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THIS is why I love to blog and read blogs! When I was visiting Jamin’s blog, I found this post for a cootie catcher. So funny! I played with these as an early teenager. Our cootie catcher would foresee the future and tell you about your future life; what kind of house you’d live in, how many children you’d have, and who your husband would be. Jamin decided to make her cootie catchers educational in various ways.

This is my version. I adapted it to our Latin study. This is an extremely informal study of Latin words. I think that someday, when GB is ready for a real Language course, such as Spanish or even a traditional Latin course, that our Latin games will be remembered and be helpful.

To fold a cootie catcher you can follow the instructions here.

I used stickers that we have in our sticker box because they were quick to decorate with. But you can color or decorate any way you like.

GB would choose a character and then we’d spell it’s name. “D*O*N*A*L*D” Work the cootie catcher in back and forth with each letter spelled revealing a set of numbers underneath.

Upon finishing the spelling, choose from one of the numbers revealed and open that flap.

The flap reveals a Latin word and it’s English translation. He would ask me the English translation, and I would, on my turn, ask him to translate the Latin word. This was highly entertaining for quite a while. And I’m positive he knows these eight words now.