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
- DAMSELFLY
- Damselflies are close cousins of dragonflies but fold their wings along their bodies at rest, while dragonflies hold theirs open flat, a sure way to tell the two apart at the pond's edge.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- NYMPH
- Before a dragonfly ever takes to the air, it spends months, sometimes years, as an aquatic nymph beneath the pond's surface, breathing through gills and hunting smaller creatures in the mud.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- IRIDESCENT
- That dazzling shimmer isn't from pigment, it comes from microscopic structures in the wing membrane that bend light differently depending on the angle, an effect called structural color.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SKIMMER
- Skimmers are one of the most familiar dragonfly families in North America, often seen patrolling sunny ponds with bold patches of red, blue, or amber on their wings.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Dragonflies word search, free and large-print, for the shimmering wings, sunlit reeds, and the quick dart over still water.
About Dragonflies
No insect commands a pond's surface quite like the dragonfly, a flicker of iridescent wings catching the afternoon light, then gone in a heartbeat. They have patrolled the edges of marshes and meadows for roughly 300 million years, long before the first flower ever bloomed. Watch the reeds long enough on a warm summer day and you'll spot the hover, the dart, the perch on a stem, a small, ancient ballet played out above the water.
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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