Back to School Word Scramble

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Looking for a back to school activity for the first week of school? Try this free printable Back to School Word Scramble!

Related: Back to School Bingo

Free Printable Back to School Word Scramble

This word scramble is an easy activity to print for the first week back to school. Follow it with a back to school scavenger hunt.

For more back to school activities, see our Back to School Would You Rather, I Spy Back to School and Back to School Bingo.

Grab the free printable PDF at the bottom of the post.

back to school word scramble free printable

Simply download, print, and start unscrambling!

Free Printable Back to School Word Scramble

Some tips you can give to kids to help them unscramble the words:

Look at the vowels and consonants separately.
Think of all of the back to school related words you know (like supplies and things that would be at school). Write them down. Do you notice some of the same letters? Write down anything that comes to mind and compare.
Often mixing up the letters on your own can help. Re-write the letters in a different way and see if anything familiar pops out.
For younger kids, write out all of the answer words on the sheet for them to look at or use our word matching page that has the answers they can match with the unscrambled words.

There is also a full answer sheet included so you can easily identify the answers for kids. You can also cut out the answer words and kids can glue them onto the worksheet.

Back to School Word Scramble Answer Sheet

Make it a game:

See who can solve them all first for a prize.
Set a time limit and see how many they can answer!

Ways to use this word scramble:

Print off as a fun ice breaker activity for the first week back to school. Follow it with our get to know you bingo or back to school bingo.
Have a competition to see who can solve them all the fastest.

Ways to extend this activity:

Extend this activity further by having kids come up with their own back to school words to scramble. Then they can quiz classmates on the words they scrambled on their own.