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Duck-billed platypus PAGE 4

Clothespin hatching egg PAGE 6

Hoop glider PAGE 8

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Bears are probably the most famous fictional animals. Be it books or cartoons, most people have at least one bear they love.

From Winnie the Pooh to Po the Dragon Warrior, bears come in all shapes and sizes. Some are always hungry, others run wild in the jungles, but all of them have a special place in our hearts.

This week we have compiled a list of some of the most loved teddies that have been a part of our lives.

A small, golden bear, Pooh is fond of humming while walking through the Hundred Acre Wood.

He keeps company with Christopher Robin and the others. He also loves to eat. Pooh is at the center of many exciting adventures, including a hunt for Woozles and rescuing Piglet from the terrible flood. Despite being naive, Pooh always comes out on top! Pooh is described as being stuffed with fluff, as well as being “a bear of very little brain.” He is generally kind and friendly towards everyone; he is also very childlike and likable. He can be very courageous in tough times, and is consulted when trouble occurs. Pooh is also known for his love of honey or “hunny” as he spells it. He keeps a supply of pots at his home, but they are often empty due to his appetite.

When he runs out, he often travels to Rabbit’s home to borrow some. Loyal to his friends and often entitled to “leader of the group”, Pooh has a knack for being very optimistic during times of despair. Out of all the animals, Pooh is the one who is the closest to Christopher Robin.

Legend tells of a warrior named Po. Originally born in a farming village, Po was separated from his family as a result of the massacre of pandas. He was eventually found

by Mr. Ping, who adopted him, hoping for Po to inherit the family noodle shop some day. He dreams up a life of kung fu awesomeness that involves fighting alongside the Furious Five. Through sheer luck Master Oogway declares him the Dragon Warrior. Po then spends time training with the Furious Five under the guidance of Master Shifu. At first the Kung Fu masters are frustrated with him. But they grow to respect him as he proves his dedication and finds his own unique Kung Fu abilities. Though clumsy and unaccepted at first, Po persevered, and fulfilled the destiny of the Dragon Warrior by defeating Tai Lung and discerning the Dragon Scroll, proving himself as a hero to everyone. He now stands with the other Jade Palace masters, fighting alongside them to defend the Valley of Peace.

Baloo is the big, grey-brown bear from Jungle Book.

He is a laid-back, fun-loving bear-cub, and the most loyal of his friends. Baloo lives from moment to easy going moment. His priorities include finding a good tree to scratch his back, a comfy place for a long nap, and always being ready to help his buddies.

Retaining most of these qualities into his adult life, Baloo met up with the man-cub Mowgli and helps the child find his place in the world. Baloo is loyal, protective; his weakness is that he’s ticklish.

Jungle Book originally is a book by Rudyard Kipling, a British writer. Disney’s Baloo is arguably the most popular character in the filmed version of The Jungle Book. He was made famous by the song “The Bare Necessities”, sung by Phil Harris, in which he tells Mowgli how, if you know the tricks, you can live off the land and still have a life of leisure.

Yogi was a big brown bear who wore a hat with the brim upturned in the front. He also wore a white shirt collar with a long, wide green tie. Despite the attire, Yogi definitely did “bear” like things. He lived in a cave usually with his small friend, Boo-Boo, even though it had items like a bed, sheets, lamps, etc. that could be found in a simple home. He tried to hibernate, though was often interrupted by anything from the shooting of a TV show to the arrival of the seven dwarfs. However, he was intelligent and was able to talk, not only to other animals but to people. Yogi often talked in a sort of rhyming pattern. “I think I spy a pizza pie!” or “I have a hunch, here comes my lunch” are two examples of this pattern. Yogi lived in Jellystone National Park.

Although supposedly confined to the park, Yogi would make occasional trips outside the boundaries, usually resulting in major problems. There was the time Yogi mistook a sports page headline about a baseball battle between the Chicago Bears and Giants, so Yogi headed to Chicago to even up the score. When Yogi went to Paris, he was mistaken for an Ambassador and declared war on the country after an outraged chef kicked him out of an elegant restaurant.

