Category: Kids News

Rubber duckies love to float in your bathtub, keeping you company. Today is Rubber Ducky Day, so give your ducks some extra playtime! Let them stick around for Sticker Day. If you want to see unusual stickers, just go to an arts and crafts store, and check out the scrapbooking section.

On a cold winter day, it’s lovely to have something hot in your tummy. Celebrate Hot Tea Day, with a tea-tasting party. Try chamomile tea, licorice tea, chai tea, and tea blends from different countries. Follow it up with a bowl of soup, for French Onion Soup Day. It has melted cheese on top!

What was your New Year’s resolution this year? Are you keeping it? If you already broke your promise to yourself, don’t worry. Today is Stick To Your New Year’s Resolution Day, so you can try again. Maybe your resolution was to be on time, but it’s never too late, to start a good habit.

Today is Marzipan Day. Marzipan is made using almond meal, and sugar or honey. The paste can be rolled out to cover cakes, or formed into sweet edible sculptures, like tiny animals or fruits, realistically painted with food coloring. I’d like to make all the planets. You could make a pan of marzipan Marzes!

The National Zoo in Washington DC, has giant pandas again. Bao Li and Quing Bao are enjoying the snow in their new home on the Asia Trail. Zoo members can get a sneak peek at the loveable pandas, before the public gets to visit them on January 24th. Both pandas are 3 years old.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains approximately 100,000,000,000 stars, and there could be 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe. But did you know there’s one galaxy, with no visible stars at all? The spiral galaxy, called J0613+52, is made of primordial gas, that was apparently never disrupted, so star formation was not triggered.

Dot-dash, dot-dash-dot-dot, dot, dash-dot-dot-dash, dot-dash. That’s my name! What’s yours? It’s Learn Your Name In Morse Code Day. Morse code assigned a pattern of short and long taps to each letter, to communicate by telegraph before telephones were invented. Use it to send messages by flashlight, or tapping on your desk.

Mammals produce milk for their babies. Baby humans drink their mama’s milk, but older humans drink cow’s milk or goat’s milk. Milk can also be made from plants. Today is Milk Day, so compare animal milk, with soy, almond, oat, or coconut milk. They’re delicious, and also great for people with dairy allergies.

Melting snow makes great slush puddles. They’re perfect for Step In A Puddle And Splash Your Friends Day! You should probably warn them first, so they can either run away, or get ready to splash you back. After all, we wouldn’t want it to become Everyone’s Mad At You For Getting Them Wet Day!

A pair of red pandas at the Walter Zoo in Switzerland, recently made an escape. Heavy snow broke some tree branches, allowing Li and Yen to climb out of their enclosure. Li stopped a few yards away to munch on leaves, but zookeepers followed Yen’s tracks to a nearby forest before finding her.