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Your Proofness: Sarah Munir Master Storyteller: Sundar Waqar Creativity Analysts: Jamal Khurshid, Essa Malik, Samra Aamir, Talha Ahmed Khan, Munira Abbas, Omer Asim and Umar Waqas

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Summer is here and with schools closed you probably have a lot of free time so whether you’re travelling this summer or staying at home we have a range of activities that will keep you occupied and having fun these holidays.

If you like drawing and painting, you can make an art station at home for the summer. Stack up paper, crayons, paints and everything else you may possibly need and channel your inner artist.

From painting the scene from your window to making cards and photo frames you can have as much fun as you want with colours and different materials. If you want to try something different you can try glass painting or tie-dye. Tie-dye is fairly simple but it can be messy, so before you try it make sure to take your parent’s permission. To learn how to make a tie-dye shirt refer to the activity on page 4 of this week’s issue.

Reading for enjoyment everyday is a great habit. Without the fatigue of homework and school activities you can sit and read at home. You can go to a bookstore and buy books or join the local library summer reading club.

You can also check out summer reading lists to find books that interest you or find comics and magazines. Set aside a certain time every day for reading during your holidays and join a summer reading programme or start your own. For further details on this, read the Hi Five issue on libraries.

Cooking and baking gives you the chance to cook your favourite food yourself.

You can help your mom bake a cake or brownie or decorate cupcakes with sprinkles and even make sandwiches.

But make sure to always use the stove and oven with adult supervision. If you are really interested in cooking you can join a cooking or baking class for children and learn how to make lots of delicious food. Otherwise, you can get a children’s cookbook and make food for yourself and your family. You can look at previous Hi Five issues for easy recipes on our activity page.

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It’s hot and not the ideal temperature to play outside but there are still some activities that can be done outdoors and can cool you off simultaneously. Swimming is a great sport which will keep you active and cool this summer. You can also call your friends over and have a pool party in your splash pool and even have a water fight in your garden.

Alternatively, you can have a cricket or football match and to cool off after the game dive into a pool. There are a lot of activities that can be arranged outdoors but make sure it’s not too hot to be outside. If the weather is unbearable you can always play board games inside or have a treasure hunt.

You can also have a small picnic in your garden and can cook food yourself.

Summer holidays means summer camps. Whether it is a camp to help you study and keep you on track for when school starts or one that teaches you how to cook, draw, play instruments or do horse riding, these camps are always fun. Summer camps teach you a lot of different skills and make you do a range of activities. So if you are bored at home and want to learn certain activities look up on the internet and newspaper advertisements or ask your friends and join a camp.

What would you like to see in Hi Five? Send an email to hifive@tribune.com.pk and let us know!

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Activity

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Tie-Dye

Tie-dye can be a lot of fun and you can make yourself a lot of different shirts to wear this summer.

Supplies needed:

Step 1

Step 2

You will need a white coloured shirt, rubber bands and a coloured dye.

Rinse the shirt with water and soap.

Step 3

Step 4

Pinch about one inch of the shirt from the centre and tie it with a rubber band.

Continue tying more elastic bands below each other, spacing them about one inch apart. Tie as many as you like.

These will create circle patterns on the fabric.

• White shirt • Coloured dye • Rubber band • Water • Salt

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Step 6

Step 7

Soak the fabric in the dye (and salt) and boiling water mixture as instructed on the pack.

Rinse well in clean water.

The water from the squeezed fabric should run clear after.

Hang outside to dry. Your shirt is now ready!

NOTE: Before doing this activity take your parent’s permission and help when boiling water.

SOURCE: WIKIHOW

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Get your weekly dose of the unusual and funny news from across the globe!

Harry Potter wedding We’ve reached the point in time where the first generation of Harry Potter fans is getting married. While most will probably opt for a traditional ceremony, a committed few will replace soft drinks with butterbeer, rings with wands and their vows with whatever that incantation was that made feathers fly. For fans Josh and Meredith Fahey, the world of Harry Potter gave them the theme of their recent wedding in Los Angeles.

The hallowed walls of Lawry’s Prime Rib Restaurant were transformed into the halls of Hogwarts, and the ceremony was officiated by the restaurant’s manager, who dressed as Severus Snape.

So, if you are a true Potter fan you can use this idea for your birthday theme as well. INDEPENDENT.CO.UK

Caterzilla From a distance, this fat, green caterpillar would seem to be a very tasty appetiser for any predator. But on closer look they come face to face with a snake. The neon-green bug confuses its enemies by tucking in its legs and expanding the end of its body — which has markings that look like the face of a dangerous reptile. Its disguise is perfect and it will even act like a snake, pretending to strike if approached. Professor Daniel Janzen, a biologist from the University of Pennsylvania, photographed the creepy-crawly as part of his work tracking caterpillars in Central America. “To normal people, this caterpillar might look weird and scary — but for me, it’s just a walk in the park,” he said.

