Danish Words for Letters, Parcels and the Postman

A child who has posted a birthday card already knows this vocabulary in English, which is exactly why it works in Danish. Hidden in the grid are BREV, PAKKE, POSTKASSE, POSTKONTOR, POSTMAN and LASTBIL — letter, parcel, postbox, post office, postman and lorry. The pictures beside the grid supply the meaning, so the whole job is to read the letters carefully and circle each word once it has been found.

Two of these are compounds a child can pull apart with a little help. POSTKASSE is post plus box; POSTKONTOR is post plus office. Pointing that out mid-puzzle turns six separate words into a small pattern, and patterns are what a beginner can actually carry forward. BREV and PAKKE are short enough to find first, which gives the sheet an easy start before the longer words arrive.

Use it in a week when the class is writing letters, or before a trip to the real post office so a few Danish labels are already in the child's head. It prints on one page and needs only a pencil. Say the words aloud together once the circling is done — reading Danish and saying Danish are two separate pleasures, and LASTBIL in particular sounds nothing like it looks.