The bed is LETTO, the gloves are GUANTI — now find them

Six Italian words sit inside the letter grid on this sheet, and the pictures beside it tell your child which ones to hunt for. The bed is labelled LETTO, the gloves GUANTI, the face mask MASCHERA. Your child reads along each row and down each column until the letters line up, then draws a ring round the word. Finding it is the whole task; nothing has to be sounded out first.

Two of the six, CHART and GOWN, are printed in English on this sheet, so your child gets a pair of easy wins early and can spend their patience on the rest. BRACCIALETTO, the hospital wristband, runs to twelve letters and is usually the last one found. Suggest scanning for its double C rather than the whole word, which is how practised puzzlers work. It helps to find its first two letters and then check whether the rest follows on.

This is a calm sheet for a child who is uneasy about doctors: the vocabulary arrives through a puzzle instead of a visit. Print it before an appointment, or use it with a hospital play set. Say each word aloud as it is circled — Italian is spelled much as it sounds, so LETTO and GUANTI read almost exactly as written, and the saying is what makes them stay.