MAKE YOUR OWN NATE THE GREAT
MAGNIFYING GLASS
Color your magnifying glass and carefully cut it out. Write your name in the center of the
glass. Decorate your classroom and then you’re ready to solve some mysteries!
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NATE THE GREAT NAME TAGS
is a pancake-eating
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MOSAIC PICTURE RIDDLE
Help Nate Figure Out Which Pet Is Missing
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Can you figure out which pet is hidden in this picture?
To solve this puzzle, color in the spaces as follows:
1 = yellow 2 = black 3 = green
4 = red 5 = brown
Answer:
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MAkE YOUR OWN
NATE THE GREAT
DETECTIVE HAT
Hat Band
All great detectives must have a hat!
Follow the directions below to make a
hat just like Nate’s.
1. Color in your detective hat.
2. Following the dotted lines, cut out the hat (including tabs) and hat band.
3. Attach one side of the hat band with tape to Tab A
on the hat. Be sure to adjust the band to your
head size before attaching the other side to Tab B.
4. Wear your hat when you’re on a big case, like The
Case of the Fleeing Fang!
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DIRECTIONS
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SHOW NATE THE WAY TO THE FLEEING FANG!
Help Nate and Sludge find Annie’s dog, Fang. After you find him, you can color the maze.
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NATE’S SECRET WORD SEARCH
How many of the following words can you find?
Magnifying glasses allowed!
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SUSPECT
DEDUCTION
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NATE’S FRACTION HUNT MYSTERY MESSAGE
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Follow the fractional instructions below and write the correct parts of each of the following
words, in order, on the lines above to decode Nate’s Mystery Message.
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The first half of REMEDY
9. The last four-fifths of LIVES
2. The first quarter of EMPLOYED
10. The last seventh of RESOLVE
3. The last half of LUMBER
11. The first third of ATTACK
4. The first two-fourths of GONE
12. The last fourth of TRAP
5. The last third of TRIPOD
13. The second third of PLANTS
6. The third fifth of UNDER
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of CAUTION
7. The last three-eighths of
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8. The last fourth of INSTRUCT
15. The last third of STRIKE
16. The first OR last sixth
of SCALES
NOW READ NATE’S
MESSAGE!!
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NATE’S ANIMAL CRISSCROSS
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6. Claude’s very hungry contest entry
7. mixed-up rhymes sent this canine to the park
8. Rosamond’s four cats
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1. a colorful bird that talks
2. a green, thick-shelled reptile
4. Nate’s faithful dog
5. Finley’s rodent
9. a slithery sea snake
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NATE’S COLOR WHEEL
Following your teacher’s instructions, fill in each of the primary colors and secondary colors in
the blanks below. Then, color in the different sections of your color wheel.
Don’t forget, yellow is at the top!
PRIMARY COLORS
SECONDARY COLORS
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Red + Yellow =___________________
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Yellow + Blue =_________________
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Blue + Red =_____________________
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Nate the Great © 2002 Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Art © 2002 Marc Simont
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