Three of these six Norwegian words are spelled just as they are in English

The pictures on this sheet show things children do rather than things they own: football, basketball, the piano, baking, a puzzle, reading. The Norwegian name for each is hidden in the grid, and your child finds it and rings it. Because these are activities, the words earn their keep afterwards — they are the ones a child reaches for when trying to say what they did today.

Three of the six, PIANO and BAKING and BASKETBALL, are spelled exactly as they are in English, which hands a beginner an easy start. FOTBALL is the interesting case: the same word with one o where English writes two, so a child copying the English spelling will search the grid and find nothing. PUSLESPILL, at ten letters, is the long hunt of the page, and LESE simply means read.

This is a good sheet for a wet Saturday, or for the start of a term when you are asking a child what they enjoy. Treat it as a conversation rather than a test: point at the piano and ask whether they would rather do that or bake. Any one of these six words is enough to build a short sentence around, which is more than most beginner vocabulary lists can offer. Ten minutes is plenty.