Monthly Archives: May 2026
HISTORY TIDBIT: CEREAL BOX TOYS
Cereal box toys and sweets don’t come children’s way nearly as much as they used to, but for decades, all the primary providers of cereal found them a great way to ensure children would implore mothers to buy theirs. Because what kid wouldn’t want a magic spoon, 3-in-1 yo-yo, or wacky wall walker? Leading to […]
MAKING HISTORY FUN: ONLINE GAMES
Playing history-based online games can often prove attractive to even history-resistant kids. https://tinyurl.com/3bmws8yr https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z7nrydm/articles/zj7mywx https://www.historymuseum.ca/dod/games-activities
HISTORIC FOOD: YOGHURT
I personally loathe yoghurt – any kind of yoghurt – but it’s been around a very, very, long time, and its history might be of interest to the millions of kids, and adults, who consume it on a daily basis. https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/yogurt/277847 https://kids.kiddle.co/Yogurt
HISTORIC MISTAKE: FORT BLUNDER
Having lost the War of 1812, the Americans were leery of being invaded by the British so, in1816, they decided to defend against this by putting up a huge fort at the northern edge of Lake Champlain, between northeastern New York and northwestern Vermont. Unfortunately, they were unaware that that part of the lakeshore was […]
HISTORIC EXPECTATIONS: VICTORIAN MANNERS
Happy Victoria Day! Kids of today would doubtless find the behavioural expectations of Victorian parents a tad oppressive. My Victorian maternal great-grandparents had fourteen children that survived childhood, and one of my great aunts told me that great-granddad used to sit at the table at mealtimes and maintained order over this large brood with a […]
HISTORIC STAND: THE GIRL WHO DEFIED A RACIST MOB
Sixty-Five years ago, a little girl in deeply racist Alabama didn’t let skin colour keep her from helping people. https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=24581 https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-w66930q293
HISTORIC LEGACIES: WORLD’S BIGGEST EMPIRES (BY CATEGORY)
Empires don’t last, but while they do, the original home centres flourish.
HISTORIC ANIMALS: THE CATS OF LENINGRAD
The people of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) had good reason to value their pussycats in World War Two, but they were well thought of even before that. Back in the eighteenth century, the Empress Elizabeth decreed that cats were to be kept in the Winter Palace to control rodents. It’s the State Hermitage Museum now, […]
HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: GREEN CARDS
For foreigners wanting to live in the U.S.A., obtaining this little card is an important step to becoming a citizen, and something kids might have been hearing about on the news lately in regard to documented and undocumented immigrants. https://kids.kiddle.co/Green_card
Time Travelling With Kids 