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Christmas Word Scramble

32 puzzles: 12 easy words for children, 14 harder ones for everyone else, and 6 carols. Play them here, or print the sheet and pass it around. The answer key is at the bottom, and on the second page when you print.

Two pages: the puzzle, then the answers.

Easy — for children

Four to six letters, words a child will recognize right away.

  1. 1 ATSR It goes on the very top
  2. 2 LLESB They jingle
  3. 3 SONW What everyone hopes for on the day
  4. 4 YOLLH Green leaves, red berries
  5. 5 DNLACE Light it when the sun goes down early
  6. 6 HLIESG Pulled, not driven
  7. 7 LGNAE Cut from folded paper, or sung about
  8. 8 FRSAC Wrapped twice round the neck
  9. 9 TEMTNI Warmer than a glove, worse for buttons
  10. 10 ORACL Sung at the door
  11. 11 EARHWT A circle for the front door
  12. 12 INWRET The season this all happens in

Harder — for adults

Longer words, and a few that look wrong until they suddenly do not.

  1. 1 DERENRIE Antlers, and a long way to travel
  2. 2 SCONTIGK Hung up empty, found full
  3. 3 LEOTMTIES Stand under it at your own risk
  4. 4 NATEONMR One per branch, if you are patient
  5. 5 KEASONWFL No two alike, supposedly
  6. 6 HNICYME The traditional way in
  7. 7 RLDAANG Draped along the banister
  8. 8 EDEGRNRIAGB Build a house, then eat it
  9. 9 CECURTARKN A soldier who is also a tool
  10. 10 IENIPSTATO The red plant everyone forgets to water
  11. 11 CPEFERALI Where the stockings hang
  12. 12 ERIPNEPTMP Red and white, hooked at one end
  13. 13 NRREVEGEE Keeps its needles all year
  14. 14 YANERCRBR Sour until there is enough sugar

Carols and songs

Each word is scrambled on its own; the spaces are where they belong.

  1. 1 ETLNIS NGITH Austria, 1818
  2. 2 EDCK EHT LLHSA A Welsh tune with English words
  3. 3 ENJGLI LLESB Written for Thanksgiving, oddly
  4. 4 EHT TSIFR LENO Cornish, and very old
  5. 5 JYO OT EHT WDLOR A psalm set to music
  6. 6 WYAA NI A ENRMGA The one the youngest class always gets

Unscramble Christmas words: answer key

Hidden so it does not spoil the game. It prints on the second page either way.

Playing it with a room full of people

Print one sheet each and set a timer for ten minutes. Most people get the easy twelve in three or four, then slow right down — which is the point, because that is when the room starts talking. Nobody solves poinsettia quietly.

In a classroom, the two levels let one sheet cover a wide age range without anyone noticing they were given the easier half. Younger children do better with the hints read aloud rather than printed; older ones treat the hints as an insult and cover them up.

If you are running it as a party round, score two points for a word solved without the hint and one with. The carols are worth doing last — they look impossible until someone spots a short word, and then the whole title falls over at once.

Stuck on one of them? The word unscrambler takes the letters and shows every word they can make. That is cheating, and we will not tell anyone.

Questions

Is the printable version free?

Yes, and there is nothing to download or sign up for. The print button uses your browser's own print dialog, so you can send it to a printer or save it as a PDF from there. It lays out on A4 and US Letter alike.

Where are the answers?

In the answer key above — click Show the answer key. When you print, the answers always come out on the second page, so you can keep that one and hand out the first.

Is it too hard for young children?

The first twelve words are four to six letters and should suit roughly ages six and up, especially with the hints read out. The harder set runs to eleven letters and is aimed at adults.

Can I use this at school or at work?

Print as many copies as you need. The words are all ordinary English nouns, with no characters or brands in the list, so there is nothing that needs anyone's permission.