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An easy peasy snake
Cut thick strips of coloured paper and link
Arrow words
Follow the arrows and write the answers in the grid below. We have added
a handful of anagrams to really get you thinking!
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1 Thin material we write on (5)
4 The religion that Muslims
follow (5)
10 Green stuff in a salad,
­usually with big leaves (7)
11 The ----- Empire, ruled
by the Caesars and others (5)
12 Pleasure boat with sails (5)
13 Liked by many people (7)
14 Another name for a
barber (11)
19 Come up with something
you think is a good idea (7)
21 Behind or later (5)
23 Not dead! (5)
24 Cold-blooded creature, such
as a snake (7)
25 What really happened, or the
facts of something (5)
26 Substance made by bees (5)
them together like a paper chain.
Add eyes and a long tongue and
you’ve got yourself a snazzy snake!
Crazy maze
Can you help Bergman and McBoo through
the maze to find Anton LeBoof, the
­kidnapped chef being held by Pug Ugly?
Down
2 Room in the roof space at the
top of a house (5)
3 Imaginary line that goes
Kitchen
madness!
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• Biscuit cutt
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• 140g caster
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• One egg yo
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• Vanilla extr
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• 300g plain
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• Wooden ic
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• Baking tray
lined with
grease-proof
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• 200g icing
sugar
A riddle …
Q: I know a
word of letters
three. Add two
and fewer there
will be. What is
the word?
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Can you work out which
shape is the odd one out?
A: Few
Spot the difference
There are nine differences between the two pictures — see if you can find them all
step TWO
Use the rolling pin to roll out
the dough on a flat ­surface.
Make it at least 1cm thick
(­remember, the lolly sticks
need to be put into the side).
Use a biscuit cutter to cut out
shapes — make sure you use
every last bit of the dough!
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1. Look out of a window: write a few
notes about what you see 2. Count how
many teeth you have 3. Draw a picture
of the next person that you see 4. Turn
to page 43 of a dictionary: use a word
from that page in a conversation today
5. Drink a glass of water backwards.
Word
ladder
HINT: One of the ­missing
words means “to shine
brightly”, the other means “to
increase in size”
Can you find the 20 different American states in the grid below? The
words could be running forwards, backwards or diagonally
ALABAMA
ALASKA
ARIZONA
FLORIDA
GEORGIA
HAWAII
IDAHO
IOWA
KANSAS
MAINE
MICHIGAN
MONTANA
NEVADA
NEW YORK
OHIO
OKLAHOMA
OREGON
TEXAS
UTAH
VERMONT
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When you can manage seven pebbles,
try 11!
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2 More than is needed (5)
3 Engage in a contest (7)
5 Revolution in transport? (5)
6 What teachers do (7)
7 Jig (5)
8 Having the least deviations
or the fewest kinks (11)
9 One of three (so far)
­animated films about a fairy
tale ogre (5)
15 Set free (7)
16 Pay close attention to (7)
17 Blow with the fist (5)
18 Wigwam (5)
20 Bird of prey whose nest is
called an eyrie (5)
22 To set out of the way (5)
Last October, the Guardian launched a three-year project to
support the people of Katine, an area in east Uganda, Africa.
To celebrate the project’s one-year ­anniversary, the Guardian
launches a journalism ­competition for young writers, and
the Comic shows you how to play games and make stuff the
Katine way!
Make wire toys
In Uganda, children often make toys by recycling odds and ends. Wire and bottle
tops are turned into everything, such as stick men, cars, birds and helicopters
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• To make wheels or eyes, use a bottle top
with a hole punched in the middle
• To attach thick pieces of wire together,
use soft fuse wire or sticking tape
• If you can’t think of anything to make,
work from a model, such as a picture or a toy
On the following goes, you must pick
up two ­pebbles from the floor, and
then three pebbles. The ­“captured”
pebbles can be put in a pile next to the
player, or to make the game harder,
they can be kept in the catching hand.
