Word Search Activity

 

Today we have a word search for you to complete but we're not going to make it easy for you because where would the fun be in that!

Below you will find a grid with 14 rows across and the same number down filled with letters. Within this group of letters you will find 20 WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. Since we are celebrating such an big milestone, it is only fitting that our word search contain different kinds of vocabulary words that one might correlate with celebrating a birthday.
 

 (This Word Search was created over at The Word Search)

 

What you need to do…

First, right click on the image and scroll down to choose the save option associated with your specific browser so that you can save the Word Search Puzzle to your computer. Then you can print it out and start looking for the words contained within. Of course, you don't have to print it at all. You can just search for the words digitally if you want.

If you do print it, use a pencil (or pen if you're really brave) and start looking for words that are associated with "birthdays". Remember there are 20 WORDS in this puzzle for you to find. We'll even give you your first word on the house:

1. Start up in the left hand corner where you see the letter G. 
2. Read across and you will find A * M * E and S. 
3. This of course gives you the word GAMES.

 Now it is up to you to find the other 19 words!

Once you've come up with as many words as you are able to, please come back and leave a list of all your words in a comment on this post. I'll be leaving comment moderation on this post to ensure that it is fair for everyone.

Prizes!!!

Of course if we're going to make you go to all that effort to solve this puzzle, we're going to have some prizes for you to win!  We're going to have a few different levels for this particular game.

First, everyone who gets ALL 20 WORDS correct, will have their name thrown into a draw and ONE random winner will have a chance to win:

• $10 worth of images from the store.

For those who ONLY get between 15 and 19 words correct, your name will be thrown into a draw and ONE random winner will have a chance to win:

• $6 worth of images from the store.

For those who ONLY get between 10 and 14 words correct, your name will be thrown into a draw and ONE random winner will have a chance to win:

• $3 worth of images from the store.

Seems like pretty good incentive for joining in, doesn't it?!  Well, I hope that you agree and decide to join us during this special event to help celebrate our 10th birthday!

You will have until Saturday, September 9th, at 8:59 p.m., PT (11:59 p.m., ET), to complete the word search and submit the words you come up with, in a comment on this post. Please note that is possible that you may find words that are unintended. Only the 20 words from our master list will be accepted as correct guesses. Don't forget, I'll be leaving comment moderation on this post to ensure that it is fair for everyone.

 HAPPY SEARCHING!!! 

Pssst...

We have three to five posts coming out each week over the next 20 days so be sure to pop over when you can to see what is happening. 

 

Happy crafting until next we meet, 

Winners!!! Birthday Event #4: Word Search

Hello folks!  It is time to announce the winners from Event #4 of our Birthday Celebration. I know it has been a while, so if you would like to refresh yourself on the details of our Letter Hunt, please click HERE to check them out.

For this particular event, we had a word search for you to complete where you had to find 20 vocabulary words that one might correlate with penguins. Given the nature of difficulty for this particular puzzle, we offered up a a few different levels of prizes.

Here are the actual words that we were looking for in this word search:

• leap
• bird
• dive
• icicles
• feathers
• white
• snowbank
• water
• krill
• march
• hatch
• fish
• chick
• swimming
• herring
• honk
• Antarctic
• frozen
• oceangoing
• waddle

There were a couple that tripped people up. The first was 'snowbank'. Several people just put 'snow'. The second one that caused some problems was 'oceangoing'. Same issue with several people just including the first part of the word 'ocean'.

Funny enough, some of you found the word 'ice' which wasn't even in the list though 'icicles' was.  Another extra word a couple of you found was 'raw'. Others found even more unrelated words!

In cases where the word had an 's' at the end and someone forgot it, or there wasn't supposed to be an 's' and you included one, I allowed those minor mistakes to pass.

So, on that note here is how it worked out. We had a total of eight people participate:

• one person got all 20 words correct
• one person got 19 words correct
• two people got 18 words correct
• one person got 17 words correct
• two people got 16 words correct
• one person got 14 words correct

The original prizes listed were broken down into different tiers so that people who didn't do as well would still have the opportunity to win something. The problem was that I didn't account for only one person getting the words correct in any of the four prize categories. I'll have to think it through better next time. So, I hope there isn't a mutiny but I'm going to do the prizes a little bit different. This simply makes it fairer odds for all the players.

First, the names of those people who submitted between 19 and 20 correct WORDS were put into a draw to win ONE of the following:

• #256 Penguin Party Boys; OR
• #251 Three B's Trio; OR
• $12 worth of images from the Penguin section in the store.

Congratulations to...

Ike

(winner chosen randomly from all correctly submitted responses by Mini Web Tool)

Ike… Please send a message to decossesdynamitedoodles {at} yahoo {dot} ca, (don't forget to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols) with the subject heading, "SD BD Event #4 Top Prize Winner", and let me know which option you would like as your prize--A, B OR C--and I will get your choice out to you as soon as I can.

Next, the names of those people who submitted between 17 and 18 correct words were put into a draw to win:

• $9 worth of images from the Penguin section in the store.

Congratulations to...

