ADVERTISING PROMOTION. Make a bird feeder Holiday calendar Learn about South African birds Tips to be safe Make a sailboat

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1 SUMMR FUN SPCIL HOLIDY GUID Make a bird feeder Holiday calendar Learn abou Souh frican birds Tips o be safe Make a sailboa

2 DY 2 Pos a handwrien leer o someone special who lives very far away. Make your own Holiday Calendar DY 1 Ge some friends ogeher and have an ar exhibiion. DY 3 Spread a blanke under a ree and read your favourie book. DY 4 Pack snacks, a ha and sunscreen. Head o he beach or park wih your friends. DY 5 sk your mum for some biscuis or swees and hide hem in he garden. Then invie your friends over for a reasure hun. FUN IN TH SU N Say safe on he beach wih hese ips from he Secre Tribe. DY 6 Make freshly squeezed orange juice. Halve six oranges and squish hem unil all he liquid is ou. dd ice cubes and enjoy DY 7 Tidy your room and pu anyhing you don use in a box o give o chariy. DY 8 Take your crayons and pains ouside and draw he animals ha you see. DY 9 Collec cold drink cans. Place one on op of he oher o creae a funky oem pole. Remember o recycle hem aferwards. DY 10 Pich a en in your yard and camp under he sars on a warm, clear nigh. DY 11 sk a friend o help you make a vegeable pach and plan hings like leuce, carros and omaoes. DY 12 Sugges o your parens ha you all go ou somewhere for a picnic. DY 13 Grab your broher, siser or friend and play a game of noughs and crosses. DY 14 Pick a lovely bunch of flowers or branches for he house. DY 15 Make some gif ags and hink abou which friends and family you d like o give hem each o. DY 16 Think abou your New Year s resoluions. Sar a lis and keep i somewhere safe. DY 17 Make sailboas ou of recycled maerials and challenge a friend o a boa race. See page 27. DY 18 Offer o clean he windows in your home (you may be given a nice reward). DY 19 Draw eyes ono pebbles o creae creaures. Pack hem ino a pained egg box. Tie i wih a prey ribbon o make a lovely gif. DY 20 Make your own unique wrapping paper for he fesive season. DY 21 sk if you can use an ice ray. Pour in juice insead of waer. Place in freezer overnigh for icy reas DY 26 Make a for under he dining room able. Invie your broher, siser or dog inside and read hem a sory. DY 29 Play a game of snap wih someone in your family. DY 22 Bake gingerbread men and invie your granny or friend around for ea. DY 27 Half-fill a glass wih a fizzy drink. Carefully drop a scoop of vanilla ice cream ino he glass. Sprinkle wih hundreds and housands and enjoy DY 30 Fly a kie wih friends. DY 23 Collec old magazines. Cu ou and creae your own picure sories using elemens such as cars, people, fashion, food and colours. DY 28 sk your mum o help you make jelly, hen ea i in he shade ouside. DY 31 Look a your lis of New Year s resoluions again and change hem or add a few more. DY 24 Phone friends or family you haven seen for a while. Waer-saving ips 1. Use he waer lef over from boiling veggies o waer your plans jus le i cool down firs. 2. Close aps properly. 3. Wash he car using a bucke. 4. Don play wih waer. 5. Take quick showers. 6. Close he ap while brushing your eeh. DY 25 Play a game of hopscoch. 1. Wach he waer Never urn your back on he sea a wave you don see could knock you over and push you under. The sea can be very srong during high ide and someimes here are underwaer currens. Never swim alone and always ell your mum or dad when you go swimming so ha hey can wach you. 2. Proec yourself The sun is very srong and can burn you, even if you have dark skin. lways use sun proecion loion wih a SPF (sun proecion facor) of 50 and reapply i afer you have been swimming. Say ou of he very ho sun from 10 a.m. o 3 p.m. and wear a ha or cap. Tell your mum or dad if you feel dizzy and drink los of waer o say hydraed. 3. Keep clean Take all your lier home wih you. If you leave i on he beach, i could ge washed ino he sea, where sea animals like dolphins or urles could ea i and be very badly injured. 4. Don feed he birds Human food isn good for sea birds, so don offer hem your chips or ice cream share hem wih your friends insead 5. Say safe when you swim Don swim a sunrise or sunse when i is geing dark. Don swim a nigh or if he waer is very diry or rough. Wai 20 minues afer eaing o allow your food o sele before going ino he waer. If you find live crabs or fish, don ease hem hey ge very scared You look like a massive gian o hem. Raher wach hem and learn how hey live on he beach. If you find a shell wih a creaure inside, leave i on he beach he shell is is home and you migh hur i if you ake i ou of is shell. 6. Lisen o he lifesavers Make sure you can see he lifesavers and hey can see you. If hey ell you o ge ou he waer, lisen o hem They ge los of raining o keep you safe. If you don know how deep he waer is, don dive or jump in you could ge hur ouch 7. Proec he dunes I s fun o climb dunes and slide down on big pieces of cardboard bu never remove plans growing on he dunes. The dunes need he plans o say sable.

