The Arts & Science Magazine for Kids Stories Experiments Games Doodles Recipe & a poem Issue #68 Senses Okido is a monthly magazine for children aged to ISSN 1753-3139 / £ 68 771753 313037 As seen on cBeebies Subscribe to Okido You can subscribe to OKIDO from £50 a year on www.okido.com or by calling 020 3911 2641 www.okido.com Okido, 1-5 Vyner Street London E2 9DG Published by Okido Studio Editor Sophie Dauvois sophie@okido.com Creative Director Rachel Ortas Art Director Alex Barrow Art Director Maggie Li Design OKIDO Studio Sub-Editing Gabby Dawnay Contributors: Takayo Akiyama, Alex Barrow, Gabby Dawnay, Maggie Li and Rachel Ortas Subscribe or buy back issues on www.okido.com where you can pay by credit card or paypal If you have any questions regarding an existing subscription, please get in touch either by email at help@okido.com or by calling 020 3911 2641 Okido is printed on FSC paper using biodegradable vegetable ink © 2019 Doodle Productions Limited All rights reserved No unauthorised use or reproduction “Okido” and “Messy Goes to Okido” are registered trademarks of Doodle Productions Limited Editor Creative Director Art Director Art Director Bubble writer Sophie Dauvois sophie@okido.com Rachel Ortas rachel@okido.com Alex Barrow alex@okido.com Maggie Li maggie@okido.com Linda Scott linda@okido.com Hello Okido readers! Welcome to your magazine This issue is all about senses Let’s find out more, explore, play and have fun making, cooking, colouring and reading Enjoy! Start by writing your name: Messy Monster plays I spy (p.4) Zim, Zam and Zoom find out what senses are and what we use them for (p.8) Read Lita’s Magic Hot Chocolate story (p.14) Discover how animals have super senses (p.31) Read the Senses poem (p.32) Experiment with taste (p.36), and with touch and sound (p.38) Find Foxy inside the Senses Fun Fair (p.40) Have fun and learn with Kaz (p.42) Make some hot chocolate like Grandma Lita (p.44) Play the Walk in the Park board game (p.47) Colour in and doodle-do! (p.20-30) Okido helps children learn through play It is full of stories, activities and games that stimulate creativity and inspire scientific interest Hello! Do you know we have 1,2,3,4,5 senses? Let’s explore them! Story Let’s play a game! I spy with my little eye something beginning with B B? Ha ha! Blue! It’s me! A BLUE monster! My turn I smell with my little nose something beginning with P I touch with my little hands some thing beginning with F Ha ha! A poo! My turn! F F F? Fur! That’s my fur! My monster furry tail I hear with my big ears something beginning with .M Quick! Let’s run, that’s the ice-cream van! Music! We taste with our little tongues, something beginning with Y Y for yummy! It’s so good to have all these senses! D Questions with: z m, z m & z What are Senses? m What’s this green thing on the table? Hey dudes! Messy invited me over - have you seen him? Story by Dr Sophie and illustrations by Alex Barrow Messy was in the kitchen earlier Hmm, I’m not sure What are ‘senses’? Let’s use our senses to find out what it is That’s a good question! So our senses will help us find out what this green thing is on the table? Story The main senses are: taste, smell, hearing, sight and touch Zoom can you show us how we use our senses please? Taste my noodles Smell the sea Hear the accordion See my magazine Feel/touch my cat YES! Let’s be detectives and use our senses to investigate it red What colour is it? It’s green! green You used your eye SIGHT to see the colour blue yellow It’s soft! What does it feel like? soft You used your hands to TOUCH it to find out how it feels! furry smooth What does it smell like? sweet smokey socks 10 Eurgh! It smells like old SOCKS! You used your nose to SMELL it! Taste experiment TASTE tongue TOUCH skin SMELL nose Try this test to discover how many different senses you use when you eat your food Check in case of allergies! You will need: a blindfold Foods such as peas, sweet corn, grapes, cherry tomatoes, dried fruit and mixed nuts Gather your food together and then ask an adult to help you put on a blindfold Now taste it Can you guess what it is? How does smell and touch help you when you can’t see? Similar shaped objects can be confusing to tell apart Now try these comparisons: 36 Next, the adult gives you one of the foods You can feel it in your hand first OR Tomato Pea Grape OR sweet corn TASTE tongue Experiment Taste experiment SEE eye You will need: some toothpicks, a pencil and paper Foods of similar colour such as peeled cucumber, apple, pear, banana, cooked potato and cheese Ask a grown-up to help you chop the food into similar sized cubes Label each one so you know which is which Now pinch your nose and try the first cube Write down what you think it is Try another until they’re all finished Put all the cubes on a tray and place the labels face down next to each one Now you can turn over the pieces of paper and see how many you got right! To taste and recognise what we eat, we often use our sense of touch, eyes and especially our noses! Taste is not just on the tongue! 