Description

The relationship of width to height in a picture or shape.
Predrawn artwork in a wide variety of styles. Office clip art files can include drawn graphics, photographs, sounds, and animated graphics.
To remove a portion of a picture or shape that is not needed. The cropped portion is hidden until you compress the picture.
A grid of horizontal and vertical lines that can be used as guides when positioning objects on a slide.
Nonprinting vertical and horizontal lines that you can move or copy to align objects on a slide
A word or phrase that describes a subject or category on which you can search.
An action where you select an entire graphic while holding hold down the left mouse button
The way in which objects stack up on a slide as you create them.
A feature that enables a user to select color wash to place over an image or to set it to grayscale, black and white, or washout.
A feature that enables a user to select color wash to place over an image or to set it to grayscale, black and white, or washout.
Horizontal and vertical measures that help you position objects on a slide.
The intensity of a color. The more saturated, the more bright the colors appear.
Dashed lines that help a user with alignment as shapes are moved around a slide.
The subtle tint of an image’s color, ranging from warmer shades (more red) to cooler shades (more blue)..
An animation sequencing setting that causes the animation to trigger after the previous event has finished. Compare to With Previous.
An effect you apply to placeholders or other content to move the content in unique ways on the slide.
A feature that copies animation settings from one object to another
A pane that enables you to manage all the animation effects on the active slide.
A sound or music clip
An animation setting that specifies how long the effect should pause before it begins.
An animation setting that determines how long an animation effect should take to execute
An animation effect that causes an object to move, change color, or otherwise call attention to itself when it is neither entering nor exiting the slide.
An animation effect that occurs when an object is entering the slide.
An animation effect that occurs when an object is exiting the slide.
An animation effect that moves an object along a specified path.
A trigger for an animation or transition that occurs when the mouse is clicked.
An image that displays on a slide when a video clip is not actively playing.
A recording of your screen motions that allows you to illustrate an action on your computer with or without audio to show viewers how to do something.
The movement from one slide to the next.
A movie, animated graphic, or motion video clip.
An animation setting that causes the animation to begin executing simultaneously with the previous animation or event.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a crossword?

Crossword puzzles have been published in newspapers and other publications since 1873. They consist of a grid of squares where the player aims to write words both horizontally and vertically.

Next to the crossword will be a series of questions or clues, which relate to the various rows or lines of boxes in the crossword. The player reads the question or clue, and tries to find a word that answers the question in the same amount of letters as there are boxes in the related crossword row or line.

Some of the words will share letters, so will need to match up with each other. The words can vary in length and complexity, as can the clues.

Who is a crossword suitable for?

The fantastic thing about crosswords is, they are completely flexible for whatever age or reading level you need. You can use many words to create a complex crossword for adults, or just a couple of words for younger children.

Crosswords can use any word you like, big or small, so there are literally countless combinations that you can create for templates. It is easy to customise the template to the age or learning level of your students.

How do I create a crossword template?

For the easiest crossword templates, WordMint is the way to go!

Pre-made templates

For a quick and easy pre-made template, simply search through WordMint’s existing 500,000+ templates. With so many to choose from, you’re bound to find the right one for you!

Create your own from scratch

  • Log in to your account (it’s free to join!)
  • Head to ‘My Puzzles’
  • Click ‘Create New Puzzle’ and select ‘Crossword’
  • Select your layout, enter your title and your chosen clues and answers
  • That’s it! The template builder will create your crossword template for you and you can save it to your account, export as a word document or pdf and print!

How do I choose the clues for my crossword?

Once you’ve picked a theme, choose clues that match your students current difficulty level. For younger children, this may be as simple as a question of “What color is the sky?” with an answer of “blue”.

Are crosswords good for students?

Crosswords are a great exercise for students' problem solving and cognitive abilities. Not only do they need to solve a clue and think of the correct answer, but they also have to consider all of the other words in the crossword to make sure the words fit together.

Crosswords are great for building and using vocabulary.

If this is your first time using a crossword with your students, you could create a crossword FAQ template for them to give them the basic instructions.

Can I print my crossword template?

All of our templates can be exported into Microsoft Word to easily print, or you can save your work as a PDF to print for the entire class. Your puzzles get saved into your account for easy access and printing in the future, so you don’t need to worry about saving them at work or at home!

Can I create crosswords in other languages?

Crosswords are a fantastic resource for students learning a foreign language as they test their reading, comprehension and writing all at the same time. When learning a new language, this type of test using multiple different skills is great to solidify students' learning.

We have full support for crossword templates in languages such as Spanish, French and Japanese with diacritics including over 100,000 images, so you can create an entire crossword in your target language including all of the titles, and clues.