Take LAGO, FIUME and FALÒ camping: outdoor words waiting in a grid

Camping words in Italian, hidden among the filler letters. The picture clues show binoculars, a hammock, an owl, a river, a lake and a campfire, so the words to find are BINOCOLO, AMACA, GUFO, FIUME, LAGO and FALÒ. Your child scans across and down, spots a whole word, and circles it. GUFO and LAGO are four letters each and easy to read straight past.

FALÒ is the one to stop at. The accent on the final o tells your child where the stress lands, fa-loh, and it is one of the clearest reasons Italian bothers with accents at all. AMACA and BINOCOLO both have English relatives, hammock and binoculars, near enough for a child to guess. FIUME, the river, offers no such hint and simply has to be learned. Six words in all, and none of them longer than eight letters.

Print it for a holiday, a camping trip, or the long drive to one. Reading the six words aloud in the car and finding them later works well, because the sound has time to settle first. Children want the words for things they can actually see, so LAGO and FALÒ tend to stick fastest. The sheet is finished when your child says it is. Free to print, with no score and no clock.