Author: Lisa Mungovan

National Big Wig Day was created, to inspire people to donate to the American Cancer Society’s “Look Good Feel Better” division. You can help by putting on a big crazy wig, having a virtual party, and getting people to donate 1 dollar or more, to a worthwhile charity. Remember, Kindness + Silliness = Fabulous!

Did you wake up in a bad mood this morning? Go ahead and be grumpy; it’s Curmudgeons Day! A curmudgeon is a bad-tempered person. It’s also Puzzle Day, and Cornchip Day. There are too many pieces in this puzzle! These chips taste stale! It can be fun to act like a curmudgeon!

As the sun sets tonight, go outside and watch for the moon to appear on the Eastern horizon. January’s first full moon is called the Wolf Moon, and it will look orange when it rises. Every full moon has a special name. In May, it will be a Super Blood Flower Moon Eclipse.

This year, the Carnival season of Mardi Gras, will look a lot different in New Orleans. The pandemic will make it unsafe to have crowded parades. Instead of creating elaborate floats for the parade, some people are decorating their houses. They’ll sit on their house floats, throwing beads and trinkets to pedestrians walking by.

Linda Tutt High School, in Sanger Texas, has a well-stocked school store. Instead of the standard school supplies, it carries fresh food, pasta, and laundry detergent. The best part? It’s all free. Students run the store to give them job skills, and learn the value of helping the community.

Throw some blueberries in your pancake mix, because it’s Blueberry Pancake Day. After you finish breakfast, hum your favorite tunes, on an annoying instrument, to celebrate Kazoo Day! You can play it while you’re working, since it’s also Have Fun At Work Day. It won’t bother anyone else at all, haha-haha-ha!

In 1949, the first set of automatic binding bricks were produced in Denmark. You may know them better, as Legos! Today is International LEGO Day, so see what you can create. Did you know, there are over 4,000,000,000 LEGO minifigures in the world? The LEGO bricks sold in a single year, would circle the Earth 5 times!

If you have a set of Jenga blocks, stand one up vertically, on its end. Now, try to balance more blocks on top. How many did you stack? A 12-year-old from British Columbia Canada, is the block-stacking master. Auldin Maxwell stacked 693 Jenga blocks, on a single vertical block. That’s a new world record!

In 1949, someone borrowed a book called “Great Heart, The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt,” from a New York library. Some kid probably had to write a report on Roosevelt for class. Maybe they forgot to return it and didn’t have money to pay the fine, but the book was finally returned, 72 years overdue.

A company called AppHarvest, is building the world’s largest indoor farms, in Kentucky’s Appalachia region. Using recycled rainwater and no chemical pesticides, the farms provide fresh fruits and vegetables all year long. The farms produce 30 times more food than conventional farms. Instead of mining coal, the Appalachian agricultural center can mine carrots!