Spider Magazine Stories, Games, Activites and Puzzles for Children and Kids

“HEY, DANDELION! RUDYARD!” Doodlebug Pinkley said, catching up with his sister and their cousin. “I just saw something really weird.” Doodlebug and Dandelion’s mom had brought them to Woody-Woods Park for a nature hike billed as “an afternoon of fa

THERE WAS ONCE a cheerful old woman named Tessie who lived by herself in a tiny cottage outside of town. Tessie was very poor, but she earned a living by doing simple chores for the farmers’ wives around the village. They paid her with a small meal,

HARRY WAS AFRAID of the wind. It whistled under his door. It made the iron fence hum eerie music. The wind followed Harry home from the school bus. It blew off his hat. At night it made the trees creak in the woods near his house. It made sheets dryi

WHEN THE WIND is blowing just right, something magical takes to the skies. Kites! Kites fly in much the same way that airplanes do. Air moving over the flat surface of a kite creates low pressure above and high pressure below and lifts the kite. Ai

BAREFOOT JEAN AND her brown dog, Barley, ran to the top of the green, grassy hill. The sun shone down as she looked up into the deep sea-blue sky. Above her sailed billowing cloud ships with tall sails unfurled. Nimbus whales breached, blocking the

kite patternscissorstransparent taperulerspool of strong threadsewing needlesmall paper clip 1. Cut off the page with the kite pattern on it. Cut the large square apart from the section of narrow strips. Set the strips aside. 2. Pick up the large