Although Paddington now lives in London, England, he originally came from Darkest Peru where he was brought up by his Aunt Lucy. When Aunt Lucy went to live in the Home for Retired Bears in Lima, she decided to send him to England. After teaching him to speak perfect English, Aunt Lucy arranged for him to stow away in a ship’s lifeboat. Eventually, Paddington arrived on Paddington Station in London where he was found by Mr and Mrs Brown with a label round his neck with the words “Please Look After This Bear. Thank You.” Unable to resist such a simple request, Mr and Mrs Brown took Paddington home to live with them at 32 Windsor Gardens in London, along with their two children Jonathan and Judy and their housekeeper, Mrs. Bird. The Browns decided to name the new member of their family Paddington, after the place where he was found, although we later learn that in Peru, Paddington was called Pastuso, after his uncle. When he was found, Paddington wasn’t too sure how old he was so the Browns decided to start again at one. They also decided that he should have two birthdays a year, just like the Queen. So he celebrates these on 25th June and 25th December.

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3 A bunch of colourful bears each a different colour and power. The insignia on their tummy is known as their “tummy symbol.”

The Muppet Show’s resident comedian.

He tells bad jokes and is best friends with Kermit the Frog.

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A group of Gummi bears who live in a hollow tree known as Gummi Glen which is the base for a vast complex of underground tunnels and rooms. They harvest the Gummiberries that grow wild around them.

Dressed only in a purple tie, Boo-Boo is Yogi Bear’s sidekick. He often acts as Yogi’s conscience and tries to keep him out of trouble.

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Fun Facts about UNO Uno was invented in America and not in Spain as the name might suggest.

Q. There were four cats on a boat, one jumped out. How many were left?

A. None. They were all copy cats.

‘Uno’ means ‘one’ in Spanish.

If a player has only one card left in their hand, and another player catches them before the next player plays, the person with one card must draw four cards.

Q. What never eats at Christmas time?

A. The turkey - it’s usually STUFFED.

Q. Why do dogs run in circles?

A. Because it’s hard to run in squares.

There are only three legal moves at any time. If a yellow Skip is down, you can either play another colored Skip, a yellow card, or a Wild.

There are twenty-five each of red, blue, green, and yellow, including word cards, nineteen of which are number cards. There are four each of “Wild” and “Wild Draw Four,” for a total of 108.

The “Reverse” card turns play from clockwise to counterclockwise, and vice versa. The “Skip” card does exactly as stated, skips the next player, whether going clockwise or not. With a “Draw Two,” the following player has to draw two cards and lose their turn.

Q. How did the soggy Easter Bunny dry himself?

A. With a hare-dryer.

Q. What do witches race on?

A. Vroomsticks.

The only play that can be challenged is when a “Wild Draw Four” is played and only by the player that is required to draw the cards.

If the challenged player successfully challenges, then the player playing the “Wild Draw Four” draws the four cards. If unsuccessful, then the challenger draws six, four for the card, and two for an unsuccessful challenge.

Did you know?

The duck-billed platypus Duck-billed platypuses are small, shy animals. They have a flattened head and body to help them glide through the water. Their fur, dark brown on top and tan on their bellies, is thick and repels water to keep them warm and dry even after hours of swimming. Their head and body grow to about 15 inches and their tail grows about 5 inches longer. Their most remarkable feature is their amazing snout. It looks like a duck’s bill, but is actually quite soft and covered with thousands of receptors that help the platypus detect prey. Like many mammals, the platypus hunts for food but it does things in its own uniquely freaky way. To begin with, they do most of their hunting underwater despite being mammals. However, more strangely, platypus has no use for those common, everyday hunting senses like vision, hearing, and smell. To seal itself off from water, the platypus shuts off all of those normal senses and finds prey based solely on electrical signals and mechanical waves that it picks up using its bill. This allows the platypus to create a perfect representation of its surroundings to find prey, all from its own watertight cocoon. These mammals are bottom feeders when they hunt on the ground. The males are venomous creatures. They have sharp stingers on the heels of their rear feet and can use them to deliver a strong toxic blow to any foe. However, the scientific understanding of platypus venom isn’t concrete. We have no evidence that it can kill you, but it can definitely cause intense pain. An Australian man, who once found himself on the receiving end of a platypus spur, said a bullet would have been more enjoyable. After receiving the sting, he lost all use of his arm.

