Feeling words in German, hidden six at a time

Feelings are hard to draw and harder to translate, which is why every word here comes with a face. Your child sees the happy one and looks for GLÜCKLICH; the sad one, TRAURIG; the angry one, WÜTEND. GELANGWEILT means bored and ANGEEKELT means disgusted — the two long ones, and usually the two children like best. Six words in all, printed beside their pictures so nobody has to guess what they are hunting for.

Unlike most German vocabulary, feeling words are not naming words, so in a sentence they stay lower case: glücklich, traurig, wütend. In the grid they appear in capitals, as everything in a word search does. Mention it once and move on. The umlauts matter more — GLÜCKLICH and WÜTEND both carry Ü, and a child scanning for a plain U will slide straight past them.

Worth knowing before you print: one entry, SCEPTICAL, is still in English on this sheet. Easier to name that aloud than to explain it away, and children rather enjoy catching an adult's mistake. The rest are solid first feeling words, useful at home or in class when someone needs the German for how their day is going. Search them, then use them for the rest of the afternoon. Five minutes, one pencil, and six words that get used the same day.