The Arts & Science Magazine for Kids Stories Activities Games Doodles Experiments & a poem Issue #23 Taste 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 taste and food. How do we taste food? With our eyes? Nose? Tongue? Fingers? Let’s explore taste together and have fun playing, cooking, and colouring along the way. 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 cooks his favourite soup (p.4). Zim Zam and Zoom discover how we taste our food (p.8). Foxy is hiding on a table of food and a few other things! (p.12). Squirrel Boy (p.38) enjoys some food memories. Read the Ogre poem (p.14) and the dinosaur story (p.16). Play the Run Rabbit game (p.34), test your taste (p.31), eat together (p.42), colour in and doodle-do! (p.21)
It smells YUCKY! What IS it, Messy Monster?
It’s my very special, utterly scrumptious SOCK SOUP! It stinks!! That’s horrid!
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Story & Illustration by Rachel Ortas
Yummy! I’ve cooked something delicious...you’re going to love it!
Yummm! It’s so yummy!
It doesn’t look yummy to us...
But it’s tasty! Try some, go on, try my soup!
NOOO, we don’t want to!
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Just put it in your mouth, chew and swallow.. It’s not our kind of food, Messy! No way, it’s yucky!
What IS your kind of food?
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Well, we love to eat pasta and pesto, ketchup, donuts, sweets and many more things...
...and corn soup is SO yummy!
You have to taste it, please....
I don’t like YOUR soup either. Yuck!
Oh...that’s sooo delicious! I LOVE your soup Felix, it tastes sooo good!
Come with me to page 20 and we’ll discuss this story 7
Questions with Zim Zam Zoom:
How do we taste food? How do I taste food, ZIM?
Story by Dr Sophie and illustration by Alex Barrow
This tastes sweet!
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This tastes salty!
This tastes sour!
Let’s find out!
This is your tongue.
Taste buds detect taste. There are 4 different types.
There are lots of taste buds on the tongue.
Taste bud key: Sweet Bitter Salty Sour
Kids have more taste buds than grown-ups, so when you taste certain things such as spinach, you sense the bitterness more than a grown-up does!
YUK!
YUM!
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Zam has caught a cold... This pizza tastes a bit bland. Why is that?
I can think of 3 reasons why the pizza tastes bland:
1. The pizza IS bland 2. You’ve lost your tongue! 3. You can’t smell the pizza
Hey! I bake delicious pizzas! What are you talking about?
Well, I’ve still got my tongue, I’m sure of that!
YUM! The pizza isn’t bland and it smells fantastic!
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Aaaahhchoo!
Zam! You’ve got a blocked nose because of your cold! You can’t SMELL the pizza so that’s why you think it tastes bland!
We use our sense of SMELL as well as our taste buds when we eat. So we need our noses as well as our tongues to taste food!
And my pizzas smell great, too!
Hey, don’t rub it in, Zoom! 11
Find Foxy
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Foxy wants to taste all the food on this table but he can smell some stinky things that shouldn’t be there...
....can you spot them? What else do you think smells bad? And what smells good? Don’t forget to find Foxy!
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Hmmmmm... Centipede jelly And cockroach on toast, Snottyjuice smoothies With dung beetle roast... Spider spaghetti With slugs cooked in slime, Foam from a frog Or fresh moth, poached in brine? Sick with an order Of flies on the side, Slime from the pond Either scrambled or fried? 14
Nectar of worms With a sprinkle of sneeze, Crusty mud pies Stuffed with maggots and fleas…
Mouse whiskers Served on a bed of fresh fat, Eyeballs from goldfish Spat out by the cat…?
Bugs baked in dust Or risotto of toad, Seasoned with germs You picked up on the road...
“Oh” says the ogre, “I don’t mean to boast But I’d rather devour a… …SMALL CHILD ON TOAST!”
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Story & Illustration by Michael Bartlett
DINOSAUR STORY BY KINGSTON STUDENT
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DINOSAUR STORY BY KINGSTON STUDENT
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Let’s s s discu
Does it taste good or bad? We all have different tastes. Sometimes you like something that none of your friends like.
Sometimes you think you don’t like something, but when you try it you find you like it after all! Has that ever happened to you?
Story & Illustration by Rachel Ortas
with Philococo
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Can things taste good and bad at the same time? What do you think?
Let’s Okidoodle! Food sometimes tastes better when it’s colourful. Colour in this Bento Box from Japan.
Who ate the cake? I know who ate the cake!
I’ll give you some clues: It has two eyes It has one mouth It doesn’t have a tail It doesn’t have big ears It’s very small and loves sweet things... Can you guess who it was?
Who is eating what? Follow the paths to discover what they love to eat
Dot-to-dot face Can you join the dots to find out what this boy is eating?
Food jumble Colour in these foods. Then can you match the SALTY foods, the SWEET foods, the SAVOURY foods and the SOUR foods?
Superhero foods Colour in these foods and turn them into superheroes! What would their superhero powers be?
Draw your favourite meal!
Foody Faces
Activity & Illustration by Elizabeth Davies
Isn’t it funny how our faces change when we eat?
Hold this page up to the light to see what’s inside.
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Taste experiment Try this test to discover how many different senses you use when you eat your food! You will need: A blindfold and some foods such as an apple, pear, onion, banana, tomato and celery.
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Ask a grown-up to help you to chop the food into bite-size pieces.
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Tie on the blindfold.
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Pinch your nose and taste a piece of food. Try another piece.
Can you taste the difference? Can you guess what you’re eating? Hmmm...is it more difficult than you think? To taste and recognise what we eat, we also use our nose and eyes. 31
RABBIT RUN! 2-4 players You will need:
a die a counter for each player
Take turns rolling the die to race the other hungry rabbits across the vegetable patch, munching tasty morsels as you go. Watch out for the slugs! If you land on their slippery slime you must slide down it. But land on a giant carrot and climb it to give yourself a boost! First to finish with a full tum wins! 34
Game and illustration by Peter Slight
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Wow! Surpreyes! I see a tomatoctopuss! 36
What about you? Draw what you see :)
Wow! Surpreyes! I see a yogurt pot cowboy!
What about you? Draw what you see :)
Wow! Surpreyes! I see a pizza crust doggy!
What about you? Draw what you see :) 37
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Time to eat together! Today, Messy and his friends are enjoying lunch together! Would you like to make what they’re having? The best meals are often the ones you share with friends and family, so invite your guests and start cooking!
Make fruit kebabs
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Make vegetable kebabs
You will need:
You will need:
A selection of fruit, including melon grapes, bananas, apples and kiwi... Skewers
Cherry tomatoes, cucumber cheddar cheese, black olives Skewers
What to do •First wash your hands. •Ask an adult to help you cut the fruit, vegetables and cheese into chunks that are roughly the same size. •Thread different chunks of fruit to make the sweet fruit skewers and do the same with the vegetables and cheese to make the savoury vegetable skewers, leaving a bit of space each end to hold onto when you eat them! •Make more kebabs! Yum!
Make mini-vegetable burgers You will need:
What to do
for 4-5 burgers
•First wash your hands •Put all the ingredients in a bowl, except for the oil. •Mix the ingredients together. •Take a handful of the mixture and shape into a burger patty. •Put your burgers on a plate. •Ask an adult to heat the oil in a pan and fry the burgers for about 2 minutes on each side, until they are golden and crispy. Enjoy!
1 cup of oats 1/2 cup of grated cheese 1/4 cup of water 1 grated courgette 1 grated carrot 1/4 cup of sweetcorn a pinch of salt 2 tbsp oil for frying
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Story & Illustration by Matthew Booker
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