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11 FUN FACT
On average, there are 100,000 hairs on the human head – but if
you’ve got red hair you’ve probably only got about 90,000!

don’t
We’re really getting animated today with our flickbook. And
tips.
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Wordsearch
Can you find the words YOU AND YOUR PET
relating to days out in
the grid? They could be Pet: Our dog Bonnie
hidden ­horizontally, Laila
vertically or diagonally Age: One year,
in any direction. 10 months
Breed: ­Border
Aquarium Museum terrier
Favourite
Castle Park toys: Our
Farm Seaside teddies
Hobby: Barking
Gallery Theatre at cats
Gardens Zoo Favourite food: Meat
– she likes chicken, lamb, beef and
­especially steak (she doesn’t like fish or
For answers see tomorrow’s G2 vegetables)
Polly, 10, Georgie, 8, Phoebe, 5, and

Number
­Jasper Howarth-Yates, 2
Can you work out the number that comes next?

Sequence 4…8…16…32…64…128…? YOUR REVIEW

The Tales of Beedle
the Bard

How to... A Matter of Loaf

and Death. Check
what you
do
to watch your
­alien move!
by JK Rowling
A great book with

make a out the website

at: at-bristol.org. 1 Cut out the grid Now why not
laughs, horrors and
­familiar characters such

flickbook uk/animateit
Now try ­making
below.
2 Carefully cut
­design your own
flick book? Trace
as Professor ­Albus
­Percival Wulfric Brian
your own short out the frames over the grid Dumbledore, the former
Ever fancied being the next Wallace animation with along the dotted ­below and then headmaster of Hogwarts
and Gromit creator? Then head to this mini lines. draw a picture School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
­At-Bristol’s Animate It! exhibition. flickbook: 3 Arrange them in each frame, ­Relive the fairy tales young wizards
The science and discovery centre has in order, like the each one slightly and witches have been told over the
teamed up with Aardman Animations what You pages of a book. different. You generations – they aren’t quite the type
so you can make your own animation, need 4 Carefully staple could try a spider of fairy tales us Muggles read to young
edit it and email it home to show A pair of scissors the pages dangling on a children! Those unfamiliar with the
­family and friends. You can also be Pens and paper together. web or a bouncing Harry Potter series will not understand
the lighting director on a set from A stapler 5 Flick the pages ball. a word I’m saying, but those who have
are in luck. JK Rowling has really out-
done herself with these marvellous
stories. I highly recommend this book
for anyone aged nine upwards.
Reviewed by izzymcq at guardian.co.uk/
childrensbooks

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