Color kids safe
Star-Bulletin staff

Free "Play It Safe: Air, Land and Sea" coloring books can help kids learn rules of personal safety while they have fun coloring a drawing that illustrates the safety tip. Pointers on traveling by airplane, by car and by boat, as well as on general safety, are covered.

The books can be picked up at all Finance Factors branches 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays.

The coloring books contain a calendar for every month through April 1997, with safety tips and a drawing to color for each month.

The books also include a guide for parents and teachers, information on cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, and hints for good nutrition.

While some of the safety rules are familiar, the book is a useful reminder of precautions that might otherwise be overlooked.

The books are made available through Play It Safe International with the state Department of Education, the Hawaii Play It Safe Advisory Committee, Finance Factors, KITV and District 50 Hawaii Lions.

Kids' Achievements

Eh, no razz me!

What do you when someone teases you?

Well 8-year-old Julie Moody of Honolulu has a suggestion. In the May issue of Highlights magazine, she writes, "Our teacher told us that if we were being teased we should pretend that we are inside a bubble and let the words bounce off."

Moody offered her method of handling teasing in response to a "Your Ideas, Please" feature in the previous issue of the magazine. The column asked readers to send in their solutions to a problem.

Moody has just completed the second grade at Hanahauoli School. The daughter of Thomas and Hilary Moody, she is a Girl Scout who lists her favorite activities as swimming, reading, ballet, horseback riding and doing sewing and craft projects. She wants to be a ballerina when she grows up.


I got gum on my shoes!

Four more "gumshoes" from Hawaii have been recognized by the PBS television show "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"

Stella Jang of Ewa Beach and Kristen Maeoka, Lee Cataluna and Ashley Guillory of Honolulu were named winners in the "Carmen" geography contest for program viewers.

At-home contestants must figure out from clues given on the show which world landmarks and treasures have been stolen by the Carmen Sandiego gang of thieves, and where these "loots" belong.

Jang, Maeoka and Cataluna had their names shown on-screen during "Carmen Sandiego" episodes this spring, Guillory will be listed next month. Each also received an official program T-shirt.

"Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" is broadcast 3:30 p.m. weekdays on KHET.



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