The Arts & Science Magazine for Kids Stories Activities Games Doodles Recipes Recipe & a poem Issue #27 #26 Space Hair Okido is a bimonthly quarterly magazine for children aged 3 to 8
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Whose hair? Turn the magazine on its side and hold up the middle to make a screen. Each player chooses a character and writes down his or her name. Take it in turns to ask questions about their hair. Cover the characters whose hair it isn’t with a counter or button. The winner is the one who guesses their opponent’s character’s name first!
Alex
Gene
Sam
Questions to ask:
Jessie
Jo
Charlie
Is my hair brown? Is my hair blonde? Is my hair black? Is my hair ginger?
Lou
Vic
Is my hair curly? Is my hair short? Is my hair long? Is my hair straight?
Robin
Hello Okido readers! Welcome to your magazine. This issue is all about hair. Do you have long hair or short hair? Does your hair grow? Let’s explore, play and have fun making, cooking, colouring and reading. 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 takes Felix and Zoe for a hair wash (p.4). Zim Zam and Zoom explore why we have hair (p.10). Foxy hides with his hairy friends (p.12). Squirrel Boy finds out who ate his sandwich (p.38). Read the Rap-unzel poem (p.30). Stage a play (p.31). Surprise your eyes (p.36). Play Whose Hair? (p.2 and p.47), prepare some hairy plates (p.34), colour in and doodledo! (p.21)
Story & Illustration by Rachel Ortas
TIME TO WASH YOUR HAIR!
‘No! We don’t want to wash our hair! Messy Monster never washes his hair!’ Zoe and Felix shout.
‘Hair wash? I’ve got an idea...’ ‘HELP! Messy, we don’t want to wash our hair!’
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‘Let’s go and visit the Hair Planet and meet the Spic’n’Spans. They will help us!’ says Messy.
‘Hello Spic’n’Spans. We need your help!’
‘Hello Messy Monster, hello little humans! What brings you here?’
‘Please Spic’n’Spans, how do you clean your beautiful hair?’ asks Zoe.
ow h s l ! I’l e e m th an. p w ys n’S llo ‘Fo ...’ sa Spic’ you gest big 5
This way...
Next, put on your goggles...
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‘First choose your favourite shampoo, hmmmm...
...and finally, immerse yourself in the tub!’
‘Water! Bubbles! It’s so much FUN!’ ‘Bye-bye and thank you, Spic’n’Span!’
BACK HOME
‘Oops! What’s happened to your hair?’ giggles Felix.
‘Yours too...’ giggles Zoe.
‘Spic’n’Spans are right...
...it’s fun to wash your hair!’
‘Hahahaa! That must be the Spic’n’Span shampoo!’ 7
Story by Dr Sophie and illustration by Alex Barrow
Questions with Zim Zam Zoom:
Why do we have hair? Hey Zoom, check out my new hair!
Which hairstyles do you like?
Looking good, Zam! Look what I can do....
POP!
AFRO!! AFRO!! 8
Hmm...but hair is not just for looking good!
I’m glad I’ve got this woolly coat. It’s cold outside!
Animals use hair to keep themselves warm. Animal hair is called FUR.
The thick hair traps their body heat and protects them from the cold... Zoom the Alpaca!
...and we use their hair to keep us warm, too!
Cool! I think this might be a bit too big for me, Zim...
BRRR! 9
Our hair also protects us in lots of different ways...
Eye lashes stop dust, sweat and other small bits and bobs from entering the eyes. Humans don’t have hair on the palms of their hands or the soles of their feet...
True, but apart from that, humans are covered with tiny hairs from head to toe. Much less than animals, but still enough hair to help keep them warm.
Filter The hairs in your nose help to stop you breathing in dust, insects and germs. These particles are collected up into a substance better known as snot!
Goosebumps! Make the hairs stand up and trap air to help keep you warm.
Protect The hair on your head protects your skin from the sun and falling objects. It also keeps your head warm.
Hair Growth Hair grows about 15cm a year. Check how long 15cm is on the ruler.
20cm
15cm
Hair comes in different shapes and colours What shape is your hair? Is it straight, wavy or curly?
What colour is your hair? Is it fair, brown, red or black?
10cm
5cm
Touch Hair also aids your sense of touch, helping you to feel the ant walking on your arm as it brushes against the fine hairs. 0
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Find Foxy Illustration by Mathilde Nivet
Foxy is at a party with his hairy friends. Can you see him?
Can you see all these types of hair?
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Game Design & Illustration by Peter Slight
A game for 2-4 players You will need: A counter for each player & a die This messy eater has managed to get most of his lunch stuck in his bushy beard. Can you race from one end of it to the other whilst avoiding all the food obstacles? Take turns rolling the die - first to the finish wins.
GOOD LUCK!
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When you grow up, you get more hair – especially if you are a boy. One day, a boy could grow a moustache or a beard.
Growing up
ISES U G S I D Y IR A H our finger y n o e h c usta Draw a mo
ex on each ind e h c ta s u o lt tip. Draw a m ter-based fe a w a g in s u . finger to your face p u r e g n fi Hold each look? How do you
Make a moustache ca rd
Draw a face on a piece of card. Cut out a moustache from a furry piece of fabric and stick this on your card face to make a moustache character 18
Make a pape r beard
Trace a paper b eard from the m odel on p. 20. Ask a grown-up to hel p cut out the beard . Decorate it, punch a hole on each side of it, attach a string or an elastic band and wear it!
haracters c e in c ti s la P
garlic through a e in c ti s la P ir. Push some ands of ha tr s e k a m g styles crusher to hort or lon s e k a m n You ca face! and add a
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Let’s Okidoodle! Give this kid a HAIRSTYLE!
