Halloween Word Searches, Crosswords and Games for Kids

These easy word search puzzles, crosswords and other fun games for kids all have themes related to vampires, witches, monsters, pumpkins and other creatures and things associated with the Halloween celebration. You'll find a variety of games that are available to be played online or printed and solved on paper.

These print-friendly word search puzzles are in Adobe PDF format. If you need to download and install the free Adobe Acrobat reader, click here.

• Halloween Word Search - 18 Halloween words appear in this puzzle of medium difficulty.
• Halloween Word Search - 24 themed entries in a large jumble of letters.

These puzzles are in HTML format - just print and solve.

• John's Halloween Word Search - A fairly difficult puzzle with 34 words.
• Halloween Word Search - A puzzle of medium difficulty with 22 words.
• Dracula Word Search - 20 vampire-related words need finding in this puzzle of medium difficulty.
• Frankenstein Word Search - This puzzle of medium difficulty features 20 words used to describe Mary Shelley's unforgettable monster.
• Ghost Word Search - A medium word search game featuring 20 spirit synonyms and other words related to undead.
• Pumpkin Word Search - A 20-word game packed with words associated with this fruit that has become a symbol of the fall season.
• Scary Words Word Search - How many ways can you say scary? From blood-curdling to terrifying, this word search game gives you 20 ways to describe the creatures that are said to walk the earth on All Hallow's Eve.
• Witch Word Search - 20 words associated with Halloween's hideous hags.
• Squigly's Halloween Costume Word Search - 26 words naming many of the costumes children are likely to wear on Halloween night.

Crossword puzzles are a fun way to exercise the mind and to learn how to use new words. Get the kids into some crossword fun this Halloween with these free word puzzles featuring words related to the Halloween celebration.

• Halloween Crossword - DLTK for Kids offers an easy Halloween crossword for young solvers. The picture version of the crossword is intended for preschoolers and children who are new to spelling. Older children can use the verbal clues to solve the puzzle. Available in black and white or color.
• Halloween Crossword Puzzle Worksheets - This themed puzzle of medium difficulty features 14 Halloween words in a freeform format.

These crosswords are in HTML format - just print and solve.

• Halloween Crossword Puzzles from Halloween Party Games features crossword games and their solutions in three difficulty levels: easy, difficult and hard. All the puzzles have twenty words, the difficulty is determined by the length of the words used.
• Halloween Crossword - This is a fairly tough puzzle with 44 Halloween-related words in a crisscross style grid.
• Halloween Crossword - This crossword puzzle has only 15 words, but some of them are quite long. Not recommended for beginners.
• Kids' Halloween Crossword Puzzle - This criss-cross crossword puzzle has 13 words but they're mostly quite short. Solution provided.
• Deluxe Halloween Crossword - A 22-word Halloween word game, some of which are quite long. Good for elementary school students. Solution provided.

In these crossword puzzles, the word is already given. The challenge is to find out where it the grid it should go.

Online Halloween Crosswords

• Creepy Crossword - In this entertaining crossword game, the clues are all Halloween riddles.

Jigsaw puzzles make a wonderful learning game by encouraging analytical, abstract, and problem-solving skills. They can also help a child develop eye-hand coordination and spatial awareness. This page points you to dozens of free jigsaw puzzle games. These easy jigsaw puzzles feature Halloween favorites such as skeletons, ghosts, witches, jack o'lanterns, vampires and other creatures and things associated with this spooky holiday.

• Halloween Jigsaw Puzzles - DLTK Holidays offers several four and eleven-piece jigsaw puzzles with a Halloween theme to print and cut out for piecing together offline. These printable Halloween puzzles are available in B&W or color and feature themes such as bats, jack o' lanterns, witches and ghosts.

• Halloween Jigsaw Puzzles - Online Halloween jigsaw puzzles from The Kidz Page. Choose a difficulty level from a simple 6 pieces to a formidable 40 pieces.
• Halloween Jigsaw Puzzles - Jigzone offers a dozen Halloween-themed jigsaw puzzles. The user has control over the piece cut and a number of pieces, so the game can be very easy, very challenging or somewhere in-between.
• Animated Halloween Jigsaw Puzzles - Four easy animated jigsaw puzzle games to play online. Requires Adobe Flash 10 plug-in.

Activity Village offers some nice maze puzzles in PDF format (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) as does DLTK:

• Help the Baby Ghosts Find Their Dad - Easy
• Help the Witch Get Home - Medium
• Help the Spider Find Her Web - Hard
• Help the Witch get a Message to the Crow
• Halloween Mazes - Five different maze patterns featuring characters associated with Halloween: Dracula, ghosts, spiders, witches, and children Trick-or-Treating. Each one of these maze puzzles is available in black and white or color.

These print-friendly maze puzzles are in HTML format - just print and solve.

• Jack O'Lantern Maze - Medium
• Frankenstein Maze - Medium
• Mummy Maze - Medium
• Vampire Maze - Medium
• Witch's Hat Maze - Medium
• Spider Web Maze - Medium

Counting mazes are a variation of the maze puzzle where you start with the lowest number and work your way up to the highest. Kids can navigate these labyrinths while practicing their counting skills.

• Guide the witch to her house. (Count by 1s)
• Help the trick-or-treater find her friends. (Count by 2s)
• Help the trick-or-treater find more candy. (Count by 3s)
• Help Mr. PumpkinHead find more candy. (Count by 4s)
• Help the ghost find his friend. (Count by 5s)

These puzzles use a simple substitution cipher to encrypt a message.

• Squigly's Secret Code - Decipher the code and learn the secret message. - Solution

Can you solve these fiendishly difficult cryptograms? The answers are some spooky jokes for Halloween. You'll need the free Adobe Acrobat reader to print these games.

• Cryptogram #1
• Cryptogram #2
• Cryptogram #3

• Halloween Word Scramble - These mixed-up words are all words which might be used on Halloween night. Can you unscramble them? 
• Halloween Word Scramble - Creatures - Unscramble the words to find out which spooky creatures are coming to the Halloween party.
• Halloween Anagrams - Three anagram worksheets with spooky themes: "Halloween", "Going Batty" and "Sneaky Spiders". These scrambled word puzzles are available in two versions, easy and regular, and in black and white or color. The regular template offers the added bonus of a hidden word game.

• Easy Halloween Sudoku Game - An easier version of online sudoku, using 2x2 boxes.