Shalvit Kids TV Magazine — Issue 58: Bugs & Minibeasts
There is a whole tiny world living under the leaves in your garden — and in this issue, your child gets to explore it like a real scientist: looking gently, counting truly, and touching nothing at all!
Welcome to Issue 58 of the Shalvit Kids TV Magazine — a giant 135-page month of stories, songs and smiles, all about BUGS & MINIBEASTS. Kiki, Bibo, Lulu and Pip take a magnifying glass into Grandma's garden and meet the ant parade, a dancing bee, a ladybird helper, a slow snail carrying its home, a soil-helping worm — and one very special spider. Every creature is taught truly: children learn to count legs and sort the garden the scientist's way — insects have 6 legs, spiders have 8 (and are NOT insects!), worms and snails have none — with every single leg count drawn, checked and verified in the artwork itself.
What's inside (135 pages!):
- The Tiny World Under the Leaf — a 26-page book-length hero story: a magnifying-glass garden morning with the golden explorer rules — "Look, don't grab… put it back… wash your hands!"
- Bibo and the Snail Race (That Wasn't) — an 18-page second story: Bibo tries to race two snails, and learns that slow is fine, cheering can be quiet, and watching beats racing
- Bible Story Time: God's Garden (Genesis 2) — God plants the garden, the man tends it, and Adam gives every animal its name: "God made the garden good!" (cast as presenters only; God shown as golden light only; the gentle garden-and-naming telling — no Fall content)
- Feelings Corner: Feeling Surprised — eyes wide, mouth O, heart thump-thump! Happy surprises, jumpy surprises, and the Breathe-and-Look Plan
- Sing With Us — "Tiny World, Wonderful World" with full lyrics and dance actions, plus the counting rhyme "Six Little Legs" (six for insects, eight for the spider!)
- Learning Lab — the Minibeast Truth Lab — every fact true and checked: insects have exactly 6 legs and 3 body parts · a spider has 8 legs and is NOT an insect · a butterfly tastes with its feet · bees dance to tell their friends where the flowers are · earthworms help the soil · snails carry their homes — plus the special Great Leg-Counter Chart and Kiki Asks Why? "Why do bees dance?"
- Count & Find — count 6 butterflies and 5 ladybirds, an 8-ant parade, 4 snails, 7 bees (from far away, as always!) and 6 worms — every count drawn, numbered and verified
- Puzzle Pages — two solver-verified mazes, spot-the-difference, minibeast fact matching, a snail-shell dot-to-dot, pairs puzzles, a garden hunt and the Big Quiz of the Issue — with a full answer key at the back
- Jokes & Giggles — clean, gentle garden jokes plus a That's Silly! spot-what's-wrong page (a snail in running shoes!)
- Colour & Create — 4 colouring pages (even the colouring creatures keep their true leg counts!), 2 colour-by-number pages and 2 draw-it-yourself pages
- Make It — a bug hotel from sticks and leaves, step by step (a grown-up cuts the sticks — clearly marked as a grown-up step; children stack and tuck)
- Yummy Corner — grape caterpillars under the full kitchen-safety lock (hands washed first; a grown-up cuts every grape lengthways; children count and thread 6 grapes per caterpillar with a grown-up beside them)
- Our Nigeria — Bees & Honey: how Nigerian beekeepers care for their hives, how bees help our farms grow, and why honey is collected by grown-ups only — never from a wild hive!
- Parent Pages + Full Answer Key — what your child learned, how to explore the pages together, a gentle note on caring for tiny creatures, and every answer, cross-checked against the drawn pages
What your child will learn:
- Real minibeast science, told truly — leg counts (6 / 8 / 0), insect body parts, the bee dance, butterfly foot-tasting, worm soil-work
- Counting with exact, numbered, verified quantities — and sorting by evidence ("legs tell the truth!")
- The Surprised feeling — what it feels like in the body, and a calm plan that works
- Garden and kitchen safety for life — look-don't-touch, bee safety, putting creatures back, handwashing first, grown-ups for cutting
- A gentle Bible story with a one-line lesson that lasts: "God made the garden good — and we will care for it!"
- Pride in Nigeria's own sweet helpers — our bees, our beekeepers, our honey
Issue details:
- 135 pages of colourful artwork featuring the much-loved Shalvit Kids TV cast — Kiki, Bibo, Lulu and Pip
- Ages 2–6 — toddlers, preschool and nursery; made for reading aloud together
- PDF — instant download after payment; read on any phone, tablet or computer, or print the colouring, puzzle and craft pages at home
- Issue 58 of the Shalvit Kids TV Magazine — collect the whole series, from Count With Kiki! to the Series 3 adventures!
Perfect for: minibeast-loving little explorers, preschool and nursery science themes, garden and nature topics, Sunday school, and every family that wants big facts told truly and gently.
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