One real Dutch word among the tree names — and it is a good one

This is an unusual sheet, and it is worth saying so plainly. Four of the six tree names on it — HEMLOCK, CEDAR, ASH and FIR — are spelled here just as they are in English, so a child reading them meets nothing new. BAOBAB is the same in both languages too, as it is in most. The word that carries real Dutch is KOKOSNOOT.

KOKOSNOOT earns the page on its own. Kokos plus noot: coconut, assembled the way Dutch assembles most of its nouns, by pushing two shorter words together and then reading the result as one. Point at the picture, say the word slowly in halves, and a child usually has it. The short names, ASH and FIR, are the hardest to spot in the grid simply because three letters can hide almost anywhere.

Use it for what it honestly is: a low-demand puzzle for a tree or forest topic, with one genuinely new Dutch word inside it. That makes it right for a child who is tired, or very new to the language and needs a page they can finish. Print it, hand over a pencil and leave them to it. The answers follow on the next page, nothing here is timed or scored, and it can be printed again next term.