Halloween Word Search

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Twenty-three words for the night make up this list: goblins, Dracula, costumes, lantern, mummy, zombie and the rest of them. Free to print as a PDF, free to play online.

The name is a contraction. October 31 is All Hallows' Eve, the night before All Saints' Day, and hallow is an old word for saint. The costumes and the door-knocking are older than the name: guising and souling, where people went house to house in disguise and were given food in return for a prayer or a song.

The lantern changed both continent and material. In Ireland and Scotland it was carved from a turnip or a large beet, which is much harder work and looks considerably worse. Irish immigrants found pumpkins in America - bigger, softer and native to the place - and the jack-o'-lantern has been orange ever since.

The free PDF prints well for a class party, and online the grid is new every time you open it.

Free Halloween Word Search Online Game

Play the Halloween 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.

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Halloween 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 Halloween word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.

Puzzle Vocabulary Words

Below you can see all possible words that the topic Halloween 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.

• Boo
• Candy
• Costumes
• Dark
• Dracula
• Evil
• Ghost
• Goblins
• Halloween
• Lantern
• Mask
• Monster
• Mummy
• October
• Pumpkin
• Scary
• Skull
• Spiders
• Spooky
• Vampire
• Witch
• Wizard
• Zombie