Halloween Word Search Bookmarks and 10 Printable Puzzles

How to do a word search?

Start with the word list and hunt for one word at a time in the grid. Look for its first letter, then check the letters around it in each direction the puzzle allows. The bookmarks run across and down only. Circle the word when you find it and cross it off the list.

Halloween word search printable for parties and classrooms

Each printable is a free PDF for US Letter (8.5 by 11 inches) or A4 (210 by 297 mm). Print one puzzle for each table at a class party, or print a stack and let everyone pick one. The bookmark sheets hold four 2 by 7 inch strips, so cut them out on the marks and hand them out as treats.

Free printable Halloween word search puzzles

All ten puzzles and all eight bookmarks are free for personal and classroom use. Pick the puzzle that fits the reader, print as many copies as you need and keep the answer key page for yourself if you like. Please share a link to this page instead of uploading the PDFs to another site.

Halloween word search words

The bookmarks hide seven words each, such as pumpkin, vine and seeds on Pumpkin Time, or ghost, boo and sheet on Friendly Ghosts. Others use candy, mask and costume, or witch, broom and potion. The easy pages have eight words, the medium pages twelve and the hard pages eighteen.

Children's Halloween word search

The three easy puzzles are Pumpkin Patch, Trick or Treat and Friendly Ghosts. Each uses a 10 by 10 grid with eight words that run only across and down, so they suit children from about age 6, when they can read short words. The bookmarks run across and down too.

Hard Halloween word search for older kids and adults

The three hard puzzles are Halloween Words, Monster Party and Halloween Around the World. Each uses a 16 by 16 grid and hides eighteen words in every direction, backwards too. The four medium puzzles sit in between, with a 13 by 13 grid, twelve words and diagonals.

Halloween word search PDF files

Each puzzle is a PDF with the puzzle on page 1 and the answer key on page 2. You get a US Letter file and an A4 file, so it prints right on paper from either side of the Atlantic. Print at 100% so the letters stay large and easy to read.

Simple Halloween word search bookmarks

The eight bookmarks are the simplest puzzles here. Each has an 8 by 12 grid, seven short words and a picture to color, with titles like Pumpkin Time, Witch Hat, Candy Corn and Costume Party. A child can solve a few words between chapters and color the picture at the top.

Halloween word search with answers

Every Halloween puzzle has its answer key on page 2 of the same PDF, with each word shaded where it hides. Print page 1 only if you want to keep the answers for yourself. Kids can also print both pages and check their own work.