I've put out many times how to make a game using a Manila folder. I was wondering if anyone has and if so, what themes did you use and did it help?
Just curious as I put the folder game out there again today.
Take care everyone and have an awesome day!
Well, I'm glad it's being used, I was going to stop posting it if it wasn't.......AND what GREAT ideas you guys have come up with, please post more......I love it.......Ina ask that I post it again, so I will here....We used this at a school where I was a reading teacher with a very limited budget!!! Enjoy everyone and be sure to keep the comments coming.....thanks.
Manila folder board game.
Get a file folder, open it up, and draw circles or squares or triangles, whatever you want and make a game board. Be sure to leave room for pictures either drawn or cut out. Then either buy clear contact paper or take it and get it laminated. Then go to the dollar store and buy some cheap "game pieces", they can be erasers, or whatever they like.......next cut some paper and make playing cards. These can go from ABC's, pictures or words, to letters and sounds, whatever you want. You can laminate them too if you want........Get some dice......now you are ready to go.......you can use the game for quite a while, and you can just changed the cards as they progress to new things.....When the board is in bad shape, make a new one......this can go on for years......and it's cheap, simple to make and they have fun playing a game, not realizing that they are learning as they go.
I hope this helps, remember, stickers are great too for the board, cards and as rewards for a great job done!
In the car I have made a few games when my older kids were little. I did a paper doll theme and a forest theme, also checkers, nine men out, fox and chickens.
J.
Shadows: Cut out toys, characters, etc from magazines or the internet. Cut the identical shape from black paper and mount the "shadow" in the file folder. Then the child matches the picture to its shadow. This is a pre-math skill for preschoolers
Sorting: Put a indicator on each side of the folder. For example, a smiley face and sad face. Then below put many velcro dots. Then have many types of sorting pictures with velcro dots on the backs and they can re-use the folder for many sorting games. For example, put pictures of healthy food on the smiley side, junk food pictures on the sad. Stuff it is safe to touch on one side, unsafe on the sad. Even for language, you could have a velcro dot in the center fro a letter, and they can sort pictures acording to phonemic sounds...such as all b words on the happy side, all others on the other.
Ina, for a plane ride you will definitely want to use velcro or else the pieces will slide all over the place.
We use them a lot at elememtary school, especially with special ed.
We have some based with numbers and counting, colors, shapes, matching.
In K-2 some of them are a lilttle more difficult and used during group math time, etc.
The ones we use are laminated, velcro is used for sticking the right answer on.
Would you mind posting it again or directing to a website. We'll be on a 12 hour plane ride in a month and that sounds like something that is great to take along....
Thanks!
I have done it in a classroom setting and the kids loved it!
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another thing you can do is to paste a picture inside the folder
on the front cover cut out a shape and see if they can guess what the picture is inside
kids love it!
i used them alot when i was a teacher for centers/play time. you can get a book at a teacher store that has blackline copies so you can copy and then color cut and paste them in the folder....i think the book i had had over 50 games!
when did these in daycare when i ran one. kids looooove them. you can go to a teacher supply store and pick up a folder game book and they come with like 100 games that you color and cut out and put in the folder
