A free, original character toy for toddlers, kids, and parents. Click the button and a hand-drawn character appears, a friendly voice reads a fun fact, and the character does a silly move and sound before poofing to the next. Featuring hundreds of original characters across dozens of themes — bugs, dinosaurs, vehicles, construction machines, farm animals, sea creatures, zoo animals, birds, pets, robots, space, musical instruments, fruits and vegetables, body parts, weather, mythical creatures, and gentle safety lessons — each with its own fun fact, signature animation, and sound. No app, no sign-up, just a new surprise every click.
All 3296 characters and their fun facts
Blue Death-Feigning Beetle: This desert beetle plays dead so convincingly it'll let you flip it over and poke it without flinching. That powdery blue is a wax coat that keeps it from drying out.
Bombardier Beetle: When threatened, this beetle fires a boiling, stinging spray out its backside — with a pop!
Caterpillar: A caterpillar has around four thousand muscles and twelve eyes — yet it can barely see. Mostly it just eats and eats and eats.
Centipede: Despite the name, no centipede has exactly a hundred legs — they always have an odd number of leg pairs, so a hundred is impossible.
Cicada: This cicada spent seventeen years underground, just to climb a tree and scream for a few weeks!
Cricket: A cricket sings by scraping its wings together like a tiny fiddle — not with its legs!
Dragonfly: The dragonfly is one of the best hunters on Earth — it catches the prey it chases about ninety-five percent of the time!
Dung Beetle: This beetle rolls a ball of poop bigger than itself and steers home by the light of the Milky Way!
Firefly: A firefly makes cold light in its belly, then blinks a secret code to flirt in the dark!
Grasshopper: A grasshopper can leap twenty times its own body length — that's like you jumping over a school bus from a standstill!
Honeybee: When a honeybee finds flowers, she dances a wiggly figure-eight to tell the hive which way to fly!
Hornet: Unlike a bee, a hornet's stinger has no barb — so it can sting you again and again and live to tell about it.
Housefly: A housefly tastes with its feet, and it can't chew — so it spits on your food to melt it, then slurps the puddle back up.
Ladybug: A ladybug pops open its polka-dot shell to unfold the real flying wings hidden underneath!
Leafcutter Ant: This little ant hauls a leaf many times its own weight — but it doesn't eat it. It farms a fungus on the chewed-up leaves and eats that!
Luna Moth: A luna moth has no mouth and never eats. It lives only about a week — its whole grown-up life is one long search for a mate.
Monarch Butterfly: This butterfly flies up to three thousand miles to the same Mexican forests its ancestors did!
Mosquito: Only female mosquitoes bite — they need a sip of blood for their eggs. That whine is her wings!
Peacock Spider: This tiny spider waves his legs and flashes a rainbow belly to win a mate — or get eaten trying!
Pill Bug: The roly-poly isn't an insect at all — it's a land crustacean, closer to a crab or shrimp, and it breathes through gills!
Praying Mantis: A praying mantis is the only bug that can turn its head to look right over its shoulder — then strike faster than you can blink!
Rhino Beetle: Pound for pound the strongest animal on Earth — a rhino beetle can lift about eight hundred and fifty times its own weight!
Scorpion: Hold a scorpion under a blacklight and it glows electric blue — and it can go almost a whole year without eating!
Stag Beetle: Those huge antlers are really giant jaws — males use them to wrestle rivals off the branch!
Tarantula: A scared tarantula kicks tiny barbed hairs off its belly like itching powder — and it can regrow a whole lost leg!
Bullet Ant: A bullet ant has a big sting. Deep in the jungle, we leave it alone and give it space.
Fire Ant: Fire ants can give a stingy bite. We stay calm and never poke at their dirt mound.
Horsefly: A horsefly can give a nippy bite. We stay calm and gently wave it away.
Kissing Bug: A kissing bug can bite at night. We keep our sleeping spaces clean and tell a grown-up if we see one.
Tick: A tick is a teeny bug that can bite. We check for them with a grown-up after playing in tall grass.
Velvet Ant: A velvet ant looks like fuzzy candy, but it can sting. We only ever look and never touch.
Wasp: A wasp can sting if it feels scared. We stay calm and give it lots of space.
Yellow Jacket: A yellow jacket can sting. If one comes near your snack, stay still and calm and let it go.
Daddy Longlegs: A daddy longlegs has eight super skinny legs and can't bite you at all!
Earthworm: An earthworm has no legs, so it wiggles and stretches to tunnel through the dirt!
Earwig: An earwig has two little pincers on its tail, but it is totally harmless to you!
