Three words that start with REGN — a Danish weather hunt

Look down the word list before your child starts and a pattern jumps out: REGNBUE, REGNFRAKKE and REGNFULDT all open with the same four letters. Regn is rain, so those three are the rainbow, the raincoat and the rainy weather. The remaining three are PARAPLY for umbrella, SNEFNUG for snowflake and VARMT for hot. Six weather words, one grid, pictures beside every entry.

That shared REGN opening makes the searching more interesting than usual, because spotting the four letters is only half the job — your child then has to read on and decide which of the three words they have actually found. It is a small exercise in careful reading, and it plants the idea that Danish words are built from parts. SNEFNUG works the same way once you know sne means snow.

The natural moment for this sheet is a wet afternoon, with the real weather doing the illustrating outside the window. Pin it up afterwards and use the words for a fortnight: point at the sky and ask whether it is REGNFULDT or VARMT today. In class it fits a weather-chart routine without any extra preparation. Print it freely, or work through it on screen — there is no timing and nothing to mark.