Indholdsfortegnelse for April 2024 i Ladybug Stories, Poems, and Songs Magazine for Young Kids and Children

What You’ll Need: small paper platesmall juice glasspencilwashable yellow paintpaintbrushscissorsorange construction paperrulergluegoogly eyes or crayonscraft feathers (optional)tape What to Do: 1. With a grownup, turn the paper plate over. Place the juice glass on the spot where you will make one of the duckling’s eyes. Trace the bottom of the glass. Repeat for the other eye. 2. Paint the back of the plate yellow, avoiding the circles. Let paint dry. 3. Cut off the bottom of the plate, cutting in a straight line below the white circles. 4. To make a hatband, use a ruler to trace two lines across the longer side of the construction paper. Cut out two strips. Glue the end of a strip to the bottom of the hat’s unpainted side. Repeat on the other side,…

One spring morning, Sly the weasel popped out of bed ready for mischief. “After all,” he said, “mischief is what weasels do best.” Before he could pull any tricks, however, he needed breakfast. Oatmeal? No. Pancakes? No. Broccoli? No and no and no. What his tummy rumbled for was an omelet, and he knew just where to find the eggs. Sly slipped away to a nearby pond. Hiding behind hills, wading in reeds, at last he spied an unattended nest with three duck eggs tucked inside. Yum! Here was his best chance for morning mischief. He reached out a paw and nabbed one egg, then started to slip away, but . . . “A two-egg omelet would be even better,” he decided, grabbing a second egg. Again he started to…

What You’ll Need: scissors glue stick pencil What to Do: Soil 1. With a grownup, cut out the garden soil. Gently fold in half on the dotted yellow line. Now carefully cut along each of the solid white wavy lines. Unfold. 2. Cut out the base. 3. Apply lines of glue to the dark brown ends of the soil. Add a spot of glue to each of the green dots. 4. Glue both ends of the soil sheet to the base along the light brown lines. (You should see an arch—don’t press the middle down yet!) 5. Time to prepare the soil! Starting at the top, push down on the green leaf on the first strip. By doing this, you glue the green spot on the other side of the…