GROSS
Down
CREDITS: EASY PEASY SNAKE BY PERRI LEWIS; KITCHEN MADNESS BY EMMA SIMPSON; SPOT
THE DIFFERENCE BY WARWICK CADWELL JOHNSON; WORD LADDER BY TERRY STICKELS; THE
KATINE QUIZ, KATINE GAMES, MAKE WIRE TOYS AND MAKE A FOOTBALL BY DAVID ROBINSON
Start with seven ­pebbles. Pick up
one pebble and throw it into the air.
While it is in the air, pick up one of
the remaining pebbles AND catch
the thrown pebble before it hits the
ground. If the ­pebble thrown into the
air is dropped, the game is over.
BLOWS
step FIVE
have cooled,
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1 Kind of seat with room for
several people (5)
4 Group of eight musicians or a
piece of music written for it (5)
10 Make an effort (7)
11 Pound or squeeze into small
pieces (5)
12 Another word for “stop” or
“to end” (5)
13 Gave ear? (anagram) (7)
14 Retailer of fruit and
­vegetables (11)
19 Most displeasing to the
eye (7)
21 Georgia, Michigan and New
York are all these (5)
23 Crash; a loud noise (5)
24 Continue to live (7)
25 Put (someone) off (5)
26 Someone who breaks the
rules (5)
Pombo is similar to the game we
know as Jacks, although ­Ugandans
­sometimes play it with sheep
­knuckles instead of pebbles.
Change one letter in the top
word (blows) to make a new
word, and so on, until you
reach the final word (gross)
step FOUR
Ask an adult
to put the
biscuits in
the oven at
200°C for
­between eight
to 12 minutes,
­depending
on their size.
When they are
done, ask an
adult to take
them out of
the oven.
Across
around the middle of the
Earth (7)
5 Thick, sweet, sticky liquid
­often made from sugar (5)
6 Creator of Tigger, Eeyore and
Kanga (1,1,5)
7 What you go to the theatre to
see (plural) (5)
8 What we can tell by reading a
thermometer (11)
9 Breathe noisily in your
sleep (5)
15 More irritated and cross (7)
16 Liquid product that
is used by the answer to clue
14 (7)
17 Normal or something that
happens quite often (5)
18 Very short in time or a kind
of case to carry papers in (5)
20 Vote someone into a
­position, such as a member of
parliament (5)
22 Once, -----, three times:
what’s missing? (5)
Five tiny
things to
do today
step THREE
Wet your lolly sticks (so they don’t burn in
the oven) and carefully poke them into the
side of the biscuit. Place them on the ­baking
tray, leaving a 2cm gap between each one.
BERGMAN AND MCBOO ARE FROM GOOD DOG, BAD DOG, CREATED BY DAVE
SHELTON AND PUBLISHED IN THE DFC EVERY FRIDAY: THEDFC.CO.UK
Two sets of clues — and two sets of answers — for one grid
You can use any type of wire, such
as metal coat hangers, fuse wire, old
­electrical wire, garden wire or special
modelling wire from craft shops.
Electrical wire can add colour if you
keep the plastic coating on it, but you
need to use the stiff kind because it has
to stay bent into shape.
thecompetition
Before you start, play around and make
some shapes or stick men. Then, when
you have found out how strong your
wire is and how easily it bends, have a
go at something bigger. Why not make
something easy, like a bird, at first?
Then, when you have got the hang of
bending the wire, why not try a car?
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Learn more about Katine and turn your hand to journalism!
Enter the Guardian’s latest competition for budding writers
The task
If you are in years five and six, write an article in no
more than 250 words about life in Katine. If you are in
years seven, eight, nine or 10, write an article in no more
than 450 words about a development in Katine since the
project started.Steve Brace from the Royal Geographical ­Society and Moira Jenkins from the Development
­Education ­Association will pick a winner from the years
five and six group and a ­winner from years seven, eight,
nine and 10 group, from a shortlist of 20 chosen by:
­Margaret ­Holborn, Head of Education, Guardian Education Centre; Liz Ford, Katine website editor; Emily
Drabble, Newsdesk editor and Hannah Judge-Brown,
GNM sustainable development coordinator. They will
be ­looking for the entries that demonstrate critical and
­creative ­thinking and an understanding of global issues.
