The Arts & Science Magazine for Kids Stories Activities Games Doodles Experiments & a poem Issue #22 Colours Okido is a quarterly magazine for children aged 2 and above
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Hello Okido readers! Welcome to your magazine! This issue is all about colours. What is your favourite colour? How many colours can you see on this page? Let’s discover colours together and have fun colouring and playing. 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 is in a multicoloured mood (p.4). Zim Zam and Zoom discover how OKIDO is printed in colour (p.8). Foxy travels to colourful India (p.16). Squirrel Boy (p.38) is having a colourful day. Little Blue meets some other colours (p.34). Read The Little Grey Town story (p.13), play the Hot Air Repair game (p.32), make your own plasticine (p.20), colour in and doodle-do! (p.21)
Story & Illustration by Rachel Ortas
‘Look Felix, the trees are changing colour’ says Zoe.
The animals are changing colour, too! 4
Red leaves, yellow leaves, green leaves...
Tee-hee, I’m sure Messy Monster has something to do with all this...
Hey! Messy Monster! Where are you?
Hello! Do you want to play COLOURS with me?
Today I’m in a multicoloured mood! What colour mood are YOU in?
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When I am dreamy and quiet, I am in a blue mood...
When I am in a red mood, you’d better watch out!
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When I feel bright, I am in a yellow mood...
We love colours!
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Questions with Zim Zam Zoom:
How is OKIDO printed in COLOUR? Where does it start? How do the colours get onto the pages?
Let’s start from the beginning. To make OKIDO magazine you need paper, ink and a printer
Paper
Story by Dr Sophie and illustration by Alex Barrow
Paper is made from trees or recycled from old paper.
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The paper is now ready to be delivered to the printers
The tree wood is sent through a paper mill...
What happens at the printers?
..and blended into a pulp.
This is then flattened into paper!
The printers is where coloured ink is printed onto paper to make magazines like OKIDO!
How?
Here’s our image on the computer screen. Let’s send it to to the printer!
In this big printing machine! Shall we see what happens when we print a page of OKIDO? THE BIG PRINTER!
The OKIDO image will be printed in 4 coloured inks:
Here are the four colours * Cyan
magenta
yellow
black
CYAN (which is blue) Magenta (which is pink) Yellow and BLACK
The paper goes through the printer on a large roll like this. Only FOUR colours? What about all the other colours? What about printing me in green?
Once the paper is inside the printer, it will pass under the four colours All the other colours are made by mixing the main colours. So Green is made by printing yellow and cyan on top of one another! * the inks we use for OKIDO are made from vegetables.
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The first colour to go on is cyan = blue
BLUE (CYAN)
The printer directs the ink to make the image on the paper.
Under the first ink roll the printing machine prints all the BLUE in the image, like this:
The second colour to go on is magenta = pink
MAGENTA (PINK) Under the second ink roll the printing machine prints all the MAGENTA in the image, like this
+ so the image becomes like this:
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The third colour to go on is yellow
YELLOW Under the third ink roll the printing machine prints all the YELLOW in the image + so the image becomes like this:
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The fouth colour is black
And then under the last roll BLACK is added like this:
When the paper comes out of the printer and when all colours merge together it looks like this!
WOW! Look at the printed image! From just four colours!
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MIXING COLOURS WITH ZIM! Look what happens when you mix the following colours
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Now you have a go!
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The Little Grey Town Story and illustration by Simon Pradinas
There once was a little grey town. It hadn’t always been grey, but all the people had gradually moved away taking the colours of
everyday life with them. The school had closed and the shops had shut down. Everyone had gone. Everything was
boarded up. The little grey town was completely empty. Poor little grey town, where no one wanted to live!
Until one day, Zed the painter returned to the town from a marvellous trip around the world.
He’d seen the shimmering rainbows of the Northern Lights, the emerald greens of the South Seas, the indigos and purples of the Orient and the ultramarines of the
tropics. Zed had been away for many years, so when he came back, he felt very sad to see how grey and empty the little town had become.
But then he remembered something. At the very end of the little grey town, in a huge abandoned warehouse, there was some treasure. Had everyone else forgotten about it?
Zed went to look. And he found it was still there. Can you guess what this treasure was? Hundreds and hundreds of pots of paints in every colour you can imagine! 13
Perched on a magic ladder, he started to paint the town with all the colours. The colours exploded across the grey town like fireworks across a black sky! Zed first took a pot of red and with the help of a giant paintbrush, he worked his way through every single pot of paint and transformed the little grey town. He painted the shops and houses every colour of the rainbow - he even painted the trees green! And do you know what happened?
Help Zed to paint the little grey town by colouring it in with him!
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Gradually all the children, men and women, dogs and cats and birds came back to the houses and flats, shops and offices, schools and trees; they couldn’t understand why they’d ever left such a beautiful place. And as all the people and animals returned, all the colours of everyday life returned to the little town, too. And it wasn’t grey any more and it wasn’t little any more; the little grey town had become a wonderful, multicoloured city!
