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Printables
Print, color, cut out! Three activities to do on paper, away from the screen: a mask to wear, your own Dahoman to invent, and Dahoman to color.
You need
- A printer, with a grown-up
- Crayons or markers
- Scissors, with a grown-up
- An elastic or a string
Make your mask
Pick a mask, decorate it with your crayons, then cut it out with a grown-up. It is the size of your face: put it on, and do the Word Salute!
- A grown-up prints the page.
- Decorate your mask.
- A grown-up helps you cut it out, and makes the 2 holes.
- Tie on the elastic, and put on your mask.
To cut it out, ask a grown-up.
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The wave mask
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The diamond mask
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The make-it-up mask
Invent your Dahoman
Every Dahoman is born from a promise kept. Invent your own: draw it with its mask, then awake, and give it a name.
- Draw it with its mask.
- Draw it awake: half of the mask stays on its forehead.
- Choose its name, its type, its region of Xwe and its Call.
- Color in 15 dots for its qualities, not one more.
- Write or draw your promise.
Its 5 qualities
- Breath
- Drive
- Guard
- Speed
- Special
15 dots in all: your Dahoman can’t be the strongest at everything. Choose what it does best!
Ember
A hedgehog whose spines glow like embers.
Its name could end in “-flare”.
Storm
A squirrel whose tail throws sparks.
Its name could end in “-spark”.
Lagoon
A frog that sings when it rains.
Its name could end in “-dew”.
Harmattan
An owl that glides on the wind.
Its name could end in “-breeze”.
Laterite
A tortoise carrying a little tower on its back.
Its name could end in “-stone”.
Canopy
A little monkey that leaps from leaf to leaf.
Its name could end in “-leaf”.
Forge
A beetle with a bronze shell.
Its name could end in “-shield”.
Glimmer
A firefly that lights the path at night.
Its name could end in “-glow”.
Veil
A bat hiding in the mist.
Its name could end in “-veil”.
Drum
A rabbit that thumps its foot like a drum.
Its name could end in “-beat”.
Color a Dahoman
Tap a card: the mask falls! Then print its picture, and color it any way you like.
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Adjoradew
Lagoon · Wémaya
It doesn’t talk: it drums, and the lagoon drums back.
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Leafwhisper
Canopy · Zoumaya
It speaks very softly, and what it says is always true.
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Kandyjolt
Storm · Aliboré
Every white dot on its feathers is a spark.
7 pages, one activity per page
For the grown-up who prints
- In the print window, choose “Actual size” or “100%”: the 5 cm (2 in) line at the bottom of each mask lets you check the size.
- The pages fit on A4 as well as US Letter paper. Thick paper (110 lb card stock) makes the mask sturdier.
- The grown-up cuts out the eyes and the two holes. A thin elastic about 30 cm (12 in) long is enough; never pull it tight.
- Nothing is asked of the child, nothing is sent, nothing is kept. The drawings stay at home.