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Print the puzzles and use it as an icebreaker activity. About Me Puzzleįor a first week of school warm up activity, the students can create a word search about themselves and share the puzzle with you and classmates. The easiest way to suck the fun out of something is to assign it. They might grab one on the way out the door for fun. You can, however, make a stack of them with vocab words to have laying around for students to choose to do. I would not recommend using word searches as an assignment. Users can use the paint can to identify words. This is especially handy when you want to leave it digital in a spreadsheet.

Choose “Copy Puzzle to New Spreadsheet” to create a brand new spreadsheet that only has the puzzle with no answer key or other stuff.

(You can also use this view to copy and paste into the Google Doc.)

Choose “Print Puzzle” for a view that includes the word list and use Control P to print.

Copy and paste the puzzle into a Google Doc.

Use the “Make Word Search” menu to “View Puzzle.”.

Tip: Use =TRANSPOSE() to take the horizontal words on the oops list to make them vertical. This is your opportunity to add words diagonally!

Manually place words on the puzzle that didn’t place automatically.

After the puzzle is created, use the “Make Word Search” menu again and choose “Test for Errors.”.

Use the “Make Word Search” menu at the top.

On the Word List tab, delete out the default words in column B.