Six Dutch words for people at work, hidden in one grid

A child who can already name the teacher, the police officer and the waitress in Dutch has something to say the moment a conversation starts, which is why job words repay early attention. This sheet hides six of them: LERAAR, ACTEUR, POLITIEAGENT, KLEERMAKER, BALLERINA and SERVEERSTER. Pictures sit beside the grid, so the task is matching a drawing to a word and then tracking that word through the letters.

POLITIEAGENT is the longest and the most rewarding — politie is the police, agent is the officer, and Dutch simply glues the two together. KLEERMAKER does the same trick: kleer for clothes, maker for the one who makes them, so a tailor is a clothes-maker. SERVEERSTER carries the -ster ending Dutch puts on a woman doing the job. Point at that ending once and it gets recognised ever after.

Expect a split. LERAAR and ACTEUR are usually circled within seconds, and then the pencil stops dead in front of the twelve letters of POLITIEAGENT. The trick is to stop hunting for the whole thing and hunt for a piece of it: the letters AGENT are easy to see, and the rest of the word is attached to them. Beyond that it needs nothing but a printer, a pencil and ten unhurried minutes.