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By jose

Have your kids make their own finger prints with pencil and tape on white paper. This is done by taking a pencil and makinf a 1 inch square and color it in with a pencil, making it dark. Them have them to rub one finger
at a time to get the pencil led on their finger. Then take a piece of tape, put on the finger making the print (be sure not to move around on finger) and remove and place on a piece of paper. They can do one finger or all fingers depending on what you want to use it for. I teach high school spec ed and my kids have difficulty reading but they love finding patterns and they loved this.

I then made a weekly game where each one won something. I would take a finger print and place it on the most wanted for good behavior poster and they could then check their finger prints with the one chosen. They learned how to check for swirls, hills, and circles in the prints. Then as it went on we would get in groups to try to find out who did it (like made a 100 on a timed math test, spelling test, maybe who has a birthday) They loved it. Let them use the mag. glasses to check prints. We also used this to classify, identify details, and to make eliminations. The kids also understood how the police used fingerprints to catch criminals. I dont think this was exactly what you was looking for but it was fun and your post brought back some fun memories.