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Vol. 3 No. 5
May 2015
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KIDS ACTIVITIES 3++
FINGER PAINTING 5
KIDS ACTIVITIES 6++
GRID DRAWING 11
KIDS ACTIVITIES ALL AGES
LET’S PLAY TANGRAM 25
KIDS STORY 3++
MISS APPLEBEE TURNS GREEN 31
KIDS STORY 10++
PRISSY BORDERS AND SUCCULENT LEAVES 47
COLOUR IN SECTION 63
Anies Hannawati
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MOCCO WOLLERT ELIO BALDAN
Welcome to the May 2015 issue
of The Australia Times Kids
magazine.
In this issue, we have finger
painting, grid drawing and
tangram activities for children.
Besides this, we have two children
stories. The first one is another
Miss Applebee adventure written
by Mocco Wollert and the other
one is Prissy Borders and Succulent
Leaves story written by Elio Baldan
who is from Rowville Aspiring Writers
rowvillewriters.wordpress.com.
As always, we do hope that
you will enjoy this issue
of the magazine.
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Mitochondrial disease (mito) can
affect any organ in anyone of any age.
www.amdf.org.au
It is often terminal; there is no cure and
few effective treatments exist.
One Australian
child born each
week will develop
a severe or life-
threatening form
of mito.”
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Jack
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TANGRAM is an ancient Chinese puzzle consisting of
seven pieces that are ve triangles, one square and
one parallelogram. The basic rules of playing tangram
are the seven pieces of tangram must be used, they
must lay at and touch without overlapping.
An example of a tangram puzzle and its solution.
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Print the tangram pattern below on a thick paper, such as a
photo paper. Then cut it into 7 pieces.
The tangram pattern.
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The tangram challenges for this month.
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MISS APPLEBEE
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Illustrated by: Jean Reeve
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There was a cat Miss Applebee,
who one day said I’d like to ski.
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But GREY will not look good on snow,
if I were GREEN then I would glow.
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She rushed to eat green grass galore,
which only made her tummy sore.
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None of her friends John Fred Christine,
knew what would make a cat go green.
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Her cat friends on the garden wall,
said why don’t you just forget it all.
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She called again for she was keen,
can anyone make me look green.
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The pine tree said well I could try,
to green this cat as she walks by.
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It shook itself and one two three,
it swiftly greened Miss Applebee.
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It greened more cats they danced with joy,
each girl cat and each tom-cat boy.
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And as they skied they could be seen,
as furry spots of brilliant green.
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And everyone enjoyed the show,
of pine green cats upon the snow.
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Rosetta had always been fascinated by
plants. Not scraggly trees, not spiny fronds or
Mediterranean prickly succulents, she was
constantly in search of the exotic type, which
by the colour alone would send a message of
happiness and hope.
Rosetta was not the run of the mill teenager,
for amongst her other interests, she was
always on the lookout for unusual objects
which could raise interest when she was
together with her friends. Then they could
laugh when the item had an inkling of
suggesting silliness. Like making a mobile out
of wishbones. Or like building a sandcastle
at the water's edge and even going as far as
having an alarm clock without hands.
On this particular day, Rosetta had made her
mind up on creating a new trick, something to
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do with flora in which she would try to melt
fantasy and reality into one. The sketch she
had prepared was impressive: the colours as
vibrant as a spring rainbow and surrounded
by the invisible smell one experiences when
inside a chocolate factory.
“Going out, mum! I won't be long.” Then she
rushed out to the footpath on her way to the
flower shop, her purse safely in her pocket,
the dollars in it jingling as she walked.
It was a sunny day. The blue of the sky was
the same as when she coloured her drawings-
the ones in which daisies where being eaten
by gentle lambs.
She stood by the shop window, her eyes
scanning each bunch as if trying to match the
hues of a hundred dollar note, leaving the
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reds out of it and only considering the deep
mauve of the iris and the blinding yellows of
the sunflowers.
Then she went in! Asked for a stem of this, a
frond and a branch of that, together with the
sachet especially prepared to make life last
longer.
When she left, the nice lady at the counter
offered a smile, gave her three coins in change
and a free sample. “This is better! It can make
flowers bloom and turn leaves more crisp to
the touch.”
“Where have you been?” asked Mum, seeing
her return, her trust in Rosetta the same as
expecting the clothes on the line to dry.
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“Oh, just to the shop, to get some flowers and
the special powder to keep them young!”
She then laughed, her teeth on the verge of
sending the same sparkle one sees when the
film is about a Prince riding a white horse.
Her room was tidy, apart from the books on
her bed, the socks half-showing from under
it and the pyjamas resting across the chair
since she had got up this morning.
Rosetta opened the drawer, one of many in
her dressing table, and from it, she retrieved
a box. Not so big as to be clumsy and not too
small to be useful. It was just after midday, the
clock without hands was ringing the half hour,
each ring of which Rosetta interpreted as a
milepost, for it was her business to go from
here to there and have the next ring marching
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in time with the end of the chore. Strange
as it seemed, this was the manner in which
Rosetta scanned her day, in a progression of
minutes by which she could test her brain.
She began to assemble, prune and combine;
the little fountain outside her window
splashing water in happy circles. This was
going to be a simple makeover, based mainly
on hope and not science, since science tells us
that for anything to be accepted as credible
must be replicated a second time. Flukes don't
count!
And so it was that on this wonderful day,
Rosetta was about to modify what Mother
Nature kept on doing since the beginning of
time. The powder was ready, the prissy iris of
the right colour to make it stick, and the other
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herbs and grains in need of crushing to extract
the juice. Then it would be up to the concoction
in extracting the result she was after. The
blender churned, the powder infused the
magic and then, as if printing money, the first
sample appeared. Not quite ready yet, for it
had to be baked, but the contour and colour
enough to ooze success!
Rosetta had just achieved the impossible;
the potion resulting in a magnificent payoff,
even the feel to the touch was of the right
consistency only that for its fragility that could
promote evaporation in the same instant one
breathes in and out. This, Rosetta thought,
can only be fixed with the addition of more
powder! And so she went, leaving home to
go back in the shop where flowers had the
radiance of angels and the fresh charm of a
galloping Prince.
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Closed! The shop had closed leaving Rosetta
incredibly sad. The recipe no longer in her
thoughts, gone with the same sense of loss
we all experience when at the seashore and
the tide is out.
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Shout.
JUST DO-NATE.
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