Everything a letter passes through, named in Italian

Everything a letter passes through, named in Italian. BUSTA is the envelope, LETTERA the letter itself, TIMBRO the stamp, PACCO the parcel. The pictures run down the side of the sheet and the words lie buried across and down in the grid. Your child reads along the rows until a word assembles itself out of the letters, then circles it. The picture strip settles all six meanings before the searching even begins.

Two entries deserve a word of warning. POSTMAN is printed in English on this sheet rather than in Italian, so treat it as a free find and move on. CAMION, the delivery truck, is used in Italian but borrowed from French, and it is said kam-yon, which is nothing like what the picture leads an English child to expect. The other four behave themselves entirely.

Pair this with actually posting something. Write a card, walk it to the postbox, then circle LETTERA and BUSTA when you get home; words stay put once they have been used for a real errand. PACCO has five letters and TIMBRO six, and in a crowded grid the two look alike at speed, so a slow scan beats a fast one here. TIMBRO is the one most often ringed in the wrong place, so check that one last.