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PLAY AND LEARN + HIDDEN PICTURES PUZZLE TOWN
Dear Readers
Highlights High Five
The Art Around Us Volume 14 Number 4 Issue No. 160
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2020!
April
Reading Activities
4 Verse Rainy Days 30 Move It! Splishy-Splashy Drops
5 The Adventures of Spot 32 Recipe Sprinkled Breadsticks
Splinter Discovers Hail
34 Craft Veggie Garden
6 Tex and Indi New Things in Spring
12 Nonfiction Eggs
Join the fun!
14 Graphic Story Officer Dog HighlightsForChildren
HighlightsForChildren
20 Fiction The First Spring Picnic
Highlights
26 English and Spanish
Lola Chick: Making New Friends
Puzzles
10 My First Hidden Pictures Time for a Trim
16 Poem Puzzle Picture Perfect
18 That’s Silly! All Aboard the Train
24 Look and Look Again Little Egg Surprises!
36 Back Cover How many wheels do you see?
Verse
Rainy
Rainy
Days
Days
By Barbara L. Scanlan
I have fun on rainy days.
The sidewalk’s wet. The sky is gray.
I wear my raincoat, boots, and hat.
I jump in puddles.
SPLISH! SPLASH! SPLAT!
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The Adventures of Spot
SPLINTER DISCOVERS HAIL
Episode #160
By Marileta Robinson Art by Ron Zalme
Splinter takes a walk. Tap! Tap! Tap! Something is falling!
Is it rain? Is it snow? No—it’s little balls of ice!
Splinter brings one inside. Where did it go?
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Tex and Indi
New Things
By Lissa Rovetch Art by Amy Wummer
Tex, Indi, and their family were visiting Aunt Jen and her farm.
“Welcome back,” said Aunt Jen. “You’re just in time to see the
wildflowers wake up!”
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in Spring
“Flowers don’t really sleep,” said Indi. “Do they?”
“Not like we do,” said Aunt Jen. “But sometimes they rest
underground through the cold winter months. When spring
comes, their roots grow down to drink rainwater, their stems
reach up to feel sunshine, and then they bloom!”
“They’re so pretty!” said Tex.
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“These aren’t our only springtime surprises,” said
Aunt Jen. “Just wait till you see our new little Rosebud!”
The family walked past the vegetable garden, and the
chickens, and the big yellow tractor.
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“Here she is,” Aunt Jen smiled. “Our new little Rosebud!”
“You tricked us!” giggled Indi. “We thought you were
showing us a flower, not a baby lamb.”
“She was born yesterday,” said Aunt Jen.
“Awww,” said Tex. “I wish we could take her home.”
“Rosebud needs to stay here,” said Aunt Jen. “But you
can visit her again when you come blackberry picking
this summer.”
“And apple picking in the fall!” said the twins together.
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My First
Time for a Trim
Art by Amy Wilcox
Bread Crayon Spool of Thread Apple Flower
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Find the objects hidden in the picture!
Can you find
this ball on
the back
Funnel Slice of Snail Ball cover?
Watermelon
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Nonfiction
Eggs
By Heidi Bee Roemer Art by Melanie Mikecz
Ostriches lay large eggs on the ground.
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Hummingbirds lay small eggs in a tree.
Butterflies lay teensy eggs on a leaf.
Eggs come in all sizes, you see!
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Graphic Story
OFFICER DOG
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By Mr. E Art by Paula J. Becker
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Poem Puzzle
Picture
Perfect
By Rikki B. Romerez Art by Eric Barclay
Miss Julia Willow
sits on a pillow
in the museum’s art chamber.
It’s hard to hold still,
but Julia will
because Leo is trying to paint her.
Look for squares and
rectangles in the picture.
What else do you see?
What do you
like to paint?
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That’s Silly! Art by Katie McDee
All Aboard
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Explore a train at HighlightsKids.com/train
the Train What silly things
do you see?
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Fiction
The
First
Spring
Picnic
By Marilyn Kratz Art by Mary Sullivan
“What a beautiful sunny day,” Ginger
Paws said, poking his nose outside.
“The grass is green, and the apple
tree is covered with pink buds. It’s the
perfect day for a picnic.”
He hurried inside to pack a picnic
basket and invite his friends over.
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“Surprise!” Ginger
Paws shouted when
his friends arrived.
