CHATTERBOX GAME HOW TO
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Bring them back to school the next day and play/practice. Do all the printing at school then send the chatterbox home to be folded.Train 4 or 5 of your students to be the folding experts (pretty soon most everyone else will catch on).Invite some parent volunteers to assist with the folding.But don’t worry, there are lots of workarounds: Sometimes 6 year olds find it quite challenging to fold chatterboxes. With that one you could print sight words on the outside, sight words in place of the numbers and then print silly actions for your friends to do on the final flaps. One of those is blank (except for the lines). In the download I’ve also include two other variations of the template. They end up getting endless amounts of practice reading and spelling the colour words and sight words. If you make these in the classroom, then you can spend some time where the kids are playing the game with each other. Lift up that flap and friend (or you) reads the sight word You count out loud while opening and closing the chatterbox.Friend looks inside and picks one of the numbers.Ask a friend to pick a colour then open and close the chatterbox while spelling the colour word out loud.Place your thumb and first finger from each hand into the paper pockets.

CHATTERBOX GAME HOW TO

Here’s How to Play with the Sight Word Chatterbox Here’s a picture of my finished chatterbox. It’s now ready to be folded (directions are included in the download). Their sheet will look something like this: In each of the inside triangles they’ll print a different sight word. Your students will need to colour each circle a different colour then print the colour word underneath. When you download and print the template it will look like this:

CHATTERBOX GAME FULL

If not, don’t worry, I have full directions on how to make and play the game in my download. I’m going to assume that the vast majority of readers are familiar with this children’s game. If you check out this Wikipedia link you can read all sorts of cool facts! Whatever you call them, they’re a form of origami and are also known as “salt cellars”, “whirybirds” and “taku-taku”. Inside: Free sight word chatterboxes for first grade.ĭid you know that chatterboxes are also called fortune tellers and cootie catchers? Share on Pinterest Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn

Chatterbox game