Italian for the furniture your child walks past every day

Six household words are buried in this letter grid: LETTO, DIVANO, OROLOGIO, LIBRERIA, TAZZA and SHAMPOO. The pictures show a bed, a sofa, a clock, a bookshelf, a cup and shampoo — all things already in the house, which is a large part of why these words tend to stick. Each answer is found by reading a row or a column and ringing the letters.

LIBRERIA is the interesting one. It looks like library and is not: here it is the bookshelf in the picture. SHAMPOO is spelled exactly as in English and makes an easy first catch. TAZZA and LETTO both double a consonant in the middle, which is where scanning eyes slide, and OROLOGIO, at eight letters, is the longest and usually the last to be found. DIVANO is the sofa, and the picture settles any doubt about it.

The obvious place for this is at home, with the objects within reach. Find LETTO, then go and put a hand on the bed; word and thing arrive together and neither needs revising later. Nothing is scored or timed. Reprint it whenever you want, and if your child finishes quickly, ask them to pick three more things in the room and look those words up. Six words in, and the house is still full of others.