Spring crosswords for kids
These free spring crossword puzzles are written for elementary students and work from March through May. The easy puzzle prints its answers in a word bank, so early readers can match each clue to a word. The medium puzzle is about the spring garden, from blossoms to caterpillars. The hard puzzle is a spring science crossword covering photosynthesis, pollination, germination and the butterfly life cycle, so it doubles as a review for a plants or life-cycles unit. Every PDF is US-letter size with the answer key on page two.
Clues in each puzzle
Spring Is Here (easy, Ages 6–8)
Across
- 3. It blooms in many colors in spring
- 6. Color of new spring grass and leaves
- 8. Jump in this after it rains
- 9. Fly it on a windy day
Down
- 1. Green animal that hops and croaks
- 2. Buzzing insect that visits flowers
- 4. Water that falls from the clouds
- 5. Plant it in the dirt and it grows
- 7. Birds build this to lay their eggs
Spring Garden (medium, Ages 8–10)
Across
- 1. Spring begins this month
- 5. A gentle wind
- 6. Colorful arc in the sky after the rain
- 8. Cup-shaped flower that grows from a bulb
- 10. You use a ___ can to give plants a drink
- 11. Wiggly larva that turns into a butterfly
- 12. Flower on a fruit tree
Down
- 2. Red-breasted bird often seen in spring
- 3. Place where you plant vegetables and flowers
- 4. Tiny new plant poking out of the soil
- 7. Insect with colorful wings that starts life as a caterpillar
- 9. Keeps you dry in the rain
Spring Science (hard, Ages 9–12)
Across
- 2. Many birds fly back north in spring after this long journey
- 5. Baby frog that lives in the water
- 8. Yellow powder that flowers make
- 11. How plants use sunlight, water and air to make their food
- 12. Sweet liquid in flowers that bees drink
Down
- 1. When a seed begins to sprout
- 2. The big change from caterpillar to butterfly
- 3. Part of a plant that drinks water from the soil
- 4. Bees carry pollen from flower to flower in this process
- 5. Storm with lightning, common in spring
- 6. The spring ___ is when day and night are about the same length
- 7. Green pigment that helps plants capture sunlight
- 9. Hard case a caterpillar forms before it becomes a butterfly
- 10. ___ saving time starts in spring, when clocks spring forward
Want your own word list? The crossword maker turns any spelling or vocabulary list into a printable crossword, with the same spring borders. Looking for more? Try our spring color by number, spring bingo, the spring I Spy and our Easter crosswords.
