If you are a superhero fan, you will not want to miss this awesome craft! You will have a blast creating your own jointed and posable superheroes out of very simple materials. Pipe cleaners, straws, beads… You probably have most (if not all) of the supplies on hand!
First, grab your supplies:
Pipe cleaners
Felt, for capes
Straws – we used paper straws, but regular straws are just fine (and much cheaper)
Googly eyes
Pony beads
Wooden beads – we used 3/4 inch diameter beads
Tacky Glue
Hot glue
Scissors
Markers – we used Sharpie oil based paint markers. They bleed less on wood than regular Sharpies.
Step 1: Start by drawing hair and superhero masks on the wooden beads.
Step 2: Glue on googly eyes – SO CUTE! Then draw a little mouth.
Step 3: Grab three pipe cleaners. Twist them together in the middle. I found that three “twists” was enough to hold them securely together. Then adjust them so that they are in the arrangement shown.
Step 4: Slide three pony beads onto BOTH of the bottom two pipe cleaners. This will form the body.
Step 5: Cut a straw into 8 one inch segments. (Or feel free to adjust the size!) We found that we could get 7 segments out of each straw, so you’ll need two straws per superhero, with quite a bit left over.
Step 6: Build each limb by sliding on a straw segment, then a pony bead, then another straw segment.
Step 7: Bend the ends of the pipe cleaners into hands and feet. I found that it helps to wrap some of the excess around the wrist or ankle to make it secure. Then trim off any excess ends.
Step 8: Slide the head onto the final two pipe cleaners. Then trim off the excess.
Step 9: To make the head more secure, attach it with Tacky Glue. Squirt some glue onto the pipe cleaners. Then slide the head on. We had a little bit of glue ooze out at the bottom of the head. Just wipe off the excess with a paper towel.
Step 10: Cut out a cape from felt and use hot glue to attach it to the backs of the arm segments.
In the comments below, share a picture of YOUR Pipe Cleaner Superhero!
**Extra challenge**: Write a story with your Pipe Cleaner Superhero (or heroes) as your main character. Share the story with the EY Coordinator at your building!
Mammals are everywhere—from the Arctic ice to the driest of deserts. They live on land, in the open ocean, and underground. With more than 5,400 species, mammals move in all kinds of ways. They walk, hop, gallop, and swing from trees. They swim, dive, glide, and even fly!
Go to this website to check out how bats, bears, dolphins, gazelles, gibbons, and/or kangaroos move and learn some fun facts about each!
In the comments below, write down something you learned!
Check out this post about the world record cat, Sophie!
Sure, most cats are soft and furry. But this one has gone bonkers. Sophie holds the world record for the longest cat fur. Measuring more than 10 inches long, Sophie’s fur might be longer than your own hair. Judging from the look on her face, we’re not sure she likes having all that fur…and you can’t blame her. Her owners have to brush her out 2-3 times every week to keep it neat. But now that she holds the Guinness World Record for furriest cat, maybe it’s worth it.
Your Turn
1. Create a pic collage with the topic from this and some of the facts from the article.
2. Choose a math question to answer from the list below depending on your age.
3. Add question and the the answer to your pic collage.
4. If you want to do more of these challenges, add the Bedtime Math site to your homescreen on your ipad.
Wee ones: If Sophie’s fur is 10 inches long and your hair is 6 inches long, whose is longer?
Little kids: The previous record holder, Colonel Meow, had fur 1 inch shorter than Sophie’s. How long was Colonel Meow’s fur? Bonus: They say eating salmon (a type of fish) makes your hair soft and healthy. If Sophie eats salmon twice a day, how many times does she eat it in a week?
Big kids: If Sophie’s fur grows 1 inch every 2 months starting now, could it be 14 inches long by next May? (We’re starting September now.) Bonus: If Sophie needs 2 more brushings this week (Wednesday through Saturday) on any 2 days, how many different pairs of days could she be brushed?
You will need to collect a small quantity of three types of materials .
Here are the items you will need
Your job is to imagine and build a prototype of something that will make our school a better place.
A prototype is a model that represents an idea. It does not have to be built to scale or actually work.
The purpose of the activity is to dream and imagine new solutions.
You only have 10 minutes of work time.
Afterward your timer goes off, make a pic collage and present your prototype and describe what they chose to build and why it will help our school. Share your idea with your teacher.
Tongue twisters are a great way to practice and improve pronunciation and fluency. They’re not just for kids, but are also used by actors, politicians, and public speakers who want to sound clear when speaking. Below, you will find some spooky tongue twisters. Say them as quickly as you can.
Spooky Halloween Tongue Twisters
He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Creepy crawler critters crawl through creepy crawly craters.
Dracula digs dreary, dark dungeons.
Ghostly ghouls gather gleefully to golf on ghostly golf courses.
Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
Horribly hoarse hoot owls hoot howls of horror in Halloween haunted houses.
If big, black bats could blow bubbles, how big of bubbles would big black bats blow?
If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
Professional Pumpkin Pickers are prone to pick the plumpest pumpkins.
Transylvanian Tree Trimmers are trained to trim the tallest Transylvanian trees.
Several spooky, slimy spiders sulkily spun by the sea.
The ochre ogre ogled the poker.
Which witch wished which wicked wish?
Now that you’re an expert at saying them, can you write your own Spooky Tongue Twister?
Everyone knows the nursery rhyme “Mary Had A Little Lamb,” but you probably didn’t know this was based on true story!!
The nursery rhyme, which was was first published in 1830, is based on an actual incident involving Mary Elizabeth Sawyer, a woman born in 1806 on a farm in Sterling, Massachusetts. Spoiler: its fleece WAS white as snow.
Birthplace of Mary Sawyer and the Little Lamb
In 1815, Mary, then nine, was helping her father with farm chores when they discovered a sickly newborn lamb in the sheep pen that had been abandoned by its mother. After a lot of pleading, Mary was allowed to keep the animal, although her father didn’t hold out much hope for its survival. Against the odds, Mary managed to nurse the lamb back to health.
“In the morning, much to my girlish delight, it could stand; and from that time it improved rapidly. It soon learned to drink milk; and from the time it would walk about, it would follow me anywhere if I only called it,” Mary would later write in the 1880s, many decades after the incident. And, yes, the lamb would indeed follow her wherever she went and did have a fleece as white as snow.
Sometime later, Mary was heading to school with her brother when the lamb began following them. The siblings apparently weren’t trying very hard to prevent the lamb from tagging along, even hauling it over a large stone fence they had to cross to get to Redstone School, the one-room schoolhouse they attended. Once there, Mary secreted her pet under her desk and covered her with a blanket. But when Mary was called to the front of the class to recite her lessons, the lamb popped out of its hiding place and, much to Mary’s chagrin and to the merriment of her classmates, came loping up the aisle after her. The lamb was shooed out, where it then waited outside until Mary took her home during lunch. The next day, John Roulstone, a student a year or two older, handed Mary a piece of paper with a poem he’d written about the previous day’s events. You know the words (except maybe for the 3rd verse):
Mary had a little lamb; Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day, Which was against the rule; It made the children laugh and play To see a lamb at school.
And so the teacher turned it out; But still it lingered near, And waited patiently about Till Mary did appear.
Watch the video below to hear the tune that goes along with the words above.
Now, here’s your task:
Write your own words to go with that tune in the style of the poem above. Submit your poem to the EY coordinator at your school!
