This is something I came up with to give elementary school students a hands-on craft project related to language. They really enjoyed rounding the corners with this corner rounding punch. The top of the cards display IPA characters, and in the lower-right hand corners are equivilant (and slightly less cryptic) symbols commonly used in dictionary pronunciation keys. To make these, I went to the downtown SF public library, read through some of the larger dictionaries and came up with a list of words. I can’t guarantee everything to be perfect, so let me know if you find any errors. I'd like to evolve the design to make them more like regular playing cards with characters in diagonal corners, colorful designs, etc...this is version 0.1.
I haven’t gotten around to it yet, but it would be fun to play games with these, maybe deal each player a hand of phonemes, see who can make words, form teams, arrange words into sentences and stories...
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These were printed with a laser-printer on 80lb cover stock, 8.5 × 11 sheets cut into 8 pieces each. For more durable, colorful prints, it might be interesting to use a Gocco printer, a RISO Printer-Duplicator, or a FoilFast printer. The language and design of these cards is released under the CC-by license. If you’d like to make some of these yourself, download this pdf file. For the IPA characters, I used the Gentium font.
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