Platypuses spend most of their time alone, sleeping or eating. They scoop up insects and larvae, shellfish, and worms in their bill along with bits of gravel and mud from the bottom. All this material is stored in cheek pouches and, at the surface, mashed for consumption. Platypuses do not have teeth, so the bits of gravel help them to “chew” their meal.

Platypuses live long, surviving 20 years or more in captivity and up to 12 years in the wild. Scientists think these fascinating creatures are the earliest relatives of modern mammals. Recent studies show that they first evolved more than 112 million years ago, well before the extinction of the dinosaurs. SOURCE: KIDS.NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM

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Confused kitty By a quirk of nature the eight-week old moggie has two black lines above his eyes, giving it a quizzical look. Its owner Andy Entwistle, 40, who aptly named it “Confused Kitten”, put his photo on the internet and it has since gone viral. Owner Andy Entwistle, 40, said, “When he was born there were just these two little black blotches on his forehead. As he grew they got bigger and started to spread out, we started saying how confused he looked so I penned him ‘Concerned Kitten’ and it’s just stuck.”

To add to the kitten’s confusion, Entwistle’s wife Caroline has also named it “Gary” after Take That singer Gary Barlow. She explained, “When Gary Barlow’s singing he holds his eyebrows up to get to the high notes, and there’s definitely a resemblance.” EXPRESS.CO.UK

Unexpected visitor Michael Duffy, 48, said he was on his 41-foot Kettenburg boat “Elixir” at the San Diego Yacht Club when he awoke at 2:30am last Sunday to sneezing and snoring. Duffy saw a 35-pound sea lion pup on another bunk, curled up like a dog on top of his board shorts. “It was a tiny little guy, and I was kind of shocked, but he was basically asleep,” Duffy said. “Then he heard me coming, so he kind of looked up,” Duffy said the pup was probably looking for his mom but found him instead. Duffy grabbed his phone and took a photo of the pup, who had already jumped down onto the cabin floor. Duffy has been sailing since he was six years old and has grown up around the marine environment; he’d heard of sea lions getting onto boats, but going down below? “Totally bizarre,” he said, adding, “Sea lions can be cute, but they can be dangerous. You’ve got to be careful; it’s a wild animal.” If the sea lion had been an adult, he would have stayed away. But, he said this pup was very well behaved and left no mess, not even seawater on his shorts. He said the pup had an orange tag on its flipper and he believed it may have been once rescued after washing onto the shore, before being set free again. The baby sea lion appeared to be healthy and swam fine, and it was seemingly no stranger to humans. “It was a very personal thing, and he was a very cute guy,” Duffy said. “But I was a little emotional about it. For that two minutes he was my little buddy.” HUFFINGTONPOST.COM

World wide weird

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Stuffed nose

Steve Easton, 51, often had a case of the sniffles or a headache. But his nasal passages are now clear for the first time since he was a toddler. He sneezed and out flew the sucker tip of a toy dart - which had been up his nose since he was a boy. Mr Easton said the sucker has been lodged in his nasal cavity since the 1970s. His mother and father also remembered they had taken him to hospital when he was a child. They found him playing with his dart gun, at their home in Camberley, and noticed one of the rubber tips was missing. Mrs Easton said, “Steve said he’d swallowed it and there was just one of these darts without a tip. I took him to the hospital and they spent a lot of time looking for it but in the end they said perhaps it was a mistake. I knew it wasn’t and it’s always worried me and then now it has suddenly shot out. It was weird. We are all shocked.” Mr Easton has suffered from hay fever and the sniffles all his life but as far as he is aware, the sucker caused him no other health issues. TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

