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Photo-Fest
Our fan Yuri R. S. wrote in to ask, how many pictures are taken every year around the world? Unbelievably, it’s 1 trillion or more (1,000,000,000,000). With almost 7 billion cell phones out there,...
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The Secret to Dice
Dice are a fun toy we can use in a lot of different games. A die is just a cube, a shape that has 6 flat square sides or “faces” with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 dots on each face. The die can land with any of...
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Land 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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Living 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....
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Baby 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 this...
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Words 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,...
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Your 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...
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Chick-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...
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Juggling 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...
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Ride 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...
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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 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 ArticleThe Key to Cracking the Puzzle
Jigsaw puzzles can be easy or hard, depending on 3 things: the total number of pieces, the number of shapes that look the same, and most importantly, the size of the pieces compared to the size of the...
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 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 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...
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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 you can make it as big as you need it. Our friend William...
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 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...
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