Printable Word Games for Kids: Fun and Educational Worksheets

Printable Word Games for Kids: Fun and Educational Worksheets

Welcome to our collection of printable word games for kids, designed to make learning fun, interactive, and effective. These engaging worksheets are perfect for parents, teachers, and homeschoolers looking to help children develop essential language skills through play. Whether you want to boost vocabulary, improve spelling, or encourage critical thinking, our printable word games offer a variety of options tailored to different age groups and skill levels.

Our selection includes classic favorites like crossword puzzles, word searches, word scrambles, and word bingo — all available as easy-to-print worksheets. Each game is crafted to challenge young minds while keeping the experience enjoyable and stress-free. Printable word games are a fantastic way to reinforce classroom lessons or provide extra practice at home.

Using printable word games for kids not only enhances vocabulary but also promotes problem-solving and concentration. These worksheets are ideal for quiet study time, rainy day activities, or group learning sessions. Plus, because they are printable, you can use them repeatedly or share them with friends and classmates.

Explore our variety of themed word games, including seasonal and holiday editions, to keep your child excited about learning throughout the year. Download and print your favorite worksheets today to provide hours of educational entertainment that supports literacy development in a playful way.

Start your journey towards better language skills with our fun and educational printable word games for kids — learning has never been this enjoyable!

 

Top Printable Word Games for Kids to Boost Vocabulary

Boggle

boggle logo Boggle is a wordsearch game. The rules are simple. Find as many possible words with the letters on the dice. All the letters of the word should be connected. This version lets you fill your words and it tries to create a puzzle with your words.;
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Codeword maker

codeword logo A codeword is a completed crossword grid where each letter of the alphabet has been substituted for a number from 1-26. There will be at least one occurrence of each letter of the alphabet. Certain letters are given as starters. The solver must decipher the rest of the code to discover the words in the completed puzzle.;
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Communicative Crossword

communicative crossword game The Split Crossword generates communicative crosswords for use in pair work. Each of the pair get the same crossword puzzle. But for 1 the across words are filled. The student has to write down the clues for the words in the puzzle. While the other student has to do the same for down words. When they both has finished writing the clues. They give only the clues to each other. And with each others clues they have to finish the split crossword puzzle. ;
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Compound word bingo

Compound word bingo is a challenging word puzzle game. It is very easy to create the bingo cards With the compound word list helper. Choose words from over 2000 compound words on the site. You can choose to print only the second half of the compound words on the bingo cards to make it more challenging. ;
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Compound word match maker

This compound word match worksheet has 2 columns of words. The kids has to draw a line from words from the left column to the right column to form a compound word. And write the compound word behind the second column. The page comes with an extensive list of compound words to help you to choose the right words for your kids. When you start to type a compound word, the program will give you a list of possible compound words. If you don't want to type, you can just copy a word from the example list.;
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Crossword Maker

Educational game crossword logo Make your own crossword puzzle online. Fill in the words and the clue and let the webpage generate the crossword puzzle. Then you can download the pdf file, which you can print for your students. Or select one of the saved games. After loading the words and clues you are able to make changes.;
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Daisy

The logo of the word shuffle game daisy. The daisy game is a variation of a word shuffle game. The leafs of the daisy contains the letters to form a word. But all the leafs are missing one letter. This letter is used in every word ans is placed the middle of the daisy.;
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Hidden Word Puzzle Maker

hidden word game logo The students have to fill in the crossword with the help of the clues, provided by the teacher. When they completed the puzzle, they will find the hidden word in the bold rectangles..;
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Knight's Move Puzzle

logo for the educational game Knight Engage your mind with our Knight's Move Word Puzzle Maker! Create unique puzzles by hiding words of your choice. Challenge your vocabulary and critical thinking skills while following knight movements as on a chessboard to find the words in the grid.;
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Reverse Word Search Maker

