Six German words for Easter, waiting in a grid of letters

The sheet holds six German words, each with its picture. Your child looks at the chick, remembers or reads KÜKEN, then hunts for those five letters in the grid. The others are BAND, KREUZ, KAROTTE, NARZISSE and REGENBOGEN — a ribbon, a cross, a carrot, a daffodil and a rainbow. Finding a word is not the same as knowing it, but it is a slow careful look at every letter, and that is where knowing starts.

Work down the picture list rather than across the grid. Point at a picture, say the German word aloud together, then let your child search. Saying it first gives the eye something definite to look for; skipping that step turns the page into random letter-spotting. REGENBOGEN is ten letters and usually the first to jump out, so it makes a kind opening. NARZISSE, with its double S, is the one most often missed.

One thing worth mentioning as you go: German gives every naming word a capital letter, so KÜKEN and KAROTTE stay capitalised in the middle of a sentence too. Capitals in the grid are ordinary puzzle convention, but here they happen to be honest. Print it for a quiet ten minutes over the Easter holidays, or keep it back for whenever a little German vocabulary needs another airing.