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Colors #7

SKOKEVIVYCGRYRLO
BAVIVINOBCNTCTLL
NVDNISNLCSSVNVRI
WLRVBREDLDNDIIVD
SLAERVLELKSBNKWN
CBTLAOLVLLTRLVTT
GRKGYWTDENSLBDKS
BBEBDEYYELLOWSOW
KKEVNKSIGGBNWDKG
BKLSLKLAILGELSGO
RIRGLIKYCWTEARLN
OOSWRRSTCOEGAAAA
WEABTAGIKLRYEVOG
NBDTADNERCRTYTNY
GCGDGSYGKCALBIYY
OYWESALGVWSAOWBB

Find these words

  • BLACK
  • GRAY
  • YELLOW
  • SILVER
  • TEAL
  • RED
  • BROWN
  • NAVY

About this puzzle

At just eight words, this is the shortest puzzle in the bunch, skipping past the basic primaries most students already know. RED and YELLOW are the only classic primary colors here โ€” the rest (SILVER, TEAL, NAVY, GRAY, BROWN, BLACK) are the kind of shade words that show up in art class or in real descriptions, like a navy jacket or a teal water bottle. That makes this a step up from an early-elementary color puzzle, better matched to students who already know their basics and are ready to describe things more precisely.

Art students ready to move past RED and YELLOW can use TEAL and NAVY as their first vocabulary for naming shades instead of just basic colors.

Lesson Ideas

  • 1.Before starting, ask students to name one thing in the room that's SILVER, TEAL, or NAVY โ€” colors that come up far less often than RED or YELLOW.
  • 2.Have students rank the eight colors from most common in nature to least common โ€” BLACK, GRAY, and BROWN usually land near the top, while SILVER and NAVY tend to land near the bottom.
  • 3.For a descriptive-writing warm-up, students describe an outfit using at least three found colors, working in a less common one like TEAL or NAVY.
  • 4.NAVY is named after naval uniforms and TEAL after a duck's blue-green feathers โ€” a quick, fun vocabulary-history detour once both words are found.

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