Free Printable Harvest Word Search

Crops, harvest work and harvest festivals on one sheet, with its answer key.

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QUXDSDSZTAOAHZL

USMFCORNWECRVAM

IWHEATMNLOOYHBO

AUESOVAUTUMNUAS

WAETBMSXWTBESLK

SJOIIPUMPKINKET

VNQVSKCNSUNBETZ

STRAWNSCARECROW

RFYLQGEADVNENFL

FLKFORCHARDPECK

ETNLGSNTCONRLWL

TCHARVESTTYBDBY

JRZIAVSFSHCONIZ

GOYRICEIATTGWDA

PPSHNHESSRUOTDR

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HarvestHARVEST
WheatWHEAT
CornCORN
RiceRICE
PumpkinPUMPKIN
CombineCOMBINE
CropCROP
GrainGRAIN
KernelKERNEL
HuskHUSK
StrawSTRAW
BaleBALE
OrchardORCHARD
ScarecrowSCARECROW
AutumnAUTUMN
FestivalFESTIVAL

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Answer key: Harvest Word Search

QUXDSDSZTAOAHZL

USMFCORNWECRVAM

IWHEATMNLOOYHBO

AUESOVAUTUMNUAS

WAETBMSXWTBESLK

SJOIIPUMPKINKET

VNQVSKCNSUNBETZ

STRAWNSCARECROW

RFYLQGEADVNENFL

FLKFORCHARDPECK

ETNLGSNTCONRLWL

TCHARVESTTYBDBY

JRZIAVSFSHCONIZ

GOYRICEIATTGWDA

PPSHNHESSRUOTDR

HARVEST, WHEAT, CORN, RICE, PUMPKIN, COMBINE, CROP, GRAIN, KERNEL, HUSK, STRAW, BALE, ORCHARD, SCARECROW, AUTUMN, FESTIVAL

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Harvest Work 16

Bind To tie cut stalks together into a bundle.
Dig To lift root crops out of the ground.
Gather To bring things together into one place.
Glean To collect the crops left over in a field after the harvest.
Harvest The gathering of mature crops, or the crops that have been gathered.
Haul To carry a heavy load from the field by cart or truck.
Haymaking Cutting and drying grass or other plants to store as feed for animals.
Mow To cut down grass or grain with a blade or a machine.
Pick To take fruit from a plant by hand.
Reap To cut grain or pulses for the harvest, as with a scythe or a sickle.
Shuck To strip the husk from an ear of corn.
Stack To pile sheaves or bales neatly.
Store To put the crop away safely to use later.
Thresh To loosen the edible part of a grain crop from the straw it is attached to.
Vintage The yearly gathering of grapes.
Winnow To separate chaff from grain, in its simplest form by throwing the mixture into the wind.

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Crops to Bring In 19

Cassava A woody shrub from South America grown in the tropics; the starch taken from it is called tapioca.
Chickpeas Round legume seeds, also called garbanzo beans, among the earliest crops of their kind that people grew.
Coffee A drink brewed from the roasted seeds of fruits called cherries, by tradition picked by hand.
Corn A tall grass that people in the south of Mexico first grew some 9,000 years ago; its ears hold kernels.
Garlic A bulb-forming plant whose close relatives include the onion, the leek and chives.
Grapes Berries that grow in clusters on woody vines; some are dried into raisins and some are pressed for juice.
Grapevine A twining plant grown as the source of a fruit that is eaten fresh, dried or pressed.
Lentils Small lens-shaped seeds that grow in pods, usually two to a pod.
Maize Another name for corn; its scientific name is Zea mays.
Molasses A thick syrup left over when the juice of sugarcane or sugar beet is refined into sugar.
Olives Small tree fruits; about four-fifths of the crop is pressed for oil and the rest is cured for the table.
Pumpkin A winter squash, usually round and orange, eaten at Thanksgiving and carved for autumn decorations.
Quinoa A plant from the Andean region of South America, grown mainly for its edible seeds.
Rice A cereal grain that is the staple food of more than half the people in the world.
Sorghum A cereal grass, most kinds of which tolerate drought and heat; its grain is food and the plant is animal feed.
Sugarcane A tall grass of tropical and subtropical regions whose stout, jointed stalks are rich in sucrose.
Tea A drink made from the leaves of an evergreen shrub; for centuries the shoots were plucked only by hand.
Wheat A grass grown for its grain, a staple food around the world that is ground into flour.
Yam A starchy tuber that grows on a vine in Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Tools, Machines and Measures 13

Auger A turning screw blade, usually inside a tube, that moves grain along.
Bushel A unit of volume used for farm products such as wheat; it equals 4 pecks.
Cart A two-wheeled vehicle for carrying a load, pulled by a person or an animal.
Combine A machine that joins reaping, threshing and gathering in one job, which is how it got its name.
Crate A large container, often made of wood, used to move or store goods.
Elevator A tower with machinery that scoops grain up from a lower level and drops it into storage.
Flail A hand tool for threshing: a short thick club tied to a long handle by a rope or a leather thong.
Millstone One of a pair of heavy round slabs, one still and one turning, that grind wheat and other grains.
Peck A unit of dry volume equal to 8 dry quarts; four of them make a bushel.
Press A device that separates the juice of fruit from the skins, seeds and pulp.
Sack A large bag for grain, flour or potatoes.
Scythe A hand tool with a long curved blade on a shaft with handles, for mowing grass or reaping crops.
Sickle A one-handed tool with a curved blade, used for reaping grain.

