Category: Kids News

Did you know it’s Scream Day? Have a screaming contest with your family, to see who’s the loudest. Find a place that echoes, to hear yourself scream back. Look at photos from the Screamotron3000, created by photographer Billy Hunt. In New Jersey, texting the Scream Truck, will bring an ice cream truck to you!

Today is Pig In A Blanket Day! Pretend you’re a little piglet and snuggle up in a blanket, while you eat bite-sized sausages wrapped in dough. It’s also Bucket List Day. Make a list of all the things you want to try in your life, and check them off in the years to come.

Do you have a piggy bank? Banks are a great way to save money. You’re more likely to spend all your money, if you carry it in your pocket! Today is Teach Your Children To Save Day, so scrounge up some change, and make a deposit! Ask your parents, if they’ll pay you interest.

Today is Bring A Kid To Work Day, at workplaces that allow it. If your parents work from home, sit in on a Zoom meeting! This year’s theme, “The Future is @ Work,” inspires kids to have confidence and take bold steps towards their dreams. Do any adults you know have interesting jobs?

Today is English Language Day. Celebrate by making sure you know the difference between Y-O-U-R and Y-O-U-apostrophe-R-E! You can also use old English words, like thee and thou. Dost thou know that it’s Talk Like Shakespeare Day as well? Wherefore art thou Romeo? He’s probably reading by candlelight, because it’s also World Book Night!

Going out to eat, doesn’t have to be expensive. Just have a picnic outside! Pack a lunch and eat in the park, your yard, your porch, or even your living room floor, for Picnic Day. It’s also Asparagus Day, English Muffin Day, and Cherry Cheesecake Day, so be sure your picnic includes those foods!

You’ll never guess what today is. Seriously, you’ll never guess. It’s International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day! Too wacky? Do an experiment, for World Laboratory Day. Too much work? Go see a movie, for Movie Theater Day. Don’t worry if the movie got bad reviews, because it’s also Take A Chance Day!

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose. Except maybe it’s ok just for today, since it’s International Nose Picking Day, haha! Yuck! Always remember, the mucous in your nose traps bacteria, before it gets in your lungs, so don’t eat your bacteria-filled boogers.

Lots of teenage boys, use Axe body spray, to smell good. Apparently, it can also be used, to calm down aggressive sheep. Farmers in England, say the body spray masks hormones, that cause rams to fight. It can also help convince mother sheep, to adopt abandoned lambs, since they identify their babies by smell.

Did you catch the peak of the Lyrid meteor showers this morning? Don’t worry if you forgot. You can still spot some fireballs this week, as Earth passes through a comet’s debris field. The bits of rock burning up in the atmosphere, are most visible looking east in a pre-dawn sky.