Highlights for Children

The experts at Highlights know how to keep kids motivated while they learn. Filled with fiction, nonfiction, Hidden Pictures®, skill-building puzzles, science experiments and more, this read-only digital version of Highlights magazine strengthens reading abilities, promotes creativity, sharpens thinking skills, and helps build confidence. Visit Highlights.com to learn more. Ages 6-12.

OUT OF HAND

Hello, Friends!

Gum

Eww! What IS That?

OCTOBER

ABOUT YOU • Stuff you love, things you tried, and what you wish other kids knew about you.

Time for a Trim!

The Butter Street Dragons

Candy Gobblers • Remove the plastic from the opening of an empty tissue box. Cut out teeth from craft foam. Glue them on. Decorate the box with pompoms, tissue paper, felt, paint, or old tights stuffed with polyester fiberfill. Glue on pompom eyes, fuzzy-stick eyestalks, cardboard ears, shredded tissue-paper hair, or other decorations.

SLIME TIME! • Get stuck on some of the slimiest, gooiest, and stickiest things in nature.

GOOFUS & GALLANT • There’s a little bit of G & G in us all. Let your Gallant shine!

The Gift of Games • Maya Schaab helped bring joy to kids in a hospital.

The Dew Is Glue • Sundew plants are a trap for thirsty insects.

Wiggle Monsters • Use Halloween candy to decorate some wobbly-gobbly creatures!

SKELE-FUN TIMES • Find at least 8 things in the scene that rhyme with “bone.”

Backyard Sleepover

Mountaineer • Last year at age 18, Nima Rinji Sherpa became the youngest person to summit the world’s 14 highest peaks.

BEE LINES

CREATE

EVER WONDER

BRAINPLAY

One Hectic Halloween!

Share Your Stuff!

Answers

Highlights for Children • OCTOBER 2025 • VOLUME 80 • NUMBER 10 • ISSUE NO. 888

Jokes and Riddles

Wacky Captions

DEAR HIGHLIGHTS

EDITORS’ PICK • Hey, Puzzle People! Here’s a peek inside brainPLAY, our ALL-PUZZLE magazine!

WHAT’S WRONG? • It’s up to you!