The prize
If your school wants to come to
the Guardian for the day, then
this is the competition for you!
One winner from the primary
school category and one ­winner
from the secondary school
­category will each win a day at
the Guardian Education Centre
in London for their class where
they will learn how to make a
­newspaper front page. Each of
the winner’s schools will also
­receive a year’s ­subscription
to ­Learnnewsdesk.co.uk, the
Guardian’s schools news site.
How to enter
This competition is open to children
who live in the UK, in years five to 10.
To enter, send your article by email
to; [email protected]
with “Katine Competition for school
students” in the title line. Please don’t
send your story as an a ­attachment —
we want it in the main body of your
email. Tell us your name, age, address, school and phone number. The
closing date is 11.59pm on November
28 2008. Make sure a parent or guardian knows you are entering, and that
your school are happy for you to accept the prize — we need their permission for you to accept this prize and to
publish your work and details. Before
entering, you or your parent/guardian
MUST read the full terms and conditions on our website: guardian.co.uk/
Katine/schools. If you don’t have
internet access, call ­020-7131 7412 and
we will send the terms and conditions
to you. One winner will be chosen
from the ­primary age group and one
winner from the secondary age group
on or before December 12 2008, and
if you’ve won we’ll contact you by
telephone on or before December 12
2008. You may only enter this competition once and we are sorry but
we cannot give you cash instead of
prizes, or return your entry to you. We
will only use the details you provide
to us in relation to this competition
and not for any other purpose.
Finished
reading
the
Comic?
Recycle it!
Make a
football
the
Ugandan
way
Katine kids can’t afford to buy
new footballs so they make
their own. Now you can too!
YOU WILL NEED
• Two sheets of newspaper
• 10 to 20 plastic bags
• String
1
Scrunch up the sheets of
newspaper into a tight ball.
Place it in the bottom of a
bag.
3
Fit the bag tightly round the
paper ball by gathering in
the top of the bag and giving
it a single twist.
4
Turn the bag upside down,
and inside out, so the ball
is in the middle, then wrap
it again in the remainder
of the plastic. Repeat until
the entire bag has been
wrapped around the ball.
6
Wrap a new bag around
in the same way. Use the
smaller bags first, then
the larger ones. Keep one
strong bag until last.
7
Repeat until you run out of
bags, or your ball is large
enough.
8
Wrap the last bag around
the ball, and take care to
tuck in any loose edges so
you have a smooth finish.
9
Loop the string around the
ball, from the bottom to the
top, pull it tight and tie it in
a knot. Wrap a second piece
of string around the middle
of the ball.
FACT!
IT’S A hildren
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Learn more about Ugandan by
having a go at our quiz! Guess the
answers or search for them at the
Katine website: tinyurl.com/3ucbcy
The
Katine
quiz
Learn more about Uganda
by having a go at our quiz!
Guess the answers or find
them on the Katine website:
tinyurl.com/4uha3l
Most people in Uganda have a daily
income of …
a. 50p b. £5 c. £25 d. £50
How many pupils are there in an
­average Ugandan school class?
a. 10 b. 29 c. 47 d. 91
In Katine, most people get their water
from …
a. The well in the middle of the village
b. A water tanker that comes twice a
week
c. A well or borehole over a mile away
d. The village tap
Water is carried home over long
­distances by girls and women. A full
water container weighs the same as …
a. Three bags of sugar
b. Seven bags of sugar
c. 20 bags of sugar
d. 50 bags of sugar
An Okembo is a …
a. musical instrument
b. wild cow
c. root vegetable
d. traditional building
In Uganda the average life expectancy
(how long you live) in years is about …
a. 86 b. 45 c. 66 d. 38
How long would an average Ugandan
have to work if he or she wanted to
buy a new leather football?
a. one day b. one week,
c. one month d. one year
Add more string loops and
10 every time you cross over
an ­existing string, tie a knot.
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