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FUN FACT
Hummingbirds can fly backwards, upside-down, and
even hover in the air. But most of them can’t walk.

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Crossword
Across
1 What Easter eggs are made of (9)
4 Name of Blue Peter’s 6 Across (5) YOUR JOKE
6 Pet feline (3)
7 What you hear with (3) Q What’s purple, round and bad at
8 Opposite of earlier (5) cooking?
9 Give extra weight to something (9) A Alfred the Grape.
Louise Hunter, 7
Down
1 Large reptile with sharp teeth (9)
2 A big group of musicians (9)
YOU AND YOUR PET
3 Urge on and motivate (9) Owner Noah Leigh
4 Motionless (5) Age 5
5 Wonderful (5) Best hobby
Drawing

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Laika

Say what
Age 14
Can you work out what Best toy Mice and

you see
phrase this represents?
Say it out loud and see if
that helps. (Clue: it often
packs quite a punch!)
spiders
Best hobby Sleeping
Best food Meat
Worst habit Scratching

who goes YOUR REVIEW

How to... there? TH13TEEN, Alton Towers
enjoy Wet a patch of
earth before you
In this jaw-dropping rollercoaster, you
start off in a spooky house, and the
camping go to bed. Take a
picture of any
rickety carriages fly into the forest,
around a sharp bend and up a steep
tracks you find
track. Suddenly, you plummet down,
Everyone loves a camping trip. when you wake
screaming with exhilaration! After
Fresh air, tasty barbecues, ­sleeping up. Can you
­hurtling around, you ­approach the
under the stars! And here are some ­identify what
menacing house again, where eerie
great projects to help you enjoy the made them?
green light illuminates chilling ghouls.
great outdoors, taken from the new
A second later, you plunge 6ft down,
book Mission: Explore Camping, friendly and say petition and hold different whizzing out backwards! I would
­published by the Can of Worms hello – if you an award cere- sounds ­recommend this to anyone 10+. When
Kids Press (£5). don’t, then the mony for the: Listen to the
you finish the ride, you even feel that
insects will run • Best-designed sounds you hear
the drops weren’t so bad!
make away, just like boot while sitting in
Chloe Marschner, 11
a bug these ones below. • Most colourful your tent. Close Well done, Chloe – a prize Hop Easter
hotel boot your eyes. How Bunny toy is on its way to you.
Make a great • Boot thrown many can you
place for the furthest. hear?
­insects to stay.
LAST CHANCE!
You could also pack a bag Have you entered our competition to
create a guest Pack one bag of finish The Tick-Tock Box, a short story
book for your things you don’t started by Horrid Henry author Franc-
visitors. need. Find esca Simon? It closes at midnight tonight,
a use for so hurry to guardian.co.uk/childrens-
insect hunt each of them books. You could win a £50 book token
You have five minutes. How many on a walk. and see it on the Guardian website.
­different types of creepy crawlies can Be a boot What was the
you find? Warning: think of insects as if flinger most useful (and Yesterday’s answers
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