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Easter Around the World: Global Traditions Puzzle

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Printable Easter Around the World: Global Traditions Puzzle (PDF)

Print this puzzle on a single page: the 15x15 grid and the 14 words to find. Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 9 of the 14 read backwards. The answer key comes as a separate PDF, so you can hand out the puzzle and keep the solution.

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A hard grid for travelers and language fans. Easter Eggs frames it in pastel, and Large Print helps with the long foreign names.

Difficulty Hard
Grid Size 15x15 letters
Total Words 14 hidden terms
Format PDF & Online Play
Directions 5 of 8, 9 backwards
Longest Word Philippines (11 letters)

Easter Around the World Word Search: Pascua, Pâques, Ostern and Wielkanoc

Easter in many languages and countries. It is Pascua in Spanish, Pâques in French and Pasqua in Italian, all from the Hebrew Pesach, Passover; Ostern in German; Wielkanoc in Polish and Velikonoce in Czech, "the great night". Greeks crack red eggs, Bermudians fly kites, Guatemalans lay carpets of colored sawdust, Mexicans crack confetti-filled cascarones, Ethiopians end a long fast, Filipinos meet at dawn processions, and Australians celebrate with the Easter Bilby.

English "Easter" is the odd one out: the monk Bede linked it to Eostre, an old English spring goddess.

Easter Around the World: Global Traditions Vocabulary: 14 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 9 of the 14 read backwards. The longest word is Philippines, with 11 letters.

  • Australia: Where the Easter Bilby, a native marsupial, competes with the Easter Bunny.
  • Bermuda: The island where people fly homemade kites on Good Friday.
  • Cascarones: Hollow eggshells filled with confetti and cracked over friends' heads in Mexico and Texas.
  • Ethiopia: Where Easter, Fasika, ends a fast of more than fifty days.
  • Greece: Where people crack red-dyed eggs against each other on Easter Sunday.
  • Guatemala: Where streets are covered with colorful sawdust carpets for Holy Week processions.
  • Ostern: The German word for Easter.
  • Paques: Pâques, the French word for Easter.
  • Pascua: The Spanish word for Easter, from the Hebrew Pesach, Passover.
  • Pasqua: The Italian word for Easter.
  • Philippines: Where Easter dawn begins with the Salubong, a meeting procession.
  • Sweden: Where children dress as Easter witches and go door to door for candy.
  • Velikonoce: The Czech word for Easter, "the great nights".
  • Wielkanoc: The Polish word for Easter, "the great night".

How to Solve the Easter Around the World: Global Traditions Puzzle

"Greece", "Paques" and "Pasqua", which share PA with "Pascua", are the diagonals. "Philippines", 11 letters, reads backwards, like "Bermuda", with the only B, and "Wielkanoc". "Cascarones", "Ethiopia" and "Velikonoce", with the only V, run upward. "Australia", "Ostern" and "Pascua" run down. "Guatemala" and "Sweden" read across.

Easter Around the World Activities

  • Find each country on a world map.
  • Learn to say Happy Easter in three languages.
  • Make cascarones or try Greek egg tapping.

Easter Around the World: Global Traditions Puzzle FAQ

Who is the Easter Around the World: Global Traditions Puzzle for?

Teens, adults and world culture lessons.

Which directions do the words run in?

Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 9 of the 14 read backwards. 3 of them are diagonal.

Is there an answer key for the Easter Around the World: Global Traditions Puzzle?

Yes. Download it from the printable section above: it is a separate PDF with all 14 words marked. Online, each word is crossed off the list the moment you find it.

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