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Road Trip Recipe: Cheese Straws
What you need: - 2 cups flour - 2 cups old Cheddar cheese, grated - 3/4 cup butter, softened - 1 teaspoon baking powder - 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper - 1/2 teaspoon salt - 1/2 cup water - an adult assistant What you do: Preheat oven to 400°. Grease a baking sheet. Add all ingredients EXCEPT water to a large bowl. Slowly mix in water, a little at a time until the mixture sticks together to form a dough. Roll out dough on a floured surface to about ¼” thickness. Cut into strips about ¼” thick and then cut into 4” lengths. Place on baking sheet and bake for about 5 minutes until golden brown.
Play Tile Towers!
If you like a game that requires thinking, strategy, and matching, you’re going to LOVE Tile Towers in the Webkinz World Arcade. In Tile Towers, the object of the game is to match two tiles. Click on them when you match them to clear them from the board. Be sure the tiles don’t have another tile on top of them, and make sure they’re not surrounded by tiles; the tiles have to be available to be clicked upon. There are three different ways to play the game: Classic, Quick and Target. Each one is a ton of fun, so try all three today!
Elwin: Mobbed!
Dear Hailey, I just made it back to my bus after a really scary experience! I’d finished my concert and then I went out back to sign some autographs like I always do. The thing is, tonight seemed to be a much bigger crowd than I’m used to and when I went outside without any warning everyone seemed to surge forward at once! As more and more fans crowded in, some of them started screaming my name. I know you’re probably thinking that sounds kind of cool, and that’s what I would have thought too, but it was not cool, Hail. Not cool at all! I was really starting to get frightened. There were so many fans, all screaming and pushing in on me, but suddenly a couple of my roadies pushed their way through the crowd and surrounded me. Roadies are the crew who help set up each concert. They’re big, burly fellas who spend all their time lugging heavy equipment around, so they’re really strong and they were able to form a circle around me and guide me to the bus. They held off the fans while I climbed aboard, and then we tried to drive out of … Read more
Ella interview: Purr-Cilla
Ella McWoof: I’m here with Purr-Cilla. Purr-Cilla played a large role in the student government last year and I’m sure that our readers would love to learn more about her. I’ve also heard murmurings that sometimes Purr-Cilla doesn’t always get along with all of the ‘Kinz and I thought that we could address those rumors here today. Purr-Cilla, welcome. Purr-Cilla: Wow! I was wondering when you were going to get around to interviewing someone that the readers would REALLY like to hear about. Ella McWoof: Um, well, I think the readers are anxious to learn about a lot of the residents of Kinzville, but maybe you could tell us a little about the contributions you made to the School Council. Purr-Cilla: What DIDN’T I do is more like it. I practically carried the council all year last year. Salley is not exactly management material, but I was able to keep it together and work with her and in the end I guess we made an okay team. I think there was just a little confusion about who should have been president and who should have been vice-president but whatever. Ella McWoof: You know, sometimes I hear talk around town that … Read more
Play Smoothie Moves!
There’s nothing like a cool smoothie at the end of a hot summer’s day – and that’s why you should check out Smoothie Moves in the Webkinz World Arcade! Blanche is a cat who works at a diner, and she needs your help to fill all the smoothie orders. Help by tossing food onto the conveyor belt to make a group of three or more of the same food. When you do, the group will disappear. When you use all the ingredients on the conveyor belt, you move up a level! Watch out for awesome combos and cool power ups – and make sure the food doesn’t fall off the end of the conveyor belt! Head over to the Webkinz World Arcade today and play!
Make Your Pet a Hot Air Balloon
Making a hot air balloon in Webkinz World is a TON of fun with our new Building Kits in the W Shop! If you want to make your plush Webkinz pet a hot air balloon of their own, here’s how! What you need:Balloon, adult assistant, small box or berry basket, string or yarn, square of fabric (about 6 inches x 6 inches), scissors What you do:1. Have your adult assistant blow up the balloon.2. In each corner of the fabric, cut a little hole. Tie a piece of string or yarn (each about 2 feet in length) onto each hole. 3. Tie the other end of the string or yarn on each corner of your basket or box (poke a hole if you need to).4. Slip the balloon under the piece of fabric (so the fabric sits on top of the balloon).5. Put your pet in the basket and pretend they’re flying around the room!
Fancy Marbled Paper
Great news, everyone! Roberta here with a really awesome new craft to try out. It’s a great way to make marbled paper with shaving cream and food coloring! What you need: Cookie sheet, shaving cream (the foamy kind), liquid food coloring, pencil, printer paper, spatula What you do: 1. Put a layer of shaving cream in your cookie sheet. 2. Drip different colors of food coloring onto the shaving cream. 3. Swirl the food coloring around with your pencil. 4. Put your piece of paper on top of the colored shaving cream and press down gently. 5. Lift off the paper and scrape the excess shaving cream away with the spatula. 6. You should see a beautiful marbled design on your paper! 7. Use your paper to wrap gifts, make cards, or just get creative!
