Six Italian words for how a face looks

The pictures on this sheet are faces rather than objects, and the hidden words describe them: ARRABBIATO for the angry one, SPAVENTATO for the frightened one, CONFUSO for the puzzled one, ALLEGRO for the cheerful one. Your child reads the face, finds its Italian word on the list, then hunts along the rows and down the columns until the letters line up.

Feeling words run longer than object words, and this sheet shows it: ARRABBIATO is ten letters and DISGUSTATO is ten as well. That length turns out to help in a grid, because a long word is easier to spot once a child stops reading letter by letter and starts looking for a shape. ALLEGRO may already be familiar from music, where it means brisk and bright.

Use it when feelings are being talked about anyway, after a squabble or a story, so the Italian lands on something real rather than floating free. These are the masculine forms, all ending in -o; a girl describing herself would swap that for an a. Say it once, not twice. Then let the hunt take as long as it takes and read the six aloud at the end. Six faces and six words is plenty for one sitting, and none of it needs testing afterwards.