Are you as excited for Thanksgiving to get here as I am?! 🥳
Like, hurry up already! I wish it was Thanksgiving NOW! 😆
The turkey, the fun, the celebration, the family, the friends…🦃🥧
It’s all so exciting! 🎉
But Thanksgiving can be a massive time suck if you are not well prepared and you can swallow your whole day instead of actually ENJOYING it.
So while you’re making dinner, starting the turkey, or spending time with the adults chatting and having fun, this free printable Thanksgiving word search for kids is perfect to keep little hands and hearts 💕 entertained and making fun Thanksgiving memories for everyone! 🤗
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Cute Thanksgiving Word Search Printable for Kids & Families
In this Thanksgiving word search puzzle, you’ll get to find 18 Thanksgiving words PLUS color the cutest little kawaii turkeys, pumpkins, pie, acorns, leaves, hearts, and stars when you’re finished!
Thanksgiving word search with answer key holiday words to search for:
- Grateful
- Pumpkin
- Celebrate
- Gathering
- November
- Pilgrims
- Food
- Feast
- Pie
- Fun
- Gobble
- Harvest
- Holiday
- Turkey
- Dinner
- Blessed
- Family
- Friends
Download the Easy Thanksgiving Word Search PDF here (+ Answer Key).
Ways to Use This Thanksgiving Word Find Printable
Pumpkin Pie Playdough Mats
Slip this cute Thanksgiving word search printable into a clear plastic sleeve.
Grab some orange and brown playdough and let the kids build their own 3D pie slices right over the image.
It turns a flat worksheet into a tactile sensory activity in seconds. 🎉
Acorn Nature Scavenger Hunt
Turn this game into a fun Thanksgiving activity for kids and take the fun outside before the big meal.
Have the kids collect real acorns and fall leaves that match the doodles on the page.
Whoever finds the most of the exact shapes, gets the first slice of pie. 🥧
Play Pass-the-Pencil (Thanksgiving Worksheet For Kindergarten)
Turn one Thanksgiving activity sheet into a cooperative family or classroom game.
Give each person a different colored pencil. One person finds ONE word, circles it, and passes the page to the next person.
Keep passing until all 18 words have been found.
If you have more students than 18 words, have the remaining students find new words in the word search that are not already listed!
Here’s a few ideas:
- Jar
- Pea
- Cab
- Soy
- Pen
- Gel
- Ran
- Rib
- Line
- Paws
- Take
- Ace
- Elf
- Top
- Fig
- Fly
- Hat
- Jet
- Fix
- Key
- One
- Red
- Tin
- Way
And here’s the PDF Answer Key showing those new words on there so you can quickly find them: Teacher Key PDF.
At the end, you’ll have one wildly colorful Thanksgiving puzzle covered in everyone’s contributions, which makes this especially fun for siblings, cousins, small groups, or a Thanksgiving classroom activity.
Create a Thanksgiving Story Challenge (Classrooms & Homeschool)
Here’s a super easy way to turn this into a Thanksgiving homeschool activity (writing lesson) without making it feel like another assignment.
Have your child randomly choose five or six words from the Thanksgiving puzzle for kids.
Maybe they get:
- Pumpkin
- Gobble
- Pie
- Friends
- Harvest
- Celebrate
Now they have to write a short Thanksgiving story using EVERY word they chose.
The sillier the combination, the better. 😂
You can make it harder for older kids by giving them eight or ten words or requiring the words to appear in the same order they were chosen.
Play Thanksgiving Mystery Word
After completing the Thanksgiving puzzle for kids, have one person secretly choose any word from the list.
They give everyone else three clues without saying the actual word.
For PUMPKIN, they might say:
- “It grows on a vine.”
- “You see a lot of them during fall.”
- “You can turn me into a pie.”
Whoever guesses correctly chooses the next mystery word.
You’ve just turned one printable into another Thanksgiving game for kids without printing a single extra page. 🎉
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