One Italian ending, two kitchen tools, and four plainer words

Italian builds many tool names by adding -ORE to a verb. BOLLITORE is the thing that boils, so it is the kettle; FRULLATORE is the thing that whirls, so it is the blender. Point that out once and your child owns a rule that will open up hundreds of other Italian words later. Then let them go and find both in the grid.

The other four are plainer. TAZZA is the mug, BROCCA the jug, BOTTIGLIA the bottle, GRATTUGIA the grater. Three of the six run to nine letters, which makes this a slower sheet than most: a child scanning for BOTTIGLIA has to hold nine letters in mind while their eye travels the whole length of a row. BROCCA and TAZZA are the short pair and make a fair warm-up.

It suits a wet afternoon at the kitchen table with the real objects within reach. Hand your child the actual mug the moment TAZZA is circled; the word attaches to the thing far better that way. Doubled consonants are the usual stumble here — TAZZA carries two Zs, BOTTIGLIA two Ts — so a slow first read of the word list is time well spent. If the words are still slippery afterwards, cover the picture strip and see how many can be matched from memory.