Inchworm: An inchworm scoots along by looping its body up into a little arch!
Leafhopper: A leafhopper is a tiny bug that can hop from leaf to leaf in a flash!
Millipede: A millipede has so many tiny legs that they ripple like a wave when it walks!
Roly-Poly: A roly-poly can curl up into a teeny tiny ball to keep itself safe!
Slug: A slug is like a snail with no shell, gliding along on a trail of slime!
Snail: A snail carries its house on its back and slides along on a shiny, slippery trail!
Springtail: A springtail is a teeny bug that flicks a tiny spring under its body to hop away!
Walking Stick: A walking stick looks just like a skinny twig so hungry birds can't spot it!
Water Strider: A water strider is so light it can walk right on top of the water!
Ankylosaurus: Ankylosaurus was a living tank, armored from head to toe — even its eyelids had bone. One swing of its club tail could shatter a predator's bones.
Brachiosaurus: Brachiosaurus held its head up to four stories high to browse treetops — and its heart had to be huge just to pump blood all the way up.
Diplodocus: Diplodocus was as long as two school buses, and scientists think it could crack its whip-thin tail faster than the speed of sound.
Pachycephalosaurus: Pachycephalosaurus had a skull topped with ten inches of solid bone — a built-in crash helmet it used to ram rivals head-first.
Parasaurolophus: That long curved crest is a hollow tube. Parasaurolophus could honk through it like a trumpet to call its herd from far across the land.
Pteranodon: Pteranodon had a wingspan wider than a small plane — over twenty feet — yet it was so light it weighed less than you do.
Spinosaurus: Spinosaurus was even bigger than T. rex, and scientists think it spent lots of time in the water — using its giant sail and crocodile jaws to hunt fish.
Stegosaurus: Stegosaurus was the size of a bus but had a brain the size of a walnut. Its spiky tail even has a real name: the thagomizer.
Triceratops: Triceratops had a skull the size of a small car — one of the biggest heads of any land animal ever — tipped with three sharp horns.
Tyrannosaurus Rex: A T. rex bite could crush a car — about eight thousand pounds of force. But its arms were so tiny it couldn't even touch its own mouth.
Velociraptor: The real velociraptor was only the size of a turkey — and covered in feathers. Those movie 'raptors' were really a bigger cousin.
Calico Cat: Almost every calico cat is a girl. The orange-and-black patchwork is coded into the X chromosome, so it takes two X's to paint one.
Grey Cat: That swinging belly flap is called a 'primordial pouch' — and every cat has one! It protects the tummy and lets a cat stretch out long and low for full-speed zoomies.
Orange Tabby: Most orange tabbies are big goofy boys — and this one is very proud of the eye-watering surprise he just left in the litter box.
Tuxedo Cat: Tuxedo cats aren't a breed — they just wear black-and-white formalwear. And they're famous for being chatty, dramatic little bosses.
Abyssinian: An Abyssinian is a sleek, playful cat that loves to climb up high!
Bengal: A Bengal cat has spots and swirls that make it look like a tiny leopard!
British Shorthair: A British Shorthair is a round, plush cat with chubby cheeks!
Maine Coon: A Maine Coon is a giant fluffy cat with tufty ears and a big bushy tail!
Munchkin: A Munchkin cat has short little legs and scoots around close to the ground!
Persian: A Persian cat has long, fluffy fur and a sweet, squishy face!
Ragdoll: A Ragdoll cat goes all floppy and relaxed when you pick it up for a cuddle!
Russian Blue: A Russian Blue has shimmery grey-blue fur and bright green eyes!
Scottish Fold: A Scottish Fold has little folded ears that make its head look extra round!
Siamese: A Siamese cat has bright blue eyes and a soft, chatty little voice!
Sphynx: A Sphynx cat has no fur at all, so its skin feels warm and a little wrinkly!
Tortoiseshell: A tortoiseshell cat has a swirly mix of orange and black, like autumn leaves!
Cow: Moooo! A cow has four tummies and chews grass all day to help make her milk. She even has best friends in the herd.
Donkey: Hee-haw! A donkey's big ears give it amazing hearing, and it's so calm and brave that it guards other farm animals.
Duck: Quack quack quack! A duck's feathers are so waterproof it stays totally dry, and its fuzzy ducklings can swim right away.
Goat: Maaaa! Goats are amazing climbers — they can balance on tiny ledges and even scramble up steep cliffs and trees.
Goose: Honk honk! Geese fly in a big V to help each other glide, and they're brave enough to chase off anything that comes too close.
