Shalvit Kids TV Magazine — Issue 42: Inventors & Big Ideas

**SEE IT, THINK IT, MAKE IT, TEST IT, MAKE IT BETTER — the inventing issue for little makers!**

Issue 42 of Shalvit Kids TV Magazine is a giant 135-page celebration of inventing, building and bright ideas. Bibo invents an umbrella for Pip in five clever steps (the first two umbrellas flop kindly — the third one WORKS!), Kiki builds a whole cardboard kitchen café, and Dorcas the Maker shows how hands that make can love. Throughout the issue, mistakes are drafts, nobody is ever mocked for a flop, and every safety rule is built in: grown-up tools are watched only, junk-box items are clean, big and grown-up-checked, and snacks are stacked cold after handwashing.

**INSIDE THIS ISSUE:**

• **Hero Story — Bibo's Umbrella for Pip:** Pip hates getting wet, so Bibo invents through the 5 steps — SEE the problem, THINK of ideas, MAKE one, TEST it, MAKE IT BETTER — across exactly three umbrellas: paper flops, leaf flops, and the strong-sheet umbrella keeps Pip dry!

• **Story Two — Kiki's Cardboard Kitchen:** a whole pretend café built from boxes, where the inventing is the play (pretend food only — in a real kitchen, grown-ups do the hot jobs).

• **Bible Story Time — Dorcas the Maker (Acts 9):** Tabitha spends her life making clothes for widows and the poor; when she is very ill and sleeps, Peter prays — and she opens her eyes and sits up. A maker whose hands loved people, told in gentle words only.

• **Feelings Corner — Feeling Inventive:** mistakes are drafts — every inventor's first try flops, and that is how inventing works.

• **Learning Lab — The 5 Inventing Steps:** the steps taught in their exact order, tools and what they do (hammer taps, screwdriver turns — grown-up tools children only watch; tape, crayons and cardboard for children), draw-it-first plans, and Kiki Asks Why? "How do inventors get ideas?" (they look at a problem and ask "what if…?").

• **Count & Find — The Invention Fair:** count exactly 6 inventions on the tables and 4 glowing light bulbs — every count drawn, checked in code, and answered at the back!

• **Puzzle Pages:** two solver-checked mazes, spot-the-difference, tool matching, shape patterns, dot-to-dot, a number-the-5-steps puzzle and the Big Quiz — with a FULL answer key.

• **Make It — Invent-a-Gadget:** build your own gadget from the junk box (clean, big items only — a grown-up checks every item first; no small parts near babies).

• **Yummy Corner — Build-a-Snack-Stack:** wash hands first, then engineer the tallest COLD snack stack that stands for the photo (a grown-up does the cutting).

• **Our Nigeria — The Blacksmiths of Awka:** a town famous for generations of metal-makers, whose hands shaped tools for farms across the land.

• **SPECIAL — My Inventor's Notebook (pages 119–121):** draw the problem, draw the idea, draw the test — your own inventor's pages!

• **Parent Pages:** what your child learned, the careful true story of the light bulb (for grown-ups), tool and junk-box safety notes, and the complete answer key.

**Skills learned:** problem-solving and the 5 inventing steps • resilience and learning from flops • tool safety • planning and drawing • counting and matching • fine-motor colouring, crafting and stacking • Bible knowledge • pride in Nigerian makers.

From the makers of the Shalvit Kids TV storybooks and songs — 135 pages of stories, songs and smiles for little learners, ages 2–6, made for reading aloud together.