Category: Kids News

Pizza is awesome. You can keep it simple, a crust with tomato and cheese, or you can put 30 toppings on it! Yay! It’s Pizza Day! It’s also Read In the Bathtub Day. After you eat your favorite pizza, relax in the bath with your favorite book. Just don’t drop it in the water!

A homeowner in California, called pest control, because mealworms and maggots were crawling out of a wall in their house. After cutting a hole in the wall, the technician found it was full of acorns! Woodpeckers had been stashing acorns through the chimney for years, and made a pile 20 feet high.

6 months ago, Charlie Clark took up his new hobby, of metal detecting. He was searching in a field of junk in England, when he found a gold necklace. It’s believed it may have belonged to King Henry the Eighth and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon, in the 15 hundreds. What a find!

Elephants are endangered, and it’s important to save them because no animal should go extinct. But elephants also play an important role, in saving the planet. They eat the fast-growing trees in rainforests, that capture less carbon. It gives the slower-growing trees, that are more helpful to the environment, more space and sunlight.

Today is National Boy Scouts Day. The Boy Scouts of America was created in 19 10, inspired by the British Boy Scouts. Since then, 130,000,000 Scouts have enjoyed earning 135 different merit badges. The Pinewood Derby, where Scouts design their own miniature wooden racing cars, has been taking place since 19 53. Scouts pledge to do their best.

Grab your favorite kite and head outside. It’s Kite Flying Day! While you’re out there, sing a song in your best opera voice. You can listen to some famous opera singers like Luciano Pavarotti or Maria Callas for inspiration, since it’s Opera Day. Finally, celebrate Molasses Bar Day, with a pan of homemade treats!

David Balogun wants to be an astrophysicist when he grows up, to study black holes and supernovas. The 9-year-old boy is already one step closer, after graduating from high school. He’s also finished his first semester at a community college in Pennsylvania, and is looking at 4-year universities. That’s a really smart kid!

Do you believe in Bigfoot? Also known as Sasquatch, many people have caught glimpses of the large hairy creature, walking on 2 legs. Scientists studied where high numbers of sightings occurred, and found that most were probably black bears. Bears often walk on 2 legs, just like humans, and they do have big feet.

A man who went kayaking in the sea, was hoping to spot some Beluga whales. He did his best whale impression, singing silly songs at top volume. He was shocked, when whales actually showed up! The white Beluga whales swam around his boat, probably trying to see who was making that awful noise.

Can you name all the elements? If you said no, you just named Nobelium, number 102 on the Periodic Table of the Elements! Today is Periodic Table Day. The chart arranges all the chemical elements by atomic number, properties, and electrons, into groups and rows that make sense. So far, there are 118 known elements.