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Show DAILY Tuesday, October 2, 2007 HERALD D3 -- V - I ' A PAGE FOR KIDS, CLASSROOMS AND CREATIVITY t.X ! Kids, share your artwork: The Daily Herald is looking for children and teens to contribute drawings for BYOBrain, our weekly Tcids page in the Tuesday Life & Style section. If you have a piece of artwork you'd like to have published, please mail it to Casey Rogers at the Daily Herald, 1555 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, Utah, 84603. You also can drop it by the Herald's office at the same address. Please include your name, age, school, year in school and what city you live in on the back of the drawing or on a separate piece of paper. Please also include a phone number where we can contact you (this number will not be printed). Drawings cannot be returned. ' ; PHIL MASTURZOAKron Beacon Journal Welcome the harvest season by crafting your own scarecrow. Scarecrow project welcomes harvest Kathy Antoniotti vest crops. But for most of you, the closest you'll come to a real scarecrow in a farmer's field is this decoration I made that reminds us of the harvest season. I found instructions for this craft at httpsheknows. comaboutlook 1574.htm and modified them for our use. Supplies you will heed: AKRON BEACON JOURNAL Lladelin Squire, age 6, It's here. Sept. 23 we officially ushered in autumn. But you probably don't need me to tell you that. You've probably noticed the chill in the air while waiting for your school bus. So, what is really happening to our weather? In a nutshell, 1 1 straw hat and the weather changes because straw hat. the Earth is tilted on its axis as one it revolves around the sun. As I White acrylic paint and a result, different parts of the brush. . Earth receive more exposure Large wiggle eyes. I Orange felt scrap. to the sun as it moves. Silk fall flowers. Sunday, (Sept. 23) known Colored raffia. as the autumnal equinox, was I Fall bow. the day the sun appeared to cross the celestial equator (an I glue v gun. imaginary line through the I Scissors. sky directly over the equaI Black marker. tor), the dividing line between Paint the top of the larger the northern and southern hemispheres. That caused our hat white. Do not paint the brim. : day and night to be equal in Cut the smaller of the two' duration.. As it crosses the equator in hats in half. Cut raffia into Fox Hollow Elementary, first grade, Lehi autumn, the Northern Hemisphere slants away from the sun, causing cooler temperatures and shorter days, The seasons are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere. Autumn is the transitional season between summer and winter. As the Northern Hemisphere begins to get less of the sun's energy, it signals a chemical reaction in the trees that causes leaves on deciduous trees to change into a fiery show of colors. Many aspects of our lives are controlled by the growing seasoa Where we live, autumn is the time we harvest crops. In decades past, children did not go to school during warm months because they were needed to help har I II ik.il'- - ... i - i it . u d'-- t 'fji-- t tuts ' rr lengths and glue to the top and sides of the large hat for hair. Glue one half of the smaller hat onto the larger one, so it appears the larger hat is wearing a hat. To make a face on the white portion of the larger hat, glue on eyes and draw a mouth. Make a nose by cutting a triangle out of orange felt, and glue it on. You also can add a little pink to the cheeks with blush and a brush, if you'd like. Glue the flowers to the top of the hat and a bow to the bottom If you want to hang your scarecrow, you can make a hanger with wire and attach to the back. Book review: 'Look-AlikAround the World' es . r f " DlcKenna Crane, age 10, Provost Elementary, Provo "Look-Alike- s By " XX THE WASHINGTON "look-alikes- Spy." V Eagle Mountain Ales Bennett, age 7, Cherry Creek Elementary, Springville AX 1 I! I POST Look at this postcard of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Look again, closely this time. Notice anything unusual? Are those paper clips dangling from the bridge tower? Do you see the three dolls? The paper clips, dolls and er items hidden in plain view in this drawing are called " by artistauthor Joan Steiner. books Her "Look-Alikethis is the fourth in the series are a cross between Where's Waldo?" and "I 11, Harvest Elementary, sixth I Joan Steiner r-TJ- Jessica Johnson,grade, age "! '.'. T Around the World" Si. it ' . There's fun for the whole family in trying to find each of the more than KHTitems that Steiner has hidden in her postcards. Fortunately, she gives some clues by telling how many things you are searching for on each page and, in case you get too frustrated, listing them in the back of the book. (But we still cant find the pliers in the San Francisco JOAN STEINER Notice anything unusual in this postcard of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge? How about paper clips dangling from the bridge tower, and three dolls as support pillars. There are 40 drawings spanning time and geography in Joan Steiner's s Around the , "Look-Alike- World." postcard!) There are 40 drawings spanning time and geography from Ancient Greece to space-ag- e Florida, and from the Vikings of Scandinavia to the penguins of Antarctica. Steiner also includes a few interesting facts about each location. For instance, the real Chrysler Building in New York is adorned with replicas of automobile radiator caps and eagle hood ornaments. And Indials Taj Mahal took more tharf 20,000 workers and 11 years to build! |
