German toolbox words, one of which also means mother

The pictures make up a workbench: a ladder, a pair of pliers, a paint brush, a torch. Your child reads the German word printed for each of them, then hunts it down in the grid, row by row. The joke of the page is MUTTER, which is the nut that screws onto a bolt and is also the German word for mother. Children tend to remember that one for years, long after the sheet itself has gone in the recycling.

TASCHENLAMPE comes to twelve letters and is simply two ordinary words joined by a linking n: TASCHE, a pocket, and LAMPE, a lamp. A pocket lamp is a torch. Reading the parts rather than the letters is the single most useful trick in German, and a compound this long is a friendly place to practise it, because the join between the halves is easy to see.

LEITER and PINSEL are the quiet ones, six letters apiece, and they tend to be found last of all, because nothing whatever about them looks English to a beginner. SPANNER reads exactly as it does in British English, so the picture will confirm it quickly. Print this alongside a real job around the house and let your child name each tool in German as they hand it over to you.