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What is your family like? Do you have many family members, or is your family small? This issue is all about families. Not every family has a mom and a dad. Some families have grandparents who live with them. No matter where you live, or how many people are in them, families are important. What makes any family special is that they all love, trust, care, and look out for each other. Families include members that don’t live with them. Maybe you have a brother or sister away at college. Your grandparents may be far away. Where do your cousins live? We usually think of people related to us as family members. But you may have a good friend who seems as close as a brother or sister. Write and tell us about your family. What do you like to do together? Maybe you’ll find a new activity to try here. Send us a poem or limerick about a family member, or send a picture you drew. Write to Kids Corner, PO Box 227, Bluffton, OH 45817-0227, or email us at kidscorner@funforkidz.com. We’ll send you a surprise for sharing this with us. Settle back, get comfortable, and take off on a new adventure as you read about kids and their families.
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by Mary Elizabeth Anderson
At their first cooking class, Maddie and Allison cooked a complete, healthy dinner. They learned how to break an egg, measure correct amounts of liquid and solids, and mix all the ingredients together. The girls named their entrée “Hamburger Heaven.” While Hamburger Heaven baked in the oven, it filled the kitchen with a wonderful aroma. Next, the girls learned how to use cutting boards to chop bananas into bite-sized pieces. They used kitchen scissors to cut Clementine sections into small bites to mix with marshmallows and raisins into the fruit salad. The next step was to make gingerbread cake for dessert to bake in the oven alongside the Hamburger Heaven. The girls wrote down their recipes on recipe cards while the cake and the Hamburger Heaven baked. The girls chose pink placemats and matching plaid napkins for the kitchen table. When they set the table, they made sure to place the knife to the right of the plate, with the spoon next to it on the outside. They set the fork to the left of the plate. Next step: vegetables. The girls put carrots into a small bowl. They dug into the freezer for a bag of corn and placed it into a microwaveable bowl before cooking. The girls learned the importance of timing when cooking different items. They had to make sure everything on the menu would be ready at the same time. When the oven timer buzzed, the girls tested the gingerbread by inserting a toothpick into the middle of it. They laid their cake on a baking rack to cool and topped the gingerbread with whipped topping before serving. Last steps: fill water and milk glasses, and call Grandpa to dinner. Allison and Maddie pulled Grandpa’s chair out for him and laid a napkin on his lap. “Bon appétit!” said the cousins. “Let’s have Cooking School again real soon.”
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illustrated by Shannon Comins
by Catherine Gray
She’s my mother’s mother And my aunt’s mother too. She’s also the mother of Uncle Rob and Uncle Lou. She’s mother-in-law to Dad And to my aunt’s husband, Phil. She’s the sister to my great-aunts And to crazy Uncle Bill. She’s great-grandma’s daughter And niece to Uncle Danny. But to my cousins and me, She’s just plain Granny.
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