Author: Lisa Mungovan

The world record for most high fives in 24 hours, is 15,338. Can you break the record, for High Five Day? Just reach up and clap someone’s hand over your heads. Wash your hands after high-fiving anyone, to avoid spreading germs. Celebrate everything with everyone, with a big high five!

I’ve gotta cupcake for sale here who’ll give me 1 dollar 1-dollar 1 dollar 1 here now gimme 2 2 2 dollars-two SOLD! For $2! It’s Auctioneers Day! Talk like an auctioneer and sell something to your friends. I know your fast-talking auctioneer voice will be better than mine, ha ha.

A 2-year-old beaver named Cauliflower, is on the loose in New York. He arrived at the Utica Zoo only a few weeks ago, but keepers discovered he’d escaped last Wednesday. After a week of fruitless searching, the zoo has hired a drone company to help reunite him with his sisters, Mustard and Tangerine.

Today is Day Of The Mushroom. There are more than 10,000 kinds of mushrooms, but only around 600 are edible. If you see a mushroom in your yard, don’t eat it. It might be poisonous! Instead, buy mushrooms at the store, for your fungi feast. Save the wild mushrooms, for your photo album.

Elephants are the largest land mammals in the world. Their skin is an inch thick, they can weigh over 12,000 pounds, and they eat 300-600 pounds of food a day, with around 220 pounds coming back out as poop. But elephants are hunted illegally for their tusks, and losing habitat. Learn more, for Save The Elephant Day.

For people who work from home, it will be easy to celebrate Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day. For everyone else, be bold, prepare to explain to everyone that you didn’t simply forget to get dressed this morning! It’s also Orchid Day. There are over 21,000 varieties of these flowering plants. Happy orchid hunting!

Banana Day is a spring tradition at many universities, featuring everything from races to recipes. Everyone can celebrate the perfectly packaged fruit, which is actually a berry! Bananas are a good source of potassium, and taste great in bread, dipped in chocolate, or even on pizza. Bananas grow sweeter and healthier, as they ripen.

May 4th is known as Star Wars Day, because of May the fourth be with you. For couples who want to get married in a galaxy far far away, a wedding chapel in Las Vegas is offering Star Wars-themed wedding packages on that day. Either Princess Leia or Darth Vader can be the officiant!

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?

Take a wild guess what day today is. It’s Take A Wild Guess Day! Are you trying to guess how many jelly beans are in a jar? That’s the perfect time for a wild guess! It’s also Rubber Eraser Day. Erasers made from vegetable gum, were first used in 1770, and attached to pencils in 1858.