Seasonal & Holidays Word Searches

Browse our seasonal & holidays word searches. Free to play online and print with answer keys, great for kids and classrooms.

11 Puzzles

Gymnasium comes from a Greek word that means to exercise naked.

The word bonfire comes from bone fire, when people burned bones in open community blazes.

The first jack-o'-lanterns were carved from turnips, not pumpkins, in Ireland.

The turkey got its name by mistake, confused with African fowl traded through Turkey.

Snow traps air, so a well-built igloo can be much warmer inside than the air outdoors.

Reindeer are the only deer in which both sexes grow antlers.

Before gunpowder firecrackers, burning bamboo made loud cracks that were believed to scare off evil spirits in China.

Cupid began as Eros, the powerful Greek god of desire, and only later shrank into the chubby winged baby on cards.

A butterfly tastes with its feet, drumming on a leaf to check the plant before it lays eggs.

The German Easter hare, the Osterhase, appears in a written account from 1682.

An 11-year-old invented the popsicle by accident, leaving soda and a stir stick out overnight.