designs and photos by Guido Daniele

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HANDIMALS

clownfish

elephant

macaw

zebra

Give artist Guido Daniele a hand for creating these wild works!As you can see, his creatures aren’t painted on paper or canvas, but on people’s hands, spilling over onto wrists and arms! They’re called—what else?—handimals. Don’t they look incredibly real? Turn the page to see more handsome animals. Then try your hand at making one of your own.

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flamingo

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make A MONARCH

python cheetah

Grab some face paint and watch your hands flutter to life!

We enjoy seeing everyone’s photos, even though we can publish only a few in the magazine. All photos become the property of the National Wildlife Federation. —R.R.

RANGERS: How about designing your own hand creatures? Send photos to

Ranger Rick11100 Wildlife Center DriveReston, VA 20190E-mail: rick@nwf.org

WHAT YOU NEED• orange, black, and white

face paints• paintbrush• sponge (optional)

WHAT YOU DO1. Cover the backs of both your

hands and wrists with orange paint. (You can sponge the paint on or use a paintbrush.)

by Michele Reyzer

2. Once the paint dries, cross your hands in front of you at the wrists with your palms facing you.

3. Have a parent or friend create butterfly-wing shapes by outlining your hands and part of your wrists with black paint as shown. Continue using the black paint to add a head, body, antennas, and wing markings.

4. After the black paint dries, add two white eyes and white dots on the wing outlines, as shown.

TIPS • Use only paints made for the face

or body. Even “non-toxic” craft

paints can cause a skin rash.

• Some paints can rub off. You may

want to wear old clothes and be

careful about what you touch.

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STORY BY GERRY BISHOP; ART BY THE CHARACTERSHOP

Rick, Scarlett, and Boomer are hiking in a creek bed in California. It hasn’t rained here in so long that almost all the water in the creek has dried up.

Listen—what’s that?

Grab hold!

Faster! Faster!

Whoa—that storm looks

nasty!It’s as dry as a desert!

Around here, maybe any rain is a GOOD rain.

Thisis just awful!

Oh, NO—it’s a

flash flood! Run!

No, this sounds

different.

It’s just more thunder,

silly.

It’s going to catch

us!

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