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

Dear Everybuggy, I love your magazine so much! Every time a Spider magazine comes in the mail, I try to open and read it, but my mom says I have to practice piano first. Thistle, you are my favorite! Sam, I heard you love to ski, and so do I! Ophelia, I hope you get well soon (March 2017)! Miro’s new pumpkin and cinnamon hummus (January 2017) looks and sounds good! Spider, quit being mean to that good old Sonya or else I’ll squash you! Please adopt Sweet Cake, my dog. She loves bugs, especially kind ones! Siena Hatch, age 7 Highlands Ranch, Colorado Dear Thistle, You’re my favorite bug. Please adopt Nuna, my ladybug! Tell Spider I love his magazine. Jasper Piscitelli, age 9 Durango, Colorado Dear Thistle, I…

BLOW AWAY YOUR friends on Valentine’s Day by giving out these party blowers. What You’ll Need: scissors clear tape pencil rubber band plastic straw What to Do: Cut out each party blower along the solid lines. 1. 2. Fold along the middle dotted line and tape the edges closed, but leave the end with the diagonal lines open for the straw. 3. Message side up, roll the strip of paper into a tight coil around a pencil (figure 1). 4. Use a rubber band to keep the paper from uncoiling and leave it coiled around the pencil for a few hours or overnight. 5. Remove the rubber band and insert the straw (figure 2). Fold along the diagonal dotted lines and tape tightly around the straw with clear tape (figures…

IT WAS PRECISELY 3:31 a.m. on the morning of October 31 when Farmer Bob’s chickens spilled out of the henhouse, screeching and squawking and flapping their wings in great distress. Farmer Bob awoke with a start and grabbed his slippers. He rushed out into the night, bump, bump, bumping down the back porch steps on his rear end as he tried to yank them on. With one slipper on and the other halfway off, he raced to the henhouse. “What’s the matter with you chickens?” he cried, as the frantic fowl flapped around in a flurry of dust and feathers. Farmer Bob quickly counted his chickens. Yup, they were all there: twenty-six gawky, white Leghorns and Carmenella, the fat Rhode Island Red. Carmenella desperately hopped up and down at Farmer…

USE THIS TRICK to make your friends think they’re hearing a real, live laughing chicken. What You’ll Need: plastic drinking cup yarn or cotton string paper clip paper towel nail scissors water What to Do: 1. Cut a piece of yarn about 24 inches long. 2. Ask an adult to punch a hole in the bottom of the cup using a nail. 3. Tie one end of the yarn to the paper clip. 4. Thread the other end of the yarn through the hole in the cup. 5. Cut a piece of paper towel in half, then fold it once and get it a little bit wet. 6. Hold the cup in one hand, and then wrap the moist paper towel around the string near the opening of the cup.…

Aoife Martin, age 8 Birmingham, Alabama Where the skeletons crept, where the bats squealed, there was a lost pumpkin. He was trapped in the middle of the forest. The moon seemed to howl at him. Everywhere the pumpkin was surrounded by vicious monsters and ghouls. Witches flew overhead. The pumpkin was absolutely sure he would be stuck there. He couldn’t see a single thing. Then he found a night dark path. There were no creepy monsters guarding it, except for a sweet angel monster. The angel monster saw the pumpkin. Thump! He walked in. The pumpkin stepped in. He saw a house. The house was like a bright diamond in the sky. He found a doorstep. Wow! There were no pumpkins anywhere in sight. He sat on the porch. To…

What You'll Need: piece of paper scissors tape What to Do: 1. Fold in half the long way, crease down the middle, and reopen. 2. Fold down corners. 3. Fold point over. 4. Fold in each corner starting about an inch from the center crease. 5. Fold up a little triangle point to cover corner points. 6. Flip over, and fold it in half with the little triangle on the outside. 7. Fold down sides to make wings. 8. Cut out the crew in one piece, fold them over at the center. Insert and attach with a small bit of tape. 9. Launch into space! And do what you like with Bill.…