Hen: Cluck cluck! A hen gently turns her eggs with her beak and softly clucks to her chicks before they've even hatched.
Horse: Neigghhh! A horse can sleep standing up, and a baby horse can stand and run on its wobbly legs the very day it's born.
Llama: Hmmm... a llama hums softly when it's happy and content — but if it gets really annoyed, watch out, because it might spit!
Pig: Oink oink! Pigs are super smart and squeaky clean — they roll in mud only to keep cool, since they can't sweat.
Rooster: Cock-a-doodle-doo! The rooster crows at sunrise to wake the whole farm — and he can actually crow at any time of day.
Sheep: Baaaa! A sheep's woolly coat keeps growing and growing — a farmer shears it off every spring to make warm sweaters.
Turkey: Gobble gobble! A turkey fans out its big tail to show off, and wild turkeys can run fast AND fly up into trees to sleep.
Clownfish: A clownfish lives safe inside a stinging anemone that doesn't hurt it — and a clownfish starts out as a boy that can later change into a girl.
Crab: A crab walks sideways on its pointy legs and waves its strong claws — and it can grow a whole new claw if it ever loses one.
Dolphin: Eee-eee! Dolphins leap and play, talk in clicks and whistles, and even call each other by special name-whistles.
Jellyfish: A jellyfish has no brain, no bones, and no heart — it just pulses along, drifting wherever the water carries it, and some kinds even glow in the dark!
Narwhal: The narwhal is the unicorn of the sea! Its long swirly tusk is really a giant tooth that pokes right out through its lip.
Octopus: An octopus has eight wiggly arms, three hearts, and blue blood — and it squirts a cloud of ink to vanish from danger.
Pufferfish: When a pufferfish gets scared, it gulps lots of water and puffs up into a big spiky ball that's way too prickly to eat.
Sea Turtle: A sea turtle glides through the ocean with its big flippers and can hold its breath for hours while it sleeps underwater.
Seahorse: A seahorse swims standing up and hooks its curly tail onto seaweed — and it's the DADDY seahorse who carries the babies!
Shark: A shark has rows and rows of teeth, and when one falls out a new one moves up — it can grow thousands in its lifetime.
Starfish: A starfish has no brain and sees with tiny eyes on the tips of its arms — and it can grow a whole new arm if one breaks off.
Whale: The blue whale is the biggest animal that has EVER lived — bigger than any dinosaur — and it sings songs across the whole ocean.
Anglerfish: An anglerfish dangles a glowing light in front of its mouth to find food in the dark!
Barreleye: A barreleye fish has a see-through head and eyes that point straight up!
Blobfish: A blobfish looks squishy and droopy up here, but deep down in the sea it looks just right!
Dumbo Octopus: A dumbo octopus has two big fins that flap like an elephant's ears!
Firefly Squid: A firefly squid glows bright blue all over, lighting up the dark, deep sea!
Giant Squid: A giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal, as big as dinner plates!
Gulper Eel: A gulper eel has a huge, stretchy mouth that can swallow a big meal in one gulp!
Lanternfish: A lanternfish has tiny glowing dots all along its body, like little lanterns!
Sea Pig: A sea pig is a chubby little critter that walks the deep sea floor on stubby legs!
Vampire Squid: A vampire squid is not scary at all — it just wraps its cape around itself to hide!
Viperfish: A viperfish has long, glassy teeth and a glowing fin to lure its dinner closer!
Yeti Crab: A yeti crab has fuzzy, hairy arms that look like fluffy white mittens!
Angel Shark: An angel shark is flat and hides in the sand, with fins spread out like wings!
Bull Shark: A bull shark is special because it can swim in the salty ocean and up rivers too!
Goblin Shark: A goblin shark can shoot its jaws way out to grab a snack, then tuck them back in!
Great White Shark: A great white shark has rows and rows of teeth, and new ones grow in when old ones fall out!
Hammerhead Shark: A hammerhead's wide, flat head has an eye on each end, so it can see all around!
Leopard Shark: A leopard shark is covered in pretty spots, just like a leopard!
Mako Shark: A mako shark is the fastest shark, zooming through the water like a rocket!
Megamouth Shark: A megamouth shark has a giant mouth that glows a little to gather its tiny food!
Nurse Shark: A nurse shark is a calm, slow swimmer that likes to rest on the sandy sea floor!
Sawshark: A sawshark has a long snout lined with little teeth, like a saw!
Tiger Shark: A tiger shark has dark stripes when it is young, just like a tiger!
Whale Shark: A whale shark is the biggest fish in the whole sea, but it only eats teeny-tiny food!
