Apps For Kids

Today is Pet Owners Independence Day. On this wacky holiday, people are supposed to switch places with their pets. You can lay around and get fed, while your pet goes to work or school, and scoops up your poop. Also, eat animal crackers, for Animal Cracker Day. Maybe your pets should eat people crackers!

I’ve gotta record for sale here who’ll give me 1 dollar 1-dolla 1 dolla 1 here now gimme 2 2 2 dolla-two SOLD! For $2! It’s Auctioneers Day! Talk like an auctioneer and sell something to your friends. I pretended to auction a record, because it’s also Record Store Day! If you can still find one, visit it!

In Gujarat India, a hospital employee was shocked, to find a leopard in the bathroom! The leopard had wandered into the hospital, and was just sitting there calmly. The Forest Department safely relocated the leopard, and no one was harmed. Maybe the big cat thought its spots were chicken pox.

The LEGO company has reworked some of their machinery, to make plastic masks. Their factory in Denmark, will produce 13,000 masks per day, to provide to health-care workers, in order to protect them while caring for patients with COVID-19. LEGO will also donate 500,000 brick sets to children in need. We always knew LEGOs were awesome!

Scientists have discovered a planet, that’s capable of supporting liquid water. It’s the same size as Earth, and orbits a red dwarf star, about 300 light-years away. Next, they’ll try to identify the planet’s atmosphere and surface temperature. The exoplanet is named Kepler-1649c. Scientists are always looking for Earth-like planets, capable of sustaining life.

Bats are amazing creatures. One colony of Mexican Free-Tailed bats eats up to 30,000 pounds of insects each night, including lots of annoying mosquitoes! Other types of bats eat fruit, like the giant golden-crowned flying fox. It has a wingspan of 5 1/2 feet! Bats are also pollinators, like bees and butterflies. Happy International Bat Appreciation Day!

Cheeseballs taste like cheese.

But kickballs don’t taste like kick.

Blah blah blah blah blah.

How did you like my haiku poem? Write your own 3-line poem, using 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables, for Haiku Poetry Day. Today is also Blah Blah Blah Day, Cheeseball Day, and Kickball Day. Blab on and on about nothing!

Anthony Miracola is a whiz with a basketball. He set a world record, by sinking 35 baskets in 1 minute, from behind the backboard! He’s also pretty good in front of the hoop. He holds 2 world records for 3-pointers, after making 31 3-point shots in 1 minute, and 94 3-pointers in 3 minutes.

Rube Goldberg Machines are crazy contraptions, that go through many steps to complete a simple task. Rube Goldberg’s granddaughter, Jennifer George, wants people to create a machine that drops a bar of soap into your hands, in 10 to 20 steps. Then record a video, and enter the contest, at rubegoldberg.com!

Are you frustrated because you’re all out of cookies, and not allowed to go to the store? Make 3-ingredient cookies! Use a cup of flour, a stick of butter, and 1/3 cup confectioners’ sugar, to make butter cookies. For peanut butter cookies, use 1 cup peanut butter, 1 cup sugar, and an egg. Happy baking!