DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Autumn Crossword Puzzle
Get ready to celebrate autumn while sharpening your reading, spelling, and problem-solving skills with our Autumn Crossword Puzzle!
These puzzles are designed to be fun and approachable for kids, offering both simple word-based crosswords and picture-word crosswords that make learning interactive. Younger children can enjoy matching words to pictures, practicing letter formation, and learning to sound out words, while older kids can tackle more challenging sentence clues and standard crosswords that strengthen vocabulary and critical thinking.
With options ranging from easy, picture-based puzzles to regular crosswords with or without word lists, there’s something here to engage every skill level and keep children excited about learning through play.
Information on Ages/Skills for the different crossword difficulties:
- Picture Crossword with word list:
- intended for preschool through grade 1 children who are learning to read and form their letters
- children sound out words from the word list and then match them with the picture
- children copy the words from the word list into the crossword puzzle.
- Picture Crossword (no word list):
- intended for grade 1 through grade 3 children who are learning to spell
- children use the picture clues to figure out the words that go in the crossword
- children print the words from the picture clues into the crossword puzzle.
- Word Clues (Regular) Crossword with word list:
- intended for grade 1 through grade 4 children
- children use the written sentence clues and the word list to figure out where the words go in the crossword
- children print the words from the word list into the crossword puzzle.
- Word Clues (Regular) Crossword (no word list):
- intended for grade 3 and up
- children use the written sentence clues to figure out the crossword
- children print the words into the crossword puzzle.
Templates:
- After printing, close the template window to return to the main page.
- If the template doesn’t fit on one page, adjust your printer margins:
• In most browsers: Print → More settings → Margins → Minimum
• Or use Page Setup / Printer Setup in your printer dialog
Picture Crossword color or B&W
Picture Crossword - with word list color or B&W
Picture Crossword - answer key color or B&W
Regular Crossword color or B&W
Regular Crossword - with word list color or B&W
Regular Crossword - answer key color or B&W
Printable version of these instructions
