Category: Kids News

Today is Peach Cobbler Day, and it might be possible to make the dessert using just one peach! The world’s largest peach was grown in Virginia last fall. A normal peach might weigh one third to one half a pound. This juicy peach was bigger than a softball, and weighed 1.83 pounds.

Since 1948, people have enjoyed playing Scrabble, the game where you form words from randomly chosen letters. Today, on Scrabble Day, challenge your friends or family to a game! If you don’t have the board game, you can always get the app on a phone or tablet, and play online. Scrabble’s good for your brain!

Today is Hamster Day, dedicated to the adorable little rodents. They can store a whole meal, in pouches inside their cheeks! Some lucky pet hamsters, get to live in Habitrail cages with plastic tubes to explore. It’s also Walk On Your Wild Side Day, so be a little crazy, and stuff your cheeks!

On April 12th 1934, the strongest gust of wind ever recorded, blew through the Mount Washington Observatory. The blast clocked in at 231 miles-per-hour, and the record is remembered every year on Big Wind Day. The record was broken in 1996, when a typhoon near Australia, created 256 mile-per-hour gusts of wind.

Did you know, it’s Record Store Day? Vinyl records lost popularity as cassettes & CDs took over, but they’re starting to make a comeback. In fact, there are lots of companies, that will press your own custom record. Immortalize your talents on vinyl, and maybe someone will buy it someday in a record store.

Today is Licorice Day. Its distinctive flavor comes from the licorice plant, and can be used in candy or tea. It’s also Deskfast Day, when you eat your breakfast at your desk. Don’t get food on your work! Since it’s Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day as well, you could eat one for Deskfast!

Do you get Dear time at school? It stands for Drop Everything And Read, and today is DEAR Day. It’s celebrated on author Beverly Cleary’s birthday, whose characters helped the idea spread in schools. Start a daily DEAR time at home for your family, even if it’s just for 15 minutes.

Are you missing a cat? People in Canada are looking for the owner of a cat that stowed away in a Walmart transport truck, and traveled 70 miles away from home. The truck had come from Montreal, to a warehouse in Ontario, with the adventurous cat in the trailer.

An Ohio zoo welcomed a baby southern white rhinoceros on March 28th. Weeks earlier, another rhino calf was born! The female and male calves have not been introduced yet. White rhinos are endangered. The second-largest land mammal on Earth, they can weigh 140 pounds at birth, and their skin is 2 inches thick!

Yesterday, the Artemis 2 mission to the Moon completed its journey, as the 4 astronauts splashed down into the Pacific Ocean. The Integrity capsule was traveling at nearly 25,000 miles-per-hour as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere. The 10-day mission looped around the Moon, observing huge craters and experiencing a solar eclipse.