Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- DREY
- A squirrel's treetop nest is called a drey, a dense globe of woven twigs and leaves, often tucked into a high fork where the branches are thickest.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CACHE
- Squirrels practice 'scatter hoarding,' hiding food in many separate caches rather than one central store, a strategy that limits how much a single thief can steal.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ACORN
- A single gray squirrel may bury several thousand acorns in a season, and studies suggest they recover the majority, guided by spatial memory rather than smell alone.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- HOLLOW
- When a drey isn't available, squirrels will den inside a tree hollow, which offers far better insulation against a hard winter freeze.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Busy Squirrel: a free large-print word search
Free large-print squirrel word search, acorns, bark, buried nuts, and the blur of a bushy tail against the oak.
About The Busy Squirrel
A squirrel at work is one of the backyard's most restless little dramas, up the trunk in a flash, nose twitching, then gone into the canopy with an acorn clamped in its teeth. Gray squirrels bury hundreds of nuts each autumn across a surprisingly wide territory, navigating by memory and scent to reclaim them through the cold months ahead. The ones they miss sometimes sprout into saplings, quietly planting the next generation of the very trees they depend on.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps, never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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