Thanksgiving Word Search for Kids: Parade, Wishbone and Apple Pie

Thanksgiving as children live it: the parade on television in the morning, a hayride at the farm, the turkey feather craft from school, grandma's kitchen, pumpkin and apple pie, the wishbone after dinner and the word that sums up the day, thankful.

Three of the words have eight letters and fill a whole row or column of the 8x8 grid: apple pie, thankful and wishbone. Four of the eight run from the bottom up or read backwards, a good step up from the easiest grids.

Kids Thanksgiving Vocabulary: 8 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 4 of the 8 read backwards. The longest words are Apple Pie, Thankful and Wishbone, with 8 letters each.

Apple Pie: Sliced apples baked in pastry, one of the three classic Thanksgiving pies with pumpkin and pecan.
Feather: One of the soft plumes that cover a bird. Children make paper turkeys with one feather for each thing they are thankful for.
Grandma: Grandmother, often the keeper of the family recipes.
Hayride: A ride on a wagon full of hay pulled by a tractor, a favorite fall outing at farms.
Parade: A procession through the streets, like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, held since 1924.
Pumpkin: A large orange squash, native to the Americas, baked into the pumpkin pie of Thanksgiving.
Thankful: Feeling grateful.
Wishbone: The forked bone of a bird's breast. Two people pull it apart, and the one left with the longer piece makes a wish.

How to Solve the Kids Thanksgiving Word Search

Start with the three eight-letter words, each filling a whole line: "thankful" reads across, "apple pie", with its double P, reads backwards, and "wishbone", with the only B and W, runs down a whole column. "Feather", "hayride", with the only Y, and "pumpkin" run from the bottom up. "Grandma", with the only G, and "parade" run down.

Thanksgiving Crafts and Games for Kids

Make a paper turkey and write each word from the list on one of its feathers.
Save the puzzle for the morning of the parade, during the commercial breaks.
Ask each child to explain one word to a grandparent at dinner.