Six Danish words for the music corner, hidden across and down

Six Danish words for the music corner are hidden here, and two of them your child can read already: GUITAR and NOTE are spelled exactly as in English. TROMPET drops a letter from trumpet, FLØJTE is the flute, BASUN the trombone and BÆKKENER the cymbals. Every word is pictured beside the grid, so a child who has never seen a trombone written in Danish still knows which one to hunt for.

FLØJTE and BÆKKENER are the two that need a proper look. Both carry letters English does not have — an Ø in one, an Æ in the other — and both are easy to skim past when a child is scanning at speed. BASUN is short and unexpected enough to lodge; it resembles nothing in English, which is usually why it is the word children still remember a week later.

Use it in the lesson after the instruments come out, while the sound of each one is still fresh. Play a note on the recorder, then let your child go looking for FLØJTE. At home it makes a quiet activity to follow a noisy one. Print it, or open it on a screen — either way no clock is running and nothing can go wrong except a word not yet found.