Jumbo Word Search: The Good Old Days

Description

A hundred jumbo word searches about the way things were.

Washday and the mangle, the corner shop, the wireless, Saturday pictures, the coalman and the milkman, sledging on a tea tray. A hundred puzzles that take you back, each one a small scene from a life that many of us remember, set in letters big enough to read across a table.

Every puzzle is a scene from the way things were: the corner shop, washday, Sunday dinner, the playground, the wireless, bath night, the sweet shop, the coal fire. The words are the ones people said and handled every day, so most of them bring a memory with them before you've found them in the grid.

What’s inside The Good Old Days

• A hundred themes from the good old days: the sweet shop, bath night, the playground, harvest home and ninety-six more
• One hundred puzzles, one to a page, in 30-point letters
• Ten words to find in each, a thousand in the book
• Words read across and down only — never backwards, never diagonally
• Every solution at the back, printed just as large

All 100 puzzles

Every puzzle has its own theme and ten words to find. Here’s the whole book, puzzle by puzzle:

1. The Corner Shop
2. Washday
3. Sunday Dinner
4. The Playground
5. At the Seaside
6. School Days
7. The Milkman
8. Bath Night
9. The Wireless
10. Bonfire Night
11. Christmas Morning
12. The Sweet Shop
13. Down the Lane
14. Grandma's Kitchen
15. The Coal Fire
16. Saturday Pictures
17. Market Day
18. The Front Room
19. Skipping Games
20. Rag and Bone
21. The Outside Loo
22. Making Do
23. The Bus Stop
24. Harvest Home
25. The Village Fete
26. Sunday School
27. The Ice Cream Van
28. Wash and Set
29. The Coalman
30. Blackout
31. Teatime Treats
32. The Paper Round
33. Wash Tub
34. The Allotment
35. Pocket Money
36. The Church Bells
37. Knitting Circle
38. The Chip Shop
39. Trolley Bus
40. Spring Cleaning
41. The Butcher
42. Sunday Best
43. The Doorstep
44. Camping Out
45. The Bakery
46. Wireless Serial
47. The Haberdasher
48. Pram Walk
49. Hot Water Bottle
50. The Greengrocer
51. Sledging
52. Bring and Buy
53. The Lamplighter
54. Board Games
55. The Post Office
56. Washing Line
57. Coach Trip
58. Party Games
59. The Doctor
60. Autumn Leaves
61. The Dance Hall
62. Bread and Dripping
63. The Ironmonger
64. Wash Basin
65. The Fishmonger
66. Bedtime Story
67. Muffin Man
68. The Tallyman
69. Tin Toys and Marbles
70. Wet Playtime
71. The Coal Range
72. A Day in Town
73. The Scullery
74. Bicycle Rides
75. Chapel Anniversary
76. The Pawnbroker
77. Games in the Street
78. The Tuck Shop
79. Bank Holiday
80. Sewing Box
81. The Flicks
82. Snow Days
83. The Piano
84. Laundry Day
85. Cricket on the Green
86. The Tea Caddy
87. Saturday Job
88. Bluebell Woods
89. The Chimney Sweep
90. Pancake Day
91. The Cobbler
92. Nature Table
93. Picnic in the Park
94. Rent Day
95. Home from School
96. The Village Pump
97. Whit Walks
98. Grandad's Shed
99. The Wash House
100. Conker Season

Specifications

Who it’s for

Anyone who finds ordinary puzzle books a strain: older adults, people with low vision, and anyone who’d rather not reach for the reading glasses. Because the words only read across and down, there’s no trick to spot, so it suits a quiet half hour alone as well as a shared puzzle at the kitchen table or in a care home activity room. Printed one puzzle to a sheet, it’s easy to hand round.

It makes an easy gift for a parent or grandparent. Because it’s a download, you can print the puzzles and give them in a folder, or print a few at a time and keep the rest for later.

More from The Jumbo Word Search Collection

The Good Old Days is book 1 of the ten-book The Jumbo Word Search Collection. It’s also part of The Days Gone By Word Search Trio (three books for $16.99), and of The Complete Jumbo Word Search Collection, all ten books for $39.99. Not sure yet? Print the free sampler: one puzzle from every book, with the solutions.

More like this: our large print word search puzzles for seniors and printable word search puzzles. Prefer to color? See our coloring pages for seniors.

Good to know

• It’s a digital download: PDF files, no physical book is posted.
• Your links appear on the confirmation page and by email, and work for 90 days and 5 downloads per file.
• Personal use: print as many copies as you like for yourself, your family or your own classroom. Please don’t share or resell the files or printed pages.
• If a file won’t download or print properly, email littlepageshop@leafyorb.com and we’ll fix it or refund you.

Paper and printer settings are in our printing guide; everything else is in the FAQ.