Category: Kids News Archive

Last month, the 2000 pound Wizard Rock disappeared from Arizona’s Prescott National Forest. Did someone steal the 1-ton rock, or did it magically vanish because it’s an actual wizard rock! Thankfully, the special black rock with white quartz streaks, has mysteriously reappeared. Park officials plan to move it to a more visible location.

The United States will celebrate Thanksgiving this month, and a man in Tennessee is ready with his meal contribution. Neal Ryder can bring a sweet potato. One is all he’ll need, because it weighs 22.6 pounds! That might be a record in Tennessee, but a sweet potato in Spain holds the world record, at over 81 pounds!

Sometimes severe stress and anxiety can keep you awake at night, but a recent study shows deep sleep might be just the thing to relieve stress. After a full night of deep sleep, participants’ anxiety levels were much lower. Go to bed early enough every night, to give your brain time to calm down!

The Taurid meteor showers can be seen lighting up the night skies, from October to December every year. Tonight may be the peak, when you could see 5 to 10 meteors per hour. The exciting thing about the Taurids, is that they often produce brighter than average fireballs! Set your alarm for midnight, and start watching!

Do you have red hair? Today’s the day to celebrate its glorious color. It’s Love Your Red Hair Day! Today is also National Doughnut Day. Doughnuts are so good, there’s also a Doughnut Day in June. In 1847, 16 year-old Hanson Gregory claimed the invention of the first ring-shaped doughnut. Pardon me while I go eat doughnuts!

Pigs are actually more intelligent than dogs, so it’s no surprise they can be trained to do tricks. One pig, named Joy, is so good at tricks, that she set a new world record! She performed 13 tricks in one minute. Joy’s human, Dawn Bleeker, owns a movie theater in Iowa, where Joy entertains guests.

Gayle Saye bought a lottery ticket in England. She’d picked the winning numbers in the Thunderball drawing, winning over $646,000! Imagine her surprise, when she realized she’d actually bought 2 identical tickets, doubling her money to over $1,200,000! Sometimew it pays to be absentminded! She said it was the best mistake she ever made.

15 teenagers won awards in the Marine Debris Creative Advocacy Competition. That’s a long name, for ideas to prevent ocean pollution. Team Marine won the Gold Award. The California teens made a giant sculpture out of water bottles, to help educate the community, and inspire the school district to teach environmental literacy.

Pavel Abramov is a talented 9-year-old, who enjoys painting animals in Russia. He also enjoys helping animals, so Pavel and his mother started the Kind Paintbrush project. He sells custom paintings of pets to people around the world, to exchange for food, medicine, and supplies for his local animal shelter.

A 9-year-old boy named Tutankhaten became pharaoh, about 3300 years ago in Egypt. He took the name Tutankhamun, and became one of the most famous Egyptians ever. Today is King Tut Day, when King Tut’s tomb was discovered in 1922. It’s also Use Your Common Sense Day. You should know better than to do that!