No Lawnmower Required! Gluten-Free Bakery. Some people have special diets that don’t allow them to eat normal bread, brownies or cookies. Look up gluten-free recipes online or in specialty cookbooks and practice baking. Ask around your neighborhood or church to meet potential customers. Local News. Put together a neighborhood newsletter, either weekly or monthly. Promote …
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Baffled by the blocks in the November issue? Here they are again: How It Works This is actually a substitution code (A=1, Z=26, etc.) in disguise. Each colored square is worth a certain value (white boxes=0): Add up the values within each 2-by-2 block (colors are always shown highest-to-lowest value), then convert the total to …
Did you pick the right letters in June’s fruit code? Here it is again: How It Works Just like Mr. Jingles, some fruits do not belong up a tree: Strawberry photo © Flickr.com/Nathan Cooprider Pineapple photo © Flickr.com/U.S. Department of Agriculture Grape photo © Flickr.com/Helder Mira Watermelon photo © Flickr.com/Forest and Kim Starr Banana photo …
Hawaii, especially Maui, is known for its winter humpback whale population. But it wasn’t always that way. While more than 100,000 humpbacks lived in the oceans at the start of the 20th century, whalers hunted the animals until only about 1,000 remained in the North Pacific by the mid-1960s. In 1963, it became illegal to …
Road trips are a great opportunity to explore new places, spend time with your family and leave the ordinary behind. Me Mail Before you go, purchase plenty of postcard stamps. On each day of your trip, buy a postcard, write down what happened that day and mail it to yourself. By the time you get …
Did you see this secret message in the September 2012 issue of Clubhouse? Well, get a ticket and learn what we should show each other. How It Works: To bust this code, only read the tickets that are in the same order as the colors of the rainbow. Start with red, then orange, then yellow, …
Does the decoder from the January 2010 issue have you stumped? Here it is again: How It Works The first digit in a number indicates which row to use on the left. The second digit tells you which column to use on the top. Write down the letter where the two numbers intersect. Example: The …
Barrett Jones, the character that Andy Pessoa plays on Adventures in Odyssey, is described as “talented and easily distracted.” Only half of that is true for Andy, because this teen actor is talented and focused. Already in his acting career, Andy has had speaking parts in numerous TV shows, videos and movies, including the latest …
God gave each of us talents and creative minds. The first verse in the Bible says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and earth” (Genesis 1:1). God is Creator, and He formed us in His image—so we’re creative, too! When God formed the universe, He could have made a boring environment that only sustained …
Squeezing through the crowded Bethlehem street, Benjamin reached the vegetable cart just as a Pharisee plunked down coins for the last bunch of garlic. “Please! I need that.” Benjamin grabbed at the man’s sleeve, but the Pharisee shoved him to the ground. “Be off, shepherd boy!” The Pharisee frowned down his nose as if he …
In January’s Truth Pursuer, we talked about how much God loves you. He created every hair on your head, and He has amazing plans for your life (even if it doesn’t always feel like it). But if God loves you no matter what, why should you change? What’s the point of eating your vegetables, practicing …
Greetings and salutations! Have you solved this month’s perplexing puzzles? Fill in the grid below so each row, column and colored shape includes every number from 1 to 5. (That means no repeats, either horizontally or vertically.) If you think you have the answer, click on the image below. This second puzzle is even harder. …
Want to know what the secret vegetable message said in the Jones & Parker mystery from the July issue of Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine? If you missed it, here it is again: How It Works: This code includes lots of good things to eat. To break the code, ONLY read the letters inside …
Can you crack October’s candy code? Here it is again: How It Works First match the color at the base of the candy corn with the base in the key below. (The colors in the key are arranged reverse alphabetically: yellow, red, purple, green and blue.) Then match the position of the top colored line …
Did you see the man making all those flag signals at the end of the Jones & Parker Mystery in November 2011 issue of Clubhouse magazine? If you didn’t, here it is again: The signals will help you solve this question: What does encouragement give someone? __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __. …
“We’ve been in the car forever!” I said in an extra whiny voice. “How much longer until we get there?” “Great job waiting till we were almost out of the driveway before asking,” Dad said, laughing. We were going on another famous Smiley spring-break adventure, which is properly named because my family does it in …
In the March 2014 Truth Pursuer, we compared sinful hearts to messy rooms. Thankfully, God gives us lots of great heart-cleaning tips in His Word: 1. Don’t hide the mess. Examine your heart with the light of God’s truth. “For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating …
Trying to find the answer to the math code in the September 2010 issue of Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine? Just put 2-and-2 together! If you missed it, here’s what was in the magazine: 4+3 3×5 2×2 20-1 7×3 8+8 4×4 …
We had to join a new gym because . . . uh, well, that’s not important. The important thing is that we found a gym with a good pool, great weights and, most important, a place where no one knows me. Last week, during my first visit, I decided to swim some laps in the …
“Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.—James 2:23 (NIV) God wants to be your best friend, but it can be hard to figure out how that actually works. It’s not like we can shop for clothes together or ride bikes around the neighborhood. So how …