Shalvit Kids TV Magazine — Issue 45: Patterns & Puzzle Power

Pattern detectives, assemble! In Issue 45 of the Shalvit Kids TV Magazine, Kiki, Bibo, Lulu and Pip discover that the festival bunting on their street keeps coming out WRONG — and only pattern detectives can save Decoration Day!

Inside this 135-page issue:

• HERO STORY — "The Pattern That Broke": five bead, shape and flag strings, each with exactly ONE wrong item hidden inside its pattern. Your child says the pattern, spots the repeat, and finds the mistake — the keyed answers are in the back!

• STORY TWO — "Bibo's Big Puzzle Race — Against Himself": the same giant floor puzzle, yesterday vs today. The only race is against your own best.

• BIBLE STORY TIME — Gideon and the Lamps (Judges 7): God, a small team of 300, and a bright idea that lights up the night — told gently, with no scary scenes.

• FEELINGS CORNER — Feeling Clever: my brain can spot what is wrong and fix it — cleverness as fix-it kindness.

• LEARNING LAB — the four pattern families (AB, ABB, AAB, ABC) taught and machine-checked, odd-one-out logic, first/next/last sequences, and first coding steps with arrow paths that really lead to the star. Plus Kiki Asks Why? "What is a pattern?"

• COUNT & FIND — count exactly 12 bunting flags and find the ONE flag that breaks the pattern.

• PUZZLE PAGES — two solver-verified mazes, spot-the-difference, matching, dot-to-dot and more, with a full answer key.

• SING WITH US, JOKES & GIGGLES, COLOUR & CREATE — including a special Pattern Poster page and a "crack my code" drawing page.

• MAKE IT — a secret-pattern bead string for a friend to crack. YUMMY CORNER — pattern kebabs built by the card (AB and ABB), with grown-ups doing all the cutting.

• OUR NIGERIA — Patterns in Our Cloth: adire's indigo stars and aso-oke's woven stripes — maths you can wear!

• PARENT PAGES — what your child learned, how to play together, and the complete answer key.

Every pattern in this issue is generated from its declared pattern family and checked by code — if a pattern is broken, it is broken ON PURPOSE, as the puzzle, and the answer key names the exact position. From the makers of the Shalvit Kids TV storybooks and songs. Ages 2–6, for reading aloud together.