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It’s now the middle of summer vacation from school, and your kids might be starting to complain that they’re bored. My kids love reading magazines, and there are so many great ones to keep them occupied! Not sure which ones to buy for our own little readers? Here’s my list of 7 great magazines for kids!
1 Highlights
Price: $34.95 at amazon.com
I used to get this one when I was little, and I still love doing the puzzles and reading the poems while I’m with my daughter in the waiting room at the pediatrician’s office. If your child is a little older, there’s another version called High Five, too!
2 Disney Princess Magazine
Price: $38.99 at amazon.com
It’s a rule: all little girls must adore the Disney Princesses. If your little girl adheres to this law, then she’ll love this magazine, filled with games, puzzles, and stories around the mega-successful Disney Princess franchise.
3 Preschool Playroom
Price: $26.97 at amazon.com
My daughter loves this magazine because it has all of her favorite characters, and there’s something new every issue. There are lots of pictures, and the reading is right for her age.
4 Your Big Backyard
Price: $24.00 at amazon.com
Looking for a nature magazine with absolutely NO advertisements? Your Big Backyard is completely non-commercial, and there are such gorgeous photographs! Older kids may be bored, but any little girl or boy will love the close-ups of bugs, flowers, and more!
5 National Geographic Kids
Price: $19.95 at amazon.com
Everything that fascinates kids about our current world or our past will love National Geographic Kids. I don’t like that there’s so much advertising, but it’s worth it for the amazing photos and fascinating articles, all geared towards younger, but savvy, explorers.
6 Sports Illustrated Kids
Price: $19.
95 at amazon.com
If your little sportsman has been swiping Dad’s Sports Illustrated, maybe it’s time for his own subscription to SI Kids! I love the funny interviews with the pro athletes, and the messages are all positive.
7 American Girl
Price: $22.95 at amazon.com
If you’ve ever been to an American Girl store, or seen any of the books, you know how wholesome but realistic these girls and their stories are. There’s nothing objectionable here, and pre-teen girls are hopelessly addicted.
There are literally hundreds more magazines for kids, but these are the ones mine like most… and that I like most, too! Which of these do you get for your kids? Or is there another magazine they love? Please let me know!
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Are you an educator or are you in training to be one? Or you work in marketing in a company and you want to create a wonderful give-away with added value and an important message for your small target group? Or do you have children and are not a fan of the children’s magazines on the magazine shelf, but are very creative yourself? Or maybe you are looking for creative activities or gifts for children in general? — You’ve all come to the right place.
Because this article is all about how you can make a beautiful children’s magazine yourself.
Kids like pictures, stories, games, puzzles, colouring-in sheets … — kids just love to flip through magazines. That’s why homemade magazines are also a great idea as a gift for them. Whether as a pastime at a wedding, at a company party or as a project in education. There are so many beautiful ideas and a thousand ways to make a magazine for children meaningful and also sustainable.
How it works
The best place to make your own children’s magazine is in the makerspace. Here, all the tools are geared towards creating individual magazines. Here you will find many beautiful fonts, an incredible number of colours, small illustrations and much more to create your own layout as well as practical image editing tools. This gives you a wide range of possibilities to fill the magazine for the little ones with different elements such as stories, games, puzzles and so on.
Just the way you want it.
Great templates to design your own magazines
In the makerspace you will also find numerous professionally designed magazines and individual pages that you can use as a basis for your own magazine project. Think creatively and be open. Because you can use any magazine template for any topic, regardless of the theme. Are you sceptical? Yes, you can make a beautiful children’s magazine from a wedding magazine template. Keep the basic structure. Change fonts, colours and decorative elements and you have a whole new magazine.
Ideas for children’s magazine content
- Games and quizzes to pass the time
- Beautiful colouring pages
- Environmental and sustainability themes — information and puzzles about them
- Self-written stories with children’s own illustrations, photos or pictures
- Photo quizzes (matching photos from the past and present, who owns which pet?)
- Funny photo pages
- Memory pages of the past
- Handicraft instructions
- Self-made comics
- Friend pages to fill in
- Fun questionnaires
Pssst, make it legally sound
As with all other projects, you should of course consider the legal side: So, don’t violate copyrights, but ask before you use someone else’s text, illustrations or photos — especially if you’re doing it for commercial purposes.
In the heat of the moment, this can get lost, but it’s so important. If you are on a tight budget and need images, use the numerous free image databases to protect yourself. Then nothing will stand in the way of your homemade children’s magazine.
Demand for children’s magazines is growing in Latvia — but it is advised to read them together with parents / Article
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December 28, 2020, 8:10
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Lsm.lv bērnu satura redakcija, Editorial Rus.LSM.lv (Rus.lsm.lv)
Children’s magazines are popular with young readers — with bright pictures, designed specifically for this age category. But the publishers note that the child also needs the participation of an adult in order to complete the tasks.
Children’s magazines are also in demand in libraries, informs Latvijas radio.
The 100th issue of the children’s magazine Pūcīte has already been published. This is a printed publication from the Mezgls group containing mental stimulation tasks:
“It’s a great magazine for kids to study with their grandparents,” says Erika Berzina, a Santa publishing house representative, mother and editor of Mans Mazais, a magazine for parents of babies.
