Author: Lisa Mungovan

Today is Smarties Day. The sweet-and-sour candy tablets, were introduced in 1949. Put some in your pockets, and be a Smartie-Pants. It’s also World Farm Animals Day. Pigs, chickens, cows, sheep, and horses are some of the animals you might find on a farm. Can you think of some more?

Today is World Smile Day! It’s easy to start a smile chain, if you smile at everyone you see. There’s a lot to smile about, like Kids Music Day. Form a band with your friends, making instruments out of anything that makes noise, then play a concert. Everyone will love your awesome music.

What’s your car’s name? You ride in a car all the time, but you don’t even have a name for it? Well, today is Name Your Car Day, so pick a good one! It’s also World Farm Animals Day. Visit a farm with a pumpkin patch and cows, chickens, and goats just for fun!

Let’s celebrate Fire Pup Day, by recognizing canine firefighters. It’s also Black Dog Day, and International Raccoon Appreciation Day. They’re all cute and fuzzy, but don’t put them in a room together! Speaking of fuzzy, don’t forget Hair Day. Did you know sea otters have super-fine hair? Their fur has 1,000,000 hairs per-square-inch!

Take a look back in time, for Model T Day. Model Ts were the first mass-produced automobiles, made in 19-oh-8 by Ford Motor Company. It was also a time, when more people knew how to make handmade lace. Watch a video on tatting lace, for Lace Day. It looks so confusing!

It’s Homemade Cookies Day, so here’s my favorite recipe. Mix 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup peanut butter, with 1 egg. Press balls of dough with a fork to make a criss-cross pattern. Bake at 350 degrees, for 10 minutes! It’s also World Vegetarian Day. Skip the meat! Cookies don’t have meat in them, so you can celebrate both!

Get a 4 by 6 piece of construction paper, and draw a picture. Now turn it over, and stick a stamp on it. Add an address and a little note. You just made a postcard, for World Postcard Day. Maybe you could send it to your grandparents, in honor of Older Persons Day.

Today is Pumpkin Spice Day. The favorite fall flavor is in foods from cereal to ravioli. There’s even a pumpkin spice latte engagement ring! It has a center diamond shaped like whipped cream, surrounded by orange sapphires in a cup-shaped setting. You can wear your favorite coffee drink, while you smell the scented box.

Get your jaws ready, to celebrate Chewing Gum Day! People have been chewing gum for more than 5000 years. They started by chewing blobs of wax, tree sap, or bark tar. It didn’t taste good, and they couldn’t blow bubbles with it, but it satisfied the need to gnaw on something!

Two dogs, named Hero and Daquiri, share the world record for most tricks performed by a dog in one minute. They each performed 60 tricks! Teach your pet a new trick, for Pet Tricks Day. I taught my cat how to ignore me, and my pet rock can sit. What can your pet do?