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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kidspace celebrates the life and legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Exploring Space

We’ve highlighted three ways space is explored, that also practice necessary skills for any future space explorer — imagination, creativity, and science.

A Blue Moon is the name given to the second full moon in a calendar month, which only occurs every two to three years. This year we get to experience a Blue Moon on Halloween. To prepare for this uncommon lunar event, we’ve put together some ways to explore the Moon.

Bats

Join Kidspace in celebrating international Bat Week, a tribute to some of our most remarkable and important nocturnal neighbors. You might not notice them during the day, but bats live all around us, roosting in small groups under freeway overpasses, on rocky hillsides, in attics and abandoned buildings, and high up in the fronds of palm trees.

Spiders

Spiders are celebrated weavers and builders in their own right, and for centuries they have also been muses and models for visual artists, musicians, poets, scientists, storytellers, and engineers…

Candy Corn

Ah, candy corn, perhaps the most controversial treat in the Halloween bag! Love ‘em or leave ‘em, this sugary little triangle has become a big part of our shared culture, even though its original inventors didn’t mean for it to become a seasonal favorite…

Decomposition

The video shows flowers and a pumpkin wilting and molding, then the cycle restarting again with a fresh vase of flowers and a carved jack-o’-lantern. It’s the circle of life! And, you know what? It moves us all. Musical references aside, sometimes we think of decomposition as boring, gross, or both. But that doesn’t have to be the case!

The Power of a Pumpkin

From lattes to Jack-o’-lanterns, pumpkins are the celebrity fruit of the season! They have inspired seasonal animated classics, have become a name (and suit pattern) of a well-known sketch character, David S. Pumpkins, and are a fall essential for decorations, treats and more.

International Observe The Moon Night

Have you ever heard any of these sayings before? The Moon is made of cheese The man in the Moon The rabbit in the Moon These sayings all came about because of the Moon’s craters! When you look at the Moon you can see dark and light spots on the moon caused by the depth of all the different craters on the lunar surface. Craters are made when another object, …

Crickets for Breakfast

Our Leopard Gecko, Lenard, LOVES to eat crickets for breakfast (click here to learn more about Lenard). Many of our Animal Ambassadors like to eat crickets, other insects, and arthropods as a main part of their diet. Animals that eat insects are insectivores. Many people also eat crickets and other arthropods as part of their diets! When humans eat insects and bugs as part of their diet it is called entomophagy. Crickets …

Simple Sensory Slime

Kids never seem to get tired of slime! Here’s a fun and easy way to add an extra experience to it. By adding different things like glitter, googly eyes, or even glow paint, you can create a sensory activity with many different tactile experiences. You don’t even have to make multiple batches of slime if you don’t want to. It’s very easy to make up a batch and then split …

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