Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2018 i Spider Magazine Stories, Games, Activites and Puzzles for Children and Kids

ROCK BEATS SCISSORS! Similar to rock-paper-scissors, you can use this Indonesian hand game to determine who goes first in a game or as a game itself. What You’ll Need: 2 players What to Do: 1. Face each other and hold your hand behind your head. 2. Count to three—satu, dua, tiga, which is Indonesian for “one, two, three.” 3. Move the hand from behind your head in one of these three motions: Semut (ant), point with your little finger Orang (person), point with your index finger Gajah (elephant), point with your thumb 4. Shout out your position to determine the winner: Ant beats elephant because it can tickle its ear! Person beats ant because people can step on ants! Elephant beats a person because elephants can trample people! 5. If…

What You’ll Need: 6 cupcakes 1 can ready-made white cake frosting ½ cup flaked coconut yellow food coloring 6 mini chocolate cookies, chocolate wafers, or licorice swirls 12 yellow candy-coated chocolate pieces black string licorice 12 slices dried banana What to Do: 1. Mix a few drops of yellow food coloring into the frosting. 2. With a butter knife, cover the top of your cupcake with a thin coat of frosting. 3. Mix a few drops of yellow food coloring into the coconut. Sprinkle the colored coconut on top of the frosting. 4. For bumblebee stripes, run several pieces of black licorice horizontally across the cupcake. 5. Use a mini chocolate cookie or licorice swirl for the bee’s face. 6. Stick on two chocolate pieces for eyes using a little…

Bug Poems Alexa V., age 8 Lyndhurst, New Jersey Chonta Worm Chonta Worm, oh Chonta Worm,in the dish I see you squirm. Wrinkly, yellow, slimy fellow,Watch out, someone’s coming this wayto fry you up for lunch today. “Where do they come from?” I askedthe man. “The Chonta tree in Ecuador,not from any garden or store.” Chonta Worm, oh Chonta Worm,crispy, crunchy, Chonta Worm,on a stick you’re cooked and brown. Seeing you made me frown. Did I taste one? NO THANKS! YUCK! Linden Holt, age 9 Hinsdale, Montana Mosquito! You walk down a hill; you sing with thrill,but the mosquito keeps buzzing and buzzing. You shout, “Hey!” and you yell, “Go away!”but the mosquito keeps buzzing and buzzing. You swat and you swing and you do everything,but the mosquito keeps buzzing…

Carefully cut the cards apart. Turn them facedown and mix them up. Deal all the cards facedown into separate piles, one for each player. Don’t let anyone peek at the cards! Take turns flipping over the top card of your pile and putting it faceup in a new pile in the center of the table. If the Spider card is turned up, whoever slaps it first gets to add the cards in the center to the bottom of his or her own pile. If you slap the wrong card, you must give the top card of your pile to the player whose card was slapped. The first person to collect all the cards is the winner. Buggy Bulletin January 2018 Volume 25 Number 1 cricketmedia.com $6.95 Belinda Beagle barks boisterously…

LONG AGO WHEN the world was young, people did not have Fire. They ate their meat and salmon raw. When cold winds blew or snow covered the ground, they could not warm their houses. Only the skookums had Fire. These three evil sisters lived high on a mountain and would not share with anyone. One icy cold winter, the people met Coyote on the road. “Please, Coyote,” they begged, “capture Fire from the skookums or we will freeze.” “I will do what I can,” he said. That night Coyote climbed the snow-covered mountain where the skookums lived. When he reached the top, he spotted Fire in the distance. Moving closer, he saw one of the skookums sitting in front of a house, warming herself by Fire. For a long time…

Dear Spider, I love your magazine. Will you please adopt Glasier? She only eats grape-flavored snow cones and she is very good at guarding, because she is an ice dragon and can freeze bad buggies. Amara, age 8 Rapid City, South Dakota P.S. Thistle, you should have another party. Readers, you’re all invited to my Hot Chocolate Party on page 22! Happy New Year! Thistle Dear Ophelia and Spider, I love your magazine! Please take care of my sea otter, Neville. He loves water! Sorry about the time the mice moved in (February 2017). Ophelia, what’s your favorite animal? Mine is a sea otter! William Smith, age 9 Oakland, California Dear William, I like bees for their yummy honey! Love, Ophelia Dear Spider, The story at the bottom of the…

Answers to Belinda Beagle’s Backyard Mind-Buggler buffalo backpack brush blanket basket broom bottle bathtub belt bone bicycle beret beaver barn bird blimp bow tie bench boots basketball hoop buttons branch buckle bark Fabulous Facts: New Year’s Day * In Mexico, people eat 12 grapes on New Year’s and make a wish on each one. Buena suerte—good luck! * In parts of South America, some people wear lucky yellow underwear on the outside of their pants to celebrate the new year. Send your favorite jokes and facts to spider@cricketmedia.com ! Q. What do you get when you cross a school of fish and a herd of elephants? A. Swimming trunks!…