Colouring Corner 12–13 KA! World 14–15 Your Space

Football colouring

Are you ready for the Women’s Euro 2022? Here’s a fab drawing of a football player for you to colour to get you in the football mood! Email your colourings to: kidsalive@salvationarmy.org.uk – make sure you write ‘Football Colouring’ in the subject box and give us your full name, age and address. Alternatively you can post your colourings to: Your Space, Kids Alive! 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN. One last reminder, if you’re sending by post remember to fill in your details below so we know who you are. We send a gift to everyone whose colouring we publish, so don’t miss out!

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Living a healthy and an active lifestyle and caring for your physical, mental and spiritual well-being. Get Into Music

Next week Birmingham will be alive with the sound of music. This is because on 8 and 9 July, Music for Youth will be holding their National Festival 2022. Three venues across Birmingham will host thousands of musicians who will take part in two days of musical performances. There will also be engaging workshops and unique opportunities to meet and speak to music industry representatives.

Young people from across the UK have been invited to perform in lots of different genres of music. Jazz, brass, classical, folk, choral, pop, rock and more will all be represented. Even better, the festivities are free to attend and watch. You can find out more at mfy.org.uk/get-involved/national-festival-2022.

Making Music Matters

Music is incredible for many different reasons. The list of life skills that improve with learning a musical instrument could fill this whole page. Using instruments or singing can develop fine and large motor skills and build brain and body co-ordination. On top of that, skills such as expression, listening, patience, focus, teamwork, breath control, confidence and resilience can all develop and improve when someone learns to play. These skills can be used in other subjects at school, when children grow up and get a job or when socialising with friends and family.

Because I’m Happy

But it’s not just physical skills that benefit from music. Lots of studies have suggested that singing can lower stress and make us feel happier. This is because it increases chemicals in our bodies, such as oxytocin, dopamine and endorphins. These chemicals each do different things to our bodies that help us feel good.

But more than anything else, music is fun! So if you don’t already play a musical instrument, why not give it a go?

If you’ve never sung in a choir or learnt to play an instrument, you might not know where to start. So here are some top tips.

Do you attend a church? Music is often a big part of church services. Whether it’s an organ, band, choir or piano, there’s probably music that you can explore. If your church doesn’t already have a kids choir or band, perhaps you can talk to the children’s leaders about starting something.

School

Many schools have choirs, orchestras or other music groups you can get involved with. Talk to your teachers and see if there’s one you can join. Some schools also have individual music lessons available to students, so you can ask your parent or carer to see whether there’s something you can try.

Church

Live Shops

If there’s a music shop near you, go in with your parent or carer and have a look at the instruments. The people at the shop might also know some teachers in your area too.

Home

A great way to enjoy music is to go along to hear people play live. This could be at children’s concerts, bandstands in the park, churches or other music events. It’s also good research if you want to decide what musical instrument to learn in the future. Making music doesn’t have to involve expensive instruments or lessons. If you look around your house there will be things you can use to make music. For example, a bottle filled with different levels of water makes different sounds when you blow over the top of it. Or a wooden spoon on a saucepan can become a great practice drum as you learn about rhythms.

Online

If you’re interested in hearing what different instruments sound like, you can also check out ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’ by Benjamin Britten on YouTube.

Cool Colourings

We’ve loved seeing all the beautiful Red Riding Hood colourings our readers have sent. This one is from Amber, age 8. We love the colourful rainbow and it’s even more impressive because she coloured this in with two fractured fingers on her right hand!

Ella-Louise, age 7, has chosen a brilliant blue sky for the background of her colouring, which we think looks great alongside the red hearts.

Brooke (left), age 10, sent in this super effort with really neat colouring between the lines. Great work! Brooke’s sister, Freya (right), age 7, also sent her wonderful Red Riding Hood colouring. It looks like you both had great fun colouring your creations.

Beautiful Here’s a photo of Harry, age 6, and his brother Thomas, age 11. They got in touch to show us the brilliant biscuits they made using the recipe Biscuits in our 28 May issue. Harry said they were so easy to make and he was really excited to make them because he loves dogs – they’re his favourite animals. He also said that he wants to make them again because they were so yummy. Great work, boys! We only wish we could have tasted them ourselves, because they look scrumptious.

Get In Touch!

The Kids Alive! team loves to hear from its readers. And guess what – other readers love reading your news! So why not get in touch? You can email or post your own colourings, drawings and letters. Or you could ask your Sunday school, church or corps leaders to email us or write to us with any news about the fun stuff you’ve been doing at your church or corps. Email: kidsalive@salvationarmy.org.uk Post: Kids Alive! 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN

Maddison

Age? 9. Favourite colour? Purple. Favourite food? Fish and chips. Favourite sport? Football. Favourite bit of Kids Alive!? Reader profiles. Favourite Bible story and why? David and Goliath, because it teaches you how to be brave and courageous. Favourite TV programme?

The Thundermans on Netflix.

What do you want to be when you’re older? Teacher or childminder.

Pets? I have a rabbit called Toffee, six fish and a water snail.

Hobbies? Playing football, dancing,

Brownies, building Lego and spending time in the countryside.

Tell us a joke. What do you call a sad strawberry? A blueberry!

What special skill or talent do you have? I’m good at baking and make an amazing Yorkshire parkin.

Tell us something interesting about yourself. I collect Ty Beanie Boos –

I have more than 100 of them!

Is there anything else you would like to tell us? I have a six-year-old brother called Oscar and support

Leicester City.