Looking for a fun and educational way to celebrate Thanksgiving with the kids? These free printable Thanksgiving Word Searches are the perfect activity!
These Thanksgiving word searches cover everything there is to love about this fun holiday: pumpkins, feasts, pilgrims, harvest days, and more. Kids will love these Thanksgiving word search puzzles and parents love that the kids are also working on spelling and vocabulary when completing the puzzles.
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Whether you’re a teacher looking for a classroom or afterschool activity or a parent searching for a fun and educational way to celebrate Thanksgiving with your kids, these Thanksgiving word search puzzles are the perfect solution.
Thanksgiving is a holiday that is full of food, family, and thankfulness. It’s also a holiday with a lot of history behind it.
Thanksgiving always falls on the fourth Thursday in the month of November. It’s the perfect time to learn history and practice gratitude.
And what better way to celebrate than with a word search!
Ways to Use the Printable Thanksgiving Word Searches
Word search puzzles are a fun pastime for people of all ages. They have tons of benefits too- from relaxation to anxiety relief to stimulating the brain.
When it comes to kids, word searches have even more benefits. Such as:
- Help with word development
- Developing problem solving skills
- Improve memory
- Learning to spell
- Improving vocabulary
- Pattern recognition
Plus they are great for the brain and for a screen-free entertainment option!
Here are a few ways to use these free printable Thanksgiving word searches:
- As a anxiety relieving or calming activity. Word searches occupy the mind and keep it off of stressful thoughts.
- As a car ride activity. Just add a pencil and clipboard and you have a fun screen-free activity for your long trip to grandma’s!
- As part of a Thanksgiving party or celebration for your homeschool/classroom.
- As an easy Thanksgiving activity for the kids
- To jump start discussions about the season of Thanksgiving and what kinds traditions, foods and activities are part of the holiday.
- As part of a larger first Thanksgiving learning unit in your homeschool or classroom.
Download the Thanksgiving Word Search Printables Now
To download, simply click on the image or link below the word search you want and it will download to your device.
They are all PDF files that are easily printed from home.
Easy Thanksgiving Word Search Coloring Page
This first printable word search can double as a coloring page!
It’s great for younger kids and it’s less difficult with words only going up and down- no backwards or diagonal.
This easy word search has 18 words.
Hard Thanksgiving Word Search
This wordsearch is more difficult with words going both forwards and backwards.
There are 28 words to find.
More Thanksgiving Word Searches
These next few word searches have words that go up, down, and diagonally.
They have between 11 and 24 words each.
Thanksgiving Foods Word Search
This word search is all about Thanksgiving dinner!
It includes words that have to do with all the foods we eat on Thanksgiving.
You are free to use these Thanksgiving word searches for personal use at home or in the classroom. Please don’t share the file, but if you’d like to share the word search with friends, please forward this page to them so that they can download the file themselves. These downloads may not be used in any commercial fashion.
Want more word searches? Click here for all of the Printable Word Searches.
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