Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2016 i Spider Magazine Stories, Games, Activites and Puzzles for Children and Kids

AT THE STROKE of midnight, a group of glowing radioactive mummies invades your house! There’s only one thing to do: grab a ball, turn off the light, and go bowling. What You’ll Need: 10 plastic bottles, 16 oz. or 32 oz. 2 ½ cups raw rice or dried beans 10 glow sticks roll of gauze or toilet paper googly eyes or black marker glue ball What to Do: 1. Put ¼ cup of rice or beans into each plastic bottle. 2. Glue googly eyes to each bottle, or draw faces on them. 3. Wrap each bottle in gauze or toilet paper. Make sure not to cover the faces. Glue the strips down as needed, and don’t wrap too many layers—you want to see the light from the glow stick. 4.…

Hi, Everybuggy! I was thinking that you should have a magazine where you fit many things from everybody into one issue. It would be very interesting. I can’t wait to make your “Lucky Pigs” (November/December 2015). Please adopt my cat Popoki. (I really have a cat called Popoki!) Epona, age 9 Folsom, California Hello, Spider, I love your magazines. Remember the time Spider’s uncle came? Please adopt my spider. They’re cool animals. Oona Tarjan, age 6 Miami, Florida Dear Spider, What do you call a skeleton that’s smart? A bone head! Porter, age 7 via email Dear Spider, I really like your magazine! I want to be a writer when I grow up. I really like Thistle’s Playground in the November/December 2016 magazine. Please keep on having Thistle’s Playground. Will…

T HE WORD “CLUE,” a guide to a solution, comes from the ancient word “clew,” a ball of thread or yarn. In “Simone the Private Fly,” Simone followed clues to solve the mystery of Tabitha’s house. Look for clues in the story below to figure out the meaning of the nonsense words, then write your answers in the blanks. It was a dark and stormy October night. The (_ _ _ _) was blowing leaves off the trees, knocking chairs off of porches, and simply ruining Yorkel the Yarn’s picnic. Yorkel packed his picnic basket and rolled home to the safety of his stocking-house. “Ah!” he sighed, heading to the refrigerator. “I deserve a cold glass of (_ _ _ _). (_ _ _ _) tastes so good with chocolate…

“S NAKE SLIME AND buzzard breath!” cried Leona Iona Druckspeller. At the sound of these words, thunder crashed. Lightning flashed. Her magic wand split into two long halves. “That’s the last time I order from the Wizard’s Lair Shopping Channel!” Leona stared at the broken wand. “I’ll fix you,” she said. She went to her desk drawer. She took out a package of newts’ eyes, an owl feather, and a spool of black thread. “Drats, bats, ugly brown rats! I’m out of tape.” Leona plopped down on the sofa. Harrison, her black cat, rubbed against her ankle. “I know, it’s chowtime.” Leona looked at her broken wand again. “I was planning to order in.” Leona and Harrison went to look in the refrigerator. “Dried catnip, flies’ eyebrows, and half a…

Contest Rules Write a scary poem. Here are the only rules: 1. Your entry must be signed by a parent or legal guardian, authorizing its publication in print and/or online and saying it’s your own idea. 2. Be sure to include your complete name, age, and address. 3. Your entry must arrive by October 25, 2016. We will publish our favorites in the February 2017 issue of Spider. Email your entry to spider@cricketmedia.com, or send it to Spider’s Corner, P.O. Box 300, Peru, IL 61354. Picnic Kamaile C., age 7 Honolulu, Hawaii Frankie G., age 8 Sacramento, California Alden M., age 9 Johnson, Vermont Samantha Anne Volpe, age 8 Frederick, Maryland Madison G., age 7 Winder, Georgia Josephine S., age 6 Youngstown, New York Matthew D., age 8 Lafayette, California…

WATCHING A SCARY movie made Miro very upset. “Why must zee creepy creatures always try to eat zee hero?” he shouted. “Heroes should eat zee creepies instead!” He worked through his anger by creating these delicious creepy pizza peepers—the perfect monster-slaying snack. WHAT YOU , LL NEED: black olives (pitted and halved) English muffins, split in half chopped red or green pepper pizza sauce string cheese sticks cookie sheet WHAT TO DO: 1. Ask a grownup to heat the oven to 350°F. Spread a tablespoon of pizza sauce onto each half of an English muffin. 2. Set olive slices in place for your creatures’ eyes. Add little pieces of pepper in the olives’ holes for scary, glowing pupils. To make your creature even creepier, add another pair of eyes! 3.…