Thanksgiving Triples Puzzle

In this fun Thanksgiving word puzzle, you must carefully arrange the letter trio cards to spell a variety of Thanksgiving related words. Will you and your students be up to this Thanksgiving challenge?

Puzzle Instructions

Combine the letter trios to spell out some words associated with Thanksgiving. Each trio of letters will be used exactly once.

For example, FAM and ILY can be combined to form FAMILY. LEA and VES can be combined to form LEAVES. What other Thanksgiving themed words will you be able to find?

Puzzle Inspiration

This puzzle was inspired by a “Holiday Triples” puzzle published by Erich Friedman in 2013 as part of a holiday puzzles collection. Instead of featuring Christmas-themed words, I decided to take the puzzle structure and modify it to feature Thanksgiving-related words like TURKEY and FAMILY.

This isn’t my first time to modify this puzzle for a different theme. This past April, I shared a math-word version of this triples puzzle. I also created a Halloween Triples Puzzle back in October.

Prepping the Puzzle

I printed the letter trio pages on orange colored paper and it through my laminator before cutting the pieces apart.

In the past, I have put ceramic disc magnets on the back of the pieces so students can move the pieces around on the dry erase board. With the Halloween Triples puzzle, I decided to print three sets of the letter trio cards and attached them to the dry erase board with magnetic clips and ziplock snack bags.

This worked well since students could grab the puzzle cards and bring them back to their table to solve the puzzle, so I am continuing with this method.

Using the Puzzle in the Classroom

I posted this puzzle as my puzzle of the week last week. My students got really into it.

I unexpectedly had to miss a day of school this week due to one of my kiddos being sick, and when I returned multiple students had to show me a picture they took of the puzzle on their phone after they solved it.