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Inside Issue No 83 (February 2024)
“The early bird gets the worm.”
Just like the bird, we don’t waste any time getting ready for another fun year of Blaze magazine. The end of 2023 was hectic for us with Holiday subscriptions, but the Kids Committee was buy too!
There’s a lot to discuss before the start of a new year, like which horse breeds will be in Blaze this year and choosing special feature stories for you. Not all story ideas make the cut. We hope you’ll love what we have in store for you in 2024.
If you have a suggestion for something that you’d like to read about, just let me know.
Brenda
Top stories issue 83 include
- Horses Are Sensational – Touchy Subject
- Horse Breed – Standing Tall. The Clydesdales
- Feature – Horsey Craft (Bottle Caps)
- Feature – Saddle Up (English and Western Riding)
Plus our regular departments
- Contest
- Blaze Bits
- Bulletin Board
- Club Corner
- Great Reads
- Friend or Foe
- Good Eats
- and more
AND an awesome Poster!!!
Horse-crazy youth are keeping in touch with Blaze in many countries around the world. It’s easy with digital subscriptions on itunes, or with Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. If you haven’t connected with us already, we’re waiting… patiently. Saddle Up with Blaze.
Your friends,
Brenda & Blaze
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The Perfect Gift for Horse-Crazy Kids
Blaze magazine is every child’s ride into the wonderful world of horses. Kids who like horses, love Blaze magazine.
Blaze combines the mix of entertainment and education that kids look for in magazines and websites. Kids want creativity and challenge, and they want to have fun. That’s the Blaze difference … an interactive magazine that keeps the fun in horses and learning.
Blaze magazine is full of fun facts, cool games and crafts, and fascinating articles on horses, horse kids and the natural world they share. Promoting literacy of course, it’s great for learning about not only horses, but also about nature, history, creative arts, character traits and much more.
Geared for kids aged 8 to 14, the magazine is published quarterly.
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Horse Talk
What Is This Horse Thinking?
Fill in the thought balloon shown here.
Mail your answer along with your name, address and age to:
Blaze magazine, Horse Talk, P.O. Box 2660, Niagara Falls, NY 14302-2660.Or, email your caption to brenda@blazekids.com
(put Horse Talk in Subject Line!)
Breed Profile
Standing Tall
The Clydesdales
There may not be a better combination of size, power, smarts and grace than the Clydesdale horse.
These gentle giants originated in Scotland in the 1700s and are popular all around the world today.
Heavy Lifters
The Clydesdale was bred over 300 years ago to haul coal and do farm work. But, they’re gaining popularity as work horses once again. It’s not likely that they’ll replace the tractor, but horse are more eco-friendly for small farms.
Did You Know?
Clydesdale horses stand around 17-18 hands high. They can weigh as much as 2,000 pounds (900 kg)!
To learn more about these horses read part of our breed profile, Breed Profile Clydesdales from issue 83.
Featured Content
Horses are Sensational
Touchy Subject
Of our five senses – sight, smell, touch, sound and taste – smell may be our weakest one. Although most kids making their first visit to a farm might disagree.
In horses, touch is thought to be their weakest sense. In one way this is true. In another way it is not true.
Did you know? Some area of a horses skin are so sensitive to pressure that horse know when a fly lands on them.
In this issues Horses are Sensational we learn about the horses sense of touch and how the skin tells it a lot about the world they live in.
To check out part of this issues Tooth Talk read Horses are Sensational.