Paper bridge Out of all the materials you could choose to build a bridge, paper is probably not on top of your list. But that didn’t stop artist Steve Messam from erecting one over the top of a valley in the Lake District. The striking construction boasts no glue, bolts or any other fixings, and instead relies on authentic architectural principles as used in the dry-stone walls and the original packhorse bridges that are found in the Lake District. Mr Messam, from Teesdale, spent three years developing the fully-functioning Paper Bridge and it was commissioned by Lakes Culture as part of its Lakes Ignite 2015 programme.

The temporary passing, which was made using 22,000 sheets of paper, opened to brave members of the public on Friday and will close on May 18 or before that, should it collapse. “I was slightly perturbed at crossing the bridge – after all it is made out of paper, and I ventured across the first time with slight trepidation,” said Mountaineer Alan Hinkes. He added: ‘There was a bit of a wobble at the top and you are nearly 10ft off the rocky stream bed, so it is no place for vertigo sufferers.’ Mr Messam is looking for a small number of volunteers to help on the Paper Bridge project, from guiding the public and collecting audience data, to dismantling the four tonne bridge itself. METRO.CO.UK

The greedy doctor

By Noor bint-e-Shahid There lived a noble woman called Sarah. She was very wealthy and beautiful, but the only thing missing in her life was colour. Sarah couldn’t see, she had lost her eyesight when she was merely a baby. After consulting every doctor in her country she had lost all hope of ever restoring her eyesight. Then, one day, her best friend Maha told her of a doctor named Rafay, who had come from Syria. He claimed to know how to reverse the effects of accidental sight loss, but his services came with a hefty fee. Maha convinced Sarah to ask Dr Rafay to come pay her a visit. Once the doctor had examined Sarah, he declared that he would be able to operate and cure Sarah, but before that he would have to pay regular visits to her home, in order to moniter her condition. The doctor also told Sarah that the treatment would cost her seven million rupees. Sarah agreed to pay the amount, but only if the operation was successful and she could see again. The treatment started and the doctor started visiting Sarah every day. Every day before he left, he would pick up a valuable decoration piece off the mantle piece and hide it in his bag. This went on for thirty days. The day of the operation finally arrived and Sarah’s surgery was sucessful. She spent a few days recovering at the hospital and then went home. Once she got there, Sarah found her mantel to be empty, not a single piece of decoration was left there. Realising what might have happened, Sarah waited for the doctor to ask her for his payment and when he did, Sarah refused to pay him on the grounds that she couldn’t see. The doctor was outraged and took the case to court, in front of the judge Sarah said, “But the operation was unsuccessful, Your Honour, I can not see anything on my mantel, none of my collectable decoration pieces.” The judge was very smart, he understood what had happened and ruled in favour of Sarah. The doctor stood there in disbelief, he cursed himself for being greedy and stealing those decoration pieces worth a few thousand rupees which caused him to lose seven million rupees.

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Materials: • Clothespin • White, blue and yellow craft paper • Scissors • Glue • Black marker

• Cut an egg shape out of the white craft paper, then cut it through the middle so that you end up with two parts of the hatching egg.

• Take the blue craft paper and cut an oval, smaller than the last out of it. Cut out a yellow triangle for the beak and white circles for eyes. Use a marker to make the pupils on the white circles.

• Stick the beak and eyes on the blue oval to create a bird.

• Take the clothespin and stick both the parts of the egg shell to it, in such a manner that they are perfectly aligned when the clothespin is shut.

• Now take the blue bird you made and stick it to lower part of the mouth of the pin. On the opposite side, facing inward, so that the bird in only visible when the pin is pinched open.