Hair moods! Draw the hairstyle you think best matches the facial expression on the heads below!
Illustration by Jack Taylor
Hair tangle These kids have got their hair in a mess. Help them find their hairbrushes and untangle their locks!
Match the faces! These guys have had a makeover - can you match the faces? You should find 6 pairs and one person left without a makeover!
Sweep the hair from the barber’s floor! There’s loads of hair on the barber’s floor! (Use a pencil to draw loads of hair on the floor) Then help the barber to sweep up the hair! (Use a rubber to rub out the doodled hair)
Find the fleas on Fluffy Colour in the fleas you find in this feline’s fur! Can you count them all? There are 32 of them!
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair! Help Rapunzel let down her hair...draw it falling all the way down to her prince.
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Grow your own cresshead You will need:
cup
buttons and googly eyes
1 Ask your mum for some old tights and cut off the foot part.
3 Pull out some of the tights to make a nose and tie with a rubber band.
scissors
watering can
tights
2 Put the tights in a cup and fold the edges over the top (see picture). Place the cress seeds in the bottom and fill to the top with soil. cress seeds
6
Water the cressheads every other day.
elastic band 5
4 Tie the tights at the top and turn it over so the cress seeds are at the top.
Stick on buttons and googly eyes to make a funny face. Watch your cresshead grow hair! 29
Jungle-girl Rap-unzel was as smart as she was strong, she had hair as black as midnight that was very VERY long… She didn’t need a prince and she didn’t want a tower, for her hair was like a lasso that was plaited-up with power! Jungle-girl Rap-unzel, with her drum’n’jungle band, was a rapid rapping legend and the fastest in the land! With her super-tastic tresses piled upon her clever head (held in place with an elastic) she was awesome, she was dread… But if ever there was trouble she would fix you with a stare, rapping, “Watch out cheeky monkey or I’ll catch you with my hair!”
30
The play Would you like to stage a play? The actors have different hairstyles and heads!
1
Cut out the characters’ heads along the dotted lines.
2
Choose heads for the characters’ bodies on the stage - you are ready to begin your play!
Hello, you have beautiful hair!
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Have a funny hairy dinner party You will need: a grown-up to help, pasta (fusilli or spaghetti), broccoli, 2 carrots cut into strips, 1 jar of sundried tomato sauce, a few olives and some eggs (enough for one per person) 1 Prepare some pasta
• Bring a pan of water to the boil. Add a pinch of salt • Cook the pasta as directed on the packet (8-12 mins) • Drain the pasta and mix in the sundried tomato sauce • Set aside to serve with the omelettes as soon as they are ready
2
Cook the vegetables • Bring a pan of water to the boil • Either steam or boil the broccoli • Cook the carrot strips • Slice some olives for eyes
3
Cook the mini omelettes • Using one egg per person at a time, beat the egg in a bowl • Heat some oil in a frying pan • When the oil is hot, add the beaten egg • Cook for 30 seconds each side and put on a plate
4 Give each person a cooked omelette, along with all the other ingredients
and everyone can make their own hairy heads!
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35
Wow! Surpreyes! I see a hairy sky today... 36
What about you? Draw what you see :)
Wow! I see some groovy grass
Wow! Surpreyes! I see hairy Harry the Rock and his friends
What about you? Draw what you see :)
Can you turn this clump of grass into a funny hairstyle? 37
38 Story & Illustration by Beth Morrison
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Trolls are hairy, happy, magic little folk. They hide their magic in their colourful bushy hair.
Story & Illustration by Rachel Ortas
How Pillus got his magic back!
One day, everyone was happy but Pillus…what had happened to him? He looked so gloomy… his hair looked so…colourless.
When night fell, even the moon noticed the little troll looking unhappy. ‘Why are you so sad?’ asked the moon.
‘Because someone has stolen all the magic from my hair!’ Pillus replied. ‘Well I know who stole it…’ answered the moon, ‘and I will help you get it back! Just follow my moonbeams and they will guide you’. 42
25cm
20cm
So Pillus followed the moonbeams. Deeper and deeper and deeper they led him, all the way to the centre of the earth!
Suddenly, he saw the enormous and scary Doubtoo Monster. 15cm
10cm
Pillus wanted to run away, but when he felt the moonbeams touching the tips of his hair, he found the courage to say: ‘Give me back my magic!’ All at once, his hair started to shimmer and the terrible monster began to shrink. Doubtoo got smaller and smaller until he became the size of a baby monster!
5cm
43
‘My hair is glowing again! I am so happy to have my magic back!’ cried Pillus.
So Pillus gave the tiny monster a big hug to comfort him. 44
And the monster wasn’t even scary any more - he was far too small and sad.
Do you know what? That was all Doubtoo needed to grow back, happy and confident. He was now a KIND monster.
Pillus was overjoyed to return home to his friends.
He told them all about his adventure...
So all the trolls decided to throw a big party to celebrate both the return of Pillus’s magic and Doubtoo’s new-found happiness! And everyone danced all night under the gentle gaze of the moon. 45
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Whose hair?
Charlie Vic Robin
Gene Jo Lou
Sam Alex Jessie
Questions to ask:
Is my hair curly? Is my hair short? Is my hair long? Is my hair straight?
Is my hair brown? Is my hair blonde? Is my hair black? Is my hair ginger?
Turn the magazine on its side and hold up the middle to make a screen. Each player chooses a character and writes down his or her name. Take it in turns to ask questions about their hair. Cover the characters whose hair it isn’t with a counter or button. The winner is the one who guesses their opponent’s character’s name first!
This issue of Okido is all about Hair. 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 #27 Hair This issue has been printed on FSC paper using biodegradable vegetable inks.
Stories
Activities
Games
Doodles
Recipe
& a poem
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