Category: Kids News Archive

People with diabetes, may have to check their blood sugar levels 12 times a day, and adjust the levels with insulin shots. Frederique Sunstrum has developed a glucose sensor earring! The device continuously monitors blood sugar, and alerts the patient when insulin is needed. She also invented an insulin-mist pump. Inhalers are better than needles!

It’s National 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.

A group of scientists in Michigan, want to help you learn the elements. They’ve created the world’s largest periodic table of the elements! Each element block is 14 feet by 18 feet, with the entire table measuring 120 yards by 53.3 yards. That’s the exact size of an American football field. Let’s all cheer for the elements!

Mobula rays are also known as devil rays or flying rays. Some people call them flying tortillas, because they launch themselves from the water. Rays are fish, that look like they’re flying underwater. Photographer Nadia Aly recently swam with around 10,000 rays in Baja California Mexico, and caught their beauty on camera. Spectacular!

If you’ve ever tried to draw a picture with an Etch A Sketch, you know how hard it is to direct the lines. Kevin Davis is an Etch A Sketch artist who has created amazing Haunted Mansion Stretching Room portraits, as part of his Disneyland Project. Check out his incredible drawings on etch-artist.com.

The Orionids meteor shower will be visible for a few weeks. The meteors are created by debris left by Halley’s Comet. Tonight will be the best 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!

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!

As a freshman, Dylan Ence visited a village in Mexico with his family, to donate school supplies. He wanted to do more, so he spent the next 4 years collecting backpacks, school supplies, and a school bus! He intends to donate the supply-filled bus to Patamban Michoacan, so kids don’t have to sleep at school!

Ihop might need to change its name to Tie-Hop: the Tiny International House of Pancakes. They’re opening a restaurant in Los Angeles that’s 170 square feet, and only holds 6 people! It will only be open for 4 days, and if you want a chance to eat there, you have to join their My-Hop club today.

Have you ever wanted to have a picnic in the grass, but it’s too cold or rainy? Suck UK sells a fleece blanket, printed with grass and tiny flowers, so you can eat inside! If you’d prefer eating on a picnic blanket, Redbubble sells a checkerboard blanket, complete with ants! Nothing can ruin picnic-time.