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Find Foxy 16
Illustration by Mathilde Nivet
Foxy is in India. Can you find him?
Can you spot them? 17
IMAGINE IF THE WORLD WAS JUST ONE COLOUR… Poem by Gabby Dawnay, Illustration by Alex Barrow
Imagine if the world was PINK – Oh what would everybody think? I’m sure they’d all get very cross With hair as pink as candyfloss!
The ORANGE is a tasty fruit And as a colour it’s a hoot! But then again it’s far too bright We’d never get to sleep at night.. 18
I’ve always liked the colour RED Imagine it was red instead As red as chillies, good and hot – (You know, I think I’d rather not..)
So how about the colour YELLOW? Quite well-known for being mellow. But give the world a yellow wipe And then the bee would lose its stripe..
Perhaps a shade of GREEN sounds good A world the colour of a wood? And with its grassy colouring, A greener world would surely sing!
The colour PURPLE might be nice Though just imagine purple mice! I’m very fond of purple - BUT The whole world purple? Maybe not.
Perhaps a lick of BLUE would do But how would we tell me from you? If you were blue from toe to top Where would I start – Where would you stop?
So many colours – can’t pick one – Our RAINBOW world is too much fun! Gabby Dawnay September 2012
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Make your own plasticine 1. In a large bowl mix these ingredients together into a dough:
1 cup of flour
1/4 cup of salt
1/4 cup of water + colour
add a few drops of food colouring
1 tablespoon of oil
2. Make 2 more plasticine balls so you have one blue, one yellow and one red.
= Blue
Green
= Yellow Orange Try mixing colours together to create new colours! Red
Time to make some character models! 20
Let’s Okidoodle! Colour in the fruit and juices to make a delicious smoothie!
Colour in the chameleons
Chameleons can change colour to camouflage themselves. Colour in the chameleons like the backgrounds to hide them
Colour the paint buckets Can you match the brushes to their buckets of paint and colour them in correctly?
Fruit and vegetable market Colour in the fruit and vegetables on this market stall.
Rainbow magic You will need:
paper
colour pencils
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black soft oil pastel
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Colour the whole paper with rainbow stripes 3
Then colour over with the black oil pastel (must be a soft oil pastel) 4
Then with a white pencil or toothpick, draw into the black crayon - like this...
...MAGIC!
Traffic Lights Add the missing colour to these traffic lights
STOP!
Turn the page to see the instructions on how to make a colour dice.
GET READY...
...GO!
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1. A black cat blinking in the night 2. A ladybird on a postbox 3. A yellow dice 4. A blue kite in a blue sky. 5. Bird’s eye view of 3 sheep in a field 6. A halloween pumpkin eye
Colouriddles
Make a colour dice
1. Cut out the dice shape along the plain lines 2. Fold along the dotted lines to make little flaps and shape the dice 3. Stick the little flaps with glue or sticky tape (glue on the grey)
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Now you can play the Hot Air Repair game p32
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Go to page 28 in the doodle section to make one!
Game and illustration by Peter Slight
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Make your colour dice p. 28
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Story & Illustration by Anthony Peters
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Fun rice balls!
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To make yellow rice, add the turmeric and mix
YOU WILL NEED : • White rice
To make green rice, add the mashed peas to the rice and mix
• 1 table spoon of defrosted peas (for green) • 1 cooked beetroot (for red) • a pinch of turmeric (for yellow) 1
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Cook the rice in water for 10 min (1 cup of rice + 1 cup and half of water + a pinch of salt)
While the rice is cooking, prepare the colours: -mash the peas as finely as you can with a fork - cut the beetroot into very small pieces and keep the juice - dissolve a pinch of turmeric in a teaspoon of water
Separate the rice while it is still hot into 3 bowls to make the 3 different colours of rice
To make red rice add the beetroot pieces and juice to the rice and mix 4
Leave the rice to colour and cool a bit
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Now, wet your hands and make small balls with the rice!
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Prepare a beautiful colourful plate with your rice balls!
Look all around you. Can you see something blue? What about something yellow? And something red?
Design by Marie Pier Tremblay
Spot colours!
Let’s go out and play
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Illustration by Soju Tanaka
Let’s make some leaf animals
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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 Associate Art Director Maggie Li Design OKIDO Studio Sub-Editing Gabby Dawnay Contributors Alex Barrow, David Biskup, Gabby Dawnay, Maggie Li, Beth Morrison, Mathilde Nivet, Paul Noble, Rachel Ortas, Anthony Peters, Simon Pradinas, Peter Slight, Soju Tanaka and Marie Pier Tremblay. Thanks to Lawrence Yong for proofreading . Okido is printed on FSC paper using biodegradable vegetable ink by Calverts print co-operative. © Okido Studio 2012. All rights reserved and reproduction forbidden.
This issue of Okido is all about Colours. 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 #22 Colours This issue has been printed on FSC paper using biodegradable vegetable inks.
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