37 Messy’s sock experiment Using touch and sound, help Messy and Grumpyko guess what’s hidden inside the socks! You will need: old socks Some mixed objects: bubble wrap lego bricks toys rice marbles pasta sweets Place your chosen objects on a table or on the floor in front of you 38 Put a different group of objects in each sock Leave an example of each object out to help when they are matched later Tie the end of each filled sock with an elastic band to stop the objects falling out Mix up all the socks and get a friend to guess what’s inside each one by touching and shaking them TOUCH skin Touch and squeeze! Experiment Guess what’s inside! HEAR ear Jingle ‘n’ jangle! Record the results in the table below, add your own objects in the blank columns: pasta rice lego bricks sock sock sock sock sock sock OKIDO is delighted to be working with the British Science Association for British Science Week 2019 One activity inside OKIDO magazine, attending an OKIDO Art and Science session or after-school club session all count as one STAR challenge Children can complete eight STAR challenges to gain the CREST star award for British Science Week 2019 Head to okido.com for details 39 40 Find Foxy Illustration by:Takayo Akiyama Foxy is at the Sensational Senses fun fair Can you see him ? Activity Can you spot these too? 41 Which of these delicious cakes is the same as the first? Let’s more fun senses activities! Draw a line from Kaz to the cake, making sure not to touch the insects along the way, Match the actions to the senses There could be more than one answer for each action TASTE tongue 42 SEE eye HEAR ear TOUCH skin SMELL nose ? Activity What colour will the next musical note be in this sequence? Kaz is using her senses to find her way to the concert Follow the sounds, smells and sights! answers p.46 43 Grandma Lita’s magic hot chocolate Now you’ve read Grandma Lita’s story, let’s make her famous hot chocolate Mmmm perfect for a cold winter day! The chocolate sticks also make great gifts when wrapped in a little tissue paper or clear film bag Makes around 6-8 hot chocolate sticks You will need: An ice cube tray A bar of dark chocolate A bar of milk chocolate A bar of white chocolate Lolly sticks Mini marshmallows How to: 44 Break up the bars of milk and dark chocolate into smaller pieces and place in a bowl Pop the bowl of chocolate in the microwave for 30 seconds and give it a stir to make sure it’s melted Get an adult to help you chop up the white chocolate into little pieces Sprinkle some of it in the bottom of your ice cube tray Pour the melted chocolate into the ice cube tray and sprinkle the top with marshmallows and more white chocolate bits Stick a lolly stick in the middle of each chocolate cube Leave the tray to set for a few hours in the fridge Gently squeeze the ice cube tray until the chocolate sticks come out Now you’re ready to make hot chocolate! To make your hot chocolate: cup of hot milk chocolate stick stir until melted Recipe Mmmm enjoy! 45 Walk in the Park Board game TOUCH skin Finish Follow Kaz as she walks through the park on a journey of senses! You will need: SMELL nose Some counters A die How to play: Put your counters on the start and take it in turns to roll the die When you land on an icon, find the matching sense This might move you ahead OR behind For example if you land on: TOUCH skin SEE eye jump to TASTE tongue jump to TOUCH skin First one to the finish, wins! 46 Start SMELL nose SMELL nose SEE eye HEAR ear TASTE tongue TOUCH skin TASTE tongue TASTE tongue SEE eye HEAR ear 47 OKIDO POST Welcome OKIDO readers! Send us your drawings and photos! Send post to: OKIDO, 1-5 Vyner St, London E2 9DG or email: info@okido.com FAN PAGE! Bea (6) drew Messy Monster in the window Lily (4) made Messy’s secret code machine and decoded the story Olivia (3) made the vampire soup and cheesy ghosties Otto (6) and his homemade drum Kaz’s answers pages 42-43 48 Rafa (1) and Theo (3) get stuck into their copies of Okido Maggie (3) and Bernard (5) made their own Blood Expressway Match the actions to the senses Riley (6) drew Zoe, Felix, Zim, Zam and Zoom Giles (4) sent us this fab drawing of Messy What colour will the next musical note be in this sequence? www.okido.com Dot-to-dot Help Snowden and Messy hear the music Zoom is playing by joining up the dots to reveal what’s missing Join us on social media for our latest news Like our facebook page: www.facebook.com/OKIDOmagazine Follow us on twitter: @okidomagazine Tag us on instagram: @okidomagazine e! it s b e w r u o it is V ww w.okido.com Play the OKIDO songs: 49 This issue of Okido is all about Senses Read fabulous stories, draw, make stuff, play, create and enjoy your new Okido 50 Okido helps children learn through play It is full of stories, activities and games that stimulate creativity and inspire scientific interest Issue #68 Senses This issue has been printed on FSC paper using biodegradable vegetable inks Stories Activities Games Doodles Recipe & a poem www.okido.com Get in touch Send us a postcard, a question, photos or drawings for a chance to get published! We would love to hear from you Email: sophie@okido.com Post: OKIDO 1-5 Vyner Street LONDON E2 9DG ... Dauvois sophie @okido. com Rachel Ortas rachel @okido. com Alex Barrow alex @okido. com Maggie Li maggie @okido. com Linda Scott linda @okido. com Hello Okido readers! Welcome to your magazine This issue is...Subscribe to Okido You can subscribe to OKIDO from £50 a year on www .okido. com or by calling 020 3911 2641 www .okido. com Okido, 1-5 Vyner Street London E2 9DG Published by Okido Studio Editor... 2641 Okido is printed on FSC paper using biodegradable vegetable ink © 2019 Doodle Productions Limited All rights reserved No unauthorised use or reproduction Okido and “Messy Goes to Okido