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7. Add words to your book. Write them yourself or have
a grown-up help you. Write a few words on some or all
the pages that tell about what is on the page.
8. When you have finished making all your pages, staple
them together or punch three holes down one side of
each page.
9. Add fasteners or tie with yarn to hold the pages
together. Now you have a book all about YOU!
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Color a World
On a nice day, take lots of colored chalk outside. All you
need is a sidewalk or driveway and lots of imagination to
make a very interesting and colorful world.
1. Begin by drawing a town. Draw streets, traffic lights
and houses, rivers and parks and schools.
2. Draw the downtown and neighborhood areas.
3. Draw roads and railroad tracks leading out away from
the starting point.
4. On the outer edges, draw farms and forests and fields.
5. For fun, use cardboard, old toys, or whatever you have
handy to make things like bridges, mountains, and caves.
6. Use rocks for cars on the roads and leaves for sails on
sailboats. Anything goes in this world!
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chef
doctor
book
stethoscope
hose
horse
firefighter
teacher
ballet dancer
jockey
toe shoes
Find the Match!
Each thing below goes with one of the people on the
opposite page. Can you find the matches?
spoon
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Grow a Garden in the House
Even if you do not have a vegetable garden outside, you can
grow many interesting food plants right in the house. All
you need is a window that gets sunlight for at least part of
the day.
1. Start your window garden with a sweet potato or even an
ordinary potato.
2. Fill a see-through drinking glass or glass jar half full of water.
3. Place the thinner end of the potato in the water. Put the
glass or the jar in a warm, dark place. A cabinet or a closet that
isn’t much used is a good place.
4. Now be patient! It will take about 10 days for the
potato to begin growing.
5. When it has begun to sprout, take the potato from
its hiding place and put it in the sunny window. Look
what’s happened to it! All the wavy sprouts will soon
become leaves.
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Carrot plants are so easy to grow that you
could start two instead of just one. You
can watch which one grows faster, just
like watching a race!
1. Ask a grown-up to cut the tops off of
two carrots. Each piece should be about
two inches long including the short green
stems.
2. Spread a layer of small stones over the entire bottom of a soup
or cereal bowl. Put enough water in your bowl to cover the stones
completely.
3. Set the carrot tops on the stones and put them in a sunny place.
In a few days you will see several very tiny leaves beginning to
grow from the carrot tops. Every day, count the new leaves that
appear on each plant. Measure how tall the leaves of each carrot
top have grown. If you keep watering the stones, a leafy plant will
blossom from each carrot top after a few weeks. Which one is
going to win the growth race?
Lemon, orange, or
grapefruit seeds will
give you another
good plant, one
with shiny, dark
green leaves.
1. Soak a few of the seeds
in water overnight.
2. The next morning, plant the wet seeds in a small pot
filled with
soil. Water the soil well and make sure it
never dries out.
3. It will take a while, but after a few weeks, the
seeds will sprout and a tiny green plant will
burst through the soil.
As it grows, you might find this plant to be the
most beautiful one in your garden!
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Make a Leafy Mobile
When the waxed paper is cool, cut out each leaf.
Leave plenty of room around the edges of each one.
Punch a hole in the thickest part of
the leaf, at the place where the leaf
meets the stem. Using thread,
yarn, or clear plastic craft thread,
tie the leaves to the branches. Use
different lengths of thread so that some
leaves hang longer than others.
Collect several fallen
leaves and some long,
thin, bare branches.
Leaves collected in the fall
make the most colorful
mobile, but green leaves
look pretty too!
Spread the leaves on a sheet of waxed
paper so that they are not touching.
For extra color, sprinkle some tiny
pieces of cut-up crayon around
the leaves. Now cover the
leaves with a second piece of
waxed paper. Cover the waxed paper
with newspaper or brown wrapping paper.
Ask a grown-up to iron
the newspaper or brown
paper with an iron set
on “low.” Peel off the
newspaper layer and let the
waxed paper cool.
Firmly tie two of your
branches together with
yarn so that they are
crossed, like this:
Make sure the yarn is extra long so that you can hang
the mobile once the branches are tied together.
Hang your mobile in a
window or above your bed
and enjoy a little bit of
indoor nature all year long!
Add a few tiny bells if you
want your mobile to be a
wind chime too!
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Can You Find the Big Cats?
The black leopard lives in the deep, dark green rainforest.
How many black leopards can you find in the picture
below?
The colors of the spotted leopard match the colors of the
dry places it calls home. Its spots look like splashes of sun
and shadow under the trees. How many spotted leopards
can you find on the opposite page?
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The Weird World of Animals
Here are some strange facts about a few members
of the animal kingdom
Warthogs take
shelter in holes
other animals
have left. When
the warthog
enters its hole, it
always backs in!
Cats can make
more than 100
different sounds
with their
voice, but dogs
can make only
about 10.
The ostrich’s
eye is bigger
than its brain.
The elephant is
the only animal
we know of that
cannot jump.
A dairy cow
gives almost
200,000 glasses
of milk in her
lifetime. If you
drank three
glasses of milk
a day, it would
take you more
than 182 years
to drink that
much milk!
The giraffe
cleans its ears
with its own
super-long
tongue.
At birth, a
panda bear is
smaller
than a mouse.
When a
chimpanzee
grins, watch out!
A chimpanzee
shows its teeth
when it wants to
scare something
away.
The heart
of the blue
whale is as
big as a car.
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Fun Fade-Out!
1. Let the sun help you make art! On a bright, sunny day
take a piece of colored construction paper outside and lay it
in the sun.
2. Place one or more small objects on the paper. Things
with very clear shapes that can lie flat work best: a plastic
magnetic letter, a spoon or a fork, or lots of buttons that
have different kinds of shapes, for example.
3. Let the sun shine on the paper all day. After several
hours, the sun will have faded the paper except where the
objects are placed. To make greeting cards the same way,
fold your faded paper in half and write something inside.
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Scratch Color Art
1. Using crayons, completely color a piece of drawing
paper or construction paper with all kinds of light
and bright colors.
2. Next, cover all the colors with a thick layer of
black or other dark colored crayon.
3. Now, using a toothpick, the end of a straightened
paper clip, or a Popsicle stick, scratch a picture in the
dark crayon layer. Don’t scratch too hard. Just enough
so that the black layer comes off and your bright
colors show through underneath!
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This is a fun game for one person, and even more fun
when two or more play. You can play Letters Match,
Numbers Match, or Shapes Match by making cards for
each game.
1. First, cut heavy construction paper into many
rectangle-shaped cards of exactly the same size. Use
only one color of paper. These will be your game cards.
Play Matching Pairs!
2. For Numbers Match, make 20 cards.
3. Now write the number 1 in the center of two
separate cards. Do the same for each number until you
have two cards each for the numbers 1 through 10.
4. Mix the cards up very well. Now lay the cards
facedown in four even rows of five cards each. Don’t
peek at what is on the cards!
5. The first player turns two cards over. If they match,
the player keeps both cards. If they don’t match, he or
she turns the cards down again and the next person
takes a turn. When all the matches have been found,
the player with the most pairs wins!
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