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Black Cats
Black cats take center stage in this issue that highlights Halloween. Learn why these furry fun felines are associated with both good and bad superstitions—depending on your culture. Read carefully as you seek context clues to understand the importance of … Continue reading
Dia de los Muertos
When we enter the holiday season, we typically think of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. Thanks to our nation’s vast diversity of cultures and races, additional holidays have become part of the reasons to celebrate. Día de los Muertos—or … Continue reading
Ghost House Supports the Community
Who knew ghosts, goblins, and ghouls could come to the rescue of a community looking for a new way to make things better for kids? In this issue, you will discover how one California city—and group of creative women—devised a … Continue reading
Halloween at Home
Let Kid Scoop treat you this Halloween with activities, games, and puzzles to do in the safety of your own home. No ghosts can scare you—or your Kid Scoop vampire friends Darusilla and Darius—from having fun with these pages. From … Continue reading
Halloween Costumes
Stumped for a creative costume this Halloween? Working with a budget to stretch your dollars? Interested in saving the environment? If you answered “Yes!” to any of these questions, you’ll be delighted with this issue of Kid Scoop that looks … Continue reading
Halloween in the Attic
Join the Startleson kids as they explore their spooky attic for Halloween treasures. Enter the dusty, dark and cluttered space—if you dare—to hunt costumes, critters, skulls, old dolls, pumpkins, goblins and ghosts. Watch out for spider webs and be careful … Continue reading
Halloween Phobias
Halloween is a holiday dedicated to all things spooky—and everyone gets scared some of the time! But an extreme fear of something—a phobia—can often be relieved with a little understanding. Whether it’s an aversion to spiders, spooks, specters or spinach, … Continue reading
Halloween Science
Scare up some Halloween fun with the science experiments in this special issue. Follow directions to learn how baking soda and vinegar magically inflate a balloon. Mix some ghoulish ingredients to grow creepy monster mold. See how a simple highlighter … Continue reading
Monster Elections
Combine Halloween fun with election time and what do you get? A “boo-tiful” way to interest students in the democratic process! When “Shrieker” party candidate, Howie Jumpalott, challenges the “Lurker” party candidate, Flora Whisp, their debate focuses on scaring curfews, … Continue reading
Scarecrow’s Halloween Party
Welcome to Sandy Scarecrow’s happy haunted Halloween hoopla! Join pumpkins, bats, ghosts and lots of scarecrows in this issue that challenges trick-or-treaters to solve puzzles, patterns and predicaments. Can you find your way thorough a confusing maize maze, locate bats … Continue reading