Crocodile: A crocodile keeps growing brand-new teeth whenever an old one falls out, all its life long!
Elephant: An elephant uses her long nose, called a trunk, to drink, snack, and even give herself a bath!
Flamingo: A flamingo can stand, and even fall fast asleep, balanced on just one skinny leg!
Giraffe: A giraffe has a long purple tongue, longer than your arm, for grabbing leaves at the very top of the trees!
Gorilla: A gorilla thumps its chest with both hands to say hello and show how strong it is!
Hippo: A hippo can hold its breath and walk along the bottom of the river like it's tiptoeing underwater!
Kangaroo: A baby kangaroo is called a joey, and it rides around snug inside its mommy's cozy pouch!
Lion: A lion's roar is so loud you can hear it from five miles away!
Monkey: A monkey can swing branch to branch and hang on with its tail like an extra hand!
Panda: A panda munches on crunchy bamboo almost all day long, eating for hours and hours!
Rhino: A rhino's big horn is made of keratin, the very same stuff as your own fingernails!
Zebra: Every zebra has its very own stripe pattern, so no two zebras look exactly the same!
Cardinal: A cardinal is a bright red bird that whistles a cheerful little song!
Eagle: An eagle can spot a tiny mouse from way, way up high in the sky!
Hummingbird: A hummingbird flaps its wings so fast they make a humming sound!
Ostrich: An ostrich is too big to fly, but it can run faster than a galloping horse!
Owl: An owl can turn its head almost all the way around to peek behind itself!
Parrot: A parrot is so clever it can learn to say words, just like you!
Peacock: A peacock spreads its giant sparkly tail like a fan to show off!
Penguin: A penguin can't fly in the sky, but it zooms super fast swimming underwater!
Robin: A robin loves to hop across the grass hunting for wiggly worms!
Swan: A swan can bend its long neck into a beautiful curvy heart shape!
Toucan: A toucan has a great big colorful beak that's much lighter than it looks!
Woodpecker: A woodpecker taps on trees super fast to find yummy bugs to eat!
Bunny: A bunny's front teeth never, ever stop growing its whole life!
Canary: A canary sings cheerful little songs all day long!
Ferret: A ferret loves to do a happy wiggly dance when it wants to play!
Gecko: A gecko has sticky toes that let it walk straight up a wall, even upside down!
Goldfish: A goldfish never closes its eyes, not even when it is fast asleep!
Guinea Pig: A guinea pig squeaks a happy "wheek!" when it knows a yummy snack is coming!
Hamster: A hamster can stuff its cheeks so full of food they puff out like little balloons!
Kitten: A kitten can hear teeny-tiny sounds, even a mouse tiptoeing far away!
Mouse: A mouse uses its long whiskers to feel its way around in the dark!
Parakeet: A parakeet can learn to whistle little songs and even copy your words!
Puppy: A puppy wags its tail to show you it's happy to see you!
Teddy: Teddy is a Goldendoodle — a golden retriever crossed with a poodle — which makes him bouncy, goofy, super smart, and impossibly fluffy.
Beagle: A beagle has a super-sniffer nose and floppy ears for following smells!
Bulldog: A bulldog has a wrinkly face and a sturdy, waddly walk!
Chihuahua: A chihuahua is one of the tiniest dogs, with a big, brave bark!
Corgi: A corgi has short little legs and a big fluffy bottom, and it loves to herd!
Dachshund: A dachshund is long and low, with a body shaped a bit like a hot dog!
Dalmatian: A dalmatian is a white dog covered in cool black spots!
German Shepherd: A German shepherd is smart and loyal, and it loves having a job to do!
Golden Retriever: A golden retriever is a friendly, fluffy dog that loves to fetch and swim!
Husky: A husky has thick fur and bright eyes, and it loves to howl and pull sleds in the snow!
Poodle: A poodle has soft, curly fur that can be fluffed into puffy pompoms!
Pug: A pug has a squishy, wrinkly face and a curly little tail!
Shiba Inu: A Shiba Inu has a curly tail and a fluffy, fox-like face!
Axolotl: An axolotl is a smiley salamander that keeps its feathery gills its whole life!
Bearded Dragon: A bearded dragon waves one little arm to say hello to other lizards!
Chameleon: A chameleon can move its two eyes in different directions at the very same time!
Frog: A frog can leap many times its own length in a single big hop!
Iguana: An iguana loves to bask in the warm sun to keep its body cozy!
Komodo Dragon: A Komodo dragon is the biggest lizard in the world, as long as a car!
