Okido issue 18 - Growing

The Arts & Science Magazine for Kids Stories Activities Games Doodles Experiments & more Issue #18 Growing Okido is a quarterly magazine for children aged 2 and above

ISSN 1753-3139 / ÂŁ 4 10 9

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Colour in the things that grow

Hello Okido readers!

This issue is all about growing.

Plants grow, trees grow, birds grow, you grow. All living things grow! Big or small!

Let’s grow with Okido!

Okido is yours to read, write and draw on. Enjoy!

Start by writing your name:

Okido helps children learn through play. It is full of stories, activities and games that stimulate creativity and inspire scientific interest.

Messy Monster, Felix and Zoe meet a fly and a big bird.

Zim Zam and Zoom wonder how we grow.

Squirrel Boy has a bit of an accident with his outfit. Foxy visits the fun fair.

Read about Sniff the nose, Slam the ear and help the gardener to get out of his overgrown garden.

Read super stories, grow a mini vegetable garden, colour in and doodle-do! Plus much, much more to make, do and draw!

I don’t think so!

I would be happy to get smaller and smaller!

Anyway small is nice!

But you cannot get smaller.

You are going to grow.

Story & Illustration by Rachel Ortas

I am much bigger than you.

Oh! What is this strange fly?

Hey! You just found a mini beast.

Hey, I know Big Bird.

Let’s go and find him!

Let’s go now!

FABULOUS!

Here he is!

I missed you so much!

I stopped dancing...

I was so bored without you.

I stopped singing...

It doesn’t matter whether you’re big or small...

There is nothing bigger than friendship!

How do we grow?

Hummm....

Zoom doesn’t seem to be growing!

Do we grow by being watered like plants?

Do we grow by being stretched while we sleep?

Are our feet getting bigger?

...or is it that our shoes shrinking?

Story by Dr Sophie and illustration by Alex Barrow

Questions with Zim Zam Zoom:

Alex had his dad mark his height on the door, so that they can see how much Alex has grown.

Let’s compare Alex and his dad to see their size difference and find out what did grow in them.

Hold the page up to the light to see what’s inside their bodies

10/11

alex 10/08 zoom 10/11

Will I grow too?

Can you spot the difference?

Yes! The bones have grown they’re longer!

As we grow older our bones get longer and we get taller but what helps our bones grow?

Alex’s dad skeleton

Alex’s skeleton

For your bones and ALL of you to grow you need to eat well...

..get plenty of sleep..

...and exercise.

The skeleton (that’s all your bones) is getting bigger and taller each year. When you’re a “grown-up” it stops growing !

Hi, I’m Slam!

Hi, I’m Sniff!

Find out what happens to us when we grow up...

Pffft rubbish!

Look at me, I’m all nose!

Now compare your nose to someone older.

How much smaller is it?

Sniff, look at the size of you! I still think I’m bigger though...

Yes that’s right, I never stop growing and neither does Sniff!

Then everything slows down and eventually stops growing, apart from your NOSE and EARS!

Story & Illustration by Maggie Li

As we get older, we all get bigger!

Your arms and legs, fingers and toes all grow!

The greatly overgrown garden!

This poor gardener has become lost in his completely overgrown garden.

Can you help him to find his way out, avoiding the giant snail, the long lost shed, the jumbo veg and the unruly flower bed?

Illustration by Peter Slight

Illustration by Peter Slight

Make and grow a plasticine body!

You will need: Plasticine or Play-doh

1. Make your plasticine body

3. Get ready to eat!

2.Make some tasty food out of plasticine. Like carrots, brocolli and chocolate!

4. Feed your body some vegetables

5. Squidge in the food and see your body grow

6.See how food makes you bigger!

Follow the strands of her long hair to find a new hair style

Illustration by Miqui Viars

Carmela has grown and so has her hair!

Play!

Let’s grow together Cut the page into three strips along the dotted lines

Fold the strips along the dashed lines

Play!

Let’s Okidoodle!

Illustration by Alex Barrow

Draw a plant growing from this seed

Oh no! My tail!

It will grow again

Really?

I want a beautiful new tail... ...or a useful one?

Draw the lizard’s tail.

Illustration by Soju Tanaka

The tale of a lizard’s tail

Draw my growing hair, teeth and nails!

Match the grown-ups with their babies to stop them crying

A caterpillar grows into a butterfly.

Draw the steps of this growth in order...

Illustration by Soju Tanaka

Where’s my baby?

Frog maze Help the frogspawn grow into a frog.

Make sure you go past each stage this order:

START

FINISH

Draw a tree.

Clue: The branches of a tree are nearly the same size as its roots.

How old are these trees?

This tree was four years old.

Each ring is a year of the tree’s life.

How old am I? Count the rings

Draw the rings of a five year old tree.

Draw the people in their shoes!

5 years

baby

and match their shoes with their age

55 years

15 years

Find Foxy Illustration by Mathilde Nivet

Foxy is having a good time at the fun fair. Can you see him?

Lots of other animals are having fun. Can you see them?

Grow your own garden Chop off the tops of your vegetables

Plant your vegetable tops and watch them grow

Illustration by Maggie Li

Cut your potatoes and onions in half

Grow your own avocado plant!

Put the bottom half of your avocado pit in water Grow cress seeds

Glass of water

Use toothpicks so the avodaco pit doesn’t sink

Story & Illustration by Beth Morrison

Illustration by Anthony Peters

Why not go outside and draw all the things that are Bigger than you?

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www.okido.co.uk Okido, 41 Bowen Drive London SE21 8NS info@okido.co.uk Published by Okido Studio Editor Sophie Dauvois sophie@okido.co.uk Creative Director Rachel Ortas Art Director Alex Barrow Design Brighten the Corners Sub-Editing, PR & Marketing Gabby Dawnay gabby@okido.co.uk Contributors Alex Barrow, Tamasin Barnbrook, Gigi Ho, Maggie Li, Beth Morrison, Mathilde Nivet, Paul Noble, Rachel Ortas, Antony Peters, Peter Slight, Soju Tanaka and Miqui Viars.

Thanks to Stephan Silver for proofreading.

Thanks to the Wellcome Trust for its support.

Okido is printed on FSC paper using biodegradable vegetable ink

by Calverts print co-operative. © Okido Studio 2011. All rights reserved and reproduction forbidden.

Illustration by Miqui Viars

Colour in the things that grow

This issue of Okido is all about growing.

Read fabulous stories, draw, make stuff, play, create and enjoy your new Okido.

Okido helps children learn through play.

It is full of stories, activities and games that stimulate creativity and inspire scientific interest.

Issue #18 Growing This issue has been printed on FSC paper using biodegradable vegetable inks.

Stories

Science

Activities

Doodles

Games

& much more

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