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Welcome to I’m so excited to welcome you to your new Hoopla magazine! There is so much fun to be had inside this issue – make splatter art wrapping paper, learn some amazing magic tricks, cook up delicious party treats and experiment with jelly.
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GOOD NEWS
A poo museum, a nine-year-old chess champ and great eco news.
ART PROJECT
Drip, flick and splat paint to create some fun wrapping paper.
OUTDOORS
Swimming in the open air is a fun way to cool off in summer.
FOOD
Prepare for sticky fingers as you make these sweet party treats!
PUZZLES & RIDDLES
Put on your thinking caps for some party-themed puzzles.
THINK ABOUT...
Having fun is great, but would you want to have fun ALL the time?
AWESOME ANIMALS
Sniff out some amazing facts about fun-loving dogs.
SNAP HAPPY
A super-close-up look at a plant with a smiley face inside.
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DISCOVERY…
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YOUR JOURNAL
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Experiment with jelly and learn some amazing party magic tricks!
Write about yourself in the first part of this monthly journal.
STORY & COLOURING
A rhyming tale about lost socks, plus a sunny colouring page!
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LETTERS & COMPETITION
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QUIZ
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ANSWERS
Share what you’ve been up to and find out how to win a prize.
Test your nature knowledge with our fun photo quiz!
Find all the answers to our quizzes, puzzles and riddles.
Good NEWS B I G B R hEaAs bKeen
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Poozeum opens! This is the biggest fossilised poo ever discovered!
Nine-year-old chess champ A nine-year-old girl has been picked to compete at an international chess competition.
George calls coprolites
“prehistoric time capsules” because they
help us to understand the diets and environments of ancient creatures.
George with a coprolite
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The 67.5 cm fossil comes from a T.rex and is one of 8,000 fossilised poos, called coprolites, collected by George Frandsen. He has been fascinated by coprolites since he was a teenager and has now opened a museum in Arizona, USA, called Poozeum, to display his collection.
Bodhana Sivanandan joins the England women’s team for the Chess Olympiad in Hungary in September.
Bodhana, who says she wants to become a chess grandmaster and win a world title, said: “I’m so pleased to be picked for
England. It’s a great honour.”
At the World Youth Championship in 2023, she took the under-eight titles in classical, rapid, and blitz chess – winning all 33 games she played.
Good luck, Bodhana!
ELEPHANT TALK
Elephants give each other names!
of African elephants in Researchers studying the calls sounds for each individual. Kenya found they use specific phants recognise and They also discovered that the ele m, while ignoring those react to a call addressed to the addressed to others. rk out whether Now the scientists want to wo er things too, elephants have names for oth like food, water and places.
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Habitat boost
Teen inventors
The Scottish government has set a new record in restoring peatland, which is home to lots of animals and plants that can’t live anywhere else. In the terstock.com last 12 months, over © Shut 100 km2 was restored.
Victoria Ou and Justin Huang have now been given a grant of $50,000 to help them make it even better!
An important wetland habitat for lizards, butterflies and unique plants is being restored!
Peatland isn’t very common around the world. In the past, peatlands have been damaged because peat makes a great fertiliser and can even be burned as fuel. Luckily, many countries are putting a stop to this, and Scotland is doing a brilliant job of reversing the harm that peat extraction has caused!
Two 17-year-olds from Texas, USA, have come up with an invention to remove microplastics from water.
The device creates a special kind of sound wave, which is too high for humans to hear. As water flows through the device, these ultrasonic sound waves push back the plastic particles while letting the water through, separating up to 94% of microplastics from the water. Small plastic particles are becoming very common in our water, but hopefully this grant will help Victoria and Justin build an even bigger and better microplastic cleaning device very soon!
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Get cre tive!
g n i p p a Wr r e p a P Create your own Jackson Pollock style wrapping paper.
This project is super fun and a good way of making your own wrapping paper rather than using shop-bought rolls. The paper can be reused and adds a nice personal touch to any gift.
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You will need
Large white paper/ wallpaper lining paper
• Paints/inks • Plasticjaryosghurt pots/ glass Paintbrushes
• • Sticks
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• Clean used spray • •
bottles Masking tape Floor protection, such as newspaper or a large plastic sheet (or you could work outside!)
Squirt paints into plastic tubs or jars. Add a little water and stir until it’s the runny consistency of single cream. For DIY spray paints, add paint and water to recycled spray bottles and shake to mix. Coloured inks also work well.
