Category: Kids News Archive

A truck spilled its contents all over the road last week in Florida. Although the accident happened in Orange County, the truck was carrying grapefruits. The highway was covered with the big juicy fruit! Driving over grapefruits with your car, is not a very efficient way to get a glass of juice!

Scientists believe they’ve found the oldest figure paintings, in a cave in Indonesia. Some of the art shows hunters and wild buffalo. The paintings are 44,000 years old! Unfortunately, the wall paintings are quickly crumbling away, possibly because of higher temperatures in the cave. If there are other paintings, they’ll need to find them fast!

5-year-old Katelyn Hardee wants to help other kids. She set up a hot cocoa-and-cookies stand, to raise money to pay for their school meals! She was able to pay off the lunch debt of 123 kids in her school district in San Diego California. Her school recognized Katelyn’s generosity with an award.

Do you know anyone looking for a job, who loves coffee? Gevalia Kaffe is hiring someone, to live in a castle in Scotland for a week, and drink coffee! The Coffee Queen will get paid $5000, as well as receive $2000 spending money, and free spa treatments. Submit an essay at GevaliaCoffeeQueen.com.

Have you ever tried to get a bunch of cats to obey you? They tend to ignore you, do what they want, and make a mess. So when someone’s having a hard time getting a group of people to do something, they say, “it’s like herding cats.” Happy Cat Herders Day!

Will you be traveling by airplane for the holidays? Don’t forget to check the list, for items you’re not allowed to bring onboard. An airport in Lithuania has a festive reminder for passengers, because they created a tree out of confiscated items! The scissors, knives, liquids, and lighters, make beautiful decorations.

People decorate their Christmas trees with ornaments, lights, or even strings of popcorn. But an Australian couple had a big snake on their tree! Leanne Chapman came home from work, to find a 10-foot-long python coiled around their outdoor tree. They left it alone, and after a few hours, it slithered off by itself.

A brand new community is growing by the hour. 50 houses are being built, with a 3D printer! Each 500-square-foot home takes 24 hours to print. The groups ICON and New Story, are giving the houses to families in Tabasco Mexico, who have been living in extreme poverty. They’ll finally have shelter in a safe environment!

Are you a messy eater? Maybe you need a self-cleaning hoodie. The sweatshirt is made from fibers that repel liquid, so your spilled drink rolls right off! It only needs washing once a month, and dries quickly. The company that developed the clothing, Unhoused, donates one sweatshirt to the homeless for each one sold.

Today is Monkey Day! It started as a joke when a college student wrote “Monkey Day” on his friend’s calendar, but it’s now celebrated around the world. The smallest monkeys are Pygmy marmosets, at only 4.6 inches long! Act like a monkey today; jump around and eat a banana!