Enjoy fairy tale stories of yummy desserts! Pączki have been made in Poland since the Middle Ages. Traditional pączki are made from rich dough containing eggs, fats, sugar, and yeast. Real paczki dough looks yellow. Pączki Day is also called ‘Fat Tuesday’ because it is just before Ash Wednesday. Enjoy this fun word search called “Pączki Word Search”. Word searches develop spelling skills, extend vocabulary, and emphasize pattern recognition. Find all of the hidden words! Enjoy replaying one of your favorite word searches. Each time you replay it, the words are reordered to make it more challenging.

Word Search Instructions:

1. To view vocabulary words in the boxes below the puzzle, click on each box.
2. To play, click on the first letter of the word and then click on the last letter of the vocabulary word to highlight the entire word in the puzzle.
3. Words may be found going forward, backward, up, down, or diagonally.
4. After each vocabulary word is found, each word in the box will have a slash through it if clicked on.
5. Once you have completed the word search, a message will say “CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WIN!”
6. Have fun!

Mobile version may vary. (Word Box: Pączki, filling, Polish, doughnut, and sugar)

Homeschoolers/Educators/Parents: draw/color an illustration. Theme: rich, yummy food! Read the story “Benjamin Bunny” in Learning to Read: Fairy Tale Adventures. Talk about what Benjamin Bunny did to find yummy food. Put these words in alphabetical order and use in a sentence: filling, Polish, doughnut, sugar, Paczki. Write about Paczki Day. Safely make a yummy treat and eat it. Take a picture of it. Write down the ingredients in it. (Skillset: identify, comprehend, apply, creative, verbal, project)

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