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Next, dip a stick or twig directly into the paint and dollop or flick onto the page.
Jackson Pollock
was one of America’s best-known modern painters. He poured, splattered, splashed and dripped paint onto canvas, rather than applying it slowly. He found this technique worked best when the canvas was laid flat on the floor.
Ask a grown-up to take a photo and send it to us at hello@hooplamag.com
Continue with any of these techniques or invent your own, until you are happy with the finished gift wrap. Let the paper dry somewhere safe. If working outside, weigh it down so it doesn’t blow away or tear. Have fun wrapping!
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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Why not try a DIY spray paint bottle next? Shake it up, then spray onto your paper. Move around, standing or crouching, to get good coverage.
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For your first layer, try the ‘paint splatter’ technique. Simply dip a brush into a colour and throw or splatter onto the paper. The closer you splatter to the paper, the bigger the paint marks will be.
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N U F About
k n i h T
Fun is a short three-letter word and seems simple.
Fun is also something that we all want to experience, isn’t it? Can you have fun all the time, or do you think you can have too much fun? Something that seemed straightforward is actually a big idea that makes us think!
What do YOU think…? What are the top three things in your life that you find FUN? Write or draw your ideas...
Now look at what you wrote or drew and think about what makes something fun!
My ideas about what makes something fun...
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Ask other people what their top three fun things are.
Here are some other people’s ideas about what they think is fun. Tick the statements that you agree with:
ALL people want to have fun all the time!
People don’t always feel like having fun.
You can’t make someone have fun.
I think something that challenges me is fun.
I think cooking is a fun activity.
Everyone finds a birthday party fun!
I have fun when I’m playing.
I have fun at school when I Iearn something ne w.
Something fun makes you laugh.
I think you can make something fun that might not seem fun to start with!
I think different people find different things fun.
Sometimes, something you found fun one day isn’t fun another day.
Something fun should be enjoyable.
Fun can be found when you are playing, working, eating, on your own or with other people. Whatever you find fun, it needs to be enjoyable, entertaining or pleasurable in some way, otherwise it is no longer FUN.
Fun biscuit!
Fun seems good but, if you could eat
a special biscuit that meant you had fun all the time, would you eat it?! Yes
No
Being creative can be fun!
Can you give a strong reason for the choice you made about whether to eat the fun biscuit?
Maybe
Remember, STRONG reasons are detailed...
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Discovery
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Let’s PARTY Have some fun with these super science investigations and ‘magic’ party tricks!
Try these
Did you know? gether by gelatine, a Most jelly is held to g, stringy proteins. tangle of lon ured over gelatine, When hot water is po energy, unravel and the proteins absorb water. As the jelly move around in the se their energy and cools, the proteins lo ing lots of water tangle up again, trapp between them.
wibbly wobbly jelly
experiments!
Get set… The wonderful wob ble of a set jelly is it flowing slowly – when it’s pushed and prodded gently , it springs back to its original shape. Un like baking a cake, setting a jelly is reve rsible. If you warm it up, it will become liq uid again.
Collect round food packaging, such as yoghurt pots or paper cups. Clean and dry them, then use them to make flat, round fruit jellies. Add pieces of a different fruit to each jelly. Try orange, apple, grapes, kiwi, pear, pineapple, papaya and banana. Not all the jellies will set – some contain chemicals that chop the protein strings into pieces! If the proteins in jelly are too short, they can’t tangle up again and trap water, so the jelly doesn’t set. Can you work out which fruits contain the protein-chopping chemicals?
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Tall treat Jelly is great fun because it sets in the shape of its container. But did you know that it’s really hard to engineer a jelly more than 10 cm tall that can stand up on its own?
What’s the best thing to put in a jelly? Your teeth!
Try it yourself!
You could try to strengthen your structure by adding other edible items to your jelly, like sponge fingers or breadsticks!
Will it wobble? Does jelly wobble underwater? To find out, make a small jelly in a cupcake case and turn it out in a large bowl. Fill the bowl with water. Tap, prod and shake the jelly. What happens?
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BEING me
My mood journal
My name is...
I’m
A picture of me!
years old
I live with...
I’m good at sharing!
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Things I’ve enjoyed recently...
to eat. e k .. li
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One fun thin g happened tod that ay was...
I had fun digging up the flower bed!
imal is... My favourite an
Here’s my drawing of one...
I like reading books about...
Things I like about me...
I’m good at sharing!
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