12 flashcards — one A4 sheet, no blanks

1. Print on A4, portrait, 1 sheet.
2. In the print dialog set scale to 100% — not “Fit to page”. Twelve cells fill an A4 exactly, so any shrinking makes them a size that is nearly right and isn’t.
3. Turn Background graphics on. On three of these cards colour is the whole lesson — on sky and roof the blue is what tells the named part from the grey around it, and silver is nothing but colour.
4. Cut along the dashed lines. Card stock, or paper glued to card, if they are going to last.

One set, one stripe: all twelve are blue, so they sort back together by edge without reading. Four chips inside it — Outside (4) · Things (6) · Creatures (1) · Colour (1). Same 70 × 74 mm as flashcards-02 through -07, so these shuffle into that pile; they are not the size of flashcards-01’s bigger cards. That is also why blue is free to use again — the blue cards on -01 are a different size and a different pile.

⚠ Three of these words are already cards. roof and grass are on flashcards-03 and alien is on flashcards-04, all in this same pile, so a merged pile will hold two of each. They are drawn here the way those sheets draw them, on purpose — two cards that look the same teach one word twice, where two that look different suggest two different words. Nothing is wrong if you would rather drop one: say which word should take its cell.

Pair roof with the house card from flashcards-06, and grass with trees from flashcards-03. The house here is grey and only the roof is coloured, which is exactly how flashcards-03 draws a door or a window: the coloured part is the word. Hold the two cards together and the part-and-whole does the explaining.

seat is the part you sit on, not the chair. The chair is grey and the seat is the only coloured piece. If she says “chair”, that is the card working — point at the coloured slab and say it again.

game shows one kind of game. A controller is the only picture a child reads as game without a caption, but the word also covers a board game, a playground game and a match — worth saying those out loud while she holds the card, because the picture cannot.

silver is a colour, so its card is the only one with no picture of a thing on it — just a thick scribble, the way you would fill in a patch of colour with a crayon. Every shape tried before it got named instead of the colour (a ruler, a window, a cloud, a star). Silver on paper is grey plus shine, so three strokes are drawn bright to catch the light — if those do not print, the card is a plain grey scribble. Check this one on paper. This banner does not print.