Sunny Park
A quick hunt in the park. Find all 5 hidden words in a 7 × 7 grid. Words can run in eight directions, including backward and diagonally.
Find all 5 words
Drag across a word, or tap its first and last letters. Words run horizontally, vertically and diagonally, in either direction.
What this puzzle is about
Sunny Park is a small word search about an afternoon at the playground. Five everyday park words are hidden in a 7 × 7 grid, so the whole puzzle fits on one compact board that you can finish in a short break, on screen or on paper.
Who it suits
This is an easy puzzle and a good first word search: the list is short, the words are familiar, and the grid is small enough for younger children to scan comfortably. Words can still run in any of eight directions, including backward and diagonally, so it is a gentle introduction to looking in every direction rather than only left to right.
How to start
Start with SWING or SLIDE. Both begin with S, so find each S in the grid and check the letters around it in all eight directions. Distinctive letter pairs help too: look for the SW at the start of SWING or the CH at the end of BENCH.
About the words
The five words are SWING, SLIDE, TREE, PARK, and BENCH. All of them are things you might see at a local park or playground, which makes the list easy to talk about with young solvers before you begin.
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