Category: Kids News

Have you ever dropped your phone in water? People used to recommend putting wet electronics in a bag of rice, to dry them out. Apple now says, rice can damage your device. Simply wipe your phone dry, then air dry naturally until all moisture has evaporated, before plugging it in, or charge wirelessly.

Crunch-crunch-crunch. Today is Tortilla Chip Day! In Los Angeles in the 1940’s, Rebecca Webb Carranza noticed all the misshapen tortillas that were rejected at the El Zarape Tortilla Factory. She cut them into triangles and fried them, then sold them for 10 cents a bag. Corn + oil + water + salt = delicious!

Have you ever wanted to walk on the ceiling? You’ll get the chance, at the newest Upside-Down House, in Bristol England. All the furniture is flipped 180 degrees, and attached to the ceilings, making for a head-spinning house tour and fantastic photo opportunities. From outside, the house appears to be sitting on its roof.

Joe Thompson, a recent paleontology graduate, is a fossil guide on the Isle of Wight. After a rainstorm, he was looking for fossils and dinosaur bones, but found a huge dinosaur footprint instead. The 3-toed iguanodon track is 1 meter long, and 127,000,000 years old. It had been hidden underneath pebbles in the clay.

The Denver Zoo in Colorado, was excited to announce they’d spotted a new baby red-necked wallaby, peeking out of its mama’s pouch. The joey’s been growing in the cozy environment for 5 months already, and will venture out of mama Adelaide’s pouch in the coming months. Newborn wallabies are only the size of a jellybean!

Today is Banana Bread Day. It started out as a way to use up the mushy bananas that nobody wanted to eat, but it’s delicious! It’s also Dog Biscuit Day, so give your poochie a treat. Find a good recipe, and bake him a batch of biscuits so good, that you’d eat them too!

There’s more to the sport of curling, than sliding a big rock down the ice. Sweepers heat up the pebbled ice, causing it to melt and reduce friction, but the rotation, speed and pressure are equally important. Today is Curling is Cool Day! It’s also Play Tennis Day, if you want something less complicated!

People have been eating sweet potatoes for thousands of years, but when’s the last time you ate one? Today is Cook A Sweet Potato Day, so eat sweet potato pie, fries, chips, casseroles, or simply baked. While your sweet potatoes cook, celebrate World Yoga Day, by learning some yoga poses and meditating.

Studies show that playing card games, keeps your mind sharp. A deck of cards gives you loads of games in a tiny package! Today is Play More Cards Day. Ask your parents to play their favorite card games with you, or play solitaire. I bet your grandparents can teach you to play 52-Card-Pickup!

Today is Single Tasking Day. Try to just do one thing at a time. I’m going to focus on being humble today, because it’s also Be Humble day. I’m not really so perfect. I was wrong once in my life. That’s when I thought I was wrong, but I was really right!