January Word Search
Forty words for the first month of the year, from the countdown at midnight and the confetti of the New Year to the snow day, the sledding hill and the mug of hot cocoa after it. Print the free PDF, or play it online.
January is named for Janus, the Roman god of doorways, who was carved with two faces so he could look back at the old year and ahead to the new one. That is the whole idea behind a resolution. The habit is ancient: the Babylonians made promises to their gods at each new year, most of them about paying back debts and returning borrowed tools.
It is also the coldest month across most of the country. A woodchuck that went to hibernate in the fall has slowed its heart to a handful of beats a minute by now. The 6th is Epiphany, twelve days after Christmas, when many countries mark the visit of the three kings. On the third Monday, schools mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which Congress named a national day of service in 1994; the dream on this list comes from his 1963 speech in Washington. The 29th is National Puzzle Day. The month's birthstone is the garnet, and its flowers are the carnation and the snowdrop.
Free January Word Search Online Game
Play the January word search in your browser, on your own or head to head against a friend in real time. Nothing to install and no account needed – send someone the link and you are both looking at the same grid.
January 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 January 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
Print or Download pdfMedium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
Print or Download pdfEasy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
Print or Download pdf
Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic January 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.
- Blizzard
- Calendar
- Cardinal
- Chickadee
- Civil Rights
- Confetti
- Countdown
- Dream
- Earmuffs
- Epiphany
- Fireplace
- Frost
- Garnet
- Goals
- Hibernate
- Hot Cocoa
- Ice Fishing
- Icicle
- Inauguration
- January
- Janus
- Midnight
- Mittens
- New Year
- Oatmeal
- Polar Bear
- Puzzle
- Resolution
- Service
- Shovel
- Sledding
- Snow Angel
- Snow Day
- Snowdrop
- Snowflake
- Snowplow
- Soup
- Toboggan
- Wind Chill
- Winter
January Holidays and National Days
Every date in January has an occasion and a word search of its own as well. See them all on the January calendar and plan the month's puzzles ahead.