26th December 2010 - Kids Today

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Editor : Sahar Iqbal Creative Head: Babur Saghir Graphic Designers : Sana Ahmed Mian Nasir

Hannah Montana’s world within a world What is Hannah Montana all about?

Miley Stewart might seem like an average girl but she isn’t. She moved from Tennessee to Malibu and is adapting to a new lifestyle. Miley has a huge secret only known by her dad/manager Robbie Ray Stewart, her weird brother Jackson Stewart, and her two best friends, Lilly Truscott and Oliver Oken. Miley Stewart’s huge secret is that she leads a double life as the famous pop singer Hannah Montana along with her friend Lilly who also has a double life as Lola, Hannah’s friend. Miley Stewart leads a completely normal life, except for one factor. She’s teen pop sensation Hannah Montana. She lives with her fun dad Robbie Ray and dorky brother Jackson and has fun with her two best friends Lilly Truscott and Oliver Oken. She goes through average teen problems including pimples, bullies, and the occasional wicked cousin trying to reveal her secret.

Accessorise like

Hannah Montana Hey kids! If you want to get dressed and accessorised in the same manner as Hannah does in her series then check out the cool stuff which you can find out in your nearby store.

Pomp your winter with Montana’s attire

These are available at H Karim Buksh and Enem, Lahore

Matilda

Crafty kids

Episode: 1

Edible jewellery Materials • • • • •

1 (3 ounce) shoestring (red & black) 1 cup checkerboard pretzels 1 cup Fruit Loops cereal 2 cups assorted varieties Cheerios toasted oat cereal 1 cup gummy Lifesavers candy, use your imagination

Directions Prep Time: 5 mins Total Time: 5 mins 1. Use the shoestring as your”string” and thread the other ingredients onto it.

2. Use various lengths to create necklaces, bracelets & rings.

3. Wear your creations with pride, then eat them when the mood strikes.

Plastic Jello Materials 1 envelope unflavoured gelatin 3 Tablespoons water Food coloring saucepan and potholder spoon Plastic coffee can lid or other container lid Scissors paper punch needle thread (Optional)

Directions

Children of all ages have read and enjoyed books by Roald Dahl. Many of his stories, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, have become classics in their own time. Matilda is a novel by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It’s a story about an intelligent whose quest of knowledge never ends even by reading books of libraries. This series is about Matilda who explores world with her aptitude and intellect.

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t’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers.

Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. Some parents go further. They become so blinded by adoration they manage to convince themselves their child has qualities of genius.

Well, there is nothing very wrong with all this. It’s the way of the world. It is

only when the parents begin telling us about the brilliance of their own revolting offspring, that we start shouting, “Bring us a basin! We’re going to be sick!” School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports. If I were a teacher I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents.

“Your son Maximilian”, I would write, “Is a total wash-out. I hope you have a family business you can push him into when he leaves school because he sure as heck won’t get a job anywhere else.

“Or if I were feeling lyrical that day, I might write, “It is a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing-organs in the sides of the abdomen. Your daughter Vanessa, judging by what she’s learnt this term, has no hearing-organs at all. “I might even delve deeper into natural history and say, “The periodical cicada spends six years as a grub underground, and no more than six days as a free creature of sunlight and air. Your son Wilfred has spent six years as a grub in this school and we are still waiting for him to emerge from the chrysalis. “A particularly poisonous little girl might sting me into saying, “Fiona has the same glacial beauty as an iceberg, but unlike the iceberg she has absolutely

nothing below the surface.” I think I might enjoy writing end-of-term reports for the stinkers in my class. But enough of that. We have to get on. Occasionally one comes across parents who take the opposite line, who show no interest at all in their children, and these of course are far worse than the doting ones. Mr and Mrs Wormwood were two such parents. They had a son called Michael and a daughter called Matilda, and the parents looked upon Matilda in particular as nothing more than a scab. A scab is so mething you have to put up with until the time comes when you can pick it off and flick it away.

Mr and Mrs Wormwood looked forward enormously to the time when they could pick their little daughter off and flick her away, preferably into the next county or even further than that. It is bad enough when parents treat ordinary children as though they were scabs and bunions, but it becomes somehow a lot worse when the child tin question is extraordinary, and by that I mean sensitive and brilliant.Matilda was both of these things, but above all she was brilliant. Matilda was both of these things, But above all she was brilliant. Her mind was so nimble and she was so quick to learn that her ability should have been obvious even to the most half-witted of parents. But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter. To tell the truth, I doubt they would have noticed had she crawled into the house with a broken leg.

Matilda’s brother Michael was a perfectly normal boy, but the sister, as I said, was something to make your eyes pop. By the age of one and a half her speech was perfect and she knew as many words as most grown-ups. The parents, instead of applauding her, called her a noisy chatterbox and told her sharply that small girls should be seen and not heard.

