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Fall Art Fun Using Dots!

Did you ever use a hole punch? The other day while using a hole punch, I spilled the little circle dots all over my desk. What a mess! But instead of cleaning up, I started playing with the circle dots to create art? I made a flower, then a leaf and then, I made a spider. It is fun to create art from scrap paper we were planning to place in the trash!

I am not the first to use a series of dots to create art. Thousands of years ago, the Greeks and Romans used pieces of colored glass or stone to decorate buildings or to make pictures. This art form is called “Mosaic Art”. Using a modern twist on Mosaic art, let’s have some fall art fun!

A. Draw a simple shaped spider. Head circle, body circle and six legs.

B. Using glue, outline the spider’s head and attach dots. Continue this process to complete the head, body and legs.

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5. Create other fall pictures. This art form makes great fall cards too!

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2. Outline the head circle with glue to attach paper punch circle dots.

Continue outlining with glue and adding circles to construct the head, body and legs.

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4. Eyes can be made by cutting a colored circle punch in half.

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“Trick Or Treat” Safely Halloween is fun because you use your imagination, create a costume and trick or treat! That’s all good, but safety has to play an important role on Halloween “Trick or Treat” time. Here are a few tips to help.

Pumpkin Safety Tips ► Decorate your pumpkin with markers or paint. Leave the carving to the adults. ► Use candles carefully. Candle lit pumpkins need to be away from anything flammable like curtains. Never leave them unattended or better yet - use flashlights or battery operated flameless candles.

Home Front Tips ► Clean up and put away anything that a trick or treater could trip over. Turn the lights on. ► Control your pets. Take no chances that the family pet may get frightened or bite someone. ► Consider sugar substitutes like stickers, pencils, rubber insects, etc.

Costume Safety Tips ► Create a costume that is bright in color. Trick or treating is traditionally held during the evening so your costume needs to be seen by both pedestrians and vehicles. A good idea is to use reflective materials or tape attached to your child’s costume and trick or treat bag. A flame retardent costume is also a good idea. Make sure the costume fits well, including the shoes and you have plenty of room to dress warmly. ► A mask can obstruct your vision - make sure it fits and you can see. How about make-up instead? Test costume makeup on a small area of skin to make sure you are not allergic to it. ► Any weapons or props should look and feel harmless and be brightly colored. Make sure they are bendable and do not have any pointed ends.

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sponsible adult is with you at all times. Never trick or treat alone. ► Be careful when you cross a street. Look in all directions and make sure there is not a car coming. If you are with younger children, take their hand and help them cross. Cross the street at the corner or at a crosswalk. Do not cut through back alleys or fields. ► Do not get into a stranger’s car. ► Plan your entire route a head of time. ► Be sure to say thank you for your treats. ► Be careful walking near lit pumpkins or luminaries. ► Only go to houses where the lights are on. ► Walk on sidewalks or driveways. ► Make sure someone has a cellular phone in case of emergency. ► Carry a flashlight or glow stick to make you more visible. ► Go out trick or treating only during specified times for your neighborhood. ► Have your parents check your candy BEFORE you eat it when you get home. Keep only the treats that are unopened with wrappers that aren’t torn or have holes in them. After you eat candy, don’t forget to brush your teeth!

Halloween can be so much fun, so be safe this year and have a wonderful time.

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Why Do Leaves Change Color?

This time of year is a wonderful time. The leaves have been dropping and changing colors and the weather is getting cooler. Why do the leaves change color? That’s a very good question.

Inside a leaf are millions of little packets of color in green, yellow and orange. The green packets are called chlorophyll (klawr-uh-fil). The yellow packets are called xanthophyll (zan-thuh-fil) and the orange packets are called carotene (kar-uh-teen).

During the summer months, the green chlorophyll packets are very busy.

The chlorophyll catch the sunlight and use it for energy. They change water from the ground and a special gas (carbon dioxide) from the air into sugar or glucose. This sugar is food for the tree.

The green packets of chlorophyll in the leaves need water from the ground to do their job. The water that is soaked up by the tree’s roots travels up the trunk and enters the leaves through tiny tubes in the leaf’s stem.

