The French names for things already in your house

The hardest word here is the shortest. LIT is French for bed — three letters, easily overlooked in a crowd of capitals, and easily mistaken for an English word that has nothing to do with sleeping. It sits alongside BROSSE, CISEAUX, ÉTAGÈRE, FOURCHETTE and BAIGNOIRE, all hidden across and down, all pictured on the word list so the meaning is never in doubt.

Length is the whole difficulty of this set. BAIGNOIRE and FOURCHETTE run to nine and ten letters, which sounds daunting but in fact makes them the easiest to see; long words stand out in a grid. The short ones hide better, and BROSSE catches the eye out in the other direction, looking so like brush that a scanning child slides straight past it. Work down from the longest word.

This is a sheet for the kitchen table rather than a lesson, because everything on it is within pointing distance. Circle FOURCHETTE, then go and fetch a fork; circle BAIGNOIRE and the bathroom is a short walk away. That loop from paper to object is what makes a circled word stick. ÉTAGÈRE carries two accent marks in one short word and CISEAUX ends in a silent X, so read the list aloud before the search begins rather than after. Nothing is timed and nothing is marked.