THE
TIMES
The Official Newspaper of Hank’s Security Force
Perryton, TX
Dear Teachers,
The activities on the following pages came from Hank’s fan club
newsletter. They were in past issues of The Hank Times.
The Word Search used words from Hank’s thirteenth adventure
The Case of the Wounded Buzzard on Christmas Eve, which is the
book John Erickson will read from in the program your students are
going to attend.
We are giving you permission (one time only) to make copies of
any or all of these pages that you would like to use with your class
in connection with this program.
We hope you and your students enjoy these activities and the
Hank program.
Have a great year!
Thank you,
Gary Rinker
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Gary
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Illustrations by Gerald* L. Holmes
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Tropical Illusion
The drawings below may look the same. However, my highly trained cowdog eye can see that it is
clearly just a “tropical” illusion. A “tropical” illusion is something that isn’t what it appears to be. And these
two drawings may look the same, but they’re not. Can you find the 11 differences between them? Circle each
difference you find on the top drawing.
Answers on Page 10.
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Rhyme Time
Rhyme TimeIf Hank the Cowdog
quit his job as Head of Ranch Security and began to look for other
jobs. What jobs could he do?
Make a rhyme using the name
COWDOG that would relate to the
jobs below.
Example: Hank the Cowdog buys
a muddy, swampy place. COWDOG BOG
1.
Hank the Cowdog becomes
the pirate that gives out the whip
lashes as punishment.
2.
Hank the Cowdog could
move and live on a lilly pad.
3.
Hank the Cowdog starts a
business selling fireplace wood.
Word Maker
Try making words from this part of the book title below. Make up
to twenty words with as many letters as possible. If you can add an S
to a word use only the single word. Example (use CAT not cats).
Then, count the total number of letters used in all of the words you
made. See how well you did using the security rankings below.
BUZZARD CHRISTMAS
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__________________
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6.
Hank the Cowdog buys Mr.
Cogsworth from “The Jetsons” TV
show and makes these parts.
___________________
__________________
___________________
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7.
Hank the Cowdog becomes
the third part of this fictional verb
zig, zag, ____.
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__________________
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8.
Hank the Cowdog buys
some running shorts so he can take
up this exercise.
___________________
__________________
___________________
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9. Hank the Cowdog is the heavy
mist that is hard to see through.
Security Rankings
60 - 64 You spend too much time with J.T Cluck and the chickens.
65 - 68 You are showing some real security force potential.
69 - 71 You have earned a spot on our ranch security team.
72 - Wow! You rank up there as a top-of-the-line cowdog.
4.
Hank the Cowdog works
in a dunking booth and gets really
wet.
5.
Hank the Cowdog starts a
farm and raises pigs.
10. Hank the Cowdog is a plumber
that fixes stopped up pipes.
(Answers on Page 10)
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Hank’s PicWords
Hank and his friends made some PicWords that need to be unscrambled below. Use the character’s name
or the item illustrated, then subtract the letters in red from each name or word. Add what’s left over together,
and the scrambled PicWord will be solved. Good Luck.
Answers on Page 10
( )+(
)+( )+(
-lb
(
-ne
(
-drr
)+(25+25= )+(
)=
-pt
-ity
)+(
(
)=
-ea
-shi
-bran
)+(
-wac
(
)+(
-o
) +( )=
-jtcl
-g
)=
)+(
-snt
-oe
)=
)+(
-ce
-han
Answers on page 10.
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Hank 13 Word Search
ALFRED
ANTENNA
BUZZARD
CHRISTMAS
DADDY
FLATBED
FLOPPING
GOLLIES
GREEDY
HUMBUG
JUNIOR
MANNERS
OBNOXIOUS
SANDWICH
SANTIE CWAUS
SMASHING
SNOWFLAKES
WALLACE
WOUNDED
ZOOMING
Answers on page 10.
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It’s me again, Hank the Cowdog. I
had a lot...or should I say a bunch of
bananas before I took maybe a thirty
second nap after three straight days
on the job. When I woke up, they
were gone! Missing! Who would
dare pull such a stunt on the Head of
Ranch Security? Help me conduct an
investigation. We’ll go strictly by the
numbers. Follow the red dots, and we
can find out who or what split with
my bananas!
Pick a
number from
2 to 5
Sally May
“I need to add to your list
of things to get in town.”
Let’s add 2
Pete
“Why did the one and only
Hankie the Wonderdog miss
the lunch scrap time.”
Let’s subtract 1
Drover
“That goes double for me!”
Let’s double our
number
4.
5.
Snort
“Rip and Snort going to add
Hunk to our dinner list, too!”
Let’s add 6
7.
6.
A Big Case
(Answer on Page 10)
Pick a color that starts with
the first letter from our animal
name.
11.
8
3.
2.
1.
Hank
“This investigation has seemed like
an odd one even to me.”
Let’s simplify things!
If we have an ODD, put a 1 here,
and if we have
an EVEN number put a 2 here.
Little Alfred
“Get Wocky Woad ice
cweam. It’s my fayvwet!”
Let’s add your
favorite number
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It’s time to crack open our code book and bring
all these clues together and solve this case.
Let’s map the number to a letter in the
alphabet (1=A, 2=B, 3=C, etc...)
Pick an animal from the monkey
family that begins with the first
letter in our state name.
10.
8.
Pick any state that begins
with our letter.
9.
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Answers to
Answer to A BIG CASE from page 8 is below.
from page 4
are below.
Our investigation produced absolutely clear proof that it was
in fact either a Grey or Green Gorilla from Georgia that split
with my bananas! WANTED posters have been posted should
he dare show his face on the ranch again. Thanks for your help
solving this Big Case. Try this out on your friends and family.
RHYME TIME
1. Cowdog FLOG
3. Cowdog LOG
5. Cowdog HOG
7. Cowdog ZOG
9. Cowdog FOG
Answers to the TROPICAL ILLUSION from page 3
are below. The Hank Times thanks Gerald Holmes.
2. Cowdog FROG
4. Cowdog SOG
6. Cowdog COG
8. Cowdog JOG
10. Cowdog UNCLOG
Answers to the Hank 13 Word Search
from page 6 are below.
Answers to
HANK’S PICWORDS
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PoOL hanK Ace
POLKA
waTcH snORt NoSe
THORNS
branCH jtclUCK LEg
CHUCKLE
lIMb shiP eaR drOVEr
IMPROVE
COne FiFty pEtE
COFFEE
from page 5 are below.
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