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Giant pandas like bamboo so much that they
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How to make the perfect sandcastle, plus facts, jokes and

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Criss crossword
3 letters
Can you fit all these weather words
on the grid? YOUR JOKE
Dew
Fog
Ice
Three letters Seven letters How do you wake Lady
4 letters
Dew Climate HailGaga up in the morning? 
Fog Cumulus Poke her face!
Smog
Ice Cyclone Snow
Joe Tyldesley, 6
Seasons 5 letters
Four letters
Hail Showers YOUR REVIEW
Flood
Front
Smog Thunder
Frost
Snow Volcano Dork Diaries by Rachel Renée Russell
Sleet
Eight letters This is a hilarious story about a rather
6 letters
Five letters dorky girl and a super-
Flood Overcast Breeze
Pressure popular fashion freak.
Cirrus
Front
It is hard to be popu­
Frost Nine letters 7 letters
lar and cool when you
Sleet Hurricane Climate
are the one who spills
Cumulus
Six letters Lightning
your lunch all over
Cyclone
Breeze Seasons
yourself and doesn’t
Cirrus Showers
have a mobile phone.
Thunder
The rather dorky Nikki
Volcano
Maxwell is determined
8 letters

Number nce
Can you work out the number that comes next? to make a fresh start at
Overcast
her new school … but
Pressure

seque 23… 22… 20… 17… 13… 8…?

For answers see tomorrow’s G2
will she succeed? Readers of Diary of
9 letters
a Wimpy Kid will enjoy another book
Hurricane
about a funny diary writer (if they’re a
Lightning
girl!). This is one of the best books I’ve

How to... Build the towers. Make

them grow gradually taller
ever read and I rate it 10/10.
Tatum Parden 9

build a and taller using thick

­circular slices of damp
sandcastle sand piled on top of each
other.
Make the walls.
So, you think a few buckets full of press handfuls of
sand, a couple of twigs and some wet sand together
shells is enough to make a mega in a line and
­sandcastle? No way! We’ve talked to then build them
the experts and here are the secrets to up layer by layer. The
making the best sandcastle ever. base needs to be wider
than the rest of the wall
What you need to ­provide the proper
• Spades support.
• Buckets Make arches. Tunnel
• Moulds through the base of a
• Trowel wall you have built ­using
• Plastic knives a lolly stick, gradually
YOU AND YOUR PET
Pet: Eric the dog.
Breed: Yellow
labrador retriever.
Age: Two.
Favourite toy:
Squeaky pig.
Hobbies: Swimming,
­eating windfall ­apples
are filling the bucket with and drinking ­water
sand, give it a shake now from the toilet.
and then to make sure there Favourite food: Bones.
are no gaps, and then pat Dislikes: Having a bath.
the sand down firmly. Ellen James, 9
• If your bucket gets
too wet and it becomes WE NEED YOU!
puzzles clarity media photographs alamy

• Lolly sticks making the hole too ­difficult to get your

bigger. sand­castle out, use fine, Send in your facts, jokes, pet ­profiles
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