Your House, Made of Lego
How much Lego would you need to build your own house? A company made an estimate to figure that out! A Lego brick is about 1/4 inch thick/tall, 5/8 inch wide, and 1 1/4 in long. Meanwhile, a *real*...
View ArticleTongue Twister for Your Eyes
Does this picture look right to you? Starting in the top row of the picture, say the color of each word’s letters, instead of reading the word itself. How fast can you say all the right colors? It...
View ArticleThree Sheets to the Wind
There’s a lot you can do with a sheet of paper. You can draw a picture, write a story… or send it flying through the air, as a paper airplane. The two most common shapes are the “ballistic dart” and...
View ArticleMay the Folds Be With You
Origami is the art of folding paper into the shape of animals, flowers, boxes and other things. Turns out you can make an origami Yoda, and you can make it as big as you need it. Our friend William...
View ArticleHow to Be a Juggler!
April 18 is International Juggler’s Day, all about the amazing act of juggling. In juggling you toss a whole bunch of balls, bananas or flaming torches into the air and catch them over and over! You...
View ArticleWho Invented Hopscotch?
Hopping on just one leg is hard. So more than 1,000 years ago, Roman soldiers got stronger by hopping through numbered squares drawn on the ground. Little kids liked the game so much that they copied...
View ArticleWe’re Real Rear Wheels – Say It 10 Times Fast!
Try saying “We’re real rear wheels” 10 times fast — not so easy, huh? It’s called a tongue twister, a set of words that’s tricky for your tongue to say, and gets trickier as you say it faster. Try...
View ArticleLife-Size Candy Land
In Candy Land, anyone can win at any time. You might think you’re about to win as you move your little person near the end. But if you draw a card for a candy near the beginning, suddenly you’re sent...
View ArticleGoing Slideways
Tires aren’t just for cars and trucks. In “inner tubing,” you sit or lie down on a giant donut-shaped balloon and slide down the snowy, slippery hill. It’s called an “inner” tube because it’s from...
View ArticleA Surprise Inside a Surprise Inside a…
Have you ever seen those little wooden dolls that split open to show another little doll inside, then another inside that one? They’re matryoshka dolls from Russia. Matryoshka means “little mom,” and...
View ArticleTriple-Trick Dominoes
Domino chains are so simple but so cool. You stand them up on end, then knock down just the first domino. It knocks over the next one, which knocks down the next, and so on. But one little row is...
View ArticleWaterslide for Ducks
Everyone loves a great waterslide – and so do ducks! At the South Carolina State Fair, someone set up a waterslide and let 6 baby ducks play on it, as we see in this video. It looks like there are...
View ArticleRide That Lobster!
When you draw a picture of some creature, wouldn’t it be cool if it could come to life? That’s just about what happened with this merry-go-round in the Boston area. Artist Jeff Briggs asked kids to...
View ArticleWhat’s a Woggle?
What’s a woggle, you ask? It’s just another word for one of the best pool toys of all time: the pool noodle. It’s a long, colorful foam tube that you use to float in the water, and to splash other...
View ArticleJuggling Act
Have you ever tried to juggle? Here's a number you'll like to hear: there are just 3 basic ways to juggle that you need to learn. In the "cascade," an odd number of balls crisscross in the air. In the...
View ArticleChick-Tac-Toe
In tic-tac-toe, two players fill in Xs and Os on a grid of 9 little squares, and the first person to fill in 3 Xs or Os in a straight line wins. Both kids and grown-ups can play it — and apparently...
View ArticleYour Own Tie-Dyed Crayons
We all know some crayon colors are more popular than others, so what can you do with all the leftover little pieces? You can melt them down and make new crayons. As this page on instructables.com...
View ArticleWords That Make You Cross-eyed
A crossword puzzle is a set of words that cross where they share the same letter, and you read clues to figure out what words to write. If you have the word CAT and another word going down from that C,...
View ArticleLiving La Vida Lego
When you build a house or castle out of Lego, you can’t help but think how cool it would be to live in a life-size building like that. Well, the California Legoland has done it with their Lego Hotel....
View ArticleLand of the Flying Pumpkins
With Halloween and Thanksgiving behind us, America is done with pumpkins. So there are “Punkin Chunkin” contests across the U.S., where people bring all kinds of crazy machines they build to hurl...
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