I've started another blog specifically for Christmas word searches. I have a huge collection of free printable Christmas word searches that I'll be sharing with you all on a daily basis. These will be an excellent resource for teachers to use over the next few weeks before the Christmas holidays begin. It will also be an excellent resource for parents who will be home with their children for up to two weeks, and need to keep them out of their hair! However we won't be catering to just teachers, parents, and children. I'll also be posting some more difficult Christmas word search puzzles for the adults to do in their spare time as well.
Please visit Christmas Word Search today! To make it easy on you, you could also subscribe to the site's RSS feed to have new Christmas word searches delivered to you every day!
Merry Christmas!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Create Your Own Word Search
Fellow unix geek and word search enthusiast Phil Paradis has written a Perl program that will allow you to create a word search!
This is great news if you run your own web site. Using Phil's script, you can easily automatically create a word search on your own web site, based upon input from the user. For example, the webmaster could build a form to allow it's users to input a combination of words and hints, and have your web site create and display the word search for the user to immediately use. Pretty cool! You an find Phil's scripts here. Hopefully we'll be able to implement this on this site, and start sharing and trading your original word search!
This UNIX Perl console application generates crossword puzzles from a list of words and clues. It's intended to serve as a backend to programs which gather input data from users, then format the resulting puzzle into a human-readable format.
This is great news if you run your own web site. Using Phil's script, you can easily automatically create a word search on your own web site, based upon input from the user. For example, the webmaster could build a form to allow it's users to input a combination of words and hints, and have your web site create and display the word search for the user to immediately use. Pretty cool! You an find Phil's scripts here. Hopefully we'll be able to implement this on this site, and start sharing and trading your original word search!
Monday, November 12, 2007
Free Printable Crosswords!
Printable Crosswords has a link to a very cool site that will allow you to create a word search online, using your own word and hint combination, and produce a printable crosswords for you to use, share, and maybe even sell!
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Create A Word Search
One cool thing about printable crosswords is the ability to create a word search yourself, and then print them for yourself or friends. There are several ways to go about creating a word search yourself, but luckily there are lots of tools readily available to help you create a word search!
Creating a word search isn't hard. Typically you would first decide on a list of words you would want to include in the word search. Then you would need to decide how big you want your word search to be. 10 x 10 or 15 x 15 would be good choices to start with. Now the hard part: How do you get all of your words from your list in to your word search?
That is one of the many topics we are going to explore here. It's not that hard if you have the right tools and resources available, and that's exactly what we are going to cover. Did you know that after you have created a word search for yourself, friends, family, or local newsletter to enjoy, you could also sell that exact same word search and make a few bucks? I'm a crossword junkie and love to create a word search based upon my topics and interests, and I was floored to find out that other people would pay to play my crossword puzzles!
Over the next week we'll be exploring some of the tools and tricks of the trade to get you on the road so you can create a word search of your own. It's a great skill to have! Everyone loves word searches and they can be created for all kinds of occasions, and target specific people, families, and topics. And on top of that, it's just down right fun to create a word search!
Creating a word search isn't hard. Typically you would first decide on a list of words you would want to include in the word search. Then you would need to decide how big you want your word search to be. 10 x 10 or 15 x 15 would be good choices to start with. Now the hard part: How do you get all of your words from your list in to your word search?
That is one of the many topics we are going to explore here. It's not that hard if you have the right tools and resources available, and that's exactly what we are going to cover. Did you know that after you have created a word search for yourself, friends, family, or local newsletter to enjoy, you could also sell that exact same word search and make a few bucks? I'm a crossword junkie and love to create a word search based upon my topics and interests, and I was floored to find out that other people would pay to play my crossword puzzles!
Over the next week we'll be exploring some of the tools and tricks of the trade to get you on the road so you can create a word search of your own. It's a great skill to have! Everyone loves word searches and they can be created for all kinds of occasions, and target specific people, families, and topics. And on top of that, it's just down right fun to create a word search!
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