Danish words for how a child actually feels

Feelings vocabulary is nearly always taught with faces, and that is precisely how this sheet works. Six Danish words for how a person feels lie hidden in the grid — GLAD, GENERT, LYSTIG, FORVIRRET, VÆMMET and BEGEJSTRET — and each one sits beside a drawn expression on the word list. Your child matches a face to a spelling first, then goes hunting for the letters.

GLAD is the gift here: spelled just as English spells it, meaning happy, and circled almost at once. BEGEJSTRET, excited, runs to ten letters and is the long haul of the page. In between come GENERT for shy, FORVIRRET for confused, VÆMMET for disgusted and LYSTIG for merry — words English-speaking children are rarely taught early, though they feel every one of them daily.

This sheet has a use beyond the grid. Once the words are circled, the picture list becomes a feelings chart: your child can point at a face and give the Danish word for how their morning went. Teachers running a wellbeing circle can print it for that alone, and the searching quietly becomes the way the vocabulary was introduced rather than a separate exercise. A child who can say GENERT about themselves has been handed something more useful than a puzzle answer.