Author: Lisa Mungovan

Young paleontologists will be happy to know, it’s Dinosaur Day! Practice your excavation skills, by burying toy dinosaurs in a sandbox. Identify the species, then research when it lived. Dinosaurs from the Jurassic Period, like the brachiosaurus and stegosaurus, lived from 201,000,000 to 145,000,000 years ago. Tyrannosaurus rex lived later, in the Cretaceous Period.

Do you have a sister? Be especially nice to her, because it’s Sisters’ Day. Today is American Family Day as well, so go ahead and be nice to your whole family. In fact, since it’s also Friendship Day, I think this day will be filled with friends, family, and fantastic fun.

Fred Reissman once collected 228 four-leaf clovers in under 2 hours, setting a world record, while Gabriella Gerhardt’s collection of 118,791 four-leaf clovers is the world’s largest. 10-year-old Katie Borka found 166 four-leaf clovers in 1 hour, in her own back yard! Try your luck at finding a four-leaf clover, for Four-Leaf Clover Day!

Get your crayons or colored pencils out, because it’s Coloring Book Day! If you don’t have one, ask everyone to draw pictures for you with black markers, then color them in. It’s also Ice Cream Sandwich Day. Do you want your ice cream on wheat or white bread? Just kidding! Use cookies!

Can you imagine a world without the internet? Many of your parents were born before “www” meant anything! That alone deserves respect today, on Respect For Parents Day. It’s World Wide Web Day also. Thank you to Tim Berners-Lee for inventing the magnificent way to connect everyone in the world in seconds, back in 1989!

Frere Jacques, Row Row Row Your Boat, and Make New Friends are 3 popular songs that can be sung in rounds. That’s when one person starts singing, then the next person starts when the first person gets to the second line. Try it with some friends, for Rounds Resounding Day! It’s lots of fun!

Here’s something interesting, for Sunflower Day. A sunflower’s face tilts toward the sun, as it moves across the sky throughout the day. Scientists have used nanotechnology to create solar panels, that copy the sunflower’s ability to follow the sun. Tiny stems on their experimental SunBOTs bend towards light, to absorb maximum energy!

It’s Sandcastle Day, so get to a beach and start building! It’s going to take you a while if you want to beat the record for the world’s biggest sandcastle. That one was in Denmark, and stood more than 69 feet tall! It was built using 6,400 tons of sand. That’s 12, 800,000 pounds!

Today is Disc Golf Day. If you don’t have a disc golf course nearby, grab a frisbee and make your own targets to hit. Landing it in a birdbath, can be a hole-in-one. It’s also Mustard Day. Which do you like better; smooth yellow mustard, or coarse brown mustard full of crunchy mustard seeds?

Today is World Ranger Day. With over 100,000 parks and protected areas around the world, park rangers are essential. In nature reserves where endangered species like elephants live, park rangers put their lives on the line, to protect animals from poachers. Park rangers help preserve the parks, so everyone can enjoy them forever!