3 R D F BIRD fr ie n d ly w i h d ir b y n o lc a b en or our M a ke y o u r g a rdd fe e d e r a n d le a rn a b o u y o u r o w n b ir a h e re d fr ie n d s fe BIRD WORD IS TH Souh frica is home o loads of beauiful birds, bu we don hink you ll have ime o discover hem LL his summer So here are a few for you o look ou for in differen pars of he counry. Ge ready for an awesome bird-spoing advenure STP 1 Wash and dry he bole. Remove any labels or sickers. You ll need: 1. One empy plasic cold drink bole s or 2. pair of scissor a box cuer wire 3. Srong sring or ns oo 4. Old wooden sp 5. Bird seed or sickers 6. Opional: pain 7. Funnel lways ask lp an adul ouhsieng you when cuer. scissors or a Cu maching holes on opposie sides of he bole. One hole mus be slighly higher han he oher so he spoon will lie a a sligh angle and he food will slide ono i. GUTNG I s he commercial and economic hub of our counry. There are around 350 known bird species in and around Johannesburg and Preoria. STP4 If you wan o pain or decorae he bole, do ha now and leave i o dry. Cu as many pairs of holes as you have spoons. Push he spoons hrough he holes as far as hey will go. STP 5 TH S P OT S BI R DS BLCKCOLLRD BRBT OTHR BIRDS TO GOOGL: HDD IBIS, SPCKLD PIGON, BOKMKIRI, GRN WOODHOOPO, ND GRY LORI. STP 6 Kno a piece of sring or ie a piece of hin wire around he neck of he bole. Now you can Fill i hang your cu oun and feeder. pled his Pour some bird food ino he bole using a small funnel. You can also pu small pieces of frui on he spoons experimen and see which birds like wha kinds of frui. Bu don feed hem bread because i does no have he nuriens hey need. lso, don feed hem nus wih sal on. Too much sal is very bad for our feahered friends. Mpumalanga is home o he Lowveld, a low-lying ropical region ha is aken up largely by he Kruger Naional Park, wih he Drakensberg escarpmen on he border. KWZULU-NTL SPOT TH S PLDG TO MOTHR RTH WSTRN CP I,, on promised o look afer naure. S P OT T This province wih all is naural beauy is he perfec home for los of fauna and flora. I s one of he bes bird-waching desinaions in Souh frica. OTHR BIRDS TO GOOGL: CP SISKIN, PROT SDTR, CP SUGRBIRD ND CP ROCKJUMPR. The lush greenery and ropical abundance in he norh-eas of KwaZulu-Naal is alive wih beauiful birds. BIR DS OTHR BIRDS TO GOOGL: BROWN SNK GL, FRICN HWK GL, TWNY GL, WLHBRG S GL ND TH STPP GL. ge sick, hen your wi on all. Food for birds MPUMLNG MRTIL GL BIRDS: SHUTTRTOCK.COM Take ou a bird book from your library o see how many birds you can recognise as hey come o ea yummy seeds and frui. STP 3 STP 2 H DS S BIR ORNGBRSTD SUNBIRD KNYSN TURCO SPOT TH S BIR DS OTHR BIRDS TO GOOGL: PLMNUT VULTUR, NRGRD S SUNBIRD, RUDD S PLIS, FRICN BRODBILL ND WOODWRD S BRBT.

