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Toys from Trash – Funny Money

Have you heard about the centrifugal force? Watch this fun video to learn more, and you’ll realise learning science can be fun too!

Clean sweep for a greener tomorrow

There are many activities that teach us how to be more eco-friendly — waste segregation, planting seeds, and so on. Match the cards correctly, and find out more!

Being environmentally-conscious is always important, more so with rising sea levels, deforestation, changing climate, water scarcity, and other issues that plague the environment, today.

There are a number of things you can do, to add your bit to sprucing up and saving the planet. This includes planting trees, saving water, carpooling, segregating waste before discarding it, and more. Here is a fun memory game to give you more such examples. How many can you match?

Spell Well – 5

We’re back with a tricky spelling quiz for you! Can you spot the correct spelling?

Quite often, some of the most common words are spelt incorrectly. Can you identify the right spelling of these words?

Click on the spelling you think is correct.






Ride the Food express

This Deepavali, let’s travel around the country and see what the hot favourites are.

The festival of lights and fireworks is synonymous with sweets. It is customary to exchange sweets and savouries with friends, family and neighbours. A joyful time, people gather and celebrate the triumph of good over evil. A satiating meal is like a cherry on the icing of any festival.

In India, a lot of importance is given to sweets during any celebration. For Deepavali, the most popular ones are — jalebis, gulab jamun, kheer, gajar ka halwa and suji halwa. And, of course, once you gorge on these remarkable sweets, you long for savouries, and sure enough, they are at hand. Take your pick from dahi-bhalle, pakora, ghathiya and aloo tikki.

Now, accompany us on the foodie express as we go across the country.

A curator? Who’s that?

What do you want to become when you grow up? Why not a curator? Find out what it takes to do this job.

What does a curator do? Scroll through these slides to find out.

Art by Sonal Goyal

Fright night

In many parts of the world, October 31 isn’t a regular day. It’s Halloween — a day of scary fun and treats. Are you ready to get spooked?

In the west, this time of the year when Halloween is celebrated, marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. Halloween comes from ‘All Hallow’s Eve’, which falls on the evening just before ‘All Hallows’ Day’ — also known as ‘All Saints Day’ — on November 1, which is celebrated to honour saints and dear ones who have passed.

In Northern America, you will find many people — children and adults — dressing up in costumes and going trick-or-treating for candy around their neighbourhoods. Houses, shops, and even offices have spooky decorations, especially jack-o’-lanterns carved from pumpkins, besides spider webs, bats, skeletons, and more. People who love to add little excitement to their celebrations visit haunted houses, which have scary attractions that jump out at you unexpectedly.

What about celebrations in other parts of the world? Here are some Halloween (and Halloween-like) traditions.

Ireland: In the place where Halloween is believed to have originated from, the Irish eat a special Halloween fruitcake called Barmbrack in which items such as rings and coins are hidden for fortune-telling. For example, rings mean marriage, while coins mean wealth in the coming year.

Poland: People across the country travel to cemeteries to visit and decorate the graves of their family members.

Mexico (and Latin America): The day here is called Día de los Muertos which literally translates to ‘Day of the Dead’. It is believed that the gates of heaven open up at midnight on October 31 and souls of children return to Earth to be reunited with their families for 24 hours. On November 2, the souls of adults come down from heaven to join in the festivities. Graves are decorated with items such as fake skeletons, marigolds and skulls made of sugar.

China: Chinese Halloween is known as ‘The Hungry Ghost Festival’. People believe that spirits get restless around this time of year and begin to roam the earth. The festival is a way to “feed” these spirits both the food and money they need for the afterlife. Children avoid staying out late and people place lanterns on water to guide lost spirits.

Italy: People pay tribute to departed loved ones by placing a red candle on the window at sunset and setting a place at the table for those spirits they hope will pay them a visit.

Click here to get your very own Halloween themed colouring sheet to get into the spirit. And here’s a little game for you to try. See how fast you can match the jack-o’-lanterns.

Deepavali Dhamaka

It’s Deepavali and everyone is geared up for the fireworks. Don’t believe me? Find out right away.

Let’s play a game

Which chess piece can move only diagonally? In which sport are the Ashes played? Crack this crossword.

Can you complete this crossword based on sports?

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Across

  • 1-9 : A shuttlecock is used in what sport?
  • 25-30 :Ping pong is also known as Table _________
  • 44-48 :In tennis, 40-40 is __________
  • 49-53 :What colour belt are martial arts experts entitled to wear?
  • 67-72 :It is the national game of India
  • 99-102 :Tees, ballmarkers and ________ balls.
  • 134-141 :What sort of animal is the video game character Sonic?

Down

  • 3-75 :Lego comes from this country.
  • 9-45 :How many players are there in a baseball team?
  • 11-83 :The Ashes is an important trophy in this sport.
  • 49-109 :In chess, which piece can move only diagonally?
  • 69-141 :If my sporting event was in a velodrome what would it be?
  • 102-138 :How many rings form the Olympic logo?

Number madness

Numbers, grids, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction and more…Try your hand at this interesting Pro-doku

There are numbers in the top of certain squares. These numbers are the products of the digits in the squares horizontally and vertically adjacent to that square.

Notice that 5 × 5 × 3 × 8 = 600

Try to fill in the gaps such that the numbers from 1 to 9 appear in a row, column and the 3 × 3 grid only once.

Click here to download the above activity sheet.

Move the slider from left to right to see the solution