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ARTS, CRAFTS, AND ACTIVITIES
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Possibly the best Halloween pumpkin ever? See Extreme Pumpkins’ Giant Squid Pumpkin. |
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Make this particularly cool toilet-paper-tube squid from Almost Unschoolers. |
| From Artists Helping Children, the Squid Arts and Crafts and Octopus Arts and Crafts pages have dozens of hands-on projects for all ages. Make a giant squid pillow or turn a clothes hanger into an Outrageous Octopus. | |
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Make OCTOPUS CUPCAKES! (The tentacles are gummy worms.) |
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From Steve Spangler Science, Squidy is a classic science toy – the cephalopod version of the Cartesian diver. Learn all about density and buoyancy (with a squid). $3.99. |
POEMS
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By Ogden Nash, The Octopus; by Jack Prelutsky, from his collection A Pizza the Size of the Sun (Greenwillow, 1996), see “I’m Wrestling With an Octopus.” (Giggle.) |
| Kenn Nesbit’s Speedy Squid – which appears in The Tighty Whitey Spider (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2010) – features a racing squid and ends with a pun. Kids will love it. | |
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Poet/molecular biologist Katherine Larson celebrates – among other things – squid in her poetry collection Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press, 2011). Learn about her work in her PBS interview Dissecting Prose and Squid. |
| For a classic poem about a cephalopod, see The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes. |
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Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid (HarperPerennial, 2008) doesn’t really have a whole lot to do with squid, but it is an interesting discussion of the neurobiology of reading – a skill that most of us adore, but doesn’t come naturally. For teenagers and adults. |