Kids News - Fun Articles

The staff at Heythrip Zoological Gardens in Oxfordshire had a slight problem. Chico, their resident pygmy hippo was refusing to eat, and his nicely rounded figure was starting to look - well a little less rounded and that was not good!...

Thursday, November 15th, was Domino Day. Every year on this day, Domino fans across the world build elaborate creations and then try set the record by toppling as many as they can in a smooth chain reaction....

Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience is an amazing 90-minute stage show depicting life-size prehistoric reptiles that roar and move like the real thing. The show, which began in Australia, is now coming to the end of a two-year stint in North America, where it has been playing to packed audiences....

The annual pumpkin festival in Ludwigsburg, Germany is the Ferrari of all such festivals. Held from September to November each year, it is reputed to be the largest pumpkin festival in the World....

The Madagascar gang is back in the theatres - Moving it, in their new sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa are Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo and Melman, the Giraffe, who all continue from where they had left off in the first movie....

Passengers on this train have taken the term All Aboard, to a whole new level - And they are not doing it for a great photo opportunity either. All of them are actually going to hang on to their dear lives while the train chugs along and takes them to their destination, a few hundred miles away....

This Japanese Assistant Robot or AR as it is affectionately called, will not only do your laundry and clean your floors, but also, serve you breakfast in bed!...

Ray Villafane has an extremely cool daytime job. He is a toy sculptor, who creates life-like figures of Spiderman, Ironman, Incredible Hulk and other cool characters. However, during Halloween he turns his attention to something even cooler - carving pumpkins - and we are not talking ordinary Jack-O-Lanterns, but real scary lifelike 3-D creations that take the art to a whole new level....

Don't try to scare this baby - He will just laugh at you. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!...