Christmas Kriss Kross Puzzles

Solve these Christmas word puzzles as a way to develop logical thinking and pattern matching skills needed to enjoy both computing and maths, while practicing reading, writing and spelling. (see also our general kriss-kross page).

Kriss-kross puzzles combine a love of words with a love of logic. Given a list of words of different lengths, you must fit them all in to the grid.

Learn about:

logical thinking
sequencing
pattern matching
computational thinking

Also for younger children practice and explore:

numeracy
counting
writing letters
spelling

Teach as part of:

computing
maths
english, or
linked to a theme

Starting Strategies

If there is only one word of any length left then find the blank word in the grid of that length and the word goes there.
If you know some letters of a word in the grid then count how many letters long it is and compare the unused words of that length with the pattern of known letters. If only one matches you have found where it goes. Otherwise you need more information so try another word in the grid.