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Word Puzzle for Christmas

Crazy Carols

This word puzzle for Christmas fun and wacky. It's one you'll want to share with students, family and friends! Before you try to solve it, think about all the Christmas songs you know. That will give you a head start.

Each line represents the name a Christmas song. It may be traditional, religious, modern, or silly. Each syllable in the title has been replaced with a rhyming word. The rhymes don’t always have the same spellings as the real word, and we didn’t always keep the same word breaks or punctuation, just to keep things more interesting. See how many of these Crazy Carols you can solve!

Word Puzzle for Christmas: Crazy Carols

Here’s an example: Cup Con the Mouse Flop = Up On the House Top

Here's a peek at the puzzle. For best results, use the printable version. Answers are included on the printable version, and under the blue button at the bottom of this page.

1. See Wee Rings

2. Astray in a Danger

3. So Slowly Site

4. Di, Thaw Free Chips!

5. Clue Miss Fuss

6. Crude Golf: A Head-Posed Main Gear

7. Carry, Squid Moo Snow?

8. Wreck the Malls

9. Four a Lean Son, Sister Pinch

10. Fanta, Maybe?

11. My Word the Wells

12. Nut Mild His Miss

13. Splinter Under Gland

14. My Word the Wells

15. Would Sing Hen Mess Thus

16. Way Tide

17. Duh Worst Dough Fell

18. That a Cat Scan

19. Barrel of the Tells

20. Dry Law Llama Missing Hand a Paws

Remember to use the printable version. You'll find answers there, or under the blue button below.

Try Another Word Puzzle for Christmas!

Printable Christmas Brain Teaser Puzzles - 2 fun and interesting cryptograms. How long will it take you to decode them? In case you're not familiar with cryptograms, I include complete instructions for solving them. Then you can try first, to uncover a quotation inspired by a well-known Christmas song. Secondly, you'll decode a list of popular fictional Christmas characters. This is twice the fun as just ONE cryptogram!

Another Easy Word Puzzle

Here's another simple word puzzle idea. Ask everyone in the group to list as many words as possible using only the letters in Christmas. Set a timer for 1, 2, or 3 minutes to add to the excitement. For adults, use less time. For younger people, use more.

Announce the rules before time begins. For instance, the word CHRISTMAS contains two Ss, so they may spell words in which the letter S also appears twice. But other letters should only be used once. At the end of time, participants may read their word lists. Award a small prize (perhaps a candy cane?) to the person with the most words.

Holiday Word Scramble - Unscramble each set of letters to spell a holiday word. Write your word in the puzzle, around the letters in "Happy Holidays." This is a great puzzle for the classroom, the office or any family gathering.

Free Christmas worksheet - letter to Santa

Letter to Santa - Find all the mistakes in Bobby's heartfelt letter to Santa Claus in this free Christmas worksheet. Rewrite the letter correctly. Better yet, write your own letter to Santa! This words well in the classroom because it reinforces the correct spelling of many words.

Easy Group Word Game for Christmas

Try an old favorite word game for a group, adapted into a word puzzle for Christmas! Sit in a circle. The first person says something like this: "I opened my Christmas presents and I found an angel." The second person says, "I opened my presents and I found an angel and a book." The third person says, "I opened my Christmas presents, and I found an angel, a book, and a calendar."

Play continues with each new player reciting all the previous gifts, plus a new one that begins with the next letter of the alphabet. Gifts may be either practical OR preposterous!

Christmas Word Searches - Two very non-traditional word search puzzles that you're sure to love. Look closely for special words hidden inside Christmas stockings. The first puzzle, you'll try to find out how many times STOCKING is spelled. In the second, you'll do the same for TOYS. These free Christmas worksheets are a bit tricky, and oh, so much fun!

1. We Three Kings
2. Away in a Manger
3. O Holy Night
4. I Saw Three Ships
5. Blue Christmas
6. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
7. Mary, Did You Know?
8. Deck the Halls
9. You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
10. Santa Baby
11. I Heard the Bells
12. What Child Is This?
13. Winter Wonderland
14. I Heard the Bells
15. Good King Wenceslaus
16. Sleigh Ride
17. The First Noel
18. Pat-a-Pat-Pan
19. Carol of the Bells
20. I Saw Mama Kissing Santa Claus

Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.

Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.

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