Free Printable Thanksgiving Word Search

Thanksgiving season is here, and it’s time for fun activities! Download and print this free Thanksgiving word search for your class or your kids.

If you’re looking for a quick, easy, and free Thanksgiving activity, you found the right place!

This original Thanksgiving word search printable is a resource that I’ve been excited to put together for some time now.

So as you’re prepping for Thanksgiving, add this to the mix of activities that you do with your children or students!

Thanksgiving Activities for Kids and Families

In our archives, we happen to have some more fun Thanksgiving activities for you to try!

This word search pairs perfectly with our Thanksgiving coloring sheet.

To decorate your home, we have free printable Thanksgiving art that you can print, frame and hang on the wall or place over your mantel.

These printable gratitude cards are a fantastic activity to do as a family over dinner or just for fun.

Help your kiddo and their friends make a Thanksgiving gift for their teacher that is guaranteed to be a huge it.

We’ve even got printable place cards and food labels for Thanksgiving dinner!

Teaching Kids about Thanksgiving

To be completely honest, I always find Thanksgiving a challenging time to be a parent.

We’ve all definitely been taught a sanitized version of the history of Thanksgiving, and the true history of the holiday is one fraught with war, violence, and colonization.

It’s incredibly hard to reckon with the way that we celebrate Thanksgiving today. For Americans, it mostly involves football, feasting in excess, and forgetting about the true history of the harvest season in early America.

When we speak with our children about Thanksgiving, I find that we separate the history and the modern into separate entities.

We teach the real history, while we refer to the modern Thanksgiving holiday as merely a reason to come together with family and friends.

How to Use a Thanksgiving Word Search

So in designing this printable Thanksgiving word search, I left out a few of the usual words (pilgrim, Indian, and so on) in favor of more historically accurate words like colonists and Wampanoag.

I also included some words that your children will be familiar with in reference to their own celebrations, like turkey, stuffing, and tradition.

One of my hopes is that this simple printable will help kick off conversations within your family or classroom about the real history that led to this holiday.

I also do truly hope that this Thanksgiving, if you celebrate, you find yourself among family and friends to celebrate with.

Download and Print Thanksgiving Word Search

So let’s get you the goods!

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Once you receive the link to the file, just right click or control-click on it and save the file to your computer.

Then print out as many copies as you need for your children, your class, or whatever project you’re working on.

Enjoy! And I’d love to hear in the comments if you have a way of approaching Thanksgiving in your own homes or classrooms. xoxo

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