Author: Lisa Mungovan

Spring has sprung, and beautiful flowers are blooming. They’re lovely to look at, but did you know many flowers are also edible? Try making lilac, violet, or dandelion jelly. Turn forsythia, into a delicious syrup. Clover and lavender make tasty teas. Or pick some redbud flowers off a tree, and just eat them.

Have you ever seen a curlew? It’s a bird with a long, curving beak, and mottled brown feathers. Part of the sandpiper family, there are 9 species of the large, ground-dwelling bird. Curlews wade along coastlines, digging their long beaks into sand and mud for food. Listen to their distinctive calls, for Curlew Day.

Today is Panda Day, celebrating the lovable black and white fur-balls. The endangered giant panda lives in China, and has a boring diet. They eat bamboo, for up to 14 hours a day! They only weigh 4 ounces at birth, but grow to be 350 pounds. Instead of hibernating like other bears, pandas play in the snow!

Yesterday was Everything You Think is Wrong Day. Today, is Everything You Do Is Right Day! Whether you put mustard on your pizza, or wear your socks in the shower, you’re still right. It’s also Lips Appreciation Day, so give them some moisturizing lip balm, and use them to smile!

The Los Angeles Metro Lost and Found, receives about 1000 lost items per month. Most of the things left behind on buses and trains are to be expected, like phones, sunglasses, or backpacks. But they’ve also recovered blowtorches, bicycles, a surfboard, a 55-inch TV, and a prosthetic leg! How do you forget that?

day is Pretzel Sunday. Do you prefer big soft pretzels, or tiny hard pretzels? Roll out some dough, and twist your own! It’s also Peanut Lovers Day, so you could make a salty snack mix to celebrate the day. Eat it while sitting criss-cross-applesauce, so your legs can be a pretzel too.

Each spring, buzzards show up in Hinckley Ohio. The turkey vultures have returned to the cliffs and caverns of Whipp’s Ledges like clockwork every March 15th. Everyone in town loves watching for them on Buzzard Day! Vultures eat dead animals, so look for them along roadsides. They also soar in circles in the sky.

Some people think they know everything. They won’t appreciate Everything You Think Is Wrong Day! Leave decision-making for another day, since whatever you choose will be wrong. It’s also World Speech Day. Make awards for everyone in your family, then take turns giving acceptance speeches! Don’t forget to clap and cheer them on!

Beware the Ides of March. That’s today! But unless you’re Julius Caesar, you’re safe. Julius Caesar was a Roman leader, who was assassinated March 15th, in 44 BC. That line is from a play by William Shakespeare, when a soothsayer was warning Caesar that his life was in danger. It’s fun to say it ominously!

It’s Children’s Craft Day, and Write Down Your Story Day, so you should create your own book. Carry some supplies in a bumbag, because it’s International Fanny Pack Day. You might not be a kangaroo, but everyone could use an extra pouch! Go on an adventure, and illustrate it as you go along.