SOURCE: UPCYCLED-WONDERS.COM

Non-Disney Animations Anastasia When the dark shadow of revolution falls on the house of the Romanovs, the royal family’s youngest daughter, Anastasia, barely escapes the siege. Ten years later, the Grand Duchess knows herself only by the name Anya due to amnesia caused by hitting her head that night. But Anya holds memories of a past which was full of palaces and parties. In order to discover more about this past, she travels to Paris with two conmen, Dimitri and Vladimir, who plan on passing her off as Anastasia to collect the reward money offered by the Dowager Empress for the return of her granddaughter. But what they don’t realize is that they have the real Anastasia? And what’s worse, Rasputin, former confidant to the Tsar, will not rest until he sees the last Romanov dead.

Chicken Run Ginger is one of the chickens at the Tweedy Egg Farm who is capable of escaping but is constantly being held back by her incompetent partners. One night, feeling failed and depressed after a chicken is axed, she wanders out to the gate, where she sees a rooster triumphantly flying through the air. After crashing and injuring his wing, Ginger takes him in and learns he’s Rocky Rhodes, a cocky American who enjoys freedom - in fact, he escaped from a circus when she found him.

In exchange for protecting him when the circus arrives asking for him, Ginger makes a deal with Rocky that he will teach them to fly so they can escape.

Taking advantage of the situation, Rocky woos the chicken, irritating Ginger and organiser Officer Fowler, formerly of the Royal Air Force, in the process.

Meanwhile, the Tweedys have purchased a machine to make chicken pies with, intending to cook every last one of them.

The Nightmare Before Christmas It is the same routine every year in Halloweentown. The monsters come out and perform a real scare.

This particular Halloween, the pumpkin king Jack Skellington, bored of the idea, saunters off into the woods with his dog Zero after Halloween night. Upon the break of dawn, he discovers a clearing of trees with different doors representing various holidays. The Christmas Tree door attracts his attention and upon entrance into the world of Christmas, Jack is fascinated with this new idea of Christmas that he must absolutely share with the citizens of Halloweentown.

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Artwork

Kashan Khalid

Arosa Tabin Fareed Winner

Laiba Barlas Winner

Hooria Muneer

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You will need:

Ingredients:

• A plastic drinking straw

Apple Flour Baking powder Milk Egg Sugar Vanilla essence Oil

1, peeled 1/2 cup 1/2 tsp 1/4 cup 1 2 tbsp 1/2 tsp For deep frying

• Stiff paper or cardboard • Tape • Scissors

What to do: • Cut the stiff paper into three separate pieces that measure one inch by five inches.

• Take two of the pieces of paper and tape them together into a hoop as shown. Be sure to overlap the pieces about half an inch so that they keep a nice round shape once taped.

Method: • Ask an elder to help you remove the core of the apple with the help of an apple corer.

• Once the core is removed, cut the apple into thin slices and set them aside.

• In a bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, milk, egg, sugar and vanilla essence until a thick paste is formed.

• Ask an elder to help you heat the oil to deep fry the apple rings.

• Carefully take each ring and dip it in the batter you just prepared, then with the help of an elder, fry them until the coating turns golden brown.

• Your apple rings are now ready.

Remember kids, always get permission from your parents before you start.

It’s always a good idea to have a helper nearby.

• Use the last strip of paper to make a smaller hoop, overlapping the edges a bit like before.

• Tape the paper loops to the ends of the straw as shown above. Make sure that the straw is lined up on the inside of the loops.

• Now hold the straw in the middle with the hoops on top and throw it in the air similar to how you might throw a dart angled slightly up. With some practice you can get it to go farther than many paper airplanes.

What is happening: It may look weird, but you will discover the glider flies surprisingly well. The two sizes of hoops help to keep the straw balanced as it flies. The big hoop creates “drag” or air resistance. This helps keep the straw level while the smaller hoop at the front keeps your super hooper from turning off course. Why does the plane not turn over since the hoops are heavier than the straw? It is because objects of different weight generally fall at the same speed; the hoop will keep its “upright” position.

SOURCE: SCIENCEBOB.COM