Advent Word Search
This Advent word search follows the four weeks before Christmas: the wreath with a candle each for hope, peace, joy and love, the pink candle of Gaudete Sunday, the calendar with its little doors, and the prophets Isaiah and John the Baptist.
Advent comes from the Latin adventus, coming. It begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas, which always falls between November 27 and December 3, and it opens the church year in Western churches. The candle colors follow the vestments: purple for waiting and repentance, and pink or rose on the third Sunday, Gaudete, named for the first word of the Latin entrance chant, "Rejoice."
The Advent wreath began in 1839 in Hamburg, where the pastor Johann Hinrich Wichern set candles on an old cartwheel for the boys at the Rauhes Haus, his home for poor children: a small candle for each weekday and a large one for each Sunday. Families later cut it down to four candles on evergreen. The first printed Advent calendars came from Germany in the early 1900s, and chocolate behind the doors arrived in the 1950s.
Free Advent Word Search Online Game
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Advent Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Advent word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
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10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Advent 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.
- Advent
- Annunciation
- Calendar
- Candle
- Chocolate
- Coming
- Countdown
- December
- Doors
- Elizabeth
- Emmanuel
- Evergreen
- Four Sundays
- Gabriel
- Gaudete
- Herald
- Hope
- Isaiah
- Jesse Tree
- John the Baptist
- Joy
- Light
- Love
- Lucia
- Magnificat
- Mary
- Messiah
- Peace
- Pink
- Prepare
- Prophets
- Purple
- Repent
- Saint Nicholas
- Season
- Vigil
- Waiting
- Watch
- Wreath
- Zechariah