Thanksgiving Word Search
Forty words for the whole of Thanksgiving: the turkey and the pumpkin pie, the Pilgrims and the Mayflower, the parade, the football and the wishbone, and the thankful part that gives the day its name. Free to print as a PDF, or play it online.
The meal people point back to took place at Plymouth in the autumn of 1621, after the colony's first harvest. About fifty English settlers ate for three days with some ninety Wampanoag men who came with their leader, Massasoit. The settlers' own word for a thanksgiving meant something else: a day set aside for prayer and church, not a feast.
The date took a long time to settle. Lincoln issued a proclamation in 1863 naming the last Thursday in November, and Congress moved it to the fourth Thursday in 1941 to end an argument about the length of the Christmas shopping season. The New York parade first marched in 1924, Detroit first played football on the day in 1934, and the President's turkey pardon became a yearly event in 1989.
Free Thanksgiving Word Search Online Game
Play the Thanksgiving word search in your browser, on your own or head to head against a friend in real time. Nothing to install and no account needed – send someone the link and you are both looking at the same grid.
Thanksgiving Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Thanksgiving word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
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Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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Medium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
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Easy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Thanksgiving has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Acorns
- Autumn
- Balloons
- Blessing
- Centerpiece
- Cornucopia
- Cranberry
- Family
- Feast
- Football
- Gathering
- Gourds
- Grace
- Grateful
- Gravy
- Guests
- Harvest
- Holiday
- Kickoff
- Leaves
- Leftovers
- Lincoln
- Mayflower
- November
- Parade
- Pardon
- Pilgrims
- Plymouth
- Proclamation
- Pumpkin Pie
- Scarecrow
- Stuffing
- Thankful
- Thanksgiving
- Thursday
- Tradition
- Travel
- Turkey
- Wampanoag
- Wishbone