Free October Word Searches: Halloween, Pumpkins and Autumn (Printable PDF + Answer Keys)

Halloween, Pumpkins and the Harvest

Most of October belongs to Halloween, so there are grids for the night itself, the costumes, the candy, the monsters and the party — plus a haunted house and a graveyard of spooky animals. The rest of the month gets its due too: the pumpkin patch, the scarecrow in the cornfield, and apples from the orchard.

Once October wraps up, move on to the November word searches, or jump ahead to our Thanksgiving word searches: 18 printable puzzles about turkeys, pilgrims and pumpkins, with versions for 1st to 9th grade.

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. Ten to 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 October Word Searches

Teachers tend to print a stack at the start of the month and work through them week by week, saving the Halloween grids for the last few days. If you want more of one theme there is a full Halloween collection, a celebrations collection for the other holidays, a fall and autumn collection for the seasonal grids, and a word search for every month of the year.