Apps For Kids

Today is Park Service Founders Day, marking 109 years since the National Park Service was formed. Everyone can help protect the parks. One kid returned a rock, apologizing for taking it from the Smokey Mountains. Park rangers thanked her for understanding, that if all visitors took a souvenir, 11,000,000 rocks would disappear every year!

Today is Banana Split Day, so here’s what you need to do. Scoop 3 flavors of ice cream into your bowl, slice a banana lengthwise and put half on each side, then add chocolate, pineapple, and strawberry sauces, whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry. Now eat it all up! The banana makes it healthy!

When you outgrow your clothes, don’t just throw them in the trash. You can sell them, donate them to charity, or give them to younger friends and family. By shopping for secondhand clothes, you save money, and help the Earth by recycling. Give vintage clothes a chance, for Secondhand Wardrobe Day! You’ll look fabulous!

The continents on Earth, weren’t always separated by oceans. Millions of years ago, there was a supercontinent called Pangea. Look at a globe, and see how the continents fit together like a puzzle, before drifting apart. Paleontologists found lines of dinosaur footprints in Cameroon and Brazil, 3,700 miles apart, that were probably once connected!

Have you ever gotten a hair in your mouth? Yuck. But a protein found in your hair, called keratin, could soon be used in toothpaste. Scientists found that keratin pulls minerals from saliva, and forms something like tooth enamel. It could protect and whiten teeth naturally, just by brushing your teeth.

Today is Vesuvius Day. Mount Vesuvius is the volcano in Italy, that destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD. Create your own volcano and make it erupt, while listening to unusual music for International Strange Music Day! You can make music from anything. Today is also Waffle Day. What’s your favorite flavor, blueberry or chocolate chip?

On Pluto Demoted Day, we remember when Pluto was officially downgraded in 2006. Its status was changed to dwarf planet. Now the 8 planets in our Solar System are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, while the 5 known dwarf planets are Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris. We still love you Pluto!

The Aquidauana River in Brazil, has a waterfall that flows over 13-foot-high boulders. Researchers found thousands of tiny bumblebee catfish, climbing the rocks to swim up the waterfall. The orange and black fish, which are less than 2 inches long, anchored their fins against the surface, then wriggled their way up.

Today is Buttered Corn Day, and there’s nothing like biting into an ear of buttery sweet roasted corn. What’s the best way to cook corn? Look it up on the World Wide Web, because it’s also Internaut Day. An internaut is someone who knows all about how to use the internet.

Today is Sponge Cake Day. This light and airy cake is perfect with a cup of tea! Maybe it will make you feel light and airy enough to rise into the sky! It’s also Ride The Wind Day, so go hang gliding, take a hot air balloon ride, or maybe just fly a kite.