Parts of the Crop 21

Bale A large bundle of hay or straw, pressed tight and tied.
Bran The hard outer layers of a cereal grain.
Chaff Dry, scaly bits of plant, such as the casings that protect cereal seeds.
Cob The tough core inside an ear of corn, where the kernels sit.
Crop A plant, or what a plant produces, that is grown at scale and gathered for people to use.
Ear The tip of a cereal stem, such as wheat's, where the grain forms.
Grain A small, hard, dry seed gathered for people or animals to eat.
Hull Another word for the outer shell of a seed.
Husk A seed's outer coating; in the United States, the leaves wrapped round an ear of corn.
Kernel A single seed of corn; an ear holds about 800 of them in 16 rows.
Pod The long case that holds the seeds of peas, beans and lentils.
Ripe Fully grown and ready to be picked or eaten.
Sheaf A bunch of cereal stems bound together after reaping.
Silk The shiny, thread-like fibers that stick out from the tip of an ear of corn.
Stalk The main stem of a plant such as corn or wheat.
Stook A group of bound sheaves stood on end in a field; also called a shock.
Straw Dry cereal stalks, left over once the grain and chaff are taken off.
Stubble The short stalk ends left standing in a field after reaping.
Tassel The pollen-making flower cluster at the top of a corn plant.
Windrow A long line of cut hay or grain, left to dry before it is baled or gathered.
Yield How much of a crop a given area of land produces.

Fields, Festivals and Feasts 21

Abundance A very large supply; more than enough.
Autumn The season that marks the change from summer to winter; in North America it is also called fall.
Bounty Something given freely and generously.
Cellar A storeroom, usually underground or partly so, for vegetables, fruit and nuts.
Chuseok A major harvest festival in Korea, held at a full moon, on day 15 of the eighth lunar month.
Feast A large, special meal shared by many people.
Festival A yearly celebration; many peoples hold one around the time of their main harvest.
Granary A storage building for grain, usually raised above the ground to keep out damp and rodents.
Horn of Plenty A curved container overflowing with produce, an ancient symbol of abundance; also called a cornucopia.
Kwanzaa A celebration from December 26 to January 1; its name comes from a Swahili phrase meaning first fruits.
Lammas A Christian holiday on August 1, when a loaf is brought to church to bless the first fruits of the harvest.
Lughnasadh A Gaelic festival, by tradition on August 1, that opens the harvest season.
Market A place where growers bring their crops to sell.
Mooncake A Chinese pastry with a rich filling, by tradition eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Orchard Land planted with fruit or nut trees for the food they bear.
Paddy Field Flooded land used for growing rice.
Pongal A Hindu harvest festival of three or four days, celebrated by Tamils in the middle of January.
Scarecrow A figure, usually dressed in old clothes, placed in a field to keep birds off seed and growing crops.
Sukkot A seven-day Jewish holiday, also named the Festival of Ingathering, with festive meals in a temporary hut.
Thanksgiving A holiday in the United States, Canada and a few other countries that began as a day of gratitude for the harvest.
Vineyard A plantation of grape-bearing plants.

How this list was compiled: 90 harvest words in five lists: harvest work, crops, tools and measures, parts of the crop, and fields, festivals and feasts. Facts in the clues and in the questions were checked on October 9, 2026 against English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0), each word's own article and Full moon for the Harvest Moon; spellings and plain meanings against English Wiktionary. Licence: own work

How it works

Wheat, Corn, Combine, Crop, Bale, Orchard and Scarecrow are in the first grid of this free printable harvest word search. The whole set is 90 words in five lists: the work, the tools, the crops, their parts and the festivals.

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Harvest work, tools and crops

Harvest Work has 16 words, among them the steps of a grain harvest in order: Reap, Thresh, Winnow. Tools, Machines and Measures has 13, from Sickle and Scythe to Combine, the machine named for joining those jobs. Crops to Bring In has 19 from around the world, such as Rice, Yam, Quinoa and Sugarcane.

Parts of the crop, festivals and feasts

Parts of the Crop has 21 words for a unit on grain: Ear, Kernel, Husk, Chaff, Straw, Sheaf. Fields, Festivals and Feasts has 21, among them Thanksgiving, Sukkot, Chuseok, Pongal and Lammas.

Easy Harvest has 41 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Corn, Rice, Husk and Bale.
With Show clues, not words ticked in More options, Bale prints as "A large bundle of hay or straw, pressed tight and tied."
Horn of Plenty stands in for cornucopia, because CORN can be read inside CORNUCOPIA.

Questions and answers

Does the printable harvest word search have an answer key?

Yes. The harvest word search printable is one sheet of Letter or A4, and the key, with each word ringed, prints as the next page.

What is the Harvest Moon?

In the Northern Hemisphere it is the full moon nearest the autumn equinox of September 22 or 23, so it can rise up to two weeks before or after that date. The full moon that follows it is called the Hunter's Moon.

What is the difference between reaping, threshing and winnowing?

Reaping is cutting the grain. Threshing loosens the edible part from the straw. Winnowing separates the chaff, at its simplest by throwing the mixture into the air so that the wind blows the lighter chaff away.

What is a harvest festival?

A yearly celebration held around the time of a region's main harvest. Climates and crops differ, so the dates do too: Pongal falls in the middle of January, Lammas on August 1 and Chuseok at a full moon in autumn.

All 90 words

Harvest Work 16

Crops to Bring In 19

Tools, Machines and Measures 13

Parts of the Crop 21

Fields, Festivals and Feasts 21

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