Printable Halloween Word Search
Ready whenever you are — these print the same in September as they do in December.
Ready whenever you are — these print the same in September as they do in December.
Free to print, as many copies as you like, for a class, a party, a care home or a kitchen table. In the print dialogue choose Save as PDF if you want to keep the file. The answer key always prints with the sheets.
🎯 Find every hidden word, then fill the blanks in the quote.
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Double, double ____ and _______; ____ ____ and ________ ______.
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1623)
🎯 Find every hidden word, then fill the blanks in the quote.
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By the ________ of my ______, Something ______ this way _____: Open, _____, Whoever ______!
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1623)
🎯 Find every hidden word, then fill the blanks in the quote.
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The melancholy ____ have come, the _______ of the ____, Of _______ _____, and _____ _____, and _______ brown and sear.
— William Cullen Bryant, The Death of the Flowers (1825)
Puzzle 1 — Macbeth
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Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1623)
Puzzle 2 — Macbeth
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By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes: Open, locks, Whoever knocks!
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1623)
Puzzle 3 — The Death of the Flowers
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The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.
— William Cullen Bryant, The Death of the Flowers (1825)
The same 3 puzzles, playable in your browser. Drag across a word to mark it.
Spooky rather than scary — this is the Halloween of guttering candles and something wicked coming up the path, not of gore. The hidden words complete Shakespeare's witches at their cauldron in Macbeth, and Bryant's 'melancholy days' at the turn of the year. Print them for a party table or a classroom, or solve them here.
Yes. It is spooky in tone and nothing more — no violence, no gore, nothing frightening beyond witches round a cauldron. Every passage on this site is read against a family-safe bar before it ships, and that check is recorded separately from the copyright check, because an old text being free to reprint says nothing about whether it is suitable.
Because a list of pumpkins and bats is what every other Halloween word search already is, and because 'Double, double toil and trouble' is more fun to end up holding than the word BAT. The puzzle is built so that finding the words gives you the incantation.
Yes, as many copies as you like, free, for any size of group. The answer key prints as the last sheet so whoever is running the table has it.
A fall word search page built from Keats and Thomas Hood, a Thanksgiving page built from Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Christmas puzzles including a harder adults-only set. They are all linked from the seasonal printables index.