The Arts & Science Magazine for Kids Stories Activities Games Doodles Experiments & a poem Issue #15 Robots Okido is a quarterly magazine for children aged 2 and above
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Can you find the words and colour them in? Let’s colour in HELLO ROBOT…
Pattern by Linda Scott
Hello Okido readers! This issue has been hijacked by the robots! They are everywhere... Try to find the 4 robot dogs hiding in the magazine. Okido is yours to read, write and draw on. Enjoy! Start by writing your name:
Okido helps children learn through play. It is full of stories, activities and games that stimulate creativity and inspire scientific interest.
Messy Monster takes Felix and Zoe to Planet Robot. Zim Zam and Zoom help us discover the differences between robots and human beings. Squirrel Boy meets Robosquirrel and Foxy is surronded by all the domestic robots... Play Robot Round Up, experiment with robot movements and build a robot. Read super stories, do the robot dance with a poem, make some pancakes, colour in and doodle-do! Plus much, much more to make, do and draw!
We are robots!
P E BE P E E B
Let’s go to the Planet Robot.
Story & Illustration by Rachel Ortas
Stop! You landed on Planet Robot. What’s your serial number?
Hello. What are you made for? BEEP BEEP
This way. BEEP BEEP
Stay in line. BOOP BOOP
Follow the
How many
dots. Don’t get lost!
dots?
How many big
dots ?
Go to work, work, work, work.
OH! We are too tired.
NO!
o e! g s t’ hom e L ck ba
I am going to fix you...
What’s the difference between a robot This is 0K-1. and a living thing? He is a robot. It’s time to wake up Zoom!
z
Is zoom switched off?
z
z
Do you need New batteries?
I’m so hungry! Let’s have breakfast!
But first, I’ll have a shower!
Won't you rust?
0K-1 is asking very strange questions !
Well Zam, robots and living things are very different.
Story by Dr Sophie and illustration by Alex Barrow
Questions with Zim Zam Zoom:
Zoom
Let’s take a look inside them!
ROBOT 0K-1
Hold the page up to the light to see inside Zoom and Robot OK-1.
Robot OK-1
Can you spot the differences?
Zoom
Robot Robot has a flashing light on its head when it is switched on.
Robot has cogs and a winch to move its legs and arms. Robot has circuits and microchips to carry signals and control its body.
Zoom has a stomach and intestines to digest all the food he loves eating. Food gives him energy.
Robot has a battery to give it energy.
Zoom Zoom has a brain and nerves to carry signals and control his body. Zoom has muscles and bones to move about.
Zoom has a heart and blood going round his body to warm him up and carry food and oxygen. Look around you. What things are like Robot and what things are living?
Can you do the robot?
Beep! Beep! Click’n’Ping!
Rock-n-Rolling Robot
Spin around and glide
My buttons all flash
Take it in your stride
Machine your arms in circles
As I slip and slide
Do the Robot Groove
Then move from side to side!
in the Robot Mash
and move from side to side
Poem by Gabby Dawnay and illustration by Alex Barrow
CAN YOU DO THE ROBOT?
Can you do the actions? Go to: okido.co.uk to hear the robot dance song composed by Zooey. Ring-a-Ring-a Robot
Getting kinda dizzy
Beep! Beep! Click n’Ping!
Round and round we go
Never gonna stop...
My buttons all flash
Robot Super-Quickly then...
Ready Steady Robot - GO -
As I slip and slide - WHOOPS -
...Robot Super-Slow!
To the Robot Bop!
I think I’m gonna…CRASH!!
My friend Mr. Robot is amazing....
Design and Illustration by Soju Tanaka
Gather materials and be a super robot! Body Make your main body with cardboard.
Rocket punch Cut a cardboard tube and put your arm in it. Then grab a balloon, pull and launch it by letting go.
Cockpit Cut a door on your cardboard body and stick a toy behind it as a pilot.
Light
Cut a hole for a torch.
Claw arm
Make a flexible arm with card rings and tape. Use some BBQ tongs as pincers.
Moving system
Ride on a vacuum cleaner (or skate board) inside your body.
It was Saturday morning. Jenny was looking forward to staying in bed and watching cartoons on the telly. ‘Oh no you don’t,’ said Jenny’s Mum. ‘Get up and get to work on your chores if you want any pocket money! I expect them to be done by the time I’m home from doing the shopping.’ Jenny’s Mum had pinned a list on the bedroom door: 1. Wash the dirty dishes
2. Feed the cat 3. Hang the washing out to dry
‘Pfffff!’ thought Jenny. ‘What a drag! I wish I had a robot to do it all for me.’ Then she realised that she could make one! ‘Why not?’ she said as she skipped down to the kitchen. In the kitchen, the cat meowed hungrily. ‘In a bit kitty!’ said Jenny stroking him under the chin. ‘I’m building a robot.’ Jenny opened the drawer containing kitchen utensils. She knew she wasn’t allowed to touch the knives. Instead she helped herself to a ......, a.........., a .......,
Story by Robert Paul, Illustration by Cléo Férin
She reached into the sink (full of dirty dishes) and took two metal scourers. ‘They’ll be good for ears,’ she said. In the lounge she found two buttons and the remote control for the telly. ‘Robots need electrics.’ Then she went to the garage where she found:
Slipping on the overalls (she had to roll up the sleeves and legs quite a bit because they were so big) she began to work. Within an hour Jenny had built a fully functioning, walking, talking robot. She pressed a button on his tummy and he jolted to life.
