Category: Kids News Archive

Someone will get to celebrate the Barbie doll’s 60th birthday at the ultimate location: a real-life Malibu Barbie Dreamhouse! The California house has a hot pink water slide, a pink jeep, and a closet full of Barbie-inspired clothes. It’s $60 to stay there, through Air BnB. Booking opens on October 23 for one lucky person!

Today will mark the first all-female spacewalk at the International Space Station. Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will be working outside the station for more than 5 hours, fixing a broken power controller. The historic milestone should have taken place in March, with astronaut Anne McClain, but they didn’t have enough spacesuits that fit!

Even though you wash your hands in a public bathroom, you have to exit by touching a dirty handle. 2 students at the University of Hong Kong won the Dyson Award, for designing a door handle that cleans itself. It uses titanium dioxide powder and ultraviolet lights to kill bacteria, every time the door opens!

11 year-old Jonah Larson, is a master of crocheting. He taught himself to crochet at age 5! By selling his work on Instagram, he’s raising money for a library at an Ethiopian orphanage, where he lived before he was adopted. You can watch his series, “Learn to Crochet with Jonah,” and pick up a new skill!

If you see some of your favorite bearded people looking less hairy today, it might be because it’s No Beard Day. Imagine Gandalf, Hagrid, or Santa Claus without beards! At least they wouldn’t get chocolatey beards, for Chocolate Cupcake Day! Do you bite into a cupcake, or lick the frosting off first?

Students in California will be able to sleep in later, after a new law goes into effect. Public high schools won’t be allowed to start before 8:30 in the morning. Later schedules help improve test scores, decrease car crashes, and reduce absences and tardies. Schools have until 2022 to adjust their schedules, so just be patient!

Katie Van Blaricum volunteers at a zoo, so she has experience helping animals. She even saved the life of a butterfly, by giving it a wing transplant! A monarch had a torn wing, so she cut off the broken piece, and glued on a wing from a dead butterfly. The new wing worked great!

Celebrate National Pasta Day with this fun fact: Kevin Cole holds the record for the Longest Spaghetti Nasal Ejection. He put a strand of spaghetti in his mouth, then blew it out his nostril  7 1/2 inches! He can also suck spaghetti in one nostril and pull it out the other, to floss his nose.

There are always new customers coming into shops and restaurants. That’s why Get To Know Your Customer Day comes 4 times a year! Whether you’re working with a customer, or being a customer, take the extra time to talk to each other. Friendliness helps customers leave with a free gift: a big smile!

Today is Wear Something Gaudy Day, so get out your brightest, showy clothes! A neon shirt with sparkly pants and polka dot socks would be perfect! It’s also Playing Card Collection Day. Do you have more than one deck of cards? Which deck is your favorite? Show them off while playing cards with someone!