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Twenty-four school-bag words make up this list: backpack, compass, crayons, notebook, scissors, sharpener and ruler. Free to print as a PDF, or play it online.

There is no lead in a pencil and there never was. A deposit of unusually pure graphite was found in Cumbria in the 1560s, marking paper beautifully but crumbling in the hand, so it was wrapped first in string and later in wood. People called it black lead because it looked like the metal, and the name has outlived the mistake by four hundred years.

Rubber is named after the eraser rather than the other way round. Until the 1770s the usual way to take out a pencil mark was a lump of stale bread. When the chemist Joseph Priestley wrote about a South American gum that did the job far better, he described it as a substance for rubbing out, and the material has been called rubber ever since.

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Puzzle Vocabulary Words

Below you can see all possible words that the topic Back to School has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.

  • Backpack
  • Calculus
  • Compass
  • Computer
  • Crayons
  • Friends
  • Glitter
  • Glue
  • Journal
  • Learn
  • Library
  • Lunch
  • Marker
  • Math
  • Notebook
  • Pencil
  • Reading
  • Ruler
  • Science
  • Scissors
  • Sharpener
  • Student
  • Teacher
  • Writing