🦃 80 free puzzles · Fourth Thursday in November
Thanksgiving Word Search
Turkey, cranberries and a table full of grateful people feature in these Thanksgiving word searches. Keep children busy while the dinner cooks, or give each guest one as a place-card activity.
Generate a new thanksgiving word search
🌱 Easy Thanksgiving word searches
Easy word searches hide words across (left to right) and down (top to bottom), always forwards. Words never cross each other.
⭐ Medium Thanksgiving word searches
Medium word searches add diagonal words (reading down-right and up-right) to across and down. Words are still always forwards.
🔥 Hard Thanksgiving word searches
Hard word searches use all 8 directions, including backwards and up, and words are allowed to cross and share letters.
🧸 Kids Thanksgiving 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 thanksgiving puzzle uses words from a list of 40, so no two sheets are the same. A few of them: Turkey, Pilgrim, Feast, Harvest, Pumpkin, Cranberry, Stuffing, Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Pie, Squash, Autumn, Leaves, Thankful, Grateful, Family, Friends, Blessings, and more.
Puzzle guide
About thanksgiving word search puzzles
What they are
Thanksgiving word searches set the table with TURKEY, CRANBERRY, STUFFING, CORNUCOPIA, PECAN and SWEET POTATO. The 40-word list also covers history, family and gratitude, including PILGRIM, MAYFLOWER, PLYMOUTH and WAMPANOAG.
How to play
Find every word on the list in the grid and ring it with a pencil. Two-word entries such as MASHED POTATOES and SWEET POTATO are hidden without spaces.
Tips
CORNUCOPIA, MASHEDPOTATOES and WAMPANOAG are long and full of distinctive letters, so look for them first. GOBBLE has a handy double B, and GRATEFUL and THANKFUL share an ending that is easy to spot.
Who they suit
These puzzles fit November classrooms, social-studies lessons about the first Thanksgiving, and the kids' table while the turkey rests. Adults enjoy the Hard level between courses. The history words give teachers a natural way to talk about the Mayflower and the Wampanoag people.
Printing
Print one per guest as a place-setting activity. The answer key is on a separate page.
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