Okido issue 25 - Boys and Girls

The Arts & Science Magazine for Kids Stories Activities Games Doodles Recipes & a poem Issue #25 Boys and Girls Okido is a quarterly magazine for children aged 3 to 8

ISSN 1753-3139 / ÂŁ 4 07 9

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Memory game 1 Look at this image 2 Cover the page with a piece of paper 3 Try to remember as many things as you can

Hello Okido readers!

Welcome to your magazine.

This issue is all about boys and girls. Boys and girls are different but they can do the same things. Let’s explore, play together and have fun making, 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 meets Yellow Mellow the ballet dancer (p.4).

Zim Zam and Zoom discuss the differences between boys and girls (p.8). Foxy hides at the school fair (p.14).

Squirrel Boy meets a squirrel girl (p.38).

Spot who does what in the Do Your Thing! poem (p.18). Play the Find your match game (p.12), make a chatterbox (p.30), make a family paper chain (p.32), cook a cheese soufflĂŠ (p.42), colour in and doodle-do! (p.21)

My name is Yellow Mellow and I would like to dance too.

I left my planet because everyone made fun of me for wanting to do ballet. On my planet, only the girls do ballet, and I’m a boy. So I travelled to Earth and hid in Zoe’s ballet bag, just so I could watch her ballet class. But I feel even more sad now, because I want to go to ballet school, too!

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Story & Illustration by Rachel Ortas

Hello, who are you?

What are you doing in my ballet shoes?

But boys and girls should be able to do whatever they like! I love ballet, but I love doing karate with Felix too!

Yes! On our planet, boys can dance and girls can do karate - why shouldn’t they be allowed to do both?

Oh do you think I could, too?

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Hello Zoe and Felix! It looks like we have a visitor.

Hey! What brings you here little fellow?

Hello Messy Monster!

Let me introduce you to Yellow Mellow.

I want to go to ballet school!

Come on, let’s go back to your planet. I’m sure we can sort it out!

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Hello, we are Yellow Mellow’s friends from Earth. He really wants to dance.

Give me a chance and I’ll show you I can dance...

Ha ha ha! He is a boy, he can’t be a ballerina!

...and he did

Boys and girls are different, but they can do the same things if they want to!

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Questions with Zim Zam Zoom:

Story by Dr Sophie and illustration by Alex Barrow

How do you know the difference between a boy and a girl?

Which of these babies is a boy and which is a girl?

They both look the same, don’t they?

Yes that’s true, Zam. Young children look very similar. They eat the same food, although sometimes they like to play with different toys and sometimes they don’t! They have a similar shape on the outside and the same heart and brain on the inside.

And as babies grow into children, they still look very similar...to me! Do they like the same things? Do they eat the same food? Do they like to play with the same toys?

Zoom, girls and boys only look different because they have different hairstyles and clothes...

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...but girls are girls and boys are boys because their private parts are different!

Oh! Ok, let’s see who is a boy and who is a girl. Hold the page up to the light and take a look...

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Boys have a penis and testicles and girls have a vagina.

My parents call them pee pee and hoo hoo!

And my friend Koko calls them teetee and kiki!

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How cute!

Boys and girls continue to change as they get older.

As boys get older, their voices become deeper.

Boys

They can grow beards or moustaches... ...and their body shape changes.

Their shoulders get broader, their muscles get bigger and they grow more body hair.

As girls get older, their body shape also changes, but in a different way.

They grow breasts, their hips broaden and they also get more body hair.

Girls

So boys and girls look more and more different as they grow older.

Yes, everybody grows up!

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Find your match FINISH

A game for 2 or more players

SLID DOWE N

In the Animal Kingdom, males (boys) and females (girls) often don’t look the same.

Help these animals find their other half and make it to the end of the game.

SLIDE DOWN

I’m male and I’m really colourful!

I’m a male elk and I have pointy antlers

E ID N L S OW D

How to play: • Choose a counter and place it at the start.

You will need: • Player 1 rolls the die and moves across the board.

If you land on an animal, find its pair and move forward up the ladder. A die Counters If you land on a worm, go backwards. First to the finish line wins!

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I’m male and I’m called a cockerel

SLIDE DOWN

I’m a female duck and I have brown feathers

Game illustration and design by Maggie Li and Rebecca Anne Louise Watson

I’m a female cow and I have udders

I’m much bigger than the male spider

START

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Find Foxy Illustration by Mathilde Nivet

Foxy is visiting the school fair. Can you see him?

Can you see these boys and girls?

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Poem by Gabby Dawnay and Illustration by Rachel Ortas and Alex Barrow

DO YOUR THING!

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Jack can cook And Jill can sew.

Dan can dance And so can Flo.

Sue is great at making stuff.

Tom is gentle, Stella’s tough.

Fred is funny, So is Jill.

Jenny’s clever, so is Bill.

Tom is just as strong as Jim. Dan can dive And Jan can swim.

Jake can bake And so can Paul.

Stella skips and kicks a ball.

Claire likes counting, Emma skates.

Bob can bounce and juggle plates.

Joe likes reading, Paul can draw, Flo is fast and Claire can score.

Paul arrives with tea and cake.

Jack brings biscuits So does Jake.

