words. Use one of the following ideas for a puzzle with a twist! Children can learn new words, practice their spelling, cool gifts, and have fun this puzzles.

Puzzle Basics:

• First, buy a package of graph paper to your local office supplies store. Order graph paper with 4 seats per inch, for children between the ages of 8 and higher. With the launch in a corner of a paper, you can have several puzzles from a single page. A package of graph paper can take you all summer!


• always remember maintained /to solve the puzzle before you make it. Choose simple words for young solvers and graere words for older friends

A. Use only one Word

1. Choose a word of interest to the person who receives it. Take, for example, that Grandma has apple decorations throughout her kitchen. Your word puzzle could APPLE.
2. around a rectangular puzzle, which is about 12 x 12 squares. Write the word APPLE inside in different directions than 4 or 5 times. Then fill in the blank spaces with A, P, L, E, until all rooms are full. Cut the puzzle. Glue it on a piece of red construction paper cut in the shape of an apple.
3. grandmother Then ask, "How often, we find the word apple?" You will be amazed that the core!
4. You can be much more fun words like these to hide.

B. Theme-based puzzles

1. Select a topic of interest to the person who received the puzzle. For example, if Grandpa loves to garden, use or vegetable gardening, as the theme.


2. Brainstorm for a list of long and short words related to the topic. For gardening, list soil, seeds, plants, chop, weeds, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, rain, sun and much more.


3. Put the words in a rectangular area of graph paper. Set the longest words.


4. Decide how big the puzzle and make sure that your words fit within this space.


5. Make a list of words that you hide.


6. Double-check the puzzle.


7. Make your puzzle to a gift. Enter the letters and word list on the computer and add some appropriate clip art. Or just cut the puzzle from the side graph paper, glue them on a blank page and write the word list on the paper. Tuck the puzzle in a card or just hand the lucky recipient.

C. Word List Twists

1. Select an interesting topic for a word list, and then use only half the words in the puzzle. I once a puzzle about roses for a newspaper. I called it "a difficult puzzle." I contained a list of 22 words in connection with roses and then asked the solver of 11 of these words were actually in the puzzle.


2. Or write a listless wordsearch. For Grandpa's vegetable puzzle, for example, you could hide the names of ten vegetables and did not say what they are.

Your puzzle writers might come only with their own creative twist on the popular word search puzzle format. Maybe they will even start compiling their own word lists for use in the future. And they could only have the same puzzle-writing itch that this author has since she was eight years old!

Ann Richmond Fisher is the owner of http://www.WordFishery.com where you can find unique printable word puzzles. Her original puzzles include Buzzword, ZigZags, Triangulairs and more. Ann is also the author of over 60 books and products for the educational market. She specializes in writing brain teasers, word and math puzzles and seasonal reproducibles.

Please contact Ann through her website to learn how you may include her puzzles in your newsletters, magazines or newspapers. Sign up for her newsletter, on the about page, to receive original puzzles each month.

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