No matter how beautiful, interesting and visually appealing a magazine for children is, the participation of parents or grandparents is required, Latvijas radio aired.
Marita Maizytė, together with her colleague Antra Liepiņa, publishes the magazine Spicīte. It has materials for reading and mastering mathematics. The editors keep in touch with parents to tell them what the children like, what they would like to see in the magazine, and then implement these ideas in the issue. The audience of the magazine is children and parents who like to read, study, cook and eat together.
Children’s magazines are also popular, which come with some little thing. But here it is important to understand what you are, in principle, buying: a trinket or the magazine itself.
Preschool magazine Pikolo gains popularity. And the edition for the little ones has just been published — Ucipuci («Utiputi»). The main image in it is the toy owl Utiputi, which migrated there from the books by Zane Zusta “Utiputi is looking for a home” and “Utiputi does not think in a box”.
Natalia Kholosha, a specialist at the Riga Central Library, said that the demand for magazines for younger audiences is very high in the children’s department. The library has subscribed to 60 titles for children and teenagers. Publications are in different languages. The library also allows children to draw, glue, and complete assignments in library copies.
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Children’s magazine OYLA: «We want to teach children to think»
The second issue of the popular science magazine for schoolchildren and their parents OYLA has been published in Kazakhstan.
The appearance of this kind of publication is a real event in the country’s media industry. We talked to Asem Zhapisheva, editorial director of OYLA, about why a printed science magazine is needed for children and adults.
How did the idea of creating a scientific journal for children in Kazakhstan come about?
Just a couple of decades ago, children’s magazines, especially scientific ones, were very popular, almost every family received their own set every month: “Young Naturalist”, “Young Technician”, “Quantik”, today’s adults, parents perfectly remember articles that were published in the «golden years» of children’s publications.
Reading magazines was not just a form of leisure, it can be said that they were one of the cultural factors, due to their huge circulation and ubiquitous availability. Children grew up dreaming about space, traveling, scientific careers, they were versatile.
I don’t want to talk about the decline in education among today’s children or how they are absorbed in games, gadgets and so on — each generation has its own values and strengths.
In the preface to the first issue, addressing the readers, we wrote: “Every day, amazing discoveries are made in the world, and how much is already known to mankind! And when we see, hear, read something talented, we want to tell everyone about it so that they know it too. This is how this magazine was born.
We want our children to know history, many languages, understand mathematics and physics, conduct chemical experiments and love all the variety of life forms on Earth. We want our children to be able to think.
By the way, that is why the magazine is called OYLA, which means “Think” in Kazakh.
Another important point — more than 60% of students in Kazakhstan receive education in the Kazakh language, at the same time, there is a catastrophic lack of literature, magazines for children in Kazakh. Therefore, our journal is published in two languages in separate editions. Knowledge should be available to everyone.
Why was the print format chosen? After all, it is believed that the younger generation is closer to new technologies? Why not an app for tablets or mobile devices, not a website?
First, it has to do with the purpose and positioning of the magazine. We act as a kind of additional teaching aid. Textbooks often do not keep up with progress in science, besides, the format of a 45-minute lesson, where the teacher needs to explain the topic and check knowledge on the previous one, does not allow textbook compilers and teachers to “turn around”.
In our materials, we do not just explain, for example, quadratic equations, but tell how they appeared, what are the practical benefits of such knowledge — this knowledge helps students to delve deeper into the material.
Knowing and understanding these principles, there is no need to memorize formulas, the student will be able to reproduce it anyway.
Such knowledge is best consumed from a living, printed medium.
Also, studies of various aspects of the use of e-books and gadgets in studies show that it is still preferable for children to use paper.
The magazine forces attention to be focused on the subject, without being distracted by unnecessary things, to concentrate attention. In addition, the speed of reading from paper media is 1.5 times higher than from electronic ones.
We will undoubtedly publish the electronic version as an application. But I would not want to just re-upload content to the Internet.
Now our team is developing an interactive application that will complement the magazine: photos, videos, educational games.
How do you plan to monetize the publication?
Monetization of the magazine will be achieved through subscription and advertising. I am glad that advertisers and subscribers responded when even the first issue was not in the hard copy. They believed in us, for which we are very grateful to them.
We have also come up with a new distribution feature: we offer advertising in exchange for a corporate subscription. If the company has a sufficient number of employees with children, they can subscribe to the magazine for them and receive advertising from us in return. It works great, companies respond every day.
The publisher of the magazine is Ludmila Utemuratova.
Who are the authors of the journal? How are authors selected?
The authors of the journal are scientific journalists, teachers and scientists.
Each section is led by a recognized expert in their field, active scientists. The editorial team only adapts articles for children.
The rooms do not have a common theme. If you look, you will see that each issue is very diverse in terms of content and layout.
Are new technologies being used to create the magazine? Photobanks, online encyclopedias, and so on?
Yes, of course. For each article, we are looking for our own, unique solution. The OYLA design team is a team of professionals led by art director Alexander Fisher.
Illustrations are drawn by hand, interesting tricks, collages are invented. We try to constantly learn new things: we subscribe to the best publications from all over the world, monitor media news, and use all possible tools.
What can you say about the number of subscribers to the publication at the moment?
The monthly circulation of the magazine is 20 thousand copies.
