Paintball

Paintball

Paintball
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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 4 to 6
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	6.03

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	challenging words:		chronograph, forestry, high-action, ludicrous, medics, non-toxic, paintball, paintballs, reenacted, valid, water-soluble, invasion, realistic, survival, splat, real-life
	content words:		New Hampshire, Bob Gurnsey, Charles Gaines, United States, George Butler, Sports Illustrated, Jim Thorpe, World War II, William Shatner

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Paintball
By Colleen Messina

¹     Splat! If you find a blob of paint splashed across your shirt, what do you think might have happened? Either your little brother just threw a jar of finger paint at you...or maybe it's your choice. You could be participating in a strange sport called paintball.

²     A paintball is a small sphere made out of gelatin. This little sphere is full of a special kind of paint that is both non-toxic and water-soluble. People have lots of fun shooting paintballs out of special guns. This sport is usually played with two teams who try to eliminate their opponents by shooting them.

³     Paintball sounds ludicrous, but it had a practical beginning. In the 1950s, a company made paintballs for the forestry service. The first paintballs were used to mark trees. They were also used by cattlemen to mark cows. Twenty years later, a couple of friends discovered that they could play a good game with paintballs. They tried to shoot each other in the woods in New Hampshire.

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