Faces down one side, French feeling words hidden on the other

Most vocabulary sheets name objects. This one names states of mind. Six small faces are printed on the page — happy, bored, scared, confused, excited and a wonderfully sulky capricious one — each labelled with its French word, and every word is waiting somewhere in the grid to be found and ringed. Your child reads the face, reads the word, then searches the rows and columns until the letters line up.

Words like these are harder to picture than a cow or a cake, so the drawings are doing real work. They also behave differently: these are describing words, and a child meeting them will later have to change their endings to suit who is being described. None of that is asked for here. The task here is recognition only — see the word on the page, know which face it belongs to, and circle it.

It is a good sheet for a child who is learning to name what they feel, in either language. The confusable pair is EXCITÉ and ENNUYÉ; both are six letters and both close on an accented E, so an eye moving quickly will grab one for the other. CAPRICIEUX, at ten letters, is the opposite problem and the easiest catch on the page. Read each word aloud before the hunt begins.