Everything in a German bakery window, buried in one grid

Everything in this grid is something your child could point at in a German bakery window. Six words hide there, and the pictures settle what each one means. KÄSEKUCHEN is cheesecake, and it comes apart neatly into KÄSE, meaning cheese, and KUCHEN, meaning cake. Ten letters, one of them an a wearing two dots, and it is the word children usually save until last.

BRÖTCHEN, the bread roll, ends in CHEN, the ending German adds to make something small. That is worth noticing, because it turns up on dozens of other words. BREZEL is the pretzel and looks pleasingly like it sounds; it and WAFFEL are both six letters and sit at the easy end of the sheet. TOAST and BAGUETTE are borrowed and spelled as expected, so the hunt opens gently.

Good for a food topic, a baking afternoon, or the week before a trip to Germany. Settle the meanings with the pictures first, then leave your child to it. WAFFEL deserves a second look: it is the English waffle with its last two letters swapped round, and a child who assumes they know the spelling circles the wrong run of letters and has to start again. Keep the picture list beside your child as they work; it doubles as the answer key when they think they have finished.