Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2019 i Ladybug Stories, Poems, and Songs Magazine for Young Kids and Children

Max and Kate are picking pumpkins. Kate wants a small one. Max wants the biggest one he can find. “Charlie, you can help us look,” says Kate. “I’ll take this one,” says Kate. “It’s so cute.” “And it’s got a lucky ladybug sitting on it!” says Max. Max finds a big, round pumpkin. “Wow!” says Kate. “Yours has a green grasshopper on top!” “Where’s Charlie?” asks Max. “He’s probably looking for a teeny tiny pumpkin, just his size,” says Kate. “Let’s go show him ours!” Down the path is the biggest pumpkin they’ve ever seen. It’s a giant! “Mine!” says Charlie, with a huge grin.…

What You'll Need: cardboard egg carton scissors your favorite art supplies 8 googly eyes (optional) 32-inch piece of yarn or string bell (optional) What to Do: 1. With a grownup, cut the top and side off the egg carton. Cut the bottom into 4 pieces, each with a row of 3 egg cups. These will be your bats! 2. To give each bat wings, cut triangles or half circles out of the cups on the right and left sides. 3. Paint your bats or decorate them with markers, stickers, or other art supplies. 4. Add eyes—googly eyes, stickers, or drawings. 5. Poke a small hole in each middle cup. 6. To hang the first bat up, string the yarn through the hole in the bat, and move the bat to…

In p.j.’s, I slip off to sleep and drift up through the clouds piled deep. Tucked in my bed that’s now a rocket to a land of lakes of steaming hot chocolate. Ladybug is captain of a marshmallow ship plowing through bergs of chocolatey chips. And when someone has a real hankerin’ that’s when we drop the anchor in. Through an inlet to Sodie-Pop Sea I plot a new course—well, it’s all new to me—through currents of flavors and clouds of bubbles, I’ll work to steer the ship out of troubles! Muddle, Ladybug, and I dive under to meet new friends in a sweet land of wonder: angel-cake angelf ish with frosted f ish tails, waff le squid, pie crabs, and licorice whales! We climb out onto the crunchy-nut beach,…