Author: Lisa Mungovan

Today is Organize Your Home Day, so put your house in order. Organize all your craft supplies, then make a kite to celebrate International Kite Day. Uttarayan is a huge kite festival in Ahmedabad India. They hold kite fights, where you try and cut the other person’s strings! I’d rather just watch mine fly.

Look out animals, because it’s Dress Up Your Pet Day! Dress your dog in a new sweater, your cat in a bow tie, and your tarantula in a tiny top hat. Stick paper clothes on your aquarium and photograph your fish at just the right angle. Reward your pets with treats for tolerating you!

The National Zoo in Washington DC, has giant pandas again. Bao Li and Quing Bao are enjoying the snow in their new home on the Asia Trail. Zoo members can get a sneak peek at the loveable pandas, before the public gets to visit them on January 24th. Both pandas are 3 years old.

Today is Clean Off Your Desk Day. Find a few minutes at school, to organize your desk, and don’t forget to sanitize it! If you’re learning from home, and don’t have a desk, clean off your workspace and make a clutter-free zone. What’s that? You study from your bed? Get up and make it!

Rubber duckies love to float in your bathtub, keeping you company. Today is Rubber Ducky Day, so give your ducks some extra playtime! Let them stick around for Sticker Day. If you want to see unusual stickers, just go to an arts and crafts store, and check out the scrapbooking section.

On a cold winter day, it’s lovely to have something hot in your tummy. Celebrate Hot Tea Day, with a tea-tasting party. Try chamomile tea, licorice tea, chai tea, and tea blends from different countries. Follow it up with a bowl of soup, for French Onion Soup Day. It has melted cheese on top!

What was your New Year’s resolution this year? Are you keeping it? If you already broke your promise to yourself, don’t worry. Today is Stick To Your New Year’s Resolution Day, so you can try again. Maybe your resolution was to be on time, but it’s never too late, to start a good habit.

Today is Marzipan Day. Marzipan is made using almond meal, and sugar or honey. The paste can be rolled out to cover cakes, or formed into sweet edible sculptures, like tiny animals or fruits, realistically painted with food coloring. I’d like to make all the planets. You could make a pan of marzipan Marzes!

The National Zoo in Washington DC, has giant pandas again. Bao Li and Quing Bao are enjoying the snow in their new home on the Asia Trail. Zoo members can get a sneak peek at the loveable pandas, before the public gets to visit them on January 24th. Both pandas are 3 years old.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains approximately 100,000,000,000 stars, and there could be 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe. But did you know there’s one galaxy, with no visible stars at all? The spiral galaxy, called J0613+52, is made of primordial gas, that was apparently never disrupted, so star formation was not triggered.