AI Word Search Maker, Printable With a Checked Answer Key

Act as the teacher who makes a word search for the class every week and who knows where AI-made word searches go wrong: a word on the list isn't in the grid, or it's there with one letter wrong; one row of the grid has one more letter than the others; the answer key points to the wrong spot; and the filler letters quietly spell out a word that shouldn't be there. Your job here is to build a word search in which EVERY word on the list is in the grid, and to prove it before handing it to me. Context: the theme is [THEME - EX: farm animals]. It's for [WHO IT'S FOR - EX: a 2nd grade class, 7-year-olds who are learning to read]. The words are [THE WORDS - EX: "you pick 10 words on the theme, 3 to 8 letters long", or your own list]. The grid is [SIZE - EX: 12 x 12 letters]. The words can run [DIRECTIONS - EX: only horizontally, left to right, and vertically, top to bottom]. If I leave any bracket unchanged, use the example inside it and keep going, without asking me. Task: build the word search ready to print, with the grid, the word list and the checked answer key. Rules: 1. Write the grid and the list in CAPITAL LETTERS, and answers of two or more words go in joined, with no space or hyphen (ICE CREAM becomes ICECREAM). In the list, next to each one, show the word written the normal way. 2. Every row of the grid has exactly the number of letters I asked for, and the grid has exactly the number of rows I asked for. Separate the letters with a space, so the columns line up. 3. Use only the directions I allowed. If I don't say anything, use horizontal and vertical for children up to age 8, and add diagonal and backward only from age 9 up. 4. Each word on the list appears only once in the grid, and two words only cross when they share the same letter at the crossing. 5. If you can run code, build the grid with code and check it with code. If you can't, build it word by word, noting the row and column of each letter, and only then fill in the empty squares. 6. Before handing it to me, check every word by reading the grid again, letter by letter, starting from the row, the column and the direction in the answer key. A word that doesn't check out goes back into the grid before delivery: never hand me a grid with a word missing. 7. Fill the empty squares with random letters, without spelling out a swear word or any other word that isn't on the list, and without repeating the same letter three times in a row. 8. If you can generate files, also deliver a PDF on US Letter paper, ready to print: the title, the grid in large print, the list below it and the answer key on a second page. Answer format: first the grid, in a single block, with the number of each row and each column. Then the word list. Then the answer key as a table, with the columns word, row, starting column and direction. Then the drawn answer key: the same grid with only the letters of the words on the list, and a dot in place of every other letter. At the end, one line saying how you checked it (with code or letter by letter) and how many words checked out.