Category: Kids News

Today is Garage Sale Day. Also called yard sales or boot sales, they’re full of treasures. Shop early in the morning before the best stuff is gone. Maybe you’ll find a bowling ball, for Bowling Day. Your local bowling alley might have special deals, so you can test it out.

Butter is made from milk, which comes from a cow. But sometimes, a cow is made from butter. The Illinois State Fair, unveiled its annual 800-pound butter sculpture, of a cow. The102nd Butter Cow is being milked by Butter Farmer Lorilee Shultz. A second sculpture features Lorilee’s granddaughter, Lucy, caring for a calf.

Was the James Webb Space Telescope, hijacked by The Riddler? A recent image captured by the telescope, clearly shows the curlicue and dot, of a question mark. It could be 2 distant galaxies interacting with each other, which can pull them into elongated shapes. We’ll leave this riddle, for the astronomers to figure out.

The oldest free-swimming jellyfish ever discovered, has been newly-identified by scientists. The Burgessomedusa phasmiformis, lived 500,000,000 years ago, and had a cube-like hood with 90 short tentacles. It was only about the size of a soccer ball, but likely had stinging venom to paralyze its prey. It was found in Great Britain’s Burgess Shale.

Today is Son’s And Daughter’s Day, which seems a little silly, because everyone was born as someone’s son or daughter! Any excuse to celebrate is welcome, so try to be the kind of kid that would make your parents proud. Let’s all be nice and helpful, and kind to each other!

Grab your buckets and shovels, because today is Play In The Sand Day. Make a sand castle at the beach, or a construction zone in the sandbox. If you’d rather stay home, you’re in luck. It’s also Global Kinetic Sand Day. The squeezable sand, was originally mixed with beeswax, to make it less messy.

891 people, set a world record in Texas. They all gathered together, to make s’mores at the same time. Solo Stoves supplied 500 tabletop firepits, for the S’moresapalooza. Graham crackers, chocolate bars, and lots of toasted marshmallows, made the event a delicious success.

A pigeon hitched an 80-mile ride, in a most unusual spot. It was caught behind the front grill of a car. A family thought they’d had a near miss with the bird, only to be alerted by a neighbor, there was a pigeon under their hood. Luckily, the pigeon will make a full recovery.

Hank the Tank, is a black bear known for breaking into homes, in Lake Tahoe California. After 21 break-ins, officials finally decided to relocate her to an animal sanctuary, in Colorado. Her 3 cubs will live at a wildlife rehabilitation center, until they can be released back into the wild.

Today is World Lion Day. The “King of the Jungle” actually inhabits grasslands. A lion’s roar can be heard for 5 miles! They live in groups of about 15, called prides, with a male as the leader. The mane of hair around his neck gets darker with age. Lion populations are shrinking. Let’s save the lions!