Author: Lisa Mungovan

Grab your buckets and shovels, because today is Play In The Sand Day. Make a sand castle at the beach, or a construction zone in the sandbox. If you’d rather stay home, you’re in luck. It’s also Global Kinetic Sand Day. The squeezable sand, was originally mixed with beeswax, to make it less messy.

In the United States, elections for president will take place in a few months. Kids who will be 18 by November 3rd, can register to vote now. Ask your parents, if they are registered to vote. They can register, check their registration status, or request absentee ballots, at vote.org. They’re voting for your future!

Have you ever been to a toy library? The Toy Nest, in Falls Church Virginia, lets families borrow toys, games, costumes, and baby gear. That way, you can always try out a new toy, without the expense and clutter. Does your town have a toy library? Maybe your local library, can offer toys too.

A Hyundai car dealership in Brazil, recently posted photos of their pawfessional consultant, on Instagram. Their star employee, is a dog! Back in May, a stray dog started hanging around Hyundai Prime. They gave him a job and ID card, named him Tuscon Prime, and adopted him. The customers love him!

Today is World Lion Day. The “King of the Jungle” actually inhabits grasslands. A lion’s roar can be heard for 5 miles! They live in groups of about 15, called prides, with a male as the leader. The mane of hair around his neck gets darker with age. Lion populations are shrinking. Let’s save the lions!

Today is Skyscraper Appreciation Day. The world’s tallest building is over half-a-mile high, in Dubai. Could you climb to the top? Maybe not today, since it’s also Lazy Day. See if you can sleep 16 hours, like a lion! When you wake up, make s’mores around a fire. S’mores Day celebrates the chocolate-marshmallow-graham cracker treat!

The British Foreign Office announced the retirement, of one of its officers in London. Palmerston, the Chief Mouser, is a cat who became famous for catching mice, and posing for photos with diplomats. He plans to relax with a family in the British countryside, out of the limelight. I’m sure he’ll still chase mice!

13-year-old James Savage, just became the youngest person to complete the Godfather swim, across Lake Tahoe in California. The 12-mile route from Cave Rock to the Godfather Mansion, is the second leg of the Tahoe Triple Crown. James did the first 10.5-mile Vikingsholm swim last year. He’s now planning the final 21.3-mile swim.

The Starlink project, plans to place tens of thousands of satellites into low-Earth orbit, to beam broadband internet around the globe. Reflections make them as bright as a star moving across the sky, so the latest batch of 57 satellites were equipped with sun visors. Unfortunately, they’ll still interfere with astronomers’ telescope observations.

Today is Melon Day. There are at least 30 varieties of melon, so if you buy them all, you can have a feast! The biggest cantaloupe in the world, weighed 65.9 pounds, while the world’s biggest watermelon weighed over 350 pounds! Plant the seeds, and maybe you can grow your own watermelon bathtub!