Free November Word Searches: Thanksgiving, Harvest and Autumn (Printable PDF + Answer Keys)

Thanksgiving, the Harvest and Everything Else

Thanksgiving takes the largest share — the dinner itself, the traditions around it, the turkey and the pilgrims who started it. November is also Native American Heritage Month, so there are grids for that and for the tribes. Veterans Day gets its own puzzle, and the rest of the month is autumn: falling leaves, the harvest festival, cold-snap weather and a squirrel laying in supplies.

What’s in Every Puzzle

Each download is a two-page PDF: the puzzle grid on page one, the completed answer key on page two. Fifteen words per grid, hidden in every direction. Nothing to sign up for and nothing to install — click a card, print the page.

How to Use These November Word Searches

Teachers tend to print a stack at the start of the month and save the Thanksgiving grids for the last week before the break. If you want more of one theme there is a full Thanksgiving collection, a fall and autumn collection, an American history collection, and a word search for every month of the year.