Category: Kids News

The movie “Home Alone,” is a Christmas classic. Now, 4 lucky people can stay in the McAllisters’ house for a night, for only $25. Big brother Buzz McAllister has grown up, and is hosting the night, on the condition that no one lets his pet tarantula out. Booking opens through AirBnB, on December 7th.

64 years ago, Burger King introduced the Whopper. Today and tomorrow, you can relive the prices of the past, by getting a Whopper for the original price, of 37 cents. You have to be a Royal Perks member, so modern-day technology will make it easier to sign up, for the old-school discount.

Today is Faux Fur Friday. Leave the real fur on the animals, and wear a fake fur coat instead. How about one with pink tiger stripes? Another way to keep warm, is with a dashing sweater vest, to celebrate Sweater Vestival. Maybe you can even find one that lights up! Today, sleeves are overrated.

Today is Make A Gift Day. Homemade gifts mean so much to people, and sometimes they cost you nothing except time! You could make a craft or knit a scarf, write a story or bake cookies. You could make a coupon book for free hugs, or shoveling the sidewalk. Make a gift of happiness!

Keith “Kebe” Edward Snyder, is a skysurfing champion. Skysurfing boards look like snowboards, but you’re riding on air. Kebe jumped out of a plane in Egypt at 13,500 feet, and set a new world record, by doing 160 helicopter spins. He saw the Pyramids, while hanging upside-down, and spinning at dizzying speeds.

The Berrybank Piggery, in Australia, has 20,000 pigs, that produce lots of poop. On most pig farms, the poop is stored in ponds, where bacteria break it down. At Berrybank, the poop is put into a biodigester, which produces methane gas that gets converted into electricity. The farm runs on poop-power!

A new kind of dinosaur, has been discovered in Chile. It looks like a very weird ankylosaur, with a tail that looked like a sword. The flat, armored tail, would have been a deadly weapon. The species, named Stegouros elengesen, lived over 70,000,000 years ago, during the Cretaceous period.

About every 10 years, an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building passes near Earth. Although the asteroid, named 4660 Nereus, is considered a near-Earth object, it’s actually nearly 2.5 million miles away. It will pass by safely on December 11th, and won’t be this close again, until 2060. Don’t forget to wave!

Today is National Mutt Day. Mixed-breed dogs are available for adoption in shelters everywhere, and they are awesome! When you adopt a mutt puppy, you never know how big they’ll grow; you get to be surprised! It’s also Fritters Day. Bits of dough stuffed with fruit, vegetables, or other fillings, are deep-fried and delicious!

Have you seen a statue, of a giant gummy bear? Willow is the mascot, of a children’s store in Louisiana called Giggles. Willow recently went missing, from the outside of the store. The gargantuan gummy bear is light blue, and bigger than most kids, so it should be hard to hide.