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Wicked Wonderful Wordie
Look at the layout for clues to the idiom or common phrase this wordie represents. Leave your solution in the comments.
A “wordie” attempts to represent a short phrase, often only a couple of words. Games Magazine is the place I first encountered the “Wacky Wordies” and thought they were a lot of fun. My students in grades 7 and 8 enjoyed helping design new ones. We produced a weekly wordie to challenge the students not in the current computer skills class. Students often stopped to check the wordie posted for the week. At the time, the tool we used was ClarisWorks, but any drawing tool can be put to use making them.
The ones you see here are done with Inkscape, the excellent open source graphic design program. It is available for many different computer types including Macintosh, Windows and Linux.
More info: http://runeman.org/wordies/
