Learn Finnish: Thanksgiving – Picture-Word Match for Kids

In this picture-word match your child links each drawing to the right Finnish word, simply by drawing a line from the picture to its name. On one side are the turkeys, pumpkins and pies as pictures; on the other are the Finnish words that go with them. Your child looks at a drawing, reads through the Finnish vocabulary, and decides which name belongs to it. So they learn to connect a picture with its written Finnish name — a soft, happy first step into the language. There is nothing to spell and nothing to search for, only reading, thinking, and joining. Let your child work at their own pace: no timer and no score, just one picture at a time matched to the right Finnish word with a single line.

Read, think, connect: your child studies the turkeys, pumpkins and pies and reads the Finnish words beside them. Then they draw a line from each picture to the matching word. That trains recognition of written Finnish words, with no writing at all. Take your time together — what counts is the happy joining, with no clock and no contest. With every pair matched, the look of the Finnish word grows more familiar, and your child moves step by step toward reading their first Finnish vocabulary. Finnish builds long words by clicking small pieces together, a bit like adding cars to a train.

Has your child had so much fun connecting? Then there is plenty more to discover! The matches about the flowers and the ones with kitchen tools hold fresh pictures and new Finnish words looking for their partners. And once your child is in the swing of it, a whole free collection built around the Thanksgiving things is ready to go — free to print or simply to play online. That way learning Finnish stays varied and gives a little fresh pleasure each day, all at your child’s own pace. Have fun reading, thinking, and connecting together!