Put Your Wheels in the Air
When you learn to drive, your parents won’t want you to zoom down the road like this. But a few years ago a whole bunch of people in Saudi Arabia started driving like this. It’s called “sidewalk...
View ArticleThree Sheets to the Wind
There’s a lot you can do with a blank sheet of paper. You can draw a picture on it, write a story… or if you want to stir up trouble, you can send it flying through the air. Folding paper to make a...
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 ArticleTongue Twister for Your Eyes
Does this picture look right to you? An “optical illusion” is a shape or pattern that looks different from what was actually drawn. Straight lines that look curved, boxes that look flipped inside...
View ArticleYour House, Made of Lego
What if you could build your own house out of Lego? How many pieces would you need? Luckily for us, a company made an online calculator to help figure that out. You type in your house size in...
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, until the ripple runs right through....
View ArticleThe Song That’s Stuck in Your Head
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? Maybe a song from an ad, or a theme song from a cartoon show? It can be pretty annoying, even if you like the song. You just can’t stop it from playing in...
View ArticleLife-Size Candy Land
In Candy Land, anyone can win at any time. As you move your little person through the path, you might think you’re about to win as you get near the end. But if you draw a card for a candy near the...
View ArticlePhoto-Fest
It’s easy to snap pictures of anything these days, because so many phones can work like cameras. In the old days, taking a picture was so hard! The light bounced into a black box, where it hit a clear...
View ArticleBest Drummer Ever
We humans have been banging drums ever since we lived in caves. But once in a while some new drummer is so amazing that we’re blown away. As this video shows, this guy just plays on simple plastic...
View ArticleThe Secret to Dice
Dice are a fun toy we can use in a lot of different games. That’s because when you throw dice, you don’t know what will happen. A die is just a cube, a shape that has 6 flat square sides, or “faces.”...
View ArticleLand of the Flying Pumpkins
With Halloween and Thanksgiving behind us, America is done with pumpkins. So now what do we do with the leftover ones? We throw them. As our friend Mike F. just shared, every year there are “Punkin...
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, as our fan Merrick J. has shared, the California Legoland...
View ArticleBaby You Can Drive My…Balloons?
Maybe you’ve been to a party where a balloon artist twists long, skinny balloons into a dog, giraffe, or other crazy shape. Usually these squishy, bouncy animals use only 4-5 balloons total. But in...
View ArticleWords That Make You Cross-eyed
We like to build with Legos, blocks, bricks and stones. It turns out we can stack words, too. A crossword puzzle is a set of words that cross where they share the same letter, and you read clues to...
View ArticleYour Own Tie-Dyed Crayons
We all know some crayon colors are more popular than others. The blue and red get used over and over, while the burnt sienna might not have much work to do. But what can you do with all the leftover...
View ArticleChick-Tac-Toe
Have you ever played tic-tac-toe? You and another player 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...
View ArticleJuggling Act
Have you ever tried to juggle? Maybe you’re already a pro at it, or maybe you’re wondering how jugglers can catch so many flying objects with just two hands. So here’s a number you’ll like to hear:...
View ArticleDouble-Trouble Jumprope
Jump rope is fun, but it’s tricky. Every time the rope whizzes at your feet, you have to hop over. Well, a group of girls from Ohio called the Firecrackers has jacked up jumprope to a whole new level....
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May 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 as our friends the Tegtmeiers learned, you can make it as big...
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