A shopping basket, a peach, and the two letters PF

A shopping basket and five things to put in it. BLAUBEERE, the blueberry, explains itself the moment you pull it apart: BLAU is blue and BEERE is berry, so the German word is simply a blue berry. At nine letters it is the longest thing to find in this grid, and usually the last to be circled. There are six words on the sheet in all.

PFIRSICH, the peach, is the hardest word here, because PF at the start of a word is a sound English never makes. TOMATE and WASSER sit close enough to English to be guessed at. BIRNE, the pear, does not. KORB, the basket, is four letters and easy to overlook entirely. That leaves a fair split: two words your child can half-guess, and four that have to be learned properly.

Print it before a shopping trip and let your child carry it round the aisles, or use it after a lesson on food. The pictures mean no translating is needed, but do say the six words aloud together first. PFIRSICH in particular has to be heard to be believed, and a child who has practised the sound circles it with far more satisfaction. Ten minutes, and the six pictures tell you at a glance whether everything has been found.