Fun on the run: Ranger Rick's pull-out game section

Ranger Rick, July, 2002 by Claire Miller

Silly Seal-abration

The seals are trying their ball-toss act in the Fourth-of-July parade. Can you help them find all 17 balls that have the colors red, white, or blue on them?

Red, White, and Who?

Each of these things is red, white, and something that rhymes with blue. Number 1, for example, is "red, white, and chew," because the red-and-white parrot is chewing on a nut. Check the hints only if you need extra help.

1. red, white, and chew
2. red, white, and "--"
3. red, white, and --
4. red, white, and --
5. red, white, and --
6. red, white, and "--"
7. red, white, and "--"

Hints

3. What did the wind do to the kite?
4. What are early-morning water droplets?
5. What's a female sheep called?

ANSWERS

Red, White, and Who?

1-chew, 2-moo, 3-blew, 4-dew, 5-ewe, 6-mew, 7-boo

Would You Like to Play with Me? shark

Red, White, and Ka-BLUE-ey: On the launchpad: grapes, snow, whale. In the air: Bang! Pow!

Red, White, and Ka-BLUE-ey!

These fireworks leave letters in the sky as they explode. To find out what they spell, fill in the clues on the launchpad below. (The middle word shares its first and last letters with the words before and after it.) Then crack the number code.

Clues

Word in RED boxes: Red, purple, or green fruits that grow in bunches.

Word in WHITE boxes: It falls from the sky in winter.

Word in BLUE boxes: The biggest animal alive.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY WITH ME?

To find out who I AM, read the clues and cross off the animals I'm NOT. I'm the one that's left over.

1. I'm not red, white, or blue.

2. I don't have fur.

3. I'm not a reptile.

4. I don't have 6 or 8 legs.

5. There's no "d" in my name.

CARDINAL
TURTLE
SNAKE
POLAR BEAR
TOAD
ANT
KANGAROO
DOG
LADYBUG
SHARK
BLUE JAY
GOLDFISH
BUTTERFLY
SPIDER
BAT

CREATURE CROSSWORD

Hint: If a (P) follows a clue, look for a helpful picture.

MACAW
SKINK
ANT LION
WREN
MUSKRAT
SERVAL

ACROSS

 1 A kind of parrot. (P)
 4 Trees have green -- in summer.
 8 A night-hunting bird.
 9 Our national bird.
11 Tree trunks are sometimes this color.
12 It is -- to play outdoors.
16 An animal footprint.
17 This insect makes honey.
18 The horse has a hoof. The cart has a --.
20 A creek. (rhymes with cream)
22 A "rat" that lives in marshes. (P)
26 A kind of lizard. (P)
27 Bees carry this from flower to flower.
28 Ant-trapping insect. (P)
31 An Australian mammal that looks like a teddy bear.
32 The season July is in.
33 Food for horses.

DOWN

 1 Largest member of the deer family.
 2 A young cow.
 3 A small bird with a sweet song. (P)
 4 Part of a tree that has fallen or been cut down.
 5 When a tree is cut down, you can tell its -- by counting the rings
in the trunk.
 6 A wild cat from Africa. (P)
 7 A lightweight boat shaped like a canoe. (starts with "k")
10 A fishing -- is used at the end of a line to attract fish.
13 A fish can -- its tail to swim forward.
14 A book of maps.
15 You can -- in a pool or lake.
17 Night-flying mammals.
19 A flat fish that stings.
21 A large member of the deer family.
23 Obey the -- when you hike in a national park.
24 A stinky mammal.
25 Farm animals that give milk.
27 A -- bear is white.
29 A male turkey.
30 Frozen water.