Dolch 95 Common Nouns
The Dolch list of 95 common nouns — concrete, picture-friendly words.
Puzzle 1 of 5
All puzzles for this list
- Puzzle 1 — words 1–19
- Puzzle 2 — words 20–38
- Puzzle 3 — words 39–57
- Puzzle 4 — words 58–76
- Puzzle 5 — words 77–95
- Customize in the word search maker
Three ways to practice this list
The full list
- apple
- baby
- back
- ball
- bear
- bed
- bell
- bird
- birthday
- boat
- box
- boy
- bread
- brother
- cake
- car
- cat
- chair
- chicken
- children
- Christmas
- coat
- corn
- cow
- day
- dog
- doll
- door
- duck
- egg
- eye
- farm
- farmer
- father
- feet
- fire
- fish
- floor
- flower
- game
- garden
- girl
- goat
- goodbye
- grass
- ground
- hand
- head
- hill
- home
- horse
- house
- kitty
- leg
- letter
- man
- men
- milk
- money
- morning
- mother
- name
- nest
- night
- paper
- party
- picture
- pig
- rabbit
- rain
- ring
- robin
- school
- seed
- sheep
- shoe
- sister
- snow
- song
- squirrel
- stick
- street
- sun
- table
- thing
- time
- top
- toy
- tree
- watch
- water
- way
- wind
- window
- wood
Teaching notes
Nouns are the bridge from word hunts to meaning: have children sketch any five words they find. The list is split into chunks of about twenty words per puzzle on purpose — ninety-five circles in one sitting helps nobody.