There is an interesting story behind how Margherita Pizza was invented. Long time ago, pizza was considered to be the food of the ‘poor’. Once, the Italian King Umberto I and Queen Margherita visited the city of Naples. They got bored of the rich food served to them every day and asked for a pizza….
The first lollipops were created by the cavemen some thousands of years ago. The cavemen used to collect honey with a stick. They didn’t want to waste the honey stuck on the stick and licked it directly from the stick. This was the first kind of lollipop. It was found that ancient Chinese, Arabs, and…
Hot chocolate is loved by most of the children. We all thought that hot chocolate was discovered recently. But we are wrong. Do you know, hot chocolate was prepared even thousands of years ago? It was served during special occasions. Not all that we eat and drink are discovered recently, some food that we consume…
We use a microwave to cook food or heat it. An explosion can be made in the microwave. How? Cut a grape into half and put it in the microwave and you will have an explosive fireball. Scary, right! Next time be careful about what you put in the microwave.
Cranberries are red coloured berries that are considered to have lot of health benefits. The most common way of consuming cranberry is in the form of a juice. Cranberries bounce when they are ripe and hence are called ‘bounce balls’. It is said that cranberries bounce better than tennis balls. Farmers bounce cranberries to test…
Have you ever tasted sea water? How does it taste? It is salty. Your blood is as salty as the sea water. But to the mosquitoes who love to suck your blood it tastes like a candy, ‘a little sweet and a little salty’.
Our body is made up of 206 bones. And out of these 206 bones around 52 bones are in your feet. The biggest bone is in your thigh and is called the femur and the smallest is in your middle ear called stapes.
There are smells all around us. Good smells, bad smells. How many smells are you familiar with? Can you identify the source of all the smells that you come across? Not really, right! But do you know, our nose can detect a trillion smells? Unbelievable!
Gardening is fun as it gives kids an opportunity to play with soil without getting scolded. Apart from that, there are many other advantages of gardening. Gardening helps children concentrate. Gardening helps children to occupy themselves in something useful. The process of gardening, the steps involved in taking care of the plants helps the children…
A research says that chess makes kids smart. A game of chess makes kids sit down, focus, think and also recognize difficult patterns. Moreover, chess is an inexpensive game and allows children to meet other children of different age groups and levels.
