Category: Kids News

Today is Johnny Appleseed Day, 1 of 2 days celebrating John Chapman. He traveled around the United States, planting orchards of apple trees. He used his tin hat as a pot, and ate out of it! It’s also Worship Of Tools Day, so polish your hammer and charge up your drill. Tools are wonderful things.

Do you know where your ancestors came from? Today is Genealogy Day, so it’s a good time to find out. Make a family tree, and ask your parents or grandparents, to help you fill in as many names as they remember. DNA tests can even show if you’re descended from Neandarthals.

Meat alternatives are becoming more popular, as veggie burgers and tofu are added to people’s diets. A new kind of fake meat, called Meati, is made from mycelium. Thomas Huggins creates Meati steaks and burgers from the fibers in mushrooms, cultivated in steel tanks. It has the umami flavor that satisfies your tastebuds.

The largest organism in the world, isn’t a whale, or a redwood tree. It’s a 106-acre stand, of quaking aspen trees. The group of trees is called Pando, and they all grow from the same root system. The forest is made of 47,000 genetically identical stems. It’s been producing new sprouts, for 14,000 years!

Today is Middle Name Pride Day. Maybe you’re named after someone special, or maybe it just sounded good. See if you can guess your friends’ middle names. They can be your secret code names! It’s also Pack Your Lunch Day. Put your favorite foods in a lunchbox, paper bag, or bento box. Yum yum!

Saint Patrick’s Day parades are coming, which usually includes bagpipers wearing kilts. Get prepared today, on International Bagpipe Day. You can make your own, out of a garbage bag and recorders. Find the bagpipe instructions on instructables.com. It’s Skirt Day too, so wear a skirt or kilt while playing bagpipes for the whole neighborhood.

March 10th abbreviated, spells M-A-R-1-0. MARIO! It’s Mario Day, so don’t forget to wear overalls! It’s the Day Of Awesomeness too, so remember to be totally awesome, while you play your favorite Super Mario games! You should also wear an awesome wig, for International Wig Day. I always wanted purple hair!

A cat and dog in Colorado, are best friends. The pup is a rescue, and the kitty is a tiger cub. Duke and Valley live at the Wild Animal Sanctuary with other rescue dogs, and adult tigers. The tiger also has lots of stuffed animals to play with.

Parts of California, have been getting unusual amounts of snow. The snow at the top of Mammoth Mountain, is 673 inches deep. That’s nearly 57 feet, making a wall of snow that’s taller than a 5-story building! I’m glad I don’t have to shovel that driveway!

Today is Popcorn Lover’s Day. Whether you make it in the microwave, buy it at a movie theater, or pop it on the cob over a campfire, it’s a healthy snack that’s fun to make. It’s also Nametag Day! Stick a nametag on yourself, with whatever name you’d like to be called for today.