“We’re going to have a
spring picnic.”
“I’ll carry the picnic
basket,” Davy Gravy
said.
“I’ll carry the
blanket,” Misty said.
Ginger Paws opened the
door. “Oh, no!” he moaned. “We
can’t have the picnic today.”
“Why not?” Itty-Bitty Kitty
asked.
“Winter came back,” Ginger
Paws said. “The apple tree is
covered with snow.”
“That’s not snow,” Misty
said. “The buds on the tree
opened into white blossoms.”
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“Silly me!” Ginger Paws laughed. “Let’s have our first
spring picnic under the snow-white apple tree.”
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Look and Look Again Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.
Little Egg
How are these pictures the same?
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Surprises!
How are they different?
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English and Spanish
Making
New
Friends
By Ana Galán ⋆ Art by Francesca Assirelli ⋆ Spanish pronunciation by Linda Elman, Ph.D.
Lola Chick was building a sandcastle at the
playground when she noticed someone standing at
the edge of the sand area.
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Lola Chick smiled. “Hola. Me llamo Lola Chick,” she said.
“My name is Rocky,” he said.
“¿Quieres jugar?” asked Lola Chick.
“Yes, I’d like to play,” said Rocky. The two new friends
started building together.
Hola.Me llamo Lola Chick. ¿Quieres jugar?
OH-lah meh YAH-moh LOH-lah chick key-YEH-rehss whoo-GAHR
Hi. My name is Lola Chick. Do you want to play?
A little later, Lola Chick noticed someone else
near the sand area. She looked as if she wanted
to play too. Lola and Rocky went over.
“Hola. Me llamo Lola Chick,” said Lola Chick.
“My name is Rocky,” said Rocky.
Hola.Me llamo Lola Chick.
OH-lah meh YAH-moh LOH-lah chick
Hi. My name is Lola Chick.
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“¿Cómo te llamas?” Lola Chick asked her new friend.
“My name is Daisy,” she said.
“¿Quieres jugar?” asked Lola Chick.
“Yes!” said Daisy. And the three friends built together
all afternoon.
¿Cómo te llamas? ¿Quieres jugar?
KOH-moh teh YAH-mahss key-YEH-rehss whoo-GAHR
What’s your name? Do you want to play?
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Move It! By Connie Bergstein Dow Art by Liz M. Williams Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.
Splishy-
Splashy
Splishy-splashy drops, they land with great big plops.
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To the tune of
“Hickory, Dickory,
”
Drops
How
do you
splish
and
plash?
The raindrops twirl.
The raindrops swirl. Then suddenly they stop!
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Sprinkled
Recipe By Pat Tanumihardja Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.
You Need
1 can refrigerated
pizza dough
1 egg
1 tablespoon water
Paper towel
Sprinkles
Wash your hands!
1 Unroll. 2 Cut. 3 Dab.
Adult: Preheat the oven Cut the dough into Whisk egg with water.
to 425ºF. thin strips. Place the Dip the paper towel
Unroll the dough. strips onto greased into the mixture and
baking sheet. dab onto dough.
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Breadsticks
4 Decorate.
Decorate your dough! What colors will
Adult: Bake for 9–10 minutes until you use?
golden brown and shiny.
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Craft By Lisa Glover Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.
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g
Ve g e r e
Veggie Garden
d
Ga
n
You Need
Scissors
Brown felt
Craft foam
Glue
Paper cups
Rubber band
1
Before you begin: Cut. 2 Glue.
Adult: Cut a 5-inch
square out of felt.
Cut out a veggie Glue the leaf to the
Cut a “+” shape in
the center. and a leaf from vegetable.
craft foam.
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Veggie Time!
Put your veggie in
the cup. Pull it out to
watch it “grow”!
What’s
in your
garden?
3 Cut. 4 Secure. 5
Place.
Cut down the side Put the felt over the top Place the cup inside
of a cup. Cut off of the cup and secure another cup.
the bottom. with a rubber band.
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Thanks for reading!
How many wheels do you see?
Your High Five!
Connor, age 2,
Oregon (craft from
December 2019)
Will and Troy,
age 4, Kentucky
(craft from
October 2019)
Kai, age 5,
California
(recipe from
November 2019)
Milena, age 4, Montana
(craft from September 2019)
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