Favorite Dishes for Kids: Pizza, Pasta, Tacos and Curry

Eight dishes from around the world that children know: pizza and pasta from Italy, tacos from Mexico, curry from India and Southeast Asia, rice, a salad, a sandwich and a warm stew. A good starting point for talking about food from different countries.

Sandwich fills an entire column of the 8x8 grid. Curry, pasta and stew read backwards.

Types of Dishes Vocabulary: 8 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 5 of the 8 read backwards. The longest word is Sandwich, with 8 letters.

Curry: A dish of meat or vegetables in a spiced sauce, from India, Thailand and many other countries.
Pasta: Italian dough of wheat and water, shaped into hundreds of forms.
Pizza: Flat bread baked with tomato and cheese, first made in Naples, Italy.
Rice: A grain eaten every day by more than half the world.
Salad: A dish of mixed raw vegetables or leaves, often with a dressing.
Sandwich: Fillings between two slices of bread, named after the Earl of Sandwich.
Stew: Meat or vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a covered pot.
Taco: A Mexican corn or wheat tortilla folded around a filling.

How to Solve the Types of Dishes Word Search

"Sandwich" fills a whole column from top to bottom; it has the only H. "Pizza", with the only Z, a double one, reads normally across. "Curry" has the only Y and a double R, and reads backwards.

Food Around the World Activities for Kids

Find the country each dish comes from on a world map.
Ask children to vote for their favorite dish from the list.
Plan a pretend restaurant menu with the eight dishes.