Apps For Kids

Yay and hooray, it’s Potato Day! Have some baked potatoes and hash browns and potato dumplings and French fries and potato chips and home fries and sweet potatoes and tater tots and mashed potatoes! Do you still have leftover potatoes? Give them away for Halloween. Some kids will choose a potato, over candy!

Today is Black Cat Day. They’re always dressed for Halloween! Black cats have a harder time getting adopted, so consider giving one a home with you! It’s also Cranky Co-Workers Day. Bring them a treat to make them less irritable. If you’re the one who’s always cranky, let everyone know it’s your special day!

The Lime E-bike rental company has released a video, of people dressed in in suits of armor and jousting with lances, while riding the bikes in a London park. The event, labeled performance art, was attended by hundreds of spectators. Despite the fun, the video warns viewers that its bikes are not for jousting.

It’s a beautiful sight, to see leaves turn red, orange, and yellow in the autumn. Chlorophyll gives plants their green color, but what compounds cause the other fall colors? Orange leaves are full of beta-carotene, just like carrots. Yellow leaves are showing off their flavonols, while red leaves get their color from anthocyanins.

Bats are amazing creatures. 1 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. Thank you bats!

Try out your best howl and learn about wolves. It’s Howl At The Moon Day! Then visit a pumpkin patch, and eat something pumpkin-spice flavored, for Pumpkin Day. While you’re at the pumpkin farm, look for mules. A mule is a cross between a donkey, and a horse. Now you can celebrate Mule Day!

It’s a beautiful sight, to see leaves turn red, orange, and yellow in the autumn. There’s a handy map for leaf peepers, to track when the colors are at their peak. SmokyMountains.com gathers data to update the Fall Foliage Prediction Map, so you can plan a trip to the forest, to collect leaf bouquets.

Have you ever made your own pizza? Try your hand at throwing a perfect pie crust, and top it with anything you like, from mushrooms, to candy corn. Too hard? Watch an expert, on World Pizza Makers Day. It’s also Crisp Sandwich Day, which is potato chips on bread. That’s the easiest of all.

Today is Make A Difference Day. You could do something helpful for your family, or useful in your community. You could participate in marches to make major changes in the country, or give a smile to someone who looks sad. No matter how big or small your actions are, you can make a difference.

Today is Greasy Food Day, World Pasta Day, and Sourest Day. It’s also Punk For A Day Day. So here’s what you do; make a big bowl of spaghetti, topped with french fries and lemons. Then eat it while listening to punk rock music, with spiked hair and a sour snarl on your face!