By the time she was three, Matilda had taught herself to read by studying newspapers and magazines that

Cool kids and Cooking

lay around the house. At the age of four, she could read fast and well and she naturally began hankering after books. The only book in the whole of this enlightened household was something called Easy Cooking belonging to her mother, and when she had read this from cover to cover and had learnt all the recipes by heart, she decided she wanted something more interesting. “Daddy,” she said, “Do you think you could buy me a book?”

“A book?” he said. “What d’you want a flaming book for?”

“To read, Daddy.”

“What’s wrong with the telly, for heaven’s sake?

We’ve got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You’re getting spoiled, my girl!”

Heart - shaped cake Ingredients

To be continued...

Aluminium Foil

Cake Decorations

Lace Doilies

Cake Mix For Two-layer Cake

1 Round Cake Pan

1 Square Cake Pan

Cooking Racks

Cake platters or Cardboard Base

Frostings For Two-layer Cake

Directions 1. Prepare your favourite cake mix or batter, making sure you have enough for a two-layer cake.

2. Put half of the batter in the square cake pan and half of the batter in the round cake pan. Bake it in an oven and let cool.

3. Prepare a platter, cookie sheet or cardboard base for the cake. It should measure about 15 by 15 inches. Cover with aluminium foil or paper doilies as desired.

4. Place the square layer on the platter so that one corner faces down at the bottom of the platter, forming a diamond shape.

5. Cut the round layer in half, then place the cut side of each half of the round layer against one upper side of the square layer toform a one-layer heart.

6. Frost the cake, using frosting to cover the seams.

7. Decorate the cake as desired. Consider using coloured decorating sugar, candy conversation hearts, red hots or other decorating candies.

1. In pan over medium heat, cook gelatin, water and food colouring.

2. Stir constantly until mixture is dissoved.

3. Remove from heat.

4. Pour into coffee can lid.

5. Push any air bubbles to the edge.

6. Let dry for 1 to 2 days until hard.

7. Lift when edges are hard and sharp.

8. Cut with scissors to make a ring, a guitar pick, chips, beads, doll dishes, etc.

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Drawing of the week

Editor’s Note Hi Kids!

Greetings from the team of Kids Today – your new friends who aim to entertain you with fun and games, and also a little learning.

We plan to take you on a rollicking trip through these pages designed just to keep you on your toes and wanting for more.

We shall try our best to make this magazine a good blend of education and entertainment. We hope that this will be a thrilling journey of fun and laughter, excitement and curiosity along with some serious and varied learning. We expect that soon you will also play a role in making this issue by contributing your art work and stories. Please also give us your feedback, short stories and drawings at kidstoday@pakistantoday.com.pk so that we can include things that might further interest you. Since we will be the ones taking you through these wonderful pages of fun and laughter, we expect to remain friends for a long time.

Best wishes.

Sahar Iqbal

By Harris Rao

Story of the week

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Box full of chocolates

nce upon a time there lived two friends Ali and Usman. Both were very close to one another.

They were inseparable. One day Ali spotted a juicy chocolate bar in a shop.

He wanted it desperately. The very thought of it made his mouth water. As he was dreaming about the chocolate, came his close friend Usman. Ali, that day had a new writing pencil. Usman saw that Pencil and liked it very much. He asked Ali the cost of it.

Though the cost of the pencil was only rupees two, he lied that is was of very superior quality and had cost him rupees ten. Usman liked the pencil so much that he emptied his whole savings of the past 10 months and paid Ali. Usman became the proud owner of the pencil and Ali spent that money on the chocolate bar.

By Hamza Faisal As days passed by, Usman began doing very well in his studies. But Ali’s performance at school started falling. He could not see his dear friend in the eye.

Every time Ali spoke of their friendship, Usman turned his face away as this led him to remember the pencil incident. His health too turned bad and he was forced to stay away from school many a day because of some ailment or other.

He soon realised he could not hold back the truth about the pencil from Usman. It was Usman’s birthday. He bought a present for Usman and gave it to him at the party. He lingered around till the last guest had left.

He pulled Usman close to him and blurted out the truth. He begged him for forgiveness.

Usman reminded Ali that the pencil had brought him a lot of luck though he has paid five times more than the actual rate, and asked him not to feel so strongly about it. Ali felt he has shed a very heavy load from his heart and skipped all the way home tossing the return gift given to him by Usman.

He reached home and felt how light and happy he felt after his confession. At home, he saw the return gift of Usman and opened it. It was a box full of chocolates! The same chocolate for which he had lied to his dear friend.

There was marked change in Ali from that day. He started faring well in studies and he kept perfect health. And he could be with Usman as he was in the past, a true friend.

Spot the differences

Answers 1) A button is missing 2) Band colour is changed 3) Hair colour is changed 4) Shoe heel is different 5) Shoe strip is missing

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