Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2024 i Spider Magazine Stories, Games, Activites and Puzzles for Children and Kids

Clearly, I am innocent.I didn’t do a thing!Never mind this masking tapeand sixty yards of string. The trail of glass that leads to meis simply a distraction—along with any remnants ofa chemical reaction. Of course I never choreographeda plan to cause destruction.(Although that catapult was sucha masterful construction.) I didn’t make a vase explodethen run in here to hide!What? You only came to sayit’s time to play outside?…

Dear Spider, Thank you for sending me a letter. My favorite color is purple. Please adopt Ice the ice dragon. He will only eat ice. Constance, age 7 Arlington, Virginia Hello, Everybuggy! This is the first time I have ever written to you! Thistle, what is your favorite book? Mine is the Harry Potter series. I’ve seen that a lot of kids who read Spider magazine like Harry Potter. Spider, do you play any sports? I do ballet. Will you adopt Poppy and Sunny? Poppy is a poppy, and Sunny is a sunflower. They eat sunshine and water. Ruby Donaldson, age 10 Duluth, Minnesota Dear Ruby, I have more favorite books than I can count. I just read The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend. Spider plays lots of sports.…

NOTHING BEATS A doughy warm treat on a cold winter day! What You’ll Need: 1 package yeast11/2 cups lukewarm water3/4 teaspoon table salt11/2 teaspoons sugar4 cups flour1 eggcoarse saltlarge bowlmixing spoonsmall bowlforkfoilcookie sheet What to Do: 1. Ask an adult to preheat the oven to 425°F. 2. In a large bowl, dissolve the yeast in the water. 3. Add the table salt and sugar. Then mix in the flour. 4. With clean hands, knead until you have a soft, smooth dough. (Do not let the dough rise.) 5. Divide the dough into small pieces (walnut to egg sized). 6. Roll the dough pieces into ropes and form into hearts or any shape you like. 7. Place the pretzels on a foil-covered cookie sheet an inch and a half apart. 8.…

CHASE AWAY THE February chills with this blustery blame game that is best to play with a big bunch of buddies. What You’ll Need: one scrap of paper for each player at least 6 players (but the more the merrier) hat pencil or pen What to Do: 1. Draw the sun on one paper and snowflakes on the rest. 2. Drop the papers into the hat. Have everyone take a paper from the hat to find out if they are a snowflake or the sun. No telling or peeking! 3. Move around the room, drifting and slowly twirling like snowflakes on a windy winter day. 4. The player who is secretly the sun has the power to melt any snowflake with only a wink. If a snowflake is winked at,…

EVERY MORNING, RAIN or shine, Monsieur Bruno and Madame walked to the café where Madame worked. “Bonjour,” said their friends along the boulevard, and Bruno wagged his tail in reply. At the café, Bruno sniffed under every table and chair for leftover scraps of jambon. Bruno loved ham more than any other food in the whole world. When he found a scrap, he would fling himself down on top of it. Bruno didn’t blink when a customer ordered a salad. But when he heard “ham sandwich,” Bruno padded over to wait patiently until someone noticed him. And someone always did. “A bit of jambon, Monsieur Bruno?” Bruno shuffled his paws, ready for the toss of a slender sliver. Snap! The delicious morsel magically disappeared. One gray, rainy day, Bruno stood…

SOMEONE WENT INTO your room and messed with your stuff. But who? Dust for fingerprints to find out. What You’ll Need: ink padpaper (white and black)pen or pencillotionbaby powder or floursoft paintbrush or makeup brushclear tape What to Do: 1. Have your family touch your ink pad with their right index fingers and then press down on the white paper. 2. Label each fingerprint with the family member’s name. 3. Choose a smooth, hard surface that is see-through or darkly colored, like a clear glass or a wooden table. Tell your family to have one person rub a little lotion on their right index finger and then secretly touch the surface while you’re out of the room. 4. Return to the scene of the crime. Sprinkle a thin layer of…

LONG AGO IN Turkey, a man named Ali lived with his wife, Noura. They were not wealthy, but they had managed to save a good amount of gold before they grew old. “Why don’t we spend some of our money on a pilgrimage to Mecca?” Noura asked one day. “Mecca is many, many miles away. We’d have to ride across deserts on camels. It’d be a hard, slow journey . . . but I’ve wished all my life to go there,” Ali answered thoughtfully. “We could take the gold we’d need and leave the rest with my friend Farouk for safekeeping. That way, we’ll have enough to live on when we return.” “Why don’t we bury the gold somewhere?” Noura asked. “So someone could dig it up? No, it’d be…

A puzzling game for two to three players HOW TRICKY CAN it be to put together an eight-piece puzzle? Pretty tricky when it’s a competition where players spy on your puzzle-in-progress to steal your strategy or even your pieces! What You’ll Need: scissors What to Do: 1. Carefully cut out the candy puzzle pieces. Then spread them out facedown in the middle. 2. The oldest player goes first. On your turn, take a piece from the middle* and flip it over. Place it in front of you. 3. Each time that you flip over a red piece, keep it and choose between taking another facedown piece from the middle or stealing a faceup piece from another player. 4. Keep taking turns until someone wins by fitting eight pieces together (in…