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You can use pictures on posters, flip charts, and on flannel-boards.
Pictures that school children draw themselves are best. They learn simply
by drawing them. Also, school children will draw local people and local
experiences, and the people will understand their pictures better than the
ones sent from a central office far away.
Photographs of local people and events are also good. If there is a
photography club in a local secondary school, have them take some pictures
for you. They may even print the photographs larger so that you can use
them as posters.
Ask the children to make pictures big enough so that a person can stand far
away and see them easily.
Let each child carry her
poster home to show her
family and friends.
Hang up other posters in
the store, church, or other
places where people will
see them.
Pictures can be made to
stick to cloth and then used
to tell a story. Cover a board
with a piece of flannel cloth
or a soft blanket, to make a
flannel-board.*
Mix some flour and water to
make glue. Then glue a strip
of sandpaper to the back of
each picture. The sandpaper
sticks to the cloth and lets you
place the picture where you
want on the cloth.
Let the child use her pictures
and cloth outside of the
school, to show her story to
family and friends.
*For more ideas on flannel-boards, see pages 11-15 to 11-19 of Helping Health Workers
Learn.