Short Danish words for a spring table

The words on this Easter sheet are unusually short, which makes it one of the kindest starting points in the Danish set. SLIK is sweets, KORS a cross, BÅND a ribbon, FJER a feather, BLOMST a flower and REGNBUE a rainbow. Six words, four of them under six letters, each with its own picture on the list — so a child who cannot yet read Danish still works independently.

Short words are harder to find than long ones, because there is less of them to catch the eye, and the searching here turns out to be genuinely attentive rather than quick. BÅND and BLOMST both open with B, and FJER hides easily among common letters. REGNBUE is the one to talk about: regn is rain, bue is a bow, so a Danish rainbow is a rain-bow, much as an English one is.

Print it for the week before Easter, when there is craft on the table anyway. A child can circle BLOMST and then go and pick one, or tie a BÅND round a card and name it while they do. In class it works as a spring-term filler with real content behind it: six words that come round every year, learned from pictures rather than from a vocabulary list.