4 SUMMR FRUITS Here are a few of Souh frica s summer fruis. Which ones are your favouries? Y W L I S av e ha ve ma de So ar in g a gl e an d Bu ffa lo Br n. Fo llo w h es e a sa ilb oa ou of a ju ice ca ro ke on e, o o. sim pl e se ps an d yo u ca n ma Grapes You ll need:ice caron milk or ju Papaya Wha could be beer han some juicy frui as a delicious snack on a ho summer s day? a hem plain on heir own, in a frui salad, blend a few ogeher for a refreshing smoohie, or ge creaive and make some fun frui kebabs perfec for a healhy desser Srawberries 1. mpy dried) (washed and h as a (suc 2. Small box machbox) bric scrap of fa 3. P aper or and sickers 4. Kokis, pain or long sick w ra s 5. hin e 6. Selloap Have you ever wondered wha i means o ea seasonally? I means o ea frui and vegeables ha are grown a he same ime of year ha you ea hem. Seasonal fruis are more readily available, cos less and hey don have o be flown from halfway across he world. They also ase beer because hey ve been ripened naurally by he weaher condiions ha sui hem bes. Swee melons Mangos Kiwi Cherries Figs STP 1 Granadilla lways ask lp an adul ouhsieng you when cuer. scissors or a STP 2 STP 3 STP 4 Waermelons M K YOU R OW N IC LOL LI S STP 1 STP 2 Pain he smaller box. This will go inside he caron o hold he sail. Punch a hole in he middle of he box wih a sharp pencil. Glue he box ono he cenre of he caron. Cu ou a square piece of paper or fabric abou hree quarers of he lengh of he sraw. This will be he sail. Decorae he sail wih pain, markers and sickers. S Y TIP S ON HO W TO STY SF Mix equal amouns of frui juice and waer. 1 Regardless of wheher you are a he mall or he beach LWYS le your parens or guardian know where you re going. Pour ino ice lolly moulds. Freeze. Wai for a really ho day and enjoy 2 Sick o your group of friends or family and keep an eye on one anoher. Mix n mach You can make a muli-coloured lolly by filling he mould halfway wih one juice, leing i freeze and hen adding anoher juice before puing i back ino he freezer. Have fun experimening 3 FRUIT: FRPIK.COM You ll need: juice 1. Fresh frui e, mango (apple, orang you have or whaever ) in he fridge 2. Waer moulds 3. Ice lolly Cu he caron in half lenghwise. Pinch boh ends wih your fingers o make each end poiny. If you do ge los, ask for securiy, he informaion kiosk or he police NVR accep help from a sranger. 4 The sea can be dangerous. lways make sure you swim in he safey area marked ou by he lifeguards. 5 lways wear sunscreen and a peak cap or sunha when you re ouside. 6 Drink los of waer when you are playing ouside. RIS YOU R MU M IT S GOOD TO M MO N U M B R OR DD S CLLPHON Punch a hole a he op and boom of he sail and weave he sraw or sick hrough he holes. Wrap sring around he op of he sraw and ape each end of he sring o each end of he boa. Now your boa is ready o race DO YOU KNOW? You can ra much as 8 ck up as of your life0 percen i exposure me sun you urn 1 before 8 imporan, so i s o proeced. be F S B CLL CHILDLIN FOR HLP NYTIM ON (i s free)

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