Thanksgiving Word Search

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This list is the Thanksgiving table rather than the history: turkey, stuffing, cranberry, gravy, cornucopia, yams, squash and the pies. Free to print as a PDF, or play it online.

Two of the words carry their own picture. Cornucopia is Latin for horn of plenty, from a Greek story in which the goat that nursed the infant Zeus loses a horn and it refills endlessly with food. Cranberry began as craneberry, because Dutch and German settlers thought the drooping flower looked like the head and neck of a crane.

The date took a long time to settle. Presidents proclaimed the day year by year through most of the 1800s, Lincoln fixed it as the last Thursday in November in 1863, and Congress moved it to the fourth Thursday in 1941 to end an argument about the length of the Christmas shopping season. Canada keeps its own on the second Monday of October.

Print it free for the table or the classroom, or play online and start again with a new board.

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.

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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.

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.

• Apple
• Biscuits
• Bread
• Cake
• Carrot
• Cornucopia
• Cranberry
• Dinner
• Gravy
• Green Beans
• Ham
• Harvest
• Pie
• Potato
• Pudding
• Pumpkin
• Rolls
• Salad
• Squash
• Stuffing
• Turkey
• Vegetable
• Yams