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Because the green chlorophyll is so busy, the green color covers up all of the other colors in the leaf.

As fall approaches, the weather gets colder. The tree realizes that winter is near and begins to get ready. A thin layer of cells grows over the water tubes in the leaves and closes them up. No more water can get into the leaf! Without the water, the green chlorophyll starts to disappear and the other colors in the leaf - the yellow xanthophyll packets and the orange carotene packets - can finally be seen. The leaves don’t really “turn” a certain color, they just loose their green.

So, why are some leaves red or purple? Remember when we talked about the cells building a wall to cover the tubes in the leaf’s stem so that the water couldn’t get in anymore? The sap in the trees uses the same tubes to carry the sugar around to feed the rest of the tree. When the wall covers the tubes, sometimes sugar gets trapped inside the leaf.

This sugar causes the sap to turn red or purple.

What about brown leaves? The brown leaves are easy to explain.

When the leaves stop having water flow into them and food made inside of them, they die. The green chlorophyll dies first, then the yellow and orange packets die too. When all of the packets are gone, the leaf is dead and brown.

There is although, a type of tree that doesn’t change color! They are called evergreen trees. They stay green all year around. Their leaves are tough, green needles. These needles don’t freeze in the winter and they don’t loose water as quickly as other kinds of leaves. By holding onto the water inside them, they stay alive and green!

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Exercise Is More Important Than You Think!

Kids exercise all the time without even thinking about it. Just being active, like when you run around outside or play dodge ball at school, is a form of exercise. What else counts as exercise? Playing sports, dancing, doing push-ups or touching your toes all count! When you exercise, you’re helping build a strong body that will be able to move around and do all the stuff you need it to do.

Exercise Makes Your Heart Happy!

You may already know that your heart is a muscle. It works hard pumping blood every day of your life. You can help this important muscle get stronger by doing aerobic exercise!

Aerobic means “with air,” so aerobic exercise is a kind of activity that requires oxygen. When you breathe, you take in oxygen and if you’re doing aerobic exercise - you may notice you’re breathing faster than normal. Aerobic activity can get your heart pumping, make you sweaty and quicken your breathing.

When you give your heart this kind of workout on a regular basis, your heart will get even better at its job - delivering oxygen (in the form of oxygen-carrying blood cells) to all parts of your body.

Aerobic exercises include swimming, basketball, ice or roller hockey, jogging (or walking quickly), in-line skating, soccer, crosscountry skiing, biking, or rowing. And don’t forget that skipping, jumping rope and playing hopscotch are aerobic activities too!

Exercise Strengthens Muscles!

Another kind of exercise can help make your muscles stronger. Did you ever do a push-up or swing across the monkey bars at the playground? Those are exercises that can build strength. By using your muscles to do powerful things, you can make them stronger. Exercises and activities that build strong muscles are push ups, pull ups, running, in-line skating and bike riding.

Exercise Makes You Flexible!

Can you touch your toes easily without yelling ouch? Most kids are pretty flexible, which means that they can bend and stretch their bodies without much trouble. This kind of exercise often feels really

good - like when you take a big stretch in the morning after waking up.

Being flexible is having “full range of motion.” That means you can move your arms and legs freely without feeling tightness or pain. It’s easy to find things to do for good flexibility such as tumbling and gymnastics, yoga, dancing (especially ballet) and martial arts. Simple stretches like touching your toes or side stretches are good also.

Exercise Keeps The Balance!

Food gives your body fuel in the form of calories which are a kind of energy. Your body needs a certain amount of calories every day just to function, breathe, walk around and do all the basic stuff. But, if you’re active, your body needs an extra measure of calories or energy. If you’re not very active, your body won’t need as many calories. Whatever your calorie need is, if you eat enough to meet the need, your body weight will stay about the same. If you eat more calories than your body needs, it may be stored as excess fat.

Exercise Makes You Feel Good!

It feels good to have a strong, flexible body that can do all the activities you enjoy - like running, jumping and playing with your friends.

You may not know that exercise can actually put you in a better mood.

When you exercise, your brain releases a chemical called endorphins and they can make you feel happier. It’s just another reason why exercise is cool!

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