Author: Lisa Mungovan

Yay! It’s Peanut Butter Cookie Day! Mix a cup of sugar, a cup of peanut butter, and an egg together. Put spoonfuls on a cookie sheet, press them down with a fork, and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit until they are just barely brown at the bottom. It’s the easiest cookie recipe ever!

Do you need new socks? Don’t go shopping. You can knit your own, to celebrate Worldwide Knit In Public Day. Proudly display those knitting skills! While you knit, eat fantastic fried fritters made from chick peas, for International Falafel Day. Eat your falafel in a pita pocket, with lots of toppings.

Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman Day! The first Superman comic was published in 19 38. Superman was also the first superhero with special powers, a colorful costume, and a secret identity. Make a cape out of a towel, and pretend you’re Superman today!

Who’s ready to solve some mysteries? A replica of the Scooby Doo Mystery Machine, is available for 3 nights, on Air-b-n-b. The van is furnished with a vintage TV, lava lamp, and plenty of snacks, but monsters are not included. You’ll have to find your own villain to unmask.

A giant dog wandered into a Dollar General store, in Florida. Since he wasn’t bothering anyone, employees let him shop for a few hours. They finally had to call the police, when the dog wouldn’t leave at closing time. Police soon located Bentley’s human, who was grateful they’d found his lost dog.

A fossil found in Japan, is from a newly described species, called Paralitherizinosaurus japonicus. Researchers believe the dinosaur, which was a type of therizinosaur, had claws like swords. Instead of attacking prey, its finger-knives were used to slash vegetation, to find good plants to eat. It grew to 30-feet-long, and walked on 2 legs.

Today is Making Life Beautiful Day. Cleaning your room, planting flowers, and creating art, are all ways to beautify your surroundings. But the best way to make life beautiful, is by being kind. Treat people with respect, don’t discriminate, don’t be a bully, and ask everyone else to do the same!

Don’t you think that tree needs a nice sweater? Get out your crochet or knitting needles and create one, because today is Yarn Bombing Day. Crochet a colorful sleeve right onto a bike rack, signpost, or telephone pole. Then end your day with an ear of roasted corn, for Corn On The Cob Day!

Galveston Island State Park, in Texas, has good news. Their Sea Turtle Patrol found a nest, of 107 Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle eggs. The turtles are critically endangered, and the patrol hadn’t found a nest since 2012. The eggs were moved to an incubation center, to make sure they all hatch and survive.

Styrofoam might make good packing material, but it’s hard to recycle. Most of it ends up in landfills, or floating in the ocean. Scientists have discovered superworms, which look like giant mealworms, like to eat styrofoam. They’re studying how superworms digest it, to develop a bio-recycling center, using bacterial enzymes resembling those in worms.