Words for a doctor's visit, tucked inside a French letter grid

The pictures on this sheet come from a hospital ward — a doctor, a mask, a plaster cast, a bed, a monitor and a bottle of medicine — and each is labelled with its French name. Every one of those names is hidden in the grid, running across or down. Your child matches picture to word and then hunts, ringing each word as it is found. The pictures keep the meaning plain throughout.

The pair to separate before starting is MÉDECIN and MÉDICAMENT. One is the doctor, the other the medicine; they open with the same three letters and a child scanning at speed will circle the wrong one. MÉDECIN is seven letters, MÉDICAMENT is ten, so counting is the quickest way to tell them apart in the grid. MONITOR, meanwhile, is spelled exactly as in English.

Parents often reach for this one before an appointment or a stay, because naming the equipment in advance takes some of the strangeness out of it. PLÂTRE, the cast, carries a circumflex over the A and is worth reading aloud together. LIT, the bed, is only three letters and tends to be the last one found — a small, quiet finish to a page that is really about making a place feel less unfamiliar.