Elwin’s Dressing Room
Hey, Hail! I actually had a fun day on tour for a change! It all started when we got to our latest concert venue. They showed me into my dressing room and – ugh! It was an insult to my sensibilities, Hailey. The room itself wasn’t too bad, but they had thrown in a whole mishmash of stuff. It was way too crowded. Check it out: What were they thinking, shoving all that stuff in there? I mean, the dressing room is usually going to be used by acts passing through town. They don’t need that much clothing storage. One dresser would be fine, right? And the way it’s laid out – when I sat on the couch I couldn’t even see the TV! I asked the staff if they would mind if I removed some of the furniture in the room. They told me there was a big storage space backstage and I was welcome to move anything I wanted into there. They even offered to help me move the larger pieces. Now, this layout just works so much … Read more
Checking in on Reid
Oh, hi! It’s me, Roberta. Sorry I haven’t checked in lately but, well, this big sister thing hasn’t exactly been going according to plan. Reid has been really colicky lately. That means that he’s fussy and crying all the time because he probably has a sore tummy. Dr. Quack says it’s fairly normal. I do feel sorry for the little guy, but seriously – I don’t know how much more of this I can take! He never seems to stop! And I don’t even have it the worst. My mom and dad said I could sleep downstairs in my craft room if I wanted so that I wouldn’t have to listen to Reid cry at night, but they don’t have that option. They’re both like zombies, wandering around in a daze, with big dark circles under their eyes. My mom said it’s not really that bad, that it’s just a phase and Reid will get over it soon enough, but I have to say – this is not how I imagined it would be to have a baby around. I thought it would be all cuteness and cuddles, not screaming and crying all the time. … Read more
Ella Interviews Goober
Ella McWoof: Today I’m here with Harold J. Hausenfeffer II, or as you probably know him, Kinzville’s foremost scientist, Goober. Goober: And I’m glad to be here, Emma! EM: Uh, it’s Ella. G: Sorry about that! I know your name, Erma! EM: ELLA. Anyway, Goober let’s start by having you tell our readers about what you’re working on in your lab these days. G: Oh, so many things! I’ve got five key experiments on the go right now. I’m trying to figure out a formula for un-sticky glue, a way to make invisible hats, a potion to make me taller, one to make me shorter, and (of course), I’m still trying to figure out Great-Great Grandma Hausenfeffer’s secret brownie recipe. EM: Brownie recipe? G: Yes. It’s delicious. And one day I shall recreate it. Great-Great Grandma Hausenfeffer never wrote anything down, so it’s all a huge tasty trial and error to figure out the correct ingredients. I’ve eaten so many pans of brownies. EM: Why would you want to make un-sticky glue? G: In case you glued something somewhere that it shouldn’t be. Then you could just un-stick it and move it somewhere else. EM: And an invisible hat? … Read more
Road Trip Recipe: Healthy Homemade Tortilla Chips
What you need: - 1 package small whole wheat tortillas - Non-stick cooking spray - Salt - An adult assistant What you do: Preheat oven to 400°. Lightly spray both sides of each tortilla with cooking spray and cut into six wedges. Place tortillas on baking trays and sprinkle lightly with salt. Bake for 8 minutes, watching after 5 minutes to make sure they don’t brown too much. Once they have cooled, store your tortilla chips in an airtight container.
Touring: Not So Fun
Dear Hailey, Okay, I hope you’re not getting sick of my letters because I just feel like I am constantly complaining to you. The thing is, I know I can share my real feelings with you and not worry about it, unlike around here where I have to put on a brave face all the time. Maybe I’m just tired but I’m really starting to question whether stardom is really for me. You know that I’m not afraid of hard work – I mean, I can stay up all night drafting plans for new designs and I have endless energy when it comes to moving furniture around a room to get it just right. But when I am working on my designs I am so caught up in the moment that it doesn’t even feel like work to me. It’s just where I want to be. Hailey, touring just feels like work. And hard work that I’m not even that excited about. In fact, the further we get into the tour, the less excited I feel. I just have to ask you, if this is what I was really meant to do wouldn’t I be enjoying myself more?
Craft: Build your own Wacky Sculpture
We’re having so much fun playing with the new Building Kits in Webkinz World it inspired us to create some real life Building Kits of our own! Here’s how you can build your own Wacky Sculpture: What you need: - Oven bake clay - Acrylic paint (optional) - Sculpting tools: toothpicks, craft stick, dull knives (with the help of an adult assistant) - paintbrush What you do: To make Wacky, mould one piece of clay into a large teardrop shape and set it down on the wide end. You can make a small slit at the top of the teardrop shape and separate it slightly to form Wacky’s ‘hair’. To craft legs, roll some clay into a thick sausage shape and cut in half with a knife. Shape one end into a foot (no toes!) Attach each leg to the side of the base of your teardrop shape, pointing outward. To make Wacky’s arms, roll a piece of clay into a slightly thinner sausage shape and cut in half. Form one end into a mitten shaped hand. Attach the arms to the side of Wacky above the legs. Smooth over the clay where the arms and legs attach to hide … Read more
