Six Danish kitchen words, from SKE to BRØDRISTER

Start with SKE and KRUS. Three letters and four, the spoon and the mug, and both are found inside a minute — which matters, because the rest of this grid asks for patience. PISKERIS is the whisk, RIVEJERN the grater, BRØDRISTER the toaster, and BLENDER is spelled just as it is in English. Six kitchen words in all, each pictured beside the letters, so your child never has to guess which object a word belongs to.

The long ones show how Danish assembles a word. BRØDRISTER is a bread-roaster; RIVEJERN is a grate-iron. Read those apart for your child and a ten-letter puzzle turns into two small ones, which is far less daunting on a page. BRØDRISTER also brings in the Danish Ø, a letter shape worth pointing out before the searching starts, since it is easy to read straight past as an O. PISKERIS, at eight letters, sits somewhere between the two extremes and is usually the last one circled.

Cooking together is the obvious moment for it. Hand the sheet over while something is in the oven, then use the words for real: pass the SKE, fill the KRUS. Teachers can pair it with a food or healthy-eating week. It prints on one page, needs nothing but a pencil, and carries no score, so a child can leave two words uncircled and come back later.