Next Week: Mini Page Hero: Elie Wiesel Issue 40, 2016 Founded by Betty Debnam Halloween safety tips Mini Fact: • Trick-or-treat before it gets really A dark. Carry a fl ashlight to help you see Every year, curbs and more than uneven ground. Sweet 20 million • Don’t eat pounds of your treats until candy corn you get home. are sold! Have an adult Treat check your treats before you eat them. • Stay in your own neighborhood. Are you looking forward to Halloween? • Wear comfortable, well-fi tting shoes. Is candy corn at the top of your list of favorite • Go trick-or-treating with a group. Be Halloween candies? sure there are adults in the group, or Candy corn has become a symbol of with you if you are trick-or-treating alone. Halloween, but it’s now made in other colors • Do not wear a mask. Wear face for Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter. The makeup so you can see better. Mini Page takes a look back at the history of • Visit only houses that are well- one of our favorite holiday sweets. lighted. • Your costume should be a good fi t. © Monkey Business Images | Dreamstime.com Business © Monkey Don’t wear one that At fi rst, candy corn was linked with autumn because of the corn harvest. In the 1950s, the is too baggy. Wear a candy became a favorite for trick-or-treaters. bright color so you Making the corn can be seen by drivers. • If you’re invited In the early days, candy corn was made by inside, say, “No, hand. Sugar, corn syrup, marshmallows and thank you,” and do not step inside. other ingredients were heated into a slurry, or • Cross the street only at corners; semi-liquid mixture, then poured into molds. don’t run out between parked cars. Today, candy corn is made by machines. After the kernels cool in the molds, they are polished in large drums with a wax and glaze you can eat. Then they’re packaged and sent More than a century old out to stores. Resources In the 1880s, a worker at the Wunderlee Too much sugar? Candy Co. in Philadelphia came up with the If eating straight candy corn seems too On the Web: idea for a candy that looked like corn kernels. sugary for you, try mixing it with other snacks. • wapo.st/10rrgMS A few years later, the Goelitz Confectionary For example, for a candy corn trail mix, • bit.ly/2bfuOqP Co. took over production of the candy and combine 1 cup of candy corn with 1 cup called it Chicken Feed. each of peanuts, raisins, almonds and dried At the library: In the 19th century, candy-makers made cranberries. • “Candy Making for Kids” by Courtney candies in all kinds of shapes, including To make more of a snack mix, add Chex Dial Whitmore chestnuts, turnips and clover leaves. Candy or Cheerios cereal, pretzels, Goldfi sh crackers • “The Candy Corn Contest” by Patricia corn kernels fi t right in! and chocolate candies such as M&Ms. Reilly Giff The Mini Page® © 2016 Universal Uclick Try ’n’ Find Mini Jokes Words that remind us of candy corn are hidden in this puzzle. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, Sammy: Why did the and some letters are used twice. See if you can fi nd: spider buy a car? Shiloh: So he could take it for a spin! AUTUMN, CANDY, W Y B J G J S K C A N S P E F CHICKEN, COLORS, CORN, G W A H S I L O P Z M L D Q R DRUMS, FEED, GLAZE, L H V D M O L D E J I U R S C HALLOWEEN, HARVEST, A A N S I Y D N A C X R U D H Eco Note HOLIDAY, KERNELS, Z R H A L L O W E E N R M N I MARSHMALLOWS, MIX, E V D E E F O I J R B Y S U C A mysterious purple orb, MOLD, POLISH, POUNDS, F E O C O R N H K W A X H O K or globe, discovered 5,000 feet down in the Pacifi c Ocean off SLURRY, SNACKS, SWEET, G S W O L L A M H S R A M P E Southern California may be a new species WAX. E T T E E W S K E R N E L S N of sea slug. A team from the Ocean S R O L O C I S J A U T U M N Exploration Trust made the discovery in August in the deep Arguello Canyon. A sample from the discovery, which was said to look like a tiny purple disco ball, Cook’s Corner was sent to the Harvard Museum of Spooky Spider Cookies Comparative Zoology for DNA analysis. You’ll need: • 12 red licorice adapted with permission from Earthweek.com • 12 large (3-inch) chocolate cookies twists (cherry- or • 1 (12-ounce) container chocolate strawberry-flavored) For later: frosting • 12 red-hot cinnamon Ask your parents and grandparents candies about their Halloween traditions. Did What to do: they trick-or-treat when they were kids? 1. Spread 2 1/2 to 3 tablespoons chocolate frosting on top of 6 cookies. What was their favorite candy? 2. Carefully cut red licorice twists in half lengthwise to make 24 skinny “spider legs.” 3. Next, slice the 24 twists crossways in half to shorten the legs (you’ll have 48). 2016 Universal Uclick 4. Arrange 8 spider legs on each of the six chocolate frosted cookies (4 on each side). © Teachers: 5. Place another cookie on top, forming a black spider with red legs. For standards-based activities to 6. In the top edge of the cookie sandwich, tuck in 2 red-hot cinnamon candies to serve accompany this feature, visit: as eyes. Makes 6 servings. The Mini Page® bbs.amuniversal.com/teaching_guides.html * You’ll need an adult’s help with this recipe. need an adult’s * You’ll Puzzling Unscramble the words below that remind us of candy. estwe caloteohc ifytru insrasi Answers: sweet, chocolate, fruity, raisins. fruity, chocolate, sweet, Answers:.