🎃 80 free puzzles · October 31
Halloween Word Search
Pumpkins, ghosts and a few friendly monsters lurk in these Halloween word searches. They are silly-spooky rather than scary, which makes them ideal for class parties, trick-or-treat waiting rooms and sleepovers.
Generate a new halloween word search
🌱 Easy Halloween word searches
Easy word searches hide words across (left to right) and down (top to bottom), always forwards. Words never cross each other.
⭐ Medium Halloween word searches
Medium word searches add diagonal words (reading down-right and up-right) to across and down. Words are still always forwards.
🔥 Hard Halloween word searches
Hard word searches use all 8 directions, including backwards and up, and words are allowed to cross and share letters.
🧸 Kids Halloween word searches
Kids word searches use a small 10×10 grid with only short words (3–6 letters) hidden across and down, printed with extra-large letters.
Words you might find
Every halloween puzzle uses words from a list of 45, so no two sheets are the same. A few of them: Pumpkin, Ghost, Witch, Vampire, Zombie, Skeleton, Spider, Cobweb, Bat, Candy, Costume, Mask, Broomstick, Cauldron, Haunted, Spooky, Monster, Mummy, and more.
Puzzle guide
About halloween word search puzzles
What they are
Halloween word searches are packed with spooky but friendly words: PUMPKIN, CAULDRON, BROOMSTICK, SKELETON, WEREWOLF and JACK-O'-LANTERN. With 45 words on the list, they capture costumes, candy and haunted houses without being frightening.
How to play
Hunt the grid for each word, ring it in orange or black, and cross it off. Words with hyphens or apostrophes, such as JACK-O'-LANTERN, appear as letters only: JACKOLANTERN.
Tips
FRANKENSTEIN and JACKOLANTERN are very long, so they stand out quickly. Rare letters help too: look for the Z in ZOMBIE, the W in WEREWOLF and WIZARD, and the double O in SPOOKY.
Who they suit
Halloween puzzles suit October classrooms, school parties, trick-or-treat warm-ups and family movie nights. They give excited children something calm to do before the costumes go on. Older children like the Hard level, where FRANKENSTEIN can run backwards across the grid.
Printing
Print on orange paper for an instant party activity, and keep the answer sheets for the grown-ups.
Good to know
Halloween Word Search questions
Love word puzzles? Try these too
Halloween riddles to go with your word search
A word search trains your eye for patterns; a riddle trains your mind to see the trick. Here are a few riddles with answers, then more brain games from the club.