A clean, ready-to-print word search featuring the planets of our solar system plus the Sun. Students find nine hidden words: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Sun.

Perfect as a quick starter activity, early finisher task, or cover lesson filler for any space or Earth and space topic.

Works well as a calm, focused activity during science week or as part of a wider solar system unit.

Suitable for key stage 1 and lower key stage 2

How you could use this:
Starter or plenary for a solar system lesson
Homework or home learning task
Science week activity
Cover lesson resource
Reward or enrichment task

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