Fun flow charts (or something similar) for kids?
June 11, 2017 8:27 AM   Subscribe

As a kid in the '80s, I did these fun flow charts (?) that I think my 7-year-old son would really like. I can't find anything like them today.

I have only a vague memory of these things, unfortunately, but I remember they were a lot of fun (at least, for a kid like me, who apparently liked doing worksheets at summer camp). I remember they involved coloring in shapes (I think) and cutting/pasting things, but that's all I remember. Each step had you do something like that. I don't even know if they were technically flow charts, or maybe just charts that had you do things in order while you followed the arrows. I'm guessing they were for 6- to 8-year-olds, somewhere in there (??). I've googled the hell out of this and can't find anything. I guess I could make my own for him, but I don't remember enough details to do that.
posted by trillian to Education (3 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Are you thinking of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series?
posted by rw at 10:48 AM on June 11, 2017


I remember doing worksheets in school as a kid in the late 80s where you had to color things a certain way, circle certain words, etc. Search term: "following instructions worksheets". For example, this. I remember there also being "trick" versions, where you only had to complete some of the instructions to finish the worksheet. The only flowcharts I remember were the kind published in kids' magazines where you followed the flowchart to find out which Disney character you were, etc. But there was no activity attached to them other than following the flowchart.
posted by eeek at 2:45 PM on June 11, 2017


They didn't have associated tasks, but I remember fun flowchart-related activities in Enter magazine back when I was a kid. Here's two of them: "Mystery at Flowchart Manor" from Enter #13 (note: the page edge is creased around the weight limit "125" on the trap door), and "The Mysterious Case of the Meandering Flowchart" from Enter #7.
posted by jackbishop at 8:23 AM on June 13, 2017


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