Little Red Riding Hood Fairy Tale Words Puzzles

Fairy Tales Little Red Riding Hood word search, scramble and crossword puzzle

I made this Little Red Riding Hood puzzle set for my 1st and 2nd graders during our fairy tale unit. The kids were fascinated by the wolf and the red hood, but they kept mixing up who the characters were in the story . So I put together a word search, a word scramble, and a crossword using words from the classic tale like Little Red Riding Hood, wolf, grandmother, woods, basket, axe, hunter, and forest . I also threw in "woodsman" because he's an important character in many versions of the story . Nothing fancy — just puzzles to help the vocabulary finally stick.

The PDF is four pages. Three puzzles plus one answer key page. The word search works well for quiet time after recess. The scramble gets them talking because they argue about the spelling of "grandmother" or whether the wolf ate the grandmother first or just pretended to be her . The crossword I use for partners, and I usually have a picture of the red riding hood and the wolf in grandmother's clothes nearby for the kids who need a visual . I added a couple simple hood, basket, and wolf drawings but nothing too busy.

Works for 1st through 3rd grade. Print and go. Sometimes I have early finishers draw a new ending to the story on the back. The kids actually ask for these now.