Four of these Dutch bakery words your child can already read

Dutch borrows its cake names from everywhere, and this sheet makes that obvious. CROISSANT, ECLAIR, PRETZEL and CUPCAKE are all spelled just as an English-speaking child expects, so four of the six answers are findable on sight. Beginners who have been told a new language is hard get a small, honest piece of evidence to the contrary, and they get it in the first two minutes of the puzzle.

Then come the two genuinely Dutch ones. STOKBROOD is a baguette, and its two halves mean stick and bread — nine letters that suddenly make sense once you know that. TAARTJE is a small tart, and the -je on the end is the ending Dutch adds to make anything little. Point that out while your child is circling it; it is one of the most useful endings in the language and it turns up everywhere.

Print this one for a rainy afternoon or a baking day. It suits a child who is nervous about a new alphabet-sized task, because the borrowed words carry them into the grid before the harder two arrive. Afterwards, the six pictures make a decent ordering game: point at the eclair, say ECLAIR, and see whether STOKBROOD comes back without a peek at the answers.