Doubled letters everywhere: an Italian dressing-up grid

The words hidden here all name things you put on: CRAVATTA, BERRETTO, BRETELLE, CORONA, TIARA and BRACCIALETTO. Pictures of a tie, a beanie, suspenders, a crown, a tiara and a bracelet sit beside the grid, so your child always knows which six answers are in play. Each is caught by reading along a row or down a column and ringing the letters, and none of them run backwards.

Italian is fond of doubled consonants, and this page is thick with them: the TT in CRAVATTA, the RR in BERRETTO, the CC in BRACCIALETTO. Doubles are precisely where a child's eye stumbles, so they are worth the practice. BRACCIALETTO is twelve letters, the longest on the sheet, while TIARA runs to five and is spelled just as it is in English. BRETELLE and BRACCIALETTO both open with BR, so the third letter has to settle it.

Keep it for a day when dressing up is happening anyway, or use it to follow a lesson on clothes. Nothing here is marked. If four of the six get found and interest then wanders, that is fine — these words are learned by being met, not by clearing a grid. A pencil beats a pen, and the sheet can be reprinted as often as you like. Nobody is counting.