‘H.E.L.L.O.’ said the Robot. ‘M.Y. N.A.M.E. I.S. N.A.T.H.A.N. . . .
H.O.W. C.A.N. I. B.E. O.F. S.E.R.V.I.C.E.?’ Jenny clapped her hands in glee. ‘Hello Nathan. Pleased to meet you! I’ve got a few jobs for you.’ And she handed him the list of chores. ‘M.Y. N.A.M.E. I.S. N.A.T.H.A.N.’ said the robot as he tried to shake hands with the lawn mower. ‘M.Y. N.A.M.E. I.S. N.A.T.H.A.N.’ he repeated as he set off to work spinning round and making strange noises. ‘There’s something funny about that robot’ said Jenny as she settled down to watch her cartoons.
‘JENNY!’ yelled Jenny’s Mum returning home from her shopping. ‘What on earth have you been up to?’
When Jenny got downstairs, she saw what her Mum meant. Outside the dirty dinner plates were hung up on the washing line!
The cat was soaking wet and sitting in the sink! And the clean washing had been smeared with cat food!
Just then Nathan appeared wearing a flowery apron and headscarf. ‘M.Y. N.A.M.E. I.S. N.A.T.H.A.N.’ he said shaking hands with Jenny’s Mum who promptly fainted. Later on, when Jenny explained the whole story to her Mum and Dad, they all laughed. Jenny’s Mum thought that Jenny was so clever to be able to build a robot that she doubled her pocket money. ‘Nice chap that Nathan,’ said Jenny’s Dad, ‘He offered to wash my car.’ Jenny gave a little wave to her robot through the kitchen window. Outside he was smearing butter into her Dad’s windscreen.
A robotic pancake day! Pancake mixture to make around 12 pancakes Ingredients You will need: a grown up to help... 1 cup of flour 2 eggs 1 cup of milk a pinch of salt a little butter or oil (for frying) 1. Mix the flour with the salt in a bowl and make a well in the centre. Break the eggs into the well. 2. Carefully stir while adding the milk a bit at a time, drawing in the flour until you have a smooth mix. Leave the pancake mixture to rest for an hour before use. 3. When ready, add a little of the mix at a time to a frying pan with some heated oil or melted butter. Fry your pancakes! (Ask a grown up to help.) 4. Enjoy them with sugar and lemon or be adventurous and try them with a fried egg and asparagus or cheese and ham, or jam...! Caution: only robots eat pancakes with nuts (and bolts!)
Let’s Okidoodle!
Illustration by: Alex Barrow
Turn yourself into a robot
Dot to dot to dot to dot ... 1. The Robot’s battery is empty. Can you fill it with power by colouring it in? 2. Now that the battery is full, join the dots and watch the robot appear!
Can you read the robot code? Decode their colours using the chart below
Illustration by: Rachel Ortas
Colour in the twins! Which robot does not have a twin?
Colour and connect the circuits to make Robopub play
Illustration by Sister Arrow
Draw a circle around the items in the wrong lunch box.
Illustration by: Charlotte Elise Brewin
The food in each of these lunch boxes has been mixed up!
Colour in what the robot sees
Red
Blue
Colour in the dotted squares and see what the computer spotted in the sky....
Activity by Lin Liang
Cut out images from magazines or newspapers to make your collage robot. Paste one here!
Experiments: control and move your robot! You will need: some cardboard and 2 people Make a remote control with a piece of cardboard Draw some buttons for movements: left, right, forward, backwards. Draw some buttons for actions: bend, grab, jump, turn...
up
turn
How to play: Try to make your robot pick something up from the table, sit on a chair or dress up! Take it in turns to be the robot – Have fun!
right
If you have lots of cardboard boxes you can decorate them and dress up as a robot too!
down
left grab
You’ll need
Hello, I am Rusty. It is difficult to move when you are a robot. Let’s experiment!
scissors, ruler, sticky tape
flattened cereal box
1. Measure the length of your arm.
2. Cut the card
3. Roll the card round your arm...
..then tape it!
Try to pick up an apple..
Let’s try a few basic movements!
Try to eat some jelly!
Try to draw a picture!
..Now try to eat it!
Have a go and see what you can do or not!
Find Foxy
So many robots in the house!!!! Foxy hides among them....
Can you see him?
Illustration by Mathilde Nivet
Can you see these?
Story & Illustration by Beth Morrison
Game & Illustration by Peter Slight
Story & Illustration by Kristian Andrews and his sister Ida Baker.
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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 & Marketing Gabby Dawnay, gabby@okido.co.uk Contributors Kristian Andrews, Sister Arrow, Alex Barrow, Charlotte Elise Brewin, Brighten the Corners, Gabby Dawnay, Cléo Férin, Lin Liang, Beth Morrison, Mathilde Nivet, Paul Noble, Rachel Ortas, Robert Paul, Linda Scott, Peter Slight and Soju Tanaka. Thanks to Emil and Sabrina for playing the robots and Stephan Silver for proofreading. Thanks to the Wellcome Trust for its support.
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