Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create MadLibs With a Google Sheets Template

Flippity is a great place to find Google Sheets templates for creating educational activities. In the past I’ve featured Flippity’s templates for creating Jeopardy-style games and for creating random name selectors. Recently, Flippity added a new template for creating MadLibs-style story starters.  Take a look at the demo then read on to learn how you can create your own MadLibs-style story starters through Google Sheets.

To create a MadLibs-style story generator first select the template on the Flippity homepage. Then you’ll be asked to make a copy of the template in your Google Sheets account. Once you’ve made the copy you can edit the template by writing your own stories into the spreadsheet cells. To define variables, those are the parts your students will complete, simply place brackets around the words “verb, noun, adjective, place, name, or number.” For example, if I want students to fill in a noun in the story I’d write [noun] in the spreadsheet cell in which I’m creating my story. When your completed work is published your students will see something like this on which they’ll complete the MadLibs story.

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