“Every caterpillar in Costa Rica looks like something else — be it a leaf, twig or, in this case, a slithering snake. “Over the years, I’ve seen and photographed so many different types of bugs, I’m never surprised — but they always interest me.” Professor Janzen has been tracking Costa Rica’s caterpillars since 1978. He said this example — captured in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, a UNESCO World Heritage site to the northwest of the country — was part of the Hemeroplanes family. Its disguise is designed to ward off predators while it is in its larval stage, before it grows into a moth. But predators can relax — while it can strike, it can’t bite. METRO.CO.UK

World wide weird

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Napkin table University students have combined napkins and a table in one product. The innovative creation, which was demonstrated by two models, comes with straps that have to be tied around your neck.

Once assembled, users are able to place their food on a tray that sits in the centre and are also protected by napkins that act as bibs. The product wasn’t just built for practical means though. The Tunghai University graduates, from Taiwan, wanted to encourage people to talk to each other. This would hopefully happen as they would be sitting closer. One user said she found the concept ‘kind of silly’ but still liked it. Another one disagreed and said it was confusing. The product has no release date but is definitely an innovation many are waiting for. METRO.CO.UK

Dog days After going for a walk, a German shepherd puppy owned by a Massachusetts man decided to go for a drive — straight into a pond.

John Costello told a local paper that his 12-week-old puppy, Rosie, was so excited after going for a walk at Bolivar Pond in Canton that she jumped in his running car, hit the gear stick and shifted into drive, before falling onto the gas pedal and sending the car skidding into the water. A couple of passers-by saw the commotion and helped Costello rescue Rosie. Nobody was injured. The 911 call surprised even police.

Officer Robert Quirk says he has never heard of a dog driving into a pond. AP

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6 Word Origins Dinner used to refer to breakfast Did you know that the word ‘dinner’ used to refer to breakfast? The word ‘dinner’ comes from the Old French word ‘disnar’, which in fact means ‘breakfast’. So how did this word that meant breakfast end up being pushed back in the day to describe the meal latest in the day? Traditionally dinner (meaning ‘breakfast’) was the first meal of the day, eaten around noon. It also happened to be the biggest meal of the day, with a lighter meal coming later known as supper. Eventually, more meals started being added to the day with people eating meals before the large noon meal of dinner. Rather than calling these earlier meals that broke the fast by the word that means breakfast, the name ‘dinner’ now stuck as meaning the largest meal of the day. As time has passed, in most cultures that use these words to describe their meals, the largest meal of the day gradually got moved later and later in the day until its meal time was around the time one used to have supper. So gradually this meal that bears the name (translated) ‘breakfast’ is now the meal we eat before we start the fast and the literal translation of ‘dinner’ is now the word we used to describe our early morning meal of breakfast. In most cultures where this shift has happened, ‘supper’ is now considered to be the proper name for a midnight snack. It should be noted that there are still many cultures that use these words to describe their meals that don’t go by the breakfast, lunch, dinner name scheme; rather, they now go with breakfast, dinner, supper, choosing to refer to lunch as ‘dinner’. In which case the meal bearing the name ‘dinner’ didn’t move at all. Just one extra meal got added earlier in the day.

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Cool facts Money usually takes the form of coins, banknotes and bank balances.

There are a number of different currencies used in countries around the world.

Many countries have their own currency, while some use a shared currency.

An example of a shared currency is the euro used in the European Union by countries such as France, Germany and Spain.

The currency most traded around the world is the United States dollar.

Other heavily traded currencies include the euro, Japanese yen and pound sterling (British pound).

It is believed that products such as livestock and grain were used to barter (exchange goods and services without the use of money) over 10,000 years ago.

The first coins were made around 2,500 years ago.

Paper money was first used in China over 1,000 years ago.

The benefit of metal coins is that they are portable and durable.

Credit cards were first used in the United States in the 1920s.

Coins and banknotes are popular items for collectors, especially rare, old and misprinted ones.

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Fun & games

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You will need:

If you sprout twigs inside your home you can get a taste of summer. At the same time you will get to learn about photosynthesis.

• Two 0.5 litre soda bottles

What to do:

• Cooking oil

1. Pour one cup water in each bottle and add a thin layer of oil on top of the water so that the water does not evaporate.

• Water

2. Put your twigs in one bottle and place the bottle in a bright and hot spot.

• Branches from a hardwood

3. Keep observing the bottles for the next few days. What happens to the twigs? What happens to the water in bottles?

Word of the Week: Photosynthesis This activity is brought to you by:

Photosynthesis means to build something using light energy and it is a process all plants can perform. Plants use light energy and carbon dioxide from the air to make sugar molecules, which help the plant grow.

To achieve this, they also need water, (H2O). This is why water gradually disappears from the bottles containing twigs. The hydrogen atoms in water molecules are used to build the plant, while the oxygen atom joins another oxygen atom and becomes oxygen gas O2, which leaks out of plants. This is how we get the oxygen we breathe and the sugar we need to keep going.

Turns out plants offer much to be thankful for!

Scientist Factory is offering a two week science summer camp at Haque Academy.

You can contact them at lalah@scientistfactory.com or call at 3 525 1511-3 for further details