Category: Jokes for Kids

Travel to New York City this month, and you could ride a piece of art. Broadway will have one block closed to traffic, because it’s full of seesaws! 12 giant, glowing, musical teeter-totters are part of the art installation, called “Impulse.” Anyone can take a ride and have some fun, 24 hours a day through January.

Are you shocked to hear it’s Static Electricity Day? Static electricity is produced when the positive and negative charges of an atom become unbalanced. See static in action by rubbing a balloon against your head. It will stick! Shuffle around the carpet with rubber-soled shoes and try to zap someone. Yee-ouch!

Knock-knock. Who’s there? Moo. Moo who? Moo moo, I’m a cow! A couple in British Columbia Canada, had a doorbell camera that kept alerting them. The late-night visitors, were a couple of cows on their porch! They had escaped when a bear knocked over their fence. Maybe the bear will visit next!

Stormwater gets so contaminated with pollutants like lead and cadmium, that it becomes useless. Researchers have developed a mineral-coated sand, that soaks up toxic metals and organic chemicals. Water that runs through streets and gutters, could be reused once it’s filtered through the sand. Cities will get a lot of water back into circulation!

Oh no! You’re sitting on the toilet, and you ran out of toilet paper! Luckily, the Charmin robot can bring you a new roll. You control the delivery robot using a smartphone app. But what if you forgot your phone, or the door is locked? Maybe that’s why it’s not for sale yet!

Happiness is infectious. That’s why we celebrate National Joygerm Day! Do something nice for someone, or send a letter, and infect the world with germs of joy! Speaking of the world, it’s also Earth’s Rotation Day. It honors physicist Leon Foucoult’s pendulum, which demonstrates how Earth rotates, with a swinging suspended ball of lead.