Fruits and Vegetables Word Search, Scramble and Crossword

Fruit and vegetable vocabulary puzzles: students solve a definition-clue crossword, unscramble 15 produce words such as broccoli, spinach and cucumber, and find produce names in a word search.
Year levels
Years 1–6
Pages
6
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Oct 26, 2026

Subject
Vocabulary, Holiday & Seasonal, Reading, Language Development, English
Topic
Word Search, Word Scramble
Resource types
Crosswords Puzzles, Word Searches
Answer key
Included

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About this resource

⭐I made this fruits and vegetables puzzle set for my Year 2 and Year 3 students during our nutrition unit. The kids could name junk food all day but froze when I asked them to list vegetables. So I put together a word search, a word scramble, and a crossword using words like apple, banana, carrot, broccoli, lettuce, tomato, potato, grapes, and spinach. Nothing fancy — just puzzles to help them learn the names.

The download is three PDFs, six pages. Three puzzles, each with an answer key page. The word search works well for quiet time after break. The scramble gets them talking because they mix up letters in "broccoli" or argue whether tomato is a fruit or vegetable. The crossword I use for partners. I added a couple simple apple and carrot drawings but nothing too busy.

Works for Years 1 to 4. Print and go. Sometimes I ask early finishers to pick their favourite fruit and vegetable and write one sentence about each on the back. The kids actually enjoy these.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Name and spell fruits and vegetables from definition clues

  • Unscramble letters to form produce names

Skills covered

  • Using clues — naming a fruit or vegetable from a short description

  • Spelling — rebuilding scrambled produce words letter by letter

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