Two words your child already knows, four they certainly don't

Six household objects, six German words, one grid. COMPUTER and GRILL are borrowed from English and spelled identically, which lets a beginner open with two painless finds. The remaining four are properly German and worth slowing down over, because none of them can be guessed from its English equivalent. A picture sits beside every word, so none of it is a guessing game.

KAMM is four letters for a comb, and short words are always the hardest to see. BÜGELBRETT, the ironing board, is the opposite problem: ten letters, a u with two dots, and a doubled consonant at the end. SCHERE means scissors, and KOMMODE is a chest of drawers. Those last two are the ones that most often need a second pass through the grid. COMPUTER, at eight letters, is the longest of the borrowed pair and the fastest find on the sheet.

This one suits a household-vocabulary lesson or a rainy Sunday afternoon. Read the picture list together first so your child knows which word belongs to which object, since matching KOMMODE to a chest of drawers is not remotely obvious from the shape of the word. Afterwards, walking round the house naming the same six things makes the ten minutes last. The word list serves as the answer key.