How
to Be a
In the book Word Wizard, when Anna scrambles the letters of a word to
make a new word, she is making an
ANAGRAM
A word or phrase formed by reordering
the letters of another word or phrase.
 A
set of moveable letters makes anagrams fun to try. You may already have
alphabet blocks or magnetic letters. Try these ideas, too:
 Cut
large letters from magazines, newspapers, and mail advertisements. Glue
them to squares of cardboard or heavy paper. Or, cut letters from cereal
boxes or other cartons.
 Look
for alphabet pasta at your health food store. Then you can eat your
words!
Be
Creative
You can make letters from all kinds of things.
 
 
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How
to Make Kiri’s Origami Butterfly
1
Fold a paper square in half,
corner to corner. |
2
Fold it in half again.
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3 Unfold the paper.
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4 Fold in all corners to meet
in the center.
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5 Unfold the paper again. |
6 Fold the sides to meet
in the center. |
7 Fold the top and bottom
to meet in the center.
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8 Now it should look like this. |
9 Carefully pull out the inside corners. This is tricky! |
10 Press flat. Then fold up the top corners on the crease lines. |
11 It should look like this now.
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12 Turn it over, and fold down
the top part. |
13 Now fold the whole triangle
in half. |
14 Open by making a small diagonal fold. Repeat on the other side.
This makes the butterfly’s body. |
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15 With patience and practice,
you can make a butterfly!
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How
to Make Leaf Prints
The illustrations
for Turtle Splash! are collages made from a variety of materials I cut
and glued onto bristol board. There are also leaf prints in the pictures.
Here’s a way for you to make them:
1 First, get your supplies ready. You will need:
• Tempera or poster paint
• a medium-size brush
• water in a jar or can
• several sheets of paper
• an old saucer or plastic
lid is good for mixing paint
2 Ask an adult to help you find leaves from common
plants that are safe to pick. Look for sturdy green leaves and gently
pick one or two leaves from several different plants.
3 Take a leaf and feel it. On one side you will feel
the veins of the leaf. Brush this side with some paint. Be sure to cover
the entire side.
4 Now carefully put the leaf, paint side down, on a
sheet of paper and cover it with another sheet. Press down and rub the
leaf area.
5 Gently lift the top sheet and the leaf. You will
see a beautiful print!
You might have to experiment a while until you learn how thick or thin
the paint should be and how to rub the paper without moving the leaf.
6 Try different colors! Try overlapping the prints!
Have FUN!
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How
to Make Turtle Puppets! download sheet
You will need:
• 1 1/2 paper plates for each puppet, Sturdy "deep dish" type if possible.
• 1 full sheet of construction paper for each puppet
• white glue
• glue sticks or tape
• scissors
• a full stapler
• lots of scraps of paper! (Great use for a scrap box!)
1 Children can trace around a paper plate, onto a sheet of construction paper, and then cut out the circle.
2 Usind scrap, children can cut out head, legs, and tail. These can be free-form! If they get frustrated, they can start with a rectabgle for each piece. They can attach body parts to circle with glue stick or tape.
3 Spread white glue around inside lip of paper plate. Glue onto turtle body with "attached" parts to inside (see diagram). Press carefully.
4 Staple half plate to underside to form pocket for hand. Children will probably need assistance for this part. Six staples should do it.
5 Children can decorate turtle "shell" with scraps of paper. (Those waiting for help with stapling can still begin this part). Top of shell can also be aplace to glue stories or folded accordion books.
  
  
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Turtle Splash! Hand Movements
download sheet
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