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Thanksgiving Crossword Puzzle

Scrambled Gratitude

This Thanksgiving Crossword Puzzle lists 22 things for which many of us are grateful, but we scrambled the letters! Your job is to unscramble the letters for each clue, then write the word in the correct place in the diagram.

Did some of your most-appreciated items make our list?

Thanksgiving Crossword

Here's a look at the page. Please get the printable version for best results. Work in pencil in case you need to change an answer.

For your convenience, the clues are also provided below. Answers can be seen on the printable document.

Clues

ACROSS

1. SOKOB

4. TEAFYS

5. MAYLIF

6. SCUIM

7. FOODS

8. SMAEG

9. DRNISEF

11. THOOLACCE

13. TREAW

15. EPLES

18. PRTOSS

19. OCDENITAU

20. WHEROS

21. STOLECH

DOWN

2. ANSESOS

3. TESP

6. REEMISOM

10. RUNETA

12. MEOH

14. VARLET

16. TAPPOL

17. LAHHET

Remember to get the printable version for best results and to see the solution.

Another Thanksgiving Crossword Puzzle:

Thanksgiving Day Crossword Puzzle: Yum, Yum! You'll almost smell the turkey in the oven as you complete this special crossword, all about the Thanksgiving Day feast, the first Thanksgiving, and traditions of the day. Share with your family, friends and/or students!

Extension Activities

1. Assign students to work in pairs for this one. Make a list of items for which you're thankful, trying to list at least one beginning with all or most of the letters of the alphabet. If time allows, make posters illustrating these. Or, create a document on the computer with clipart of your items.

2. Brainstorm together of ways you can give back during this season of Thanksgiving. As a class, can you bring in canned food to give to a local food pantry? At your school, can you bring in socks and gloves to those who might be in need for your counsellors to pass out? Or are there other needs that you can meet?

3. Think about how you can practice gratitude at home. Make Gratitude Cards for a family member, a special friend or a neighbor.

More Seasonal Puzzles and Activities

Here's an entertaining Thanksgiving word scramble with a twist! It's perfect for all ages, for the classroom or for family gatherings. Best of all, it's fun to solve on your own or with a friend.

You may also be interested in these Thanksgiving bulletin board ideas. Seasonal language arts ideas to brighten your walls and teach/reinforce important skills. Use my ideas as is, or customize to fit your classroom goals.

Get Ready for Christmas...

As soon as you've finished the Thanksgiving crossword puzzles and scrambles, it will be time to bring out the Christmas decorations and learning activities. Here are some of my favorites:

Christmas Bulletin Boards will decorate your room and add some language arts fun to your lessons! Flexible design, for which I've included four variations: Stocking Up on Multiple-Meaning Words, Spelling Words, Synonyms and Syllables. Go to the web page for complete instructions and patterns.

Free Christmas Worksheets - Letter to Santa filled with misspellings. Your students won't mind fixing this page at all!

Christmas Brainteaser Cryptograms - Two fun printable cryptograms for older students and adults, featuring a well-known Christmas song and fictional characters.

Holiday Word Search - This holiday word search is perfect for any holiday gathering, from classroom parties to family gatherings. All ages can look for these fun words. Don't miss the twist! Find it on my other website, Word-Game-World.

Christmas Word Searches - Two very non-traditional word search puzzles that you're sure to love. Look closely for special words hidden inside Christmas stockings. The first puzzle, you'll try to find out how many times STOCKING is spelled. In the second, you'll do the same for TOYS. These puzzles are a bit tricky, and oh, so much fun!

Crosswords for Anytime

Muddled Music Crossword - Sharpen your focus to solve this one! Replace one or two letters in each clue to spell a musical term.

Don't Be Scared! - Just face your fears as you try to complete this fascinating online puzzle that's all about phobias. Twenty clues for you to solve with this printable puzzler.

Presidential Middle Names - Check your knowledge of some interesting trivia about U.S. Presidents! Can you supply the name of the president who had/has each of these middle names?

Anagram Crossword: Can you choose the correct anagram for each five-letter clue to correctly complete this puzzling puzzler??? Hint: Here are three examples of anagrams: solve/loves, lemon/melon and easel/lease.

Doctor, Doctor! Supply the names of 20 different kinds of medical specialists. Time for a checkup! You may know the names of most of the kinds of specialists listed in this puzzle. But you’ll have to also spell them correctly to correctly to complete the puzzle! How long will it take you to supply all these answers?

Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.

Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.

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