SONNENBRILLE means sun-glasses and runs to twelve letters

SONNENBRILLE is the showpiece of this sheet. Twelve letters, and literally a pair of sun-spectacles: SONNEN from the sun, BRILLE for glasses. German names a great many objects this way, and a child who has traced one long compound through a grid has met the idea in the most memorable form there is. Six words hide here, and this is the longest by some distance.

QUALLE, the jellyfish, opens with QU as English does but sounds quite unlike anything English offers. NETZ is four letters and slips by unnoticed unless your child hunts deliberately for short words. INSEL and FELSEN are middling, five and six letters, and tend to turn up somewhere in the middle of the hunt. KÜHLBOX, the cool box, pairs one German word with a borrowed English one and carries a u with two dots.

Print it for a beach bag, a holiday folder, or a topic on the seaside. The pictures carry the meanings, so no translating is needed and an adult is wanted only for the sounds. INSEL is the island and FELSEN the rocks; both are worth saying aloud, because German gives every letter its turn and English speakers tend to swallow the endings. Allow ten minutes, a little longer if the long compound is left to the end.