Looking for Easter word search puzzles? This page offers links to Easter word search puzzles to print out and play and there are links to even play online. Word search puzzles can be exciting and are not only fun for all ages but they can be great teaching tools. Some people like to create their own puzzles and this can be done for any holiday or even special occasions.

Make a list of all the Easter terms you can think of. Ideas may include eggs, bunny, chocolate, candy, peeps, baskets, egg hunt, games, egg rolling and there are many more. Until you get the hang of it you might want to get a ruler and draw out a grid with a pencil. Place your terms inside the grid, one letter per space. Remember you can add your terms diagonally, horizontally, vertical or even backwords. After all your terms are in your grid, fill in all the other empty spaces with different letters. Once your grid is complete very carefully erase your grid lines. Once all lines have been removed scan your copy into the computer and print out as many copies as you need.

The word for Easter in the Romance languages such as French, Italian, Spanish and Portugese is derived from the Greek word for Passover, which is Pascha. In Germanic languages like German, Dutch, English and Swedish, the word is derived from the Old English Eastre, which is from Eostur-monath. It was a month of the Germanic Year that some believe was named after a goddess in German paganism called Eastre.

Slavic languages (Russian, Czech, Polish and Serbian, for example) use the words for "Great Night" or "Great Day" to refer to Easter, while Celtic languages (ie: Gaulish, Gaelic, Welsh and Irish) use Latin for the basis of the words for Easter.