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Free Printable Halloween Crossword Puzzles

Three Halloween crosswords for kids — an easy one with a word bank, a spooky-night puzzle, and a Halloween history and night creatures crossword — each on its own illustrated border. Each is a two-page PDF (puzzle + answer key). Free to print, no signup.

Printable halloween crossword puzzle for kids — Trick or Treat, easy, 9 words
easy

Trick or Treat

9 words · Ages 6–8 · word bank · answer key
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Printable halloween crossword puzzle for kids — Spooky Night, medium, 12 words
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Spooky Night

12 words · Ages 8–10 · answer key
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Printable halloween crossword puzzle for kids — Halloween History & Night Creatures, hard, 14 words
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Halloween History & Night Creatures

14 words · Ages 9–12 · answer key
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Halloween crosswords for kids

These free Halloween crossword puzzles are written for elementary students. The easy puzzle prints its answers in a word bank, so early readers can match each clue to a word. The medium puzzle is packed with spooky Halloween vocabulary, from cauldrons to scarecrows. The hard puzzle covers where Halloween came from, including the Celtic festival of Samhain and Irish turnip lanterns, plus the science of night creatures like bats and spiders, so it works for an October social studies or science lesson. Every PDF is US-letter size with the answer key on page two.

Clues in each puzzle

Trick or Treat (easy, Ages 6–8)

Across

  1. 2. She flies on a broomstick
  2. 3. Night bird that says "hoot"
  3. 4. A black one is a Halloween symbol; it says meow
  4. 6. It glows in the night sky
  5. 7. Flying animal that sleeps upside down
  6. 8. You carve a face in it

Down

  1. 1. A spooky spirit that says "Boo!"
  2. 4. Sweet treats you collect on Halloween
  3. 5. What you dress up in on Halloween

Spooky Night (medium, Ages 8–10)

Across

  1. 6. Spooky character with fangs and a cape
  2. 7. Big black pot a witch stirs
  3. 8. What a witch flies on
  4. 10. Carved pumpkin with a light inside (three words)
  5. 11. Sticky silk trap a spider spins
  6. 12. Describes a house full of ghosts

Down

  1. 1. Wrapped in bandages, from ancient Egypt
  2. 2. Small, mischievous monster
  3. 3. What kids say at each door (three words)
  4. 4. All the bones in your body put together
  5. 5. Straw figure that guards a cornfield
  6. 9. The month Halloween is in

Halloween History & Night Creatures (hard, Ages 9–12)

Across

  1. 2. Cutting a face into a pumpkin
  2. 4. Spiders belong to this eight-legged animal group
  3. 6. How bats find insects in the dark using sound
  4. 8. Ancient Celtic festival that Halloween grew out of
  5. 10. Old custom of going door to door for "soul cakes"
  6. 11. Vegetables carved into lanterns in Ireland before pumpkins
  7. 12. Large outdoor fire lit during Samhain
  8. 13. Samhain marked the end of this season of gathering crops

Down

  1. 1. Country where many Halloween customs began
  2. 3. Describes animals, like bats and owls, that are active at night
  3. 4. ___ Eve, the old name that became "Halloween" (two words)
  4. 5. Ancient people of Ireland and Britain who celebrated Samhain
  5. 7. Irish ___ brought Halloween customs to America in the 1800s
  6. 9. Scottish custom of visiting homes in disguise, an early form of trick-or-treating

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