Six Danish clothes words for a child getting dressed

Getting dressed is one of the first conversations you can hold in a new language, and these are six of the words it needs. NEDERDEL is a skirt, BÆLTE a belt, BADEDRAGT a swimming costume, and VEST, SHORTS and OVERALLS arrive in Danish looking close to their English cousins. All six lie hidden in the letter grid, with a picture beside each entry on the word list.

BADEDRAGT is the long hunt of the page at nine letters, and it is also the most rewarding to unpick: bade means to bathe and dragt means costume, so the Danish word says plainly what the thing is for. NEDERDEL is built the same way, from neder and del. Meanwhile VEST, SHORTS and OVERALLS give a beginner a run of quick circles before the harder searching starts.

Use it before a holiday, or before a swimming term, when the words will be wanted within days rather than someday. It also pairs neatly with an open wardrobe: lay out a belt, a skirt and a swimming costume, read a circled Danish word aloud, and let your child put the word with the right item. Nothing needs marking, and you can print it again whenever the words go quiet.