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Fun activities, riddle and craft ideas to keep your kids busy

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BrainTeasers

Q: With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I? A: A stapler. Q: A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains, what is it? A: Dozens.

Q: Turn us on our backs and open up our stomachs, and you will be the wisest but at the start a lummox. What are we? A: Books.

Q: Fill me up with hot or cold. Put anything in me and I will make sure I’ll hold. What am I? A: A cup.

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Q: What ’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? A: Finding half a worm.

1. THE NOSE CAN DETECT A TRILLION SMELLS! 2. ONE QUARTER OF YOUR BONES ARE IN YOUR FEET. 3. HUMAN TEETH ARE AS STRONG AS SHARK TEETH! 4. YOUR BLOOD IS AS SALTY AS THE OCEAN. 7. YOUR NOSE AND EARS NEVER STOP GROWING.

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Pasta Necklaces

SUPPLIES:

uncooked pasta (choose a hollow pasta, like penne, if you're making necklaces) food colouring (icing gels, as seen above, or liquid food colouring) vinegar plastic containers with lids (or re-sealable food storage bags) cookie rack

DIRECTIONS

1. 1. Place the pasta in a food container (the amount can be a couple of handfuls to a couple of cups).

2. In a small bowl, mix together 1 tsp of vinegar with a generous dab of icing gel or several drops of food colouring. (Do each colour one at a time. No mixing! Unless you really want to!)

3. Pour the vinegar/icing gel mix over the pasta, seal the container, and now for the fun part, have your child SHAKE IT like crazy, until the pasta is well coated. (Hint: purple pasta must always be done twice; we re-coat immediately while still wet.)

4. Pour the pasta out in a single layer onto a cookie sheet to dry.

5. With a long length of yarn. Start threading the yarn to creat your necklace as you would want it.

The Milkmaid Her Pail &

Patty the Milkmaid was going to market carrying her milk in a Pail on her head. As she went along she began calculating what she would do with the money she would get for the milk. “I’ll buy some fowls from Farmer Brown,” said she, “and they will lay eggs each morning, which I will sell to the parson’s wife. With the money that I get from the sale of these eggs I’ll buy myself a new dimity frock and a chip hat; and when I go to market, won’t all the young men come up and speak to me! Polly Shaw will be that jealous; but

I don’t care. I shall just look at her and toss my head like this.” As she spoke she tossed her head back, the Pail fell off it, and all the milk was spilt. So she had to go home and tell her mother what had occurred. “Ah, my child,” said the mother: “Do not count your chickens before they are

hatched” Patty the Milkmaid was going to market carrying her milk in a Pail on her head. As she went along she began calculating what she would do with the money she would get for the milk. “I’ll buy some fowls from Farmer Brown,” said she, “and they will lay eggs each morning, which I will sell to the parson’s wife. With the money that I get from the sale of these eggs I’ll buy myself a new dimity frock and a chip hat; and when I go to market, won’t all the young men come up and speak to me! Polly Shaw will be that jealous; but

I don’t care. I shall just look at her and toss my head like this.” As she spoke she tossed her head back, the Pail fell off it, and all the milk was spilt. So she had to go home and tell her mother what had occurred. “Ah, my child,” said the mother: “Do not count your chickens before they are hatched”.c