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FLIP CHARTS AND OTHER WAYS TO TELL STORIES
WITH PICTURES
Pictures—hand drawn or copied—can be used
as aids for telling stories or teaching skills step
by step.
ROLL
It is easier to keep pictures in order if they
are joined together in some way. They can
be rolled on a stick, linked together, or made
into flip charts. Attach them together any
way you like—by stapling, sewing, gluing,
attaching them to rings, or bolting them
between 2 thin boards.
Pictures are doubly
effective if the learning
group—health workers
or mothers or children
—helps to make them.
The group may want
to use a flip chart or
story from some other
source as a model,
and adapt the pictures
and events to the local
situation.
LINKED
IN A
CHAIN
FLIP
CHART
To make it easier to read a flip
chart story to a group, write the part of
the story that goes with each picture
on the back of the page before. With
the writing, include a small copy of
the picture being shown. This lets you
know what the group is looking at.
But even better than telling people
the story is to let them tell you what
they see happening in the pictures.
FOLDABLE POSTERS ON THIN PLASTIC SHEETS:
You can make large
posters from thin
sheets of white plastic
or old plastic mattress
covers. Draw on them
with ‘waterproof’
marking pens. These
posters can easily be
folded, carried about,
and even washed.
UNFOLDED
FOLDED UP
Rocks to make it hang straight.