Five bakery words your child half-knows already, and one that is new

Six things from a bakery counter appear as pictures here — a croissant, a muffin, a cupcake, a brownie, a baguette and a tart — and each one's Norwegian name is hidden in the grid for your child to find and circle. The pleasure of a bakery page is that the pictures need no explaining at all; a child knows exactly what they are looking at before any Norwegian comes into it.

Five of these six will look half-familiar straight away, since Norwegian took them from English and French much as English did. Only TERTE is a stranger, and even TERTE turns out to be a tart. The word to look at closely is BAGUETT, which drops the final e that the French spelling carries: a small difference, but exactly the kind that decides whether a word is found in a grid or walked past.

Print it on a baking morning, or the day before you walk past a bakery window. Ask your child to point at what they would choose and say it in Norwegian; CROISSANT and BROWNIE come out almost unchanged, which gives a beginner the early feeling of speaking rather than reciting. Six words, no clock, and a page you can print again whenever the six of them start to slip out of reach.