How to Make a Daily Printable Crossword Puzzle

Creating a free daily printable crossword puzzle can be fairly easy if you know the steps.

Things You'll Need

• pen
• paper
• dictionary or thesaurus
• calculator
• stock grid
• puzzle creator software like crossword compiler

Instructions

1. Determine what daily themes you will use for your free printable crossword puzzle.

2. Decide on your entry words and make sure to vary the word lengths for interest and make it easy to fill in your puzzle later.

3. Count the total number of word entries and total letter spaces needed to create your printable crossword puzzle.

4. Construct a grid size that best represents your total entry words and total number of letters. Most standard crossword puzzles are 15 x 15 but there can be many other printable variations and the format can be changed easy daily.

5. Write your clues for the entry words. You can use definitions, facts, trivia, synonyms, antonyms, etc. to keep your puzzle interesting to use daily.

6. Number your questions and their corresponding answers, then divide them in half randomly to build the across and down categories of your crossword puzzle.

7. Place the numbered answers in your pre loaded grid program and try to fit as many words together as possible, working from left to right and down one line at a time.

8. Now start at the top left and fit in the down answers using a matching letter in each of the across entry words and fill as much of the puzzle as possible.

9. Save your free crossword puzzle and you can format them to be printable on a daily basis!

Tips & Warnings

• compile many more entries than you need to fill your printable grid.

• use fill in the blank crossword clues for easy free fill words.

• vary the lengths of the puzzle entry words to allow for fill.

• Use a software to compile your grids for uniformity and to make them more printable.

• fill in any remaining blocks of your puzzle with black and you can vary this technique to create different shaped puzzles

Resources

• Barbie Computer games
• Barbie makeover game
• Barbie math games