Mandy

(winner chosen randomly from all correctly submitted responses by Mini Web Tool)

Mandy… Please go to the Scribbles Designs store and choose up to a $9 value of digital images (digital papers are not included). Then, please send a message to decossesdynamitedoodles {at} yahoo {dot} ca, (don't forget to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols) with the subject heading, "SD BD Event #4 $9 Prize Winner", and I will get your choices out to you as soon as I can.

 

Originally, the third prize was for those getting between 10 and 14 words correct and it was for $6 worth of images. However, I didn't think it fair to just go with $6 when those who got between 15 and 19 should have originally had the opportunity to win $9 worth of images. So, for this final prize I'm sticking with $9. 

Therefore, the names of those people who submitted between 14 and 16 correct words were put into a draw to win:

• $9 worth of images from the Penguin section in the store.

 

Congratulations to...

Denise B.

(winner chosen randomly from all correctly submitted responses by Mini Web Tool)

Denise… Please go to the Scribbles Designs store and choose up to a $9 value of digital images (digital papers are not included). Then, please send a message to decossesdynamitedoodles {at} yahoo {dot} ca, (don't forget to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols) with the subject heading, "SD BD Event #4 $9 Prize Winner", and I will get your choices out to you as soon as I can.

 Well, that is it for this one. I'll do my best to post the winner announcement for Birthday Event #5 as soon as I am able to get it ready. Take of yourselves!

Until next time,

Birthday Event #4: Word Search

Hello folks!  My goodness, where on earth have the last weeks gone?! Even though the last three weeks have flown by, there is still time to have a little fun in our 7th Birthday Celebration.

First though, if you haven't had the opportunity to participate in our 7th Birthday Celebration yet, you can find the first post published on Jan. 15th, with further details of our seven years in business, the challenge link up and prize list for that challenge, by clicking HERE to check it out. We had a Letter Hunt for Birthday Event #2 that ran from from Jan. 16th to the 21st with a deadline of January 31st and then also offered up a Flash Freebie on Jan. 25th for Birthday Event #3 that you can find HERE if you haven't already grabbed it.

Today, for Birthday Event #4 we have another fun activity planned. This time we have a word search for you to complete but we're not going to make it easy for you because where would the fun be in that!

Below you will find a grid with 14 rows across and the same number down filled with letters. Within this group of letters you will find 20 WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH PENGUINS. Since our focus is on Brrr and his family and friends this month, it is only fitting that our word search contain different kinds of vocabulary words that one might correlate with penguins.

(This Word Search was created over at The Word Search)

What you need to do…

First, right click on the image and scroll down to choose the save option associated with your specific browser so that you can save the Word Search Puzzle to your computer. Then you can print it out and start looking for the words contained within.

Use a pencil (or pen if you're really brave) and start looking for words that are associated with penguins. For example, think about their environment, what they eat, what they look like, what they do, etc. That should give you a starting place to begin looking for your word list.

Remember there are 20 WORDS in this puzzle for you to find. We'll even give you your first word on the house:

1. Start up in the left hand corner where you see the letter A. 
2. Read down until you find the third letter which is a D. 
3. Then, under D you'll find the letters I, V, and E which give you the word DIVE.

 Now it is up to you to find the other 19 words!

Once you've come up with as many words as you are able to, please come back and leave a list of all your words in a comment on this post. I'll be leaving comment moderation on this post to ensure that it is fair for everyone.

Prizes!!!

Of course if we're going to make you go to all that effort to solve this puzzle, we're going to have some prizes for you to win!  We're going to have a few different levels for this particular game.

First, everyone who gets ALL 20 WORDS correct, will have their name thrown into a draw and ONE random winner will have a chance to win ONE of the following:

• #256 Penguin Party Boys; OR
• #251 Three B's Trio; OR
• $12 worth of images from the Penguin section in the store.

For those who ONLY get between 15 and 19 words correct, your name will be thrown into a draw and ONE random winner will have a chance to win:

• $9 worth of images from the Penguin section in the store.

For those who ONLY get between 10 and 14 words correct, your name will be thrown into a draw and ONE random winner will have a chance to win:

• $6 worth of images from the Penguin section in the store.

For those who ONLY get between 5 and 9 words correct, your name will be thrown into a draw and ONE random winner will have a chance to win:

• $3 worth of images from the Penguin section in the store.

Seems like pretty good incentive for joining in, doesn't it?!  Well, I hope that you agree and decide to join us during this special event to help celebrate our 7th birthday!

You will have until Friday, February 14th, at 8:59 p.m., PST, to complete the word search and submit the words you come up with, in a comment on this post. Please note that is possible that you may find words that are unintended. Only the 20 words from our master list will be accepted as correct guesses.

 HAPPY SEARCHING!!! 

Pssst...

There is still a week left so it is possible we might just have one or possibly two more events planned before our month long celebration ends on Feb. 14th. So, be sure to pop over once and a while during the next week! Better yet, sign up to receive our posts by email or through Bloglovin' so you don't miss a thing!

Happy crafting until next we meet,