Sue has plasters Fred has jokes.

Different skills for different folks.

Stella trips And so does Bob. Both are hurt and start to sob.

Emma laughs And so does Bill.

Joe is soothing, so is Jill.

Come on let me hear you sing, Clap your hands and do your thing!

Everybody - big or small All for one and One for all!

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Let’s Okidoodle!

Toy Sudoku Complete the grid to have one of each toy in each column or row.

Colour in their clothes with your favourite colours

Colour in your favourite clothes

Colour in the toys for girls, the toys for boys and the toys for both! Boys: red Girls: green Both: blue

Give these faces either boys’ or girls’ hairstyles

Toilet Maze!

This boy and girl need to find their way to the toilet - can you help them?

Dress yourself as a boy or a girl

Draw all the boys and girls and men and women in your family

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what will you be when you grow up?

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Cut out the page along the dotted line.

pilot

dancer

musician

teacher

nurse

astronaut

prime minister

artist 30

How to make your Chatterbox!

Cut out the page along the dotted line.

Fold the corners into the centre.

It should look like this.

Fold the square in half...

...and put your fingers inside.

Flip over and fold ...until you have a corners into the centre... square again.

Make a diamond shape.

Ready to play?

Ask for a number.

Look inside to see which job you will do.

You can mime the job too so a third person can try to guess.

Open and close the chatterbox as many times as that number.

Pick a colour and open that flap.

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  Family paper chain Hello, what’s your name? Do you have any brothers and sisters? How many people are there in your family? How many are girls and how many are boys?

Not all families look the same. Some are big and some are small.

Fold an A sheet of 3 p lengthw aper ays and cut.

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You will be le ft with this!

Uncle Cousin

Auntie

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Grandpa

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A3 pap er

scissors

Fold the sheet in ha then ha lf and lf again .

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Draw a bo and cut dy shape it making out sure the arms ar es connec till ted Unfold.. . .

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Hooray -y own pa our pe family. T r chain ap chains t e two og a bigge ether for r family !

It should look like this!

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Grandma

Grandma

Mum

Me

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ROBOT’S first day at school Hello! Beep...Beep...

I am a robot!

Who are you? beep...beep...

Hello!

I am learning about small children. Tell me about youRselves...Beep... beep...

We are children!

Hello!

Hello!

I’m a girl!

Girls are MUCH better!

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OK...

Beep...

Beep...

I’m a boy!

NO!

Beep...

Beep...

Are boys and girls the same?

NO!

That’s not true! Girls play with dolls and cry all the time. Boys are MUCH better!

That’s not true! Boys cry too AND they only want to play fighting games...

Girls are ugly!

Boys are smelly!

Girls are boring!

Beep...

Beep...

Boys are good at science and inventing stuff!

Girls are good at science and inventing stuff, too!

Beep...

Beep...

Boys are stupid!

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So, girls don't like boys?

Beep... Beep...

THEN, BOYS DON'T LIKE GIRLS..?

No, I LIKE playing with boys...

We were just joking! Boys aren’t really stupid... ...and girls aren’t really boring!

No, my BEST friend is a girl...

I don’t really think you’re smelly...

Come on everyone - let’s play!

BEEP...

BEEP...

BEEEEP!

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Sometimes, boys and girls are just the same!

What do you think?

- Small humans are boys or girls - boys are clever - GIRLS are ugly - BOYS ARE SMELLY - girls are boring - BOYS LIKE FIGHTING - girls like PLAYING WITH dolls - girls like science - boys like science ---+++ ===011101>>>=++++:::::----===+///$$--- BOYS are cats with smelly feet - girls are giraffes Wearing ugly hats >>> ------ 0001101010++++))))11//>>>>0 ... computer jam--- impossible to process --....stop...... ...beep...beep.... ....cannot list....

---&&-=====++++$$$***---==010101>>> - boys are not ALL the same - GIRLS ARE NOT ALL THE SAME &&^^^10101010101+++----++!!!!-----& ...stop ...beep....beep...

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38 Story & Illustration by Beth Morrison

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How to make a cheese soufflé

Before cooking, always wash your hands!

Ask an adult to help with the oven.

When you are ready to make the soufflé, Preheat the oven to 200ºC (gas mark 6)

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Separate the eggs into two bowls

Whisk the whites with a pinch of salt until light and fluffy Mix the yolks with the corn flour, flour and cream cheese

Beat the mix thoroughly

Combine the whites to the mix gently

Grease 4 ramekins

Fill ramekins with mixture

Bake in the oven for about 10 mins or until risen and golden

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Collage and doodle! spread of collage Do you have a lot of old magazines lying around? A fun thing to do is doodle over them.

Make new faces and create new creatures by cutting and sticking back together!

You will need: Old magazines Glue Scissors Pens

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Ever wondered what your mum looks like with a moustache?

Doodle it!

Another fun game: cut out lots of different eyes, noses and mouths from pictures of girls and boys and stick them back together to make new faces. Quiz your friends and see if they can guess whether it’s a girl or a boy!

Can you spot the things that make our new face here?

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dung beetle, biscuit, smartie, spaghetti, googly eye

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This issue of Okido is all about Boys and Girls.

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

Stories

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