Newt: A newt lives part of its life in the water and part on the land!
Salamander: A salamander can grow back its tail if it ever loses one!
Snake: A snake smells the air by flicking its forked tongue in and out!
Toad: A toad has bumpy, dry skin and loves to hop around the garden at night!
Tortoise: A tortoise carries its hard shell like a home and can live over 100 years!
Tree Frog: A tree frog has sticky toe pads that help it cling to leaves and glass!
Cassowary: A cassowary is a big blue-necked bird with a tall helmet on its head!
Dingo: A dingo is a wild dog that calls to its friends with a long howl!
Echidna: An echidna is covered in spikes and slurps up ants with its long sticky tongue!
Emu: An emu is a giant bird that can't fly, but it can run super fast!
Frilled Lizard: A frilled lizard pops open a big collar around its neck to look extra big!
Koala: A koala sleeps up to 20 hours a day, snuggled in a eucalyptus tree!
Kookaburra: A kookaburra is a bird whose call sounds just like a giggly laugh!
Platypus: A platypus has a duck bill, a beaver tail, and it lays eggs — what a mix-up!
Quokka: A quokka is a little hopper with a face that always looks like it's smiling!
Sugar Glider: A sugar glider has flaps of skin that let it glide from tree to tree!
Wallaby: A wallaby is like a small kangaroo and bounces along on its big back feet!
Wombat: A wombat digs big cozy tunnels, and it even makes little cube-shaped poops!
Anteater: An anteater slurps up thousands of ants a day with its long, sticky tongue!
Capuchin Monkey: A capuchin monkey is so clever it uses rocks as tools to crack open nuts!
Gibbon: A gibbon swings through the trees with its super long arms, hand over hand!
Howler Monkey: A howler monkey has a call so loud you can hear it for miles through the jungle!
Jaguar: A jaguar is a strong spotted cat that even loves to swim in rainforest rivers!
Kinkajou: A kinkajou uses its curly tail like an extra hand to hang from branches!
Macaw: A macaw is a big, rainbow-colored parrot with a very loud squawk!
Okapi: An okapi looks like a horse with zebra-striped legs, and it's a cousin of the giraffe!
Orangutan: An orangutan builds a cozy leaf nest high in the trees to sleep in every night!
Poison Dart Frog: A poison dart frog wears super bright colors to say "please don't eat me!"
Sloth: A sloth moves so slowly that green algae can grow right on its fur!
Tapir: A tapir has a bendy little nose-snout and loves to splash in the mud!
Aye-Aye: An aye-aye taps on tree branches to listen for yummy grubs hiding inside!
Badger: A badger digs cozy underground tunnels, called a sett, to sleep in all day!
Bat: A bat finds its way in the dark by listening to its own squeaky echoes!
Flying Squirrel: A flying squirrel doesn't really fly — it glides from tree to tree on flaps of skin!
Fox: A fox has such great hearing it can find a mouse hiding under the snow!
Hedgehog: A hedgehog rolls into a prickly little ball to keep itself safe!
Mole: A mole lives underground and uses its big shovel paws to dig long tunnels!
Ocelot: An ocelot is a small spotted wild cat that hunts in the quiet, dark jungle!
Opossum: An opossum plays pretend-dead to trick anything that might bother it!
Porcupine: A porcupine is covered in sharp quills that pop up when it feels worried!
Raccoon: A raccoon has clever little hands and likes to dunk its food in water!
Skunk: A skunk gives a stinky spray as a warning when it feels scared!
Arctic Fox: An arctic fox turns snowy white in winter to hide, and brown again in summer!
Arctic Hare: An arctic hare has thick white fur and big feet that work like snowshoes!
Beluga Whale: A beluga whale is all white and makes so many sounds it is called the sea canary!
Harp Seal Pup: A baby harp seal has fluffy white fur to stay cozy and warm on the ice!
Lemming: A lemming is a tiny, fuzzy animal that digs cozy tunnels under the snow!
Musk Ox: A musk ox has long, shaggy fur that hangs down like a warm, woolly skirt!
Polar Bear: A polar bear has black skin under its white fur to soak up the warm sun!
Puffin: A puffin is a little black-and-white bird with a bright, colorful beak!
Reindeer: A reindeer grows big, branchy antlers and has fur even on its nose!
Seal: A seal scoots on its belly on land, but zooms like a torpedo in the water!
Snowy Owl: A snowy owl has soft white feathers and can turn its head almost all the way around!
Walrus: A walrus has two long tusks and a big, bushy mustache!
Cave Bear: A cave bear was a huge bear that slept all winter long in cozy caves!
