FEBRUARY
Now little February comes,
The shortest month of all,
With thoughts of Lincoln
and Washington,
And valentines for all.Riddle:
What comes in the sky on a springtime day, when the rain and the sun together play?Tongue Twister:
1. Tricky crickets.
2. Four flat fat flounders.FACT:
Your heart is a strong muscle about the size of your fist. In less than one minute, It pumps and pushes blood through tubes inside your body that go to every part of your body and back again. The blood delivers food and oxygen which you need to live. It takes away things you do not need. It always beats.METAMORPHOSES.
Change one given word to another given word by altering one letter at a time, each alteration making a new word, the number of letters being always the same, and the letters always in the same order. Example: Change lamp to fire in 4 moves. LAMP: LAME, FAME, FARE, FIRE. Now you do some: 1.MORE to LESS in 4 moves. 2.HEAT to COLD in 4 moves. 3.WARM to COLD in 5 moves.Continue below.
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MATCH GAME - INVENTIONS. Match the invention with the inventor.
1. The Balloon. |
A. Bartolomeo. B. Orville and Wilbur Wright. C. Galileo Galilei. D. The Montgolfier Brothers. E. Louis Daguerre. F. Thomas A. Edison. G. Benjamin Franklin. H. Michael Faraday. |
SUGAR-SNOW TREAT.You will need fresh snow. Heat 100% pure maple syrup to 250-252 degrees F. Without stirring, immediately pour the hot syrup into a bowl of clean snow. What happens? It will form a glassy sheet of candy similar to taffy.
SNOW FRUIT SLUSH.
Pour fruit juice over a glass of fresh snow.
FACT. While every snowflake has 6 sides or points, no two are exactly the same.
SNOW ICE CREAM. Mix fresh-fallen snow with sugar or honey. 1 cup of snow to 1 teaspoon of sweetener.
ANSWERS. FEBRUARY MAGAZINE.
METAMORPHOSES: 1.MORE: LORE, LOSE, LOSS, LESS. 2.HEAT:HEAD, HELD, HOLD, COLD. 3.WARM: HARM, HARD, CARD, CORD, COLD.
MATCH GAME - INVENTIONS. 1D; 2F; 3H; 4G; 5A; 6C; 7B; 8E.
RIDDLES: A rainbow.