Cabbage is KÅL: a vegetable word hunt in Danish

"What does KÅL mean?" is the first question this sheet usually gets, and the picture answers it: cabbage. The other five hidden words are TOMAT, SELLERI for celery, PASTINAK for parsnip, plus SQUASH and AUBERGINE, which Danish spells the way English does. Your child reads the grid across and down, recognises each word among the scattered letters, and circles it. The pictures do the translating, so no dictionary is needed.

KÅL is the interesting one for a beginner. Three letters, an unfamiliar å, and no English cousin to lean on — which makes it the word a child has to genuinely learn rather than guess. Short words also hide better in a grid than long ones, so it usually gets found last. AUBERGINE and SELLERI, by contrast, are long enough that their letter-runs almost announce themselves once the eye is scanning properly.

Cooking is where these words stick. Print the sheet before a shopping trip and give your child the job of spotting a TOMAT or a PASTINAK on the shelves, or lay it on the kitchen table while supper is being chopped. In a classroom it slots neatly into a healthy-eating week. Free to print as many times as you like, and free to play through on screen if you would rather not use paper.