Free Printable Halloween Word Search
Leans spooky rather than cute. Next to PUMPKIN, CANDY and COSTUME there are words like POLTERGEIST, SARCOPHAGUS and MAUSOLEUM, which makes it a better fit for older kids and adults than most Halloween sheets. Answer key included, and New puzzle lays out a different grid from the same 63 words every time.
Free and unlimited, no account. Press “New puzzle” for a different grid from the same 63 words.
How the halloween words fit each size
62 of the 63 halloween words fit the 11 × 11 easy grid. SUPERNATURAL is too long for it, so it only turns up on the 15 × 15 medium and 19 × 19 hard grids.
23 words have five letters or fewer, BAT, BOO and CAT among them, and those are the first ones young solvers spot. The longest, SUPERNATURAL, GRAVEDIGGER and INCANTATION, are the last to be found.
A way to use the halloween word search
For a classroom party, print the easy size for younger children and the hard 19 by 19 size for the older ones; the first to finish leads the costume parade.
All 63 words in the halloween list
- SUPERNATURAL
- BAT
- CAT
- OWL
- BOO
- HEX
- APPARITION
- BANSHEE
- BONES
- BROOM
- CANDY
- CAULDRON
- CEMETERY
- COBWEB
- COFFIN
- CORPSE
- COSTUME
- COVEN
- CREEPY
- CRYPT
- DEMON
- DEVIL
- EERIE
- FANG
- GHOST
- GHOUL
- GOBLIN
- GRAVEDIGGER
- GRAVEYARD
- HALLOWEEN
- HAUNTED
- HORROR
- INCANTATION
- LANTERN
- MASK
- MAUSOLEUM
- MIDNIGHT
- MONSTER
- MUMMY
- NIGHTMARE
- PARANORMAL
- PHANTOM
- POLTERGEIST
- POTION
- PUMPKIN
- REAPER
- SARCOPHAGUS
- SCARECROW
- SCREAM
- SKELETON
- SKULL
- SPELL
- SPIDER
- SPOOKY
- TOMBSTONE
- TREAT
- TRICK
- UNDEAD
- VAMPIRE
- WEREWOLF
- WITCH
- WIZARD
- ZOMBIE
Printing and the answer key
Print hides the controls; the PNG is rendered at 3× so letters stay crisp, and the answer key saves under its own filename. Need a whole book of these at KDP trim? KDP Creator builds the pages.
