Dairy Products for Kids: Milk, Cheese, Butter and Yogurt

Eight foods made from milk: cream, which rises to the top; butter, churned from cream; ghee, butter cooked until clear, used in Indian cooking; cheese; yogurt and kefir, thickened by friendly bacteria; and whey, the watery liquid left when cheese is made, famous from Little Miss Muffet's "curds and whey".

Butter and ghee run upward, and cheese and cream read backwards. Look for the doubles: TT in butter and EE in cheese and ghee.

Dairy Products Vocabulary: 8 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 4 of the 8 read backwards. The longest words are Butter, Cheese and Yogurt, with 6 letters each.

Butter: A spread made by churning cream until the fat separates from the buttermilk.
Cheese: A food made by curdling milk and pressing the curds; there are well over a thousand kinds.
Cream: The fat-rich layer that rises to the top of fresh milk.
Ghee: Butter cooked until its water evaporates and its milk solids brown, used in Indian cooking.
Kefir: A tangy fermented milk drink made with kefir grains, from the Caucasus mountains.
Milk: The white liquid produced by mammals to feed their young; cow's milk is the most common.
Whey: The watery liquid left when milk is curdled to make cheese, rich in protein.
Yogurt: Milk thickened by friendly bacteria that turn its sugar into lactic acid.

How to Solve the Dairy Products Word Search

"Kefir" has the only F, and "whey" the only W; "milk" and "whey" are the only words that read normally across. "Yogurt" runs straight down. "Ghee" and "cheese" both have a double E.

Dairy Food Activities for Kids

Shake cream in a jar until it turns into butter.
Ask children which dairy foods they ate today.
Follow milk from the cow to the fridge: farm, dairy, store, home.