Difficult Fall Word Searches

Get ready for fall with these difficult fall word searches. These word puzzles are perfect for older kids and adults!

Themes include: apple picking, pumpkin picking, fall harvest, and fall foliage.

Within each puzzle, you can find 15 hidden vocabulary terms. Words are hidden both horizontally and vertically.

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Make sure to check out this free printable fall bingo game. Another fun game to play this autumn season!

To print, simply click the image to bring up a PDF version. Each sheet fits a standard 8 ½ by 11 inch piece of paper. Making these a true no prep activity.

Don't forget to print off the answer key to go along with the word search!

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• Apples
• Leaves
• Pumpkins
• Fall Harvest
• Additional Activities
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Apples

Heading to an apple orchard to pick apples is an all time favorite fall activity. With this word puzzle, you can find apple themed words. You and your child can even learn the names of different varieties of apples.

Apple Picking Vocabulary: cider, core, cortland, empire, fruit, gala, harvest, honeycrisp, macoun, macs, orchard, picking, sauce, seed, and stem.

Leaves

Celebrate fall leaves with this tree themed word search. Did you know that some trees turn yellow in the fall while others turn red? The species of tree impacts the color of the foliage during the autumn!

Fall leaves vocabulary: acorn, ash, aspen, beech, birch, brown, deciduous, falling, leaf, maple, oak, orange, poplar, red, and yellow.

Pumpkins

Exploring a pumpkin patch this fall? This next word search is a great activity to go along with pumpkin picking!

Pumpkin Picking Vocabulary: gourd, green, harvest, orange, patch, pie, pulp, pumpkin, rind, seeds, stem, squash, vine, and weight, white.

Fall Harvest

Autumn means it is time to harvest crops before winter. As you visit farms this fall you will see fields of corn and wheat being harvested. Along with pumpkins and apples!

Fall Harvest Vocabulary: apple, basket, cider, corn, crops, fields, frost, gourd, harvest, hay, orchard, picking, pumpkin, vegetable, and wheat.

Additional Activities

If you are looking for more printable activities to try this fall, you are in the right spot! From coloring pages to i spy worksheets, you can find four of my popular resources below:

• 5 Easy Fall Word Searches
• 7 Fall Coloring Sheets
• Acorn Coloring Pages
• Sunflower Coloring Pages
• 8 Fall I Spy Worksheets

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