Thankful
7 words: thanks, grace, joy, family, friend, home, hope
Thanksgiving Word Search Bookmarks and 10 Printable Puzzles
These Thanksgiving word search printables are made for the kids' table and the long weekend. There are eight word-search bookmarks with a pumpkin or turkey picture to color, each with an 8 by 12 grid and seven words, and ten full-page puzzles from easy to hard. The hard pages hide eighteen words in every direction, including a puzzle on the 1621 harvest feast at Plymouth. Every puzzle has an answer key.
8 word-search bookmarks
The Feast
7 words: turkey, gravy, corn, yams, pie, rolls, peas
Autumn
7 words: leaf, acorn, maple, rake, gourd, cider, owl
Harvest
7 words: apple, pear, squash, bean, oats, wheat, barn
Pie Time
7 words: pumpkin, apple, pecan, cream, crust, spice, oven
Fall Walk
7 words: leaves, trail, boots, breeze, squirrel, crunch, geese
Kindness
7 words: grateful, kind, share, give, care, love, smile
The Table
7 words: plate, fork, spoon, cup, napkin, candle, bowl
All 8 bookmarks
DownloadPrint, cut, read
Printing tips for the bookmarks
- 4 per sheet. Each bookmark is 2 by 7 inches on US Letter, 50 mm by 7 inches on A4, with cut marks.
- Cardstock. 65 lb cover (about 176 gsm) feeds through most home printers. Which weight to buy.
- Print at 100%. Choose actual size, not fit to page, so the bookmarks keep their size. How to print bookmarks.
- Finish. Laminate it, then add a tassel through the dotted circle.
Thanksgiving word search pages
Full-page puzzles, each with its answer key on page 2.
Easy 10 by 10, across and down
Thanksgiving Dinner
8 words: turkey, stuffing, gravy, pie and more.
Fall Leaves
8 words: leaves, acorn, rake, maple and more.
Family Day
8 words: family, friends, table, feast and more.
Medium 13 by 13, across, down and diagonal
The Harvest
12 words: harvest, cornucopia, squash, gourd and more.
The Thanksgiving Table
12 words: platter, napkin, centerpiece, candles and more.
Grateful
12 words: grateful, thankful, blessing, kindness and more.
Pies and Desserts
12 words: pumpkin pie, apple pie, pecan pie, whipped cream and more.
Hard 16 by 16, every direction, backwards too
Thanksgiving History
18 words: mayflower, plymouth, wampanoag, massasoit and more.
Autumn Words
18 words: equinox, foliage, chestnut, hayride and more.
Parade and Football
18 words: parade, balloons, floats, marching band and more.
What are words associated with thanksgiving?
Words associated with Thanksgiving include turkey, gravy, pumpkin pie, harvest, grateful, family and parade. History adds Mayflower, Plymouth, Wampanoag and Massasoit, and autumn brings acorn, maple and foliage. The puzzles on this page use all of these words, from short ones for young kids to long ones for adults.
Words for each Thanksgiving word search
Each puzzle prints its word list beside the grid. The bookmarks use short words such as turkey, gravy, pie and acorn. The easy pages have eight words, the medium pages twelve, from cornucopia to whipped cream, and the hard pages eighteen, from Mayflower and Wampanoag to marching band.
Thanksgiving word search printable for the kids' table
Print a stack before the guests arrive and leave them with a cup of pencils on the kids' table. Each puzzle is a free PDF for US Letter (8.5 by 11 inches) or A4 (210 by 297 mm). Print at 100% so the letters stay large and easy to circle.
Easy Thanksgiving word search for young kids
The three easy puzzles use a 10 by 10 grid with eight words across and down only. Thanksgiving Dinner, Fall Leaves and Family Day suit children from about age 6. Teachers can use them as a warm-up the week before the break, and the bookmarks are just as easy.
Difficult Thanksgiving word search for older kids and adults
The three hard puzzles use a 16 by 16 grid with eighteen words hidden in every direction, backwards too. Thanksgiving History, Autumn Words and Parade and Football suit older kids and adults. The medium pages sit in between, with a 13 by 13 grid and diagonals for ages 8 to 11.
Thanksgiving word search answers on page 2
Page 2 of every full-page PDF is the answer key, with each word shaded where it hides. Print page 1 only if you want to keep the answers for yourself. The two bookmark sheets put their answer keys on pages 3 and 4 of the bookmark file.
Using them at home and in class
Print a stack before the guests arrive and leave them with a cup of pencils on the kids' table. Teachers can use the easy puzzles as a warm-up the week before the break and the history puzzle to start a discussion. Each PDF has the puzzle on page 1 and the answer key on page 2.
Questions
Which puzzle suits which age?
Easy puzzles (10 by 10, across and down) work from about age 6, when children can read short words. Medium (13 by 13 with diagonals) suits ages 8 to 11, and hard (16 by 16, every direction) is for older kids and adults.
Are the answers included?
Every full-page PDF includes an answer key on page 2. Each word is shaded where it hides.
What size do they print?
Each puzzle comes as a US Letter PDF (8.5 by 11 inches) and an A4 PDF (210 by 297 mm). Print at 100% so the letters stay large.
What is in the history puzzle?
The history puzzle holds names and words from the 1621 harvest celebration at Plymouth Colony. Among them are the Mayflower, the Wampanoag and their leader Massasoit, Tisquantum, and Abraham Lincoln's 1863 proclamation that made Thanksgiving a national holiday.
How to do a word search?
Read the word list first, then hunt for one word at a time in the grid. Look for its first letter and check the letters around it in each allowed direction, then circle the word and tick it off.
How to make a word search?
The free word search maker on this site turns up to 20 of your words into a puzzle with an answer key. Print it as a full page or as four bookmarks on one sheet.
Are these puzzles free for a classroom?
The puzzles are free for personal and classroom use. Please share a link to this page instead of uploading the PDFs elsewhere.
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