MEDUSA means jellyfish, and that is the one they remember

MEDUSA is the jellyfish. That surprises most children, and it is the word they carry away from this sheet. The rest are steadier: SQUALO the shark, DELFINO the dolphin, FOCA the seal. Your child finds each one in the letter grid and rings it, with the pictures down the side saying which creature is being looked for. There is no writing to do; a pencil and a few quiet minutes are the whole kit.

Two of the six run to only four letters, ORCA and FOCA, so a tired child can still finish the page. ORCA is spelled exactly as it is in English, which makes it a free find and a sensible one to start on. CAPASANTA, the scallop, is nine letters and hides far better; leave it until the grid is half crossed off. Counting a word letter by letter before hunting is a decent trick for the longer ones.

It works well after an aquarium trip or an afternoon at the rock pools, while the animals are still vivid. The thing to watch is the QU in SQUALO: in Italian that pair sounds like kw, so the word runs skwalo. Read the list aloud once before the hunt and the spelling stops tripping the eye halfway along a row. DELFINO tends to go without any help at all.