Last Sunday Droodle #15

Last Sunday droodle:

Original idea: ants playing on a spring,
Barb wire reaching for the sky,
Slide for bugs,
Roller coaster.

Roman Numerals - Odd One Out Puzzle #2

Which set of Roman Numerals is different.  Why?

What are Roman Numerals?

Solution

Sunday Droodle #15

What do you see?

Share your ideas.  I will post the best ones next Sunday.

What is a droodle?

Last Sunday Droodle #14

Original Thought: Melted snowman with a top hat on the top,
Flying saucer which landed on a lake,
Dinosaur's head,
Black yolk in a sunny side up egg.

Word/Picture Puzzle #11

Guess the meaning of the picture

An idiom

Solution

What is an idiom?

Sunday Droodle #14

What do you see?

Share your ideas.  I will post the best ones next Sunday.

What is a droodle?

Chubby Little Snowman Action Rhyme

Rhyme with actions:

A chubby little snowman
(make a fist)

Had a carrot nose
  (stick out the thumb between pointer and middle finger)

Along came a bunny
(use the second hand, make a fist and put up pointer and middle finger for bunny's ears)

And what do you suppose
(keep moving "bunny" hand up and down, like a hopping bunny)

This hungry little bunny 

Looking for his lunch
(put your "bunny" hand to your forehead and pretend you are looking around)

Ate the snowman's carrot nose
(make a bunny again and pretend it nibbles on the thumb)
Nibble, nibble, crunch, crunch.
  (show the fist without the sticking out thumb).

Roman Numerals - Crossword Puzzle #3

Roman Numerals Crossword Puzzle

Solve Roman Numerals additions:

DOWN:

1. MDCLIV + MCCX

2. CDXXV + MMCCCVII

4. MMM + DL

6. CCV + CCII

ACROSS:

1. MDCCXLV + MCCLV

3. MCMVIII + CCXCII

5. CCIX + CXLI

7. MDCCCLIII + MDCXLIII

8. LXXXIV + LXXXVI

9. XIV + XV

10. III + IV

Click here to print the crossword puzzle.

Solution

What are Roman Numerals?

Roman Numerals - Odd One Out Puzzle

Which set of Roman Numerals is different.  Why?

What are Roman Numerals?

Solution

Word/Picture Puzzle #10

Guess the meaning of the picture

An idiom

Solution

What is an idiom?

Sylvie

Sylvie by Jennifer Sattler

Sylvie is a little, adorable flamingo, who is curious why flamingos are pink.  Her mom explains: "Well, dear, we're pink because the little shrimp we eat are pink."  This gives Sylvie an amazing idea, what if she eats a green leaf, would she become green? Or if she eats grapes or other colourful things, would she turn that colour?  

Shrimp contain beta carotene, that has an orange-pink pigment, so it is true that the real flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp, but they would certainly not turn green by eating a green leaf.

What about Sylvie in the story?  Well that you have to find out by reading the book.  I will just say: it is DELIGHTFUL, and all little kids will enjoy it.
You can quiz them about colours while reading the book.