JONQUILLE runs nine letters long — find where it hides

Six Easter pictures line the sheet — a bunny, a duckling, a tulip, a daffodil, a cross and a sweet — and next to each is the French word for it. Those six words lie in the grid, some across, some down. Your child reads a word, holds it in mind, and combs the letters for it. Because the pictures do the explaining, a child who is only weeks into French can work through the page unaided.

Long words are friendlier than they look. JONQUILLE, the daffodil, is nine letters and stands out in a grid like a fence in a field, so it is often the first one circled. BONBON is easier still, since the second half simply repeats the first. LAPIN, the rabbit, is the one children remember longest, usually because they say it aloud all the way through the hunt.

Print it in the fortnight before Easter, when the same pictures are turning up on cards and in shop windows and the words have something to stick to. CROIX is the one to watch: it ends in a letter your child will not hear when the word is said, which is unsettling if they are searching by sound. Tell them to search by shape instead — eyes first, ears afterwards.