Halloween Word Search for Kids: 6 Printable Puzzles

The set has six themed puzzles: Night Friends, Pumpkin Patch, Trick or Treat, Spooky Creatures, Haunted House and Autumn Night. They go from easy to hard, and answer keys are included. Each puzzle page has its own spot illustration.

Pick one word at a time and scan the grid for its first letter. On the easy grids, words run only across and down, and a picture sits beside each word. On the harder grids, check backwards and diagonal too. Every word appears exactly once, so you can move on when you find it.

Words with more than one part, such as black cat, candy corn and jack-o'-lantern, are written without spaces in the grid. That makes them harder to spot. The hard puzzles also hide words backwards and diagonally.

The puzzles use words such as black cat, candy corn, jack-o'-lantern, vampire and werewolf. Vampire and werewolf are in the Spooky Creatures puzzle. Every word appears exactly once in its grid.

The easy puzzles have seven words each, with a picture beside every word. Children can match what they see to the word they search for. The medium and hard puzzles add more words for older kids.

The two hard puzzles suit grown-ups and older children. Each has a 15 × 15 grid with 15 words in all 8 directions, including backwards. The answer key gives the row, column and direction of every word, so checking is quick.