Zola Notices Everything

  Comfort first

Zola designed a costume that didn't pinch

Zola in a homemade astronaut costume with a silver hood, a silver cape and a foil-covered control panel, holding her headphones like a radio

The costume at the store came with a plastic mask that smelled like a new shower curtain and an elastic strap that dug in behind her ears. Zola lasted one try-on.

So she designed her own. A silver cape. A shiny silver hood, soft as a beanie, that looks exactly like a space helmet. A foil-covered cardboard control panel with a red paper flame on it, for blasting off. And the orange headphones, which, it turns out, are exactly the right shape for an astronaut's radio.

Nothing scratchy, nothing pinching, and every piece came off in five seconds if it needed to.

She wore it for three hours, then to school the next day, then to the grocery store, where the cashier asked if she had come from space. She said yes.

Try it this week: Do a comfort test at home: ten minutes in the costume, a week before the big night.

Zola's word hunt

Five words from this story are hiding in the grid. They read across → and down ↓ — never backwards. Tap the first letter, then the last letter.Circle each word when you find it.

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  • ZOLA
  • CAPE
  • HOOD
  • RADIO
  • SPACE

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