Category: Kids News

Do you own a pair of Crocs? People seem to either love or hate the colorful rubber clogs, but Doogie Lish Sandtiger loves them most of all. He’s got the biggest collection of Crocs in the world, featuring 2,127 different pairs. He hopes to show off his comfy collection someday, in a Crocseum.

Researchers have discovered unusual behavior, in a snake. When the dwarf reed snake finds itself in danger, it does cartwheels to escape! The snake propels its body into the air, then flings its tail over as its head hits the ground. It’s like watching a wobbly wheel roll away!

Today is Beaver Day! Beavers are the national animal of Canada. The master engineers build dams and canals, and make lodges out of mud and sticks. Their dams create valuable wetlands. They can stay underwater for 15 minutes, and use their flat tails like rudders. Beavers eat trees for dinner, including the toothpick.

Forget the chores and cleaning. It’s No Housework Day! Today is also Make The First Move Day, which is about bullying. If you see someone being bullied, make the first move to stick up for them, and hopefully others will follow. Then keep the kindness going for the whole year!

Today is World Health Day, commemorating the creation of the World Health Organization. This year’s theme, is 75 Years of Preserving Health. Protecting the Earth from pollution and climate change, and the spread of disease, also improves everyone’s health. The pandemic showed us, how connected we all are. Viruses don’t pay attention to boundaries.

Hey 4th graders, would you like to visit a National Park over spring break? The year you’re in 4th grade in the United States, you can get into any National Park for free! Students can print a free annual pass, good for everyone in the car, at Every-Kid-Outdoors.gov. Where will you go first?

Scientists working off the coast of Japan, recorded a fish at the bottom of the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, more than 27,000 feet deep. It was an unknown species of deep snailfish, and is the deepest-swimming fish witnessed by humans so far. Humans would be crushed by the pressure at that depth!

Yum-yummy-yum, today is Caramel Popcorn Day! The salty-sweet treat has been around since the 18-hundreds. It’s Teflon Day too. If you make your own caramel corn, you’ll be thanking Roy Plunket for inventing Teflon, or polytetraflouroethylene, and Marion Trozzolo for the Happy Pan. Teflon is the non-stick coating that makes cookware easy to clean!

Who wants to go for a jump? It’s Jump Over Things Day, so get those legs moving! Fill your pockets with snacks, and pretend you’re a kangaroo. Since it’s also Twinkie Day, Fresh Tomato Day, and Burrito Day, treat yourself to both healthy and junk foods, by rolling everything into a tortilla.

Today is World Table Tennis Day. It’s a lot easier to fit a ping-pong table in your house, than a tennis court. Table tennis began as a parlour game in Victorian England, and became an Olympic Sport in 19 88. If you don’t have a ping-pong table in your house, use your dining room table instead!