Educational game reverse word search logo Reverse Word Search is a kind of word search puzzle, but instead of searching for words, you have to place the given words in the grid.;
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Word Bingo

bingo logo The Bingo game is a variant of the well known bingo. This variant is uses word instead of numbers. You can use your own vocabulary which targets your students. The program will create all the bingo cards for the students.
The bingo games are controlled practice activities to help students recognize, match and remember vocabulary items, and to improve listening skills. ;
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Word Bingo Clues

The word bingo with clues logo Word Bingo Clues is a variant of the word-bingo game. In this game the teacher has a list of words, while the students have the synonyms on the cards. Or the teacher have questions and the students have the answers in their bingo card.;
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Word Chain

Word chain is a word game where the next word has to start with the last letter of the previous word. With this puzzle maker you can create a closed exercise for your kids. You will fill the puzzle with the words and when you print the puzzle the letter the start and end letters of the words are not printed. You can use the word finder of the app to find valid words for the puzzle.;
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Word Fit

the word fill in logo. Word Fill In as a variation on the normal crossword puzzle. Instead of a list of clues, the player gets already the answers. But there are no numbers where the words has to be placed in the puzzle. The player has to try to fit all the words into the puzzle.;
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Word Ladder

word ladder anagram logo The student is given a start word and an end word. In order to win the game, the student must change the start word into the end word progressively, creating an existing word at each step. Each step consists of replacing a single letter and changing the order of the letters.;
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Word Ladder with clues

word ladder anagram logo The student is given a start word and an end word. In order to win the game, the student must change the start word into the end word progressively, creating an existing word at each step. Each step consists of replacing a single letter and changing the order of the letters. Clues are provided for every word on the ladder to make it easier to find the words.;
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Word Pyramid

the educational game word pyramid logo The student have to fill in a pyramid with words. You need as a teacher to fill in for every step of the pyramid a clue. With this clue the students can fill in the word. But the game is an anagram, which means for the next step/answer the student must use all the letters from the previous answer and add one extra letter. The word pyramid games comes with a dictionary. When you select a word for a step in the pyramid the program will automatically search for correct words for the next step. And you are able to type word if it is not in the dictionary. The game can be difficult for the students. Therefor you have the option to fill in some letters in the pyramid to make it easier.;
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Word Scrabble

logo for the educational game word scrabble Word Scrabble is a game to construct words. Type your words you want to practice with you students. The site will create the scrabble tiles. Scoring the game can be done on the most words, most letters or letter value.;
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Word Scramble

fun educational game logo for word scramble It has never been so easy to create a word scramble puzzle. Choose a puzzle from the list or fill in your vocabulary. You have control over how many letters in a word can be switched. There for this tool is very useful for every grade.;
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Word Scramble with Clues

word scramble with clues, a fun educational game It has never been so easy to create a word scramble puzzle. Choose a puzzle from the list or fill in your vocabulary. You have control over how many letters in a word can be switched. You can enter clues for every word to make it easier for your students.;
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Word Search Maker

Educational game word search logo Make your own word search puzzle with the online word search puzzle maker. Or choose an existing puzzle from the game list. Then you can download the pdf file to download the printable worksheet;
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Word Search with Clues

word search with clue a educational game. The word search with clues maker is a program that generates a word search puzzle. But the words are not given, instead the descriptions of the words are given. The player needs to find the words with the help of the descriptions.;
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Word Sudoku

sentence bricks logo Word Sudoku is like the classic sudoku, but the numbers has been replaced by words. This makes it a little bit more difficult. ;
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Word Wheel

educational game wordwheel logo Use the online word wheel maker to create your printable worksheets. The goal of a word wheel puzzle is to create as many words possible with the letters in the word wheel. You can only use each letter once and every word must have the letter in the center of the wheel.;
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Word Zigzag

logo for educational word zigzag Word ZigZag is a fun word search game that is very similar to Boggle. The objective is to find as many words as you can from adjoining letters. The letters can run vertically, horizontally or zigzag ...;
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