Cabbage, and flower-cabbage: how Dutch builds a vegetable

KOOL is cabbage. BLOEMKOOL is flower-cabbage, which is cauliflower. Put those two words side by side on this sheet and a child can see, in about four seconds, how Dutch makes a new word out of one it already has — and that is a more useful thing to carry away than any single vegetable name. Both are on the picture list, so the pair can be set beside each other and talked about before anyone picks up a pencil.

The remaining four spread the difficulty sensibly. AUBERGINE is spelled as it is in British English, so it comes free. POMPOEN sounds near enough to pumpkin to be guessable from the picture. RADIJS and WORTEL, the radish and the carrot, are the pair that really need the picture beside them, and they are the two most likely to be still uncircled at the end.

Print it before a shopping trip or a cooking session and the words have somewhere to go afterwards; a carrot in the hand is worth several minutes of grid. Six words is a small enough set that a child can reasonably hold most of them by the end of the week. Answers are included on the second page, and there is no timing, no score and no reason at all to hurry anybody through it.