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Spare time on your hands? While away the hours with Discover Kelpies quizzes, puzzles and exclusive content.
Which Fabled Beast are you?
Are you a clever fairy, a water-loving selkie or a loyal centaur? Which one of the cool characters in the First Aid for Fairies series are you most like?
Soldier's Game Activities
Research family history, design your own football strip or write war poetry. These brilliant activities are loads of fun to do at home and in your classroom.
Dragonfire Series Wordsearch
Find your favourite characters from the Dragonfire series in this brilliant wordsearch. Can you discover the secret answer?
Make a Wishcatcher's Wish
If you could ask The Wishcatchers for anything, would you be careful what you wished for? Make special wishes for you and your best friend!
Sea-Themed Story Writing Square
Half-selkie Magnus Fin is no stranger to underwater adventures. Now you can create your own sea-themed story with the help of the story square and a dice!
Ushig's Scottish Folklore
In Ushig, Ellen meets many strange creatures she recognises as 'Peerie Folk'. Author Annemarie Allan explains how she researched Ushig and introduces some creatures from Scottish Folklore.
Throw a Ballet Birthday Party
Do you want to celebrate your birthday with a brilliant ballet party? Here are some ideas to get you started! You can download:
Have a fantastic sparkly time!
Cloudberry Castle Sweet Treats
Katie Mackenzie in Cloudberry Castle loves sweet treats; here are some recipes so you can enjoy them too!
Happy baking!
Ballet Basics
The five 'positions' of ballet are very important because every ballet move, even the complicated ones, begins and ends with one of these positions. Read up with our step-by-step guide.
Which Witch Are You?
Are you a ice cool Snow Witch, a high-flying Wind Witch or perhaps a feet-on-the-ground Earth Witch? All three kinds of witches are causing trouble in Witch Silver by Anne Forbes - but which witch are you?
Blood Arrows
Exclusive extra chapter! In any book, some characters get more of a chance to talk than others, but how do we know what a character gets up to when they are off the page? Lari Don gives an interesting insight into just this question with a very special extra chapter of her novel Rocking Horse War. Blood Arrows is written from the perspective of a character who isn't the heroine Pearl. This chapter cannot be read anywhere else - it isn't even in the book!
Rocking Horse War Map
Have you ever wondered how an author writes a book? Do they write with a pencil, a pen or a computer? Do they write everything perfectly in one go or have to edit it? Award-winning author Lari Don shares one of her secrets with a map she drew to help her write her latest novel, Rocking Horse War.
Which Kelpies character are you?
Are you practical Helen, heroic Samuel or feisty Izzie? Take the Kelpies Character Quiz to see which book you could be starring in.
Kelpies Riddles
Inspired by the riddles which Helen and her magical friends have to solve in First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts here are some more traditional puzzlers. Once you have given them a go, why not try them out on your friends, family and maybe even your teachers!