A cloud and a cloudy sky, hidden in the same grid

Two of the six words on this sheet are relatives. PILVI is a cloud; PILVINEN is cloudy. Finnish makes the describing word out of the thing itself, and a child who circles both in one sitting has watched that happen rather than been told about it. The rest of the set is AURINKO the sun, KYLMÄ cold, LÄTÄKKÖ a puddle and SATEENVARJO an umbrella.

SATEENVARJO repays a moment of unpacking: sade is rain and varjo is a shade or shelter, so an umbrella comes out as a rain-shelter. It is the longest word on the page and worth saving for a child who has warmed up. LÄTÄKKÖ is the awkward one, with its dotted letters and its doubled K, and it is fair to warn a child in advance that this word will take longer than the rest. AURINKO tends to go first.

The obvious moment is a wet morning at the window. Look out, decide together whether it is PILVINEN, then go and find the word. There is no timing and no score anywhere on the page, so the sheet can be abandoned halfway and picked up when the rain stops. Six weather words is a small vocabulary, but it is one a child can use every single day.