How to Make Your Own Circle Word Puzzles
Circle word puzzles provide both entertainment and educational benefits. Teachers and parents can use these word search puzzles to help teach spelling and vocabulary. Online puzzle programs simplify the task of making original circle word puzzles. Many online services provide puzzle makers for free. Users can select an online service and make a puzzle by typing in the vocabulary list. The puzzle programs complete the puzzle and allow the user to print out her own circle word puzzles.
Instructions
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Discovery Education
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Access Discovery Education's Puzzlemaker page. Click on "Word Search" to open the program that creates circle word puzzles. Enter a title and size for the puzzle. You can use the default size of 15 letters down and 15 letters up or create a bigger or smaller puzzle.
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Choose the letter-sharing option in the third step. You can make a more difficult puzzle by choosing to make words that have letters in common. Choose the output type for your circle word puzzle. Select the "HTML" type if you want to print out the puzzle. You can use the "Text" or "Lowercase Text" output if you want to copy the whole puzzle and paste it into another document.
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Type in the words for the puzzle. Separate the words with a comma or space. Alternatively, put each word to be circled by the puzzle users on its own line. Click the "Create My Puzzle" button. You will see the puzzle on the next page. You can then print it out with the "Print This Page" link if you created an HTML puzzle. You can copy and paste the word search puzzle if you created a text puzzle.
Puzzle-Maker
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Open the Puzzle-Maker "Instant Online Word Search Maker" program. This tool creates a circle word puzzle online that you can copy and paste to other files or print out to make a paper copy.
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Enter one word per line in the word box. You can select the number of rows and columns for the puzzle with the drop-down menus or keep the boxes at the "Auto" default to let the program format the puzzle.
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Click the "Create Puzzle" button. You can view and either print out or copy and paste the puzzle on the next page. Click on "Print" in the "File" menu of your browser to print out the puzzle with your local printer.
SuperKids
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Access the "SuperKids WordSearch Puzzle Creator" page. You can use this free puzzle creator for younger children. It allows you to create a puzzle that has no words going in a backward direction.
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Enter one hidden word per line. You can also use the drop-down menus to modify the grid height and weight to as few as six and as many as 30 letters.
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Click the "Create Page" button to generate the circle word puzzle on the next page. You can also copy and paste the completed word search or use the "Print" feature in your browser's "File" menu to print puzzles.
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Tips & Warnings
Do not try to make and sell puzzles with SuperKids or Discovery Education. These sites limit puzzles to personal or classroom use. However, you may use Puzzle-Maker puzzles for any reason if you mention the Puzzle-Maker website address on your puzzles.
