Apps For Kids

Today is World Wombat Day, celebrating one of Australia’s wonderful animals. Wombats are marsupials that look kind of like groundhogs. They’re about 3 1/2 feet long, and have a backwards-facing pouch, so it doesn’t fill with dirt as they dig underground. The coolest thing is, wombats have square poop! The cubes stack up nicely.

Did you ever have an operation or an accident, that left a scar? Show it off, for Scar Appreciation Day. Your body did an amazing job, of healing after a traumatic event. Be proud of the mark it left behind. Every scar tells an interesting story, from your personal autobiography.

What’s your dog’s favorite thing to do? It’s Make A Dog’s Day, so take your doggo on a nice long walk, play fetch with the neighbor’s dog, or make a dog’s whole life, by adopting one from a shelter! Don’t forget to pick up the poop. Nobody wants to step in that stuff.

Today is International Stuttering Awareness Day. The speech disorder makes it difficult, to speak the words you want to say. Many famous people have overcome stuttering, like President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Emperor Claudius, Marilyn Monroe, and James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader! It’s hard work, but you’ll succeed!

Today is Color Day! Wear your most colorful clothes, use your red pen, and eat colorful fruits and vegetables! It’s also Nut Day, so grab a handful of almonds or walnuts to much on. Then celebrate CAPS LOCK DAY, by using all uppercase letters while typing, for TODAY ONLY. It looks like you’re yelling.

The hagfish is amazingly disgusting. Sometimes called the slime eel, the hagfish has no skull or jaws. It escapes predators by releasing up to 5 gallons of slime, clogging the attacker’s gills with mucous. It eats dead animals by crawling in through their mouth and eating the carcass from the inside out. Happy Hagfish Day!

How many buttons do you have on your clothes? Today is Count Your Buttons Day, so make sure they’re all firmly attached! Eat a delicious apple while you count, because it’s Apple Day! It’s also Reptile Awareness Day. Do lizards, snakes, alligators, or turtles live around your house? Be nice to them!

Halloween is coming, and people are carving Jack o’lanterns, decorating with spider webs, and creating costumes. You can get in the spirit, by celebrating Pumpkin Cheesecake Day. Save some for me! It’s also Witch Hazel Day. People use leaves and bark from the witch hazel plant, to treat insect bites and other skin irritations.

A quartet of students at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, designed a puzzle-solving robot, to solve a 4 by 4 by 4 Rubik’s cube. Their robot set a new world record for robots, by solving the puzzle in 9.8 seconds. The fastest time for a human is 15 seconds.

The Orionids meteor showers are here! The meteors are created by debris left by Halley’s Comet. Tonight will be a great time to see them, around 2:00 in the morning! Set your alarm and hope for clear skies, and you might get to wish on 20 shooting stars per hour!