Garden flowers in Italian, two of them barely disguised

Six flower names are hidden here, and the sheet is unusually kind at the start: TRILLIUM is spelled just as it is in English, and FLOX is the phlox wearing an Italian x. After those two come the properly Italian ones — RANUNCOLO for the buttercup, TULIPANO for the tulip, GIGLIO for the lily and VIOLETTO for the violet, each pictured on the word list.

This is a slightly harder set than most, because several blooms on the list are ones a child may not name confidently in English either. Worth knowing before you print it: the sheet is teaching two things at once, the flower and the Italian for it. FLOX is the quickest find at four letters. RANUNCOLO usually takes the longest and is often left until last. Reading all six aloud before starting gives a child something to listen for as they scan the rows.

It goes well with a walk, a window box or a page of pressed petals, where the pictures can be matched against something actually growing. There is no clock on it, so a child can find three words on Saturday and the rest on Sunday. When it is finished, TULIPANO and GIGLIO are the two most likely to still be there a week later. Both are short and both get used.