Dire Wolf: A dire wolf was a big, strong wolf that hunted in a pack with its friends!
Dodo: A dodo was a chubby bird that couldn't fly and waddled around on the ground!
Giant Beaver: A giant beaver was as big as a bear, with long teeth for gnawing on trees!
Giant Ground Sloth: A giant ground sloth was as tall as a tree and stood up to reach the high leaves!
Glyptodon: A glyptodon was as big as a car, with a hard, round shell like a giant armadillo!
Irish Elk: An Irish elk was a giant deer with the biggest antlers ever, wider than a door!
Mastodon: A mastodon looked like a mammoth and used its tusks to dig up tasty plants!
Saber-Tooth Tiger: A saber-tooth tiger had two long, pointy teeth as big as bananas!
Terror Bird: A terror bird was a tall bird that couldn't fly but ran super fast on long legs!
Woolly Mammoth: A woolly mammoth was like a giant elephant with long, shaggy fur and huge curved tusks!
Woolly Rhino: A woolly rhino had a thick, furry coat and a big horn for brushing away snow!
Airplane: An airplane zooms down the runway and lifts off into the sky, carrying people high above the fluffy clouds.
Ambulance: The ambulance hurries sick or hurt people to the hospital, siren blaring so every car moves out of the way.
Excavator: The excavator swings its long arm and scoops up huge buckets of dirt with the metal teeth on its bucket.
Fire Truck: A fire truck races to the rescue with flashing lights, a wailing siren, and a long ladder that reaches way up high.
Garbage Truck: Beep beep beep! The garbage truck lifts the bins, gobbles up the trash, and squashes it down inside.
Helicopter: Whirly-bird! A helicopter's spinning blades let it fly straight up, hover in one spot, and land almost anywhere.
Police Car: Woop woop! The police car flashes its red and blue lights and zooms off to help keep everybody safe.
Rocket: Five, four, three, two, one... blastoff! A rocket roars up into outer space on a giant tail of fire.
Sailboat: A sailboat is pushed along by the wind — its big sail catches the breeze to glide it across the water.
School Bus: The big yellow school bus stops, pops out its little red stop sign, and picks up all the kids for school.
Tractor: Putt-putt-putt! The farmer's tractor plows the field and pulls heavy loads with its giant back wheels.
Train: Chugga-chugga choo-choo! The train pulls a long line of cars down the tracks and toots its big steam whistle.
Backhoe: A backhoe uses its bendy arm and bucket to scoop big holes in the ground!
Bulldozer: A bulldozer pushes big piles of dirt with its strong, flat front blade!
Cement Mixer: A cement mixer spins its big drum round and round so the cement stays smooth!
Crane: A crane lifts heavy things way up high with its long, tall arm!
Dump Truck: A dump truck tips its big bed way up high to pour out all the dirt!
Forklift: A forklift slides its two strong forks under heavy boxes to lift them up!
Front Loader: A front loader scoops up big piles of dirt with the giant bucket on its front!
Paver: A paver lays a smooth, warm new road behind it as it slowly rolls along!
Road Grader: A road grader smooths bumpy dirt flat with a long blade tucked underneath it!
Skid Steer: A skid steer is a little digger that can spin around in a tiny tight space!
Steamroller: A steamroller has a huge, heavy roller that squishes the road nice and flat!
Wrecking Ball: A wrecking ball swings on a big strong chain to knock down old walls!
Bullet Train: A bullet train has a long, pointy nose and zooms so fast it is almost like flying!
Caboose: A caboose is the friendly little car at the very end of a long train!
Circus Train: A circus train carries all the fun of the circus from town to town!
Freight Train: A freight train pulls a long line of cars carrying boxes, cars, and goodies!
Handcar: A handcar is a tiny train car you pump up and down by hand to make it go!
Mine Cart: A mine cart rolls on little tracks deep inside a mine, full of sparkly rocks!
Monorail: A monorail glides along on just one single rail, high up in the air!
Snowplow Train: A snowplow train pushes deep snow off the tracks so other trains can pass!
Steam Engine: A steam engine puffs out big clouds of smoke and goes chugga-chugga down the track!
Subway Train: A subway train whooshes through tunnels deep underground in the city!
Train Station: A train station is where trains stop so people can hop on and hop off!
Trolley: A trolley is a little street train that ding-dings its bell as it rolls along!
Canoe: A canoe is a pointy boat you paddle along calm lakes and rivers!
Cruise Ship: A cruise ship is like a floating hotel, as tall as a building!
Ferry: A ferry is a big, flat boat that carries people and cars across the water!
Fishing Boat: A fishing boat heads out to sea with nets to catch lots of fish!
Gondola: A gondola is a fancy boat in Venice that is pushed along with one long pole!
Houseboat: A houseboat is a real house that floats, so you can live right on the water!
Kayak: A kayak is a skinny little boat you paddle with one long, two-sided oar!
Paddleboat: A paddleboat moves when you pedal your feet, just like a bicycle on the water!
Rowboat: A rowboat is a little boat you move by pulling two oars back and forth!
Speedboat: A speedboat zooms super fast and leaves a big, splashy wake behind it!
Submarine: A submarine can dive deep underwater and peek up with its long periscope!
Tugboat: A tugboat is small but mighty, pushing and pulling giant ships into the port!
Delivery Robot: Little delivery robots roll down the sidewalk bringing snacks, looking both ways before they cross!
Drone: A drone has four spinning propellers that let it zoom up, hover still, and even flip in the air!
Helper Robot: Helper robots are learning to fold laundry and carry boxes so they can lend people a hand!
Jetpack Robot: With a rocket jetpack, this robot can blast straight up into the sky like a firework!
Giant Mech: A mech is a giant robot suit so big a person climbs inside to drive it like a stompy machine!
Robot Arm: Robot arms in factories never get tired — they can build cars all day and all night!
Robot Dog: Some real robot dogs can climb stairs, open doors, and even dance — without ever needing a nap!
Robot Vacuum: A robot vacuum uses little bumpers and sensors to feel its way around your whole house by itself!
Sphere Bot: A ball-shaped robot can roll any direction it wants and never tips over!
Spider Bot: A six-legged robot can scramble over rocks and bumpy ground where wheels would get stuck!
Tin Robot: The very first toy robots were made of tin and walked with a wind-up key on their back!
Transforming Robot: This robot can fold itself into a speedy car, then pop right back into a robot!
Alien: Nobody has met a real alien yet, but space is so huge there is lots left to explore!
Asteroid: An asteroid is a big chunky space rock that tumbles around the sun!
Comet: A comet is a big icy snowball that grows a glowing tail as it zooms near the sun!
Flying Saucer: A flying saucer is a pretend spaceship from fun stories about visitors from far-off space!
Galaxy: A galaxy is a giant swirl of billions and billions of twinkly stars!
Moon: The moon has no light of its own; it shines by bouncing light from the sun!
Rover: A space rover is a little robot car that drives around exploring other planets!
Satellite: A satellite zooms around Earth and helps us watch the weather and talk far away!
Saturn: Saturn is a giant planet wearing beautiful rings made of ice and rocks!
Shooting Star: A shooting star is a little space rock that glows bright as it zips through the sky!
Spaceship: A spaceship blasts off with giant fiery engines to fly all the way up to space!
Star: A star is a giant ball of hot, glowing gas, just like our own sun!
Astronaut: An astronaut floats around because there is no gravity way up in space!
Builder: A builder wears a hard hat and builds houses, schools, and roads!
Chef: A chef cooks yummy food and can even flip a pancake high in the air!
Dentist: A dentist counts your teeth and helps keep your smile sparkly clean!
Doctor: A doctor helps you feel all better when you are feeling sick!
Farmer: A farmer wakes up early to grow our food and care for the animals!
Firefighter: A firefighter is brave and uses a big hose to splash out fires!
Mail Carrier: A mail carrier brings letters and packages right to your front door!
Nurse: A nurse takes good care of you and gives the bravest helpers a bandage!
Police Officer: A police officer helps keep everybody safe and can help if you ever get lost!
Teacher: A teacher helps you learn new things like letters, numbers, and colors!
Vet: A vet is a special doctor who takes care of puppies, kittens, and other animals!
Auntie: An auntie spoils you with fun, giggles, and lots of love!
Baby: A baby is brand new, and it loves to giggle, wiggle, and take lots of naps!
Big Brother: A big brother loves to play games and show you new things!
Big Sister: A big sister looks out for you and loves to play and share!
Cousin: A cousin is family and a built-in friend to play with!
Daddy: Daddy is strong enough to lift anything, fix anything, and carry every toy from the store in one trip — but his real superpower is rocking a sleepy baby gently off to dreamland.
Grandma: A grandma gives the warmest hugs and loves to read you cozy stories!
Grandpa: A grandpa loves to tell silly jokes and go on little adventures with you!
Mommy: Mommy gives the biggest, warmest hugs in the whole world — the kind that wraps all the way around you and makes everything feel okay again.
Uncle: An uncle is the best at piggyback rides and goofy fun!
Accordion: An accordion makes music when you squeeze it in and out like a big squishy box!
Drum: A drum makes a big BOOM when you tap on its tight, stretchy top!
Flute: A flute makes a soft, pretty whistle when you blow air across the very top!
Guitar: A guitar makes music when you strum your fingers across its six strings!
Maracas: Maracas go shika-shika when you shake the little seeds hiding inside them!
Piano: A piano has black and white keys that play music when you press them down!
Saxophone: A saxophone plays smooth, jazzy music when you blow into it!
Tambourine: A tambourine jingles and taps at the same time when you give it a shake!
Triangle: A triangle gives a bright little "ting!" when you tap it with a little metal stick!
Trumpet: A trumpet plays bright, loud music when you buzz your lips and press its buttons!
Violin: A violin sings a beautiful sound when you slide a bow across its strings!
Xylophone: A xylophone plays different notes when you tap its colorful bars with a little mallet!
Apple: An apple grows on a tree, and a crunchy bite even helps keep your teeth clean!
Avocado: An avocado has one big round seed right in the middle, as round as a ball!
Banana: A banana grows on a tall plant in big bunches and gives you lots of energy!
Broccoli: Broccoli looks like a tiny green tree, and it helps you grow big and strong!
Carrot: A carrot is crunchy and orange, and it grows down in the dirt where you can't see it!
Corn: An ear of corn has hundreds of juicy little kernels all in neat little rows!
Grapes: Grapes grow in big bunches, and some sweet ones get dried into chewy raisins!
Orange: An orange is full of sweet juice and packed with vitamin C to keep you healthy!
Peas: Little green peas hide in a neat row inside a long, smooth pod!
Strawberry: A strawberry wears its tiny seeds on the outside instead of hiding them inside!
Tomato: A tomato is bright red and juicy, and it grows on a vine in the garden!
Watermelon: A watermelon is so juicy because it is almost all water inside!
Cake Slice: A slice of cake is fluffy and sweet, just right for a birthday party!
Candy Cane: A candy cane is a sweet red-and-white stick shaped like the letter J!
Cookie: A cookie is a yummy round treat, and chocolate chip is a favorite!
Cotton Candy: Cotton candy is fluffy spun sugar that melts the moment it touches your tongue!
Cupcake: A cupcake is a tiny cake topped with swirly frosting and colorful sprinkles!
Donut: A donut is a round, sweet ring with a little hole right in the middle!
Gingerbread Man: A gingerbread man is a cookie shaped like a person, with little icing buttons!
Ice Cream Cone: An ice cream cone is a cold, sweet scoop you have to lick before it drips!
Jelly: Jelly is a wiggly, jiggly treat that wobbles all around on your plate!
Lollipop: A lollipop is swirly candy on a stick that you lick round and round!
Marshmallow: A marshmallow is soft and squishy, and extra yummy toasted by a campfire!
Popsicle: A popsicle is frozen juice on a stick that keeps you cool on a hot day!
Ear: Your ears help you hear everything, from a tiny whisper to a big loud drum!
Elbow: Your elbow lets your arm bend so you can wave and give the biggest hugs!
Eyes: Your eyes blink all day long, all by themselves, to keep clean and wet!
Foot: Your foot has five little toes that help you balance, walk, run, and jump!
Hair: Your hair grows a tiny bit longer every single day, right on top of your head!
Hand: Your hand has five wiggly fingers that help you wave, clap, and pick things up!
Heart: Your heart is a strong little muscle that beats all day to pump blood around your body!
Knee: Your knee is a bendy hinge in your leg that helps you crouch, climb, and jump!
Mouth: Your mouth helps you talk, sing, giggle, and munch up all your food!
Nose: Your nose helps you smell yummy snacks, and it sneezes to blow out tickly dust!
Toes: Your ten little toes wiggle and help you balance when you stand up nice and tall!
Tummy: Your tummy gives a little rumble when it is getting hungry for a snack!
Dewdrop: Dew is the tiny drops of water that sparkle on the grass early in the morning!
Fog: Fog is a cloud that sits right down on the ground and makes everything look misty!
Hailstone: Hail is little balls of ice that bounce down from the clouds, even in summer!
Icicle: An icicle is a pointy spike of ice that grows when dripping water freezes!
Lightning: Lightning is a giant spark of electricity that lights up the whole sky!
Puddle: A puddle is a little pool of rainwater that is perfect for a big splashy jump!
Rainbow: A rainbow appears when the sun shines through raindrops and splits light into