Sun words and rain words, sharing one grid of letters

This sheet gathers six German weather words into a single grid: WOLKE, SONNIG, BEWÖLKT, REGENMANTEL, FÄUSTLINGE and SONNENBRILLE. The picture list shows a cloud, a sunny sky, a raincoat, mittens and sunglasses, so your child works from image to word to grid. Two of the answers are long enough to run most of the way along a line, which changes how the hunt feels. REGENMANTEL is one of them: REGEN plus MANTEL, rain plus coat, joined into a single word.

There is a real lesson tucked inside the vocabulary. SONNIG and SONNENBRILLE share a root, and so do WOLKE and BEWÖLKT, which is only the cloud word turned into cloudy. Point that out and the twelve letters of SONNENBRILLE stop looking frightening. FÄUSTLINGE hides an Ä near the front, and a child scanning for an ordinary A will pass over it every single time.

It suits a wet afternoon, or the week a class is learning to say what the sky is doing. Give your child a pencil rather than a pen, since half-found words get re-circled. If interest fades after four, stop there — the sheet keeps. Saying each word aloud while circling it does more for memory than clearing the whole grid, and there is nothing to score. Six found words makes a full session.