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Harvest Festival Word Search

Harvest festivals mark the end of the growing season, and some version of one turns up in nearly every farming culture. British churches fill with bread baked in the shape of a wheat sheaf, and American Thanksgiving grew from the same habit of giving thanks once the fields were clear. The date usually follows the local crop rather than a fixed square on the calendar.

Harvest Festival word search (Medium)

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Find these 15 words

15 words, adds diagonals

apple
autumn
cider
corn
farmer
feast
gourd
harvest
hayride
orchard
parade
pumpkin
scarecrow
tractor
wheat

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Words in the Harvest Festival word search

Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.

harvest: Gathering of ripe crops at the end of the season.
autumn: Season between summer and winter when most crops come in.
pumpkin: Large orange squash picked in autumn for pies and lanterns.
apple: Orchard fruit gathered in early autumn across cool climates.
corn: Tall grain crop, also called maize, harvested in late summer.
cider: Pressed apple juice, served warm or cold at autumn gatherings.
feast: Large shared meal marking the end of heavy field work.
hayride: Ride on a wagon of straw pulled through the farm.
scarecrow: Straw figure set in fields to keep birds off crops.
wheat: Grain cut and threshed for flour and harvest bread.
parade: Procession through town, common at village harvest celebrations.
gourd: Hard shelled squash relative grown mainly for autumn decoration.
orchard: Planted grove of fruit trees, picked over in autumn.
farmer: Person who grows the crops the festival celebrates.
tractor: Engine powered machine that pulls harvest equipment across fields.
silo: Tall tower storing grain or fodder after the harvest.
barley: Grain used for bread, animal feed and brewing.
sheaf: Bundle of cut stalks tied together and stood upright.
granary: Building where threshed grain is kept dry through winter.
haystack: Piled stack of dried grass stored as winter feed.

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