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This issue of Okido is about Body Noises. Messy Monster discovers the Gulo Gulos that make our tummies rumble...
Hello Okido readers! Welcome to your magazine! It is yours to write, draw on, and enjoy!
Zim Zam and Zoom show us how we speak and sing. Squirrel Boy has had too many beans, Foxy joins an animal choir and what happens when Yoga Monkey snaps his fingers...?
Start by writing your name:
Play body sound bingo! Try to eat without making a noise in the Yum Tum SSH game. Read super stories, a funny poem, make a buzzing bee, colour in and doodle-do, and feast on our summer recipes...
Okido helps children learn through play. It is full of stories, activities and games that stimulate creativity and inspire scientific interest.
Plus much much more to make, do and draw! Enjoy!
Story & Illustration by Rachel Ortas
Zoe, Felix and Messy Monster are going on an adventure in the Sleepy Mountain District.
“Let’s explore it,” says Messy Monster “Whaooo! Look at this burrow,”says Zoe
“Good idea, let’s go!” says Felix
So, they go inside.
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Suddenly they hear a terrible sound.
“Don’t be afraid. These are the Gulo Gulos. They are just very hungry,” says Messy Monster.
“Here, have my food,” says Messy Monster.
“Bye-bye greedy Gulo Gulos! Quick, let’s go...”
“... before they burp,” says Messy Monster.
“Hmmm..., I think my Gulo Gulos are awake. We’d better get back and have some food!”
Questions with Zim Zam Zoom:
How is he singing?
What’s making the sound?
Is it a magic trumpet?
or is it a little speaker?
Story by Dr. Sophie, Illustration by Alex Barrow
How do we speak and sing?
When we sing or speak, the sound is made in our throat.
Put your hand on your throat and speak. Can you feel something?
Yes! I can feel a vibration. What is it in our throat that make the sound?
Hold this page up to the light. Lets have a look inside!
Look, these are the vocal chords.
I can sing with my little vocal chords...
When you speak or sing they vibrate.
They are like two little elastic bands
When we breathe the tube is open...
air
So, it’s like a magic trumpet!
and we don’t make a noise.
When we speak the tube is closing.
The chords are next to each other...
air
and when the air comes through, it makes a sound.
“We all live in a yellow submarine!”
Illustration by Soju Tanaka
Illustration by: Mathilde Nivet
Find Foxy.
Foxy joined the animal choir. Can you see him
Make an animal choir with your friends. Choose one animal each and start singing.
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Which sounds are these animal making? Can you see them?
• FIRST WRITE EACH OF THE BODY SOUNDS LISTED BELOW ONTO A PIECE OF PAPER • FOLD THEM ALL UP AND PUT THEM IN A CUP, • TAKE TURNS PULLING ONE OUT, • READ OUT WHAT THE PAPER SAYS AND ANYONE WITH THAT SOUND PUTS A COUNTER CHIP OVER THE MATCHING SQUARE ON THEIR CARD • THE FIRST PLAYER TO COVER ALL THEIR SQUARES AND SHOUT ‘BODY SOUND BINGO’ WINS!
Game design and Illustration by Peter Slight
Illustration and story by: Peter Slight
Illustration by: Alex Barrow
Let’s Okidoodle! Draw the body sounds...
Draw chattering teeth...
Draw body sounds...
Ear Maze
Help the whistle sound find the dog...
Match the body sound with an instrument...
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Story by Robert Paul, Illustration by Cléo Ferin
Jenny Gets the Hiccups Jenny was thirsty. She’d been running around the garden all morning, on what must have been the hottest day of the summer and now it was time for an ice cold drink. She was so thirsty that she poured herself not one but two glasses of fizzy pop. ‘My, my!’ said Jenny’s Mum. ‘Don’t drink too fast!’ But just as she said this something odd happened.
Jenny’s stomach gave a strange jolt and from the back of her throat came a noise that she’d never heard before. ‘Hiccup!’ went the noise. Then after a moment it happened again. ‘Hiccup!’ ‘How strange,’ thought Jenny. ‘Hiccup! Hiccup!’ ‘Oh, my word,’ laughed Jenny’s Mum. ‘You’ve got the hiccups!’ ‘Hiccup!’ went Jenny. ‘Hiccup!’
Just then, Jenny’s Dad appeared. ‘Hiccup!’ went Jenny. Already she was starting to wish that these so called hiccups would stop. It felt like a frog was jumping around in her tummy.
As if reading her mind, Jenny’s Dad said, ‘There’s only one way to get rid of hiccups… you have to hold your breath for thirty seconds and touch your toes.’ This seemed like a very strange thing to do but Jenny’s Dad had an annoying habit of being right a lot of the time. Holding her breath Jenny counted to thirty and then, reaching down as far as she could, she touched her toes. ‘There!’ said Jenny’s Dad. ‘That seems to have done the trick.’ ‘Hiccup!’ went Jenny. ‘No no!’ laughed Jenny’s Mum. ‘That’s not right at all. There’s only one real way to get rid of hiccups and it isn’t by holding your breath and touching your toes! No, you have to drink a glass of water… backwards.’
‘Backwards?’ said Jenny’s Dad scratching his head. ‘Hiccup!’ went Jenny. Jenny’s Mum fetched a glass of water and demonstrated. She leaned forward so that her head was between her knees and poured the water into her mouth. She looked very strange indeed. When Jenny gave it a go she only succeeded in tipping water into her nose. ‘Hiccup!’ went Jenny.
‘That doesn’t seem to have worked,’ said Jenny’s Mum.
Just then the doorbell rang. It was Jenny’s Auntie Florence. ‘Hello Jenny,’ said Auntie Florence. ‘How’s my favourite niece?’ Jenny opened her mouth to reply but can you guess what happened? Instead of words coming out of her mouth, she went ‘Hiccup! Hiccup! Hiccup!’ Jenny’s Mum explained to Auntie Florence about the hiccups and how they had tried to get rid of them: first by holding her breath and touching her toes and then by drinking water backwards.
‘Well, there’s only one real way to get rid of hiccups,’ said Auntie Florence. ‘You have to sit on a brown paper bag.’ This seemed completely dotty to Jenny but by this time she was so fed up of having the hiccups that she was willing to try anything. ‘Luckily, I always carry a brown paper bag in my pocket, just in case of hiccups,’ said Auntie Florence. Jenny’s Dad couldn’t help smirking.
After two minutes of sitting on the brown paper bag Auntie Florence said, ‘That ought to do it.’ But as Jenny got to her feet her tummy did another little dance and once more she let out another hiccup! ‘Sorry,’ said Auntie Florence shrugging her shoulders, ‘It normally works for me.’
‘Hiccup,’ went Jenny, a little sadly. ‘That’s it,’ thought Jenny, ‘I’m going to have hiccups forever’. ‘Never mind,’ said Auntie Florence, opening her handbag, ‘Have a sweetie.’ But as she opened her bag, Jenny let out a colossal scream. ‘A MOUSE!’ she yelled, ‘A MOUSE!’
And indeed it was true. A tiny little mouse had popped his head out of Auntie Florence’s bag. ‘Oh, that’s only Max,’ said Auntie Florence, ‘My new pet.’ After a few minutes, Jenny calmed down and even held Max in her hands. He didn’t seem so scary now. Then it dawned on her. Her hiccups had gone!
‘So that’s how you get rid of hiccups,’ said Jenny’s Dad as they all sat down to afternoon tea. Jenny’s Mum poured Auntie Florence a large mug of tea that she gulped down rather greedily. ‘Hiccup!’ said Auntie Florence, ‘Hiccup!’
Story & Illustration by Beth Morrison
Story & Illustration by Christie Li
Game design and Illustration by: Sister Arrow
Origami design by: Kevin Tang
1. Cut out the page along the dotted line
2. Turn the page so the eyes are at the top, then flip it over
3. Fold the bottom half up
4. Fold the tips of the triangle up to the top
5. Fold them down to make the wings
6. Fold the yellow triangle down to show the brown body
7. Fold the little yellow triangle down to show the head
8. Turn it over and fold the wings inwards
9. Flip it over! Here is your finished bee!
LET’S MAKE A BZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZY BEE Make a busy bee family of different sizes and colours!
Did you know? Honey bees communicate with one another by dancing.
Game design by: Kevin Tang
Body Sound Dance Party The body sound creatures like to dance. Add your own sounds too!
clap
pat
kiss
stomp
click
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The body sound creatures have many noisy dance routines, like this easy one:
Here’s another noisy dance routine - can you do it?
Draw your own noisy dance routine!!
Yoghurt
Ice lolly!
WHAT YOU NEED
2
1 A spoon per pot
or Yoghurt ais fr fromage
4
3
Stick in spoon through the centre of the lid WITHOUT removing the top paper
Place the yoghurt or fromage frais pots with the spoons in your freezer Leave in the freezer for a few hours.
5 Take out of the freezer, remove yoghurt top paper, run some hot water on pot for half a minute.
6 Pull the spoon gently to take the yoghurt out. Your ice lolly is ready to eat!
Recipes by: Sabrina Tabuchi
Picnic
Island
WELCOME to Picnic Island! A magic island where everything is made of food! Why don’t you make your own Picnic Island? Accordion Tomatoes
Eggs Mimosa
Slice a tomato very carefully without cutting through its base. (ask a grown-up to help you) Slice a hard boiled egg. Insert the egg slices between the tomato slices. Sprinkle with chopped olives and dressing. Yumm!!!
Mr Egg
Carrots Seats
SS Cucumber
Hard boil the eggs for 6-8 minutes. Tap the shells and leave until cold. Then shell, cut in half lengthways and gently remove the yolks. Mix together some yoghurt, mayonnaise, capers, watercress and seasonings with the egg yolk. Stuff the egg white with your mixture. Ready!
Mrs Egg
Tomato Egg Table
Lock Ness Carrot Monster
Tomato Carrot Trees
Cucumber -Mobil with carrot power
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www.okido.co.uk Okido, PO Box 51971 London SW9 8UZ info@okido.co.uk Published by Okido Studio Editor Sophie Dauvois (sophie@okido.co.uk) Creative Director Rachel Ortas Art Director Alex Barrow Design Brighten the Corners Sub-Editing, PR and Marketing Gabby Dawnay (gabby@okido.co.uk) Contributors Sister Arrow, Alex Barrow, Gabby Dawnay, Cléo Férin, Christie Li, Beth Morrison, Mathilde Nivet, Paul Noble, Rachel Ortas, Robert Paul, Peter Slight, Sabrina Tabuchi, Soju Tanaka and Kevin Tang Thanks to Stephan Silver for proofreading. Thanks to the Wellcome Trust for its support.
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This issue of Okido is about body noises. Where do those sneezes burps hiccups rumbles snores farts heart beats and yawns come from? What do they sound like?! Okey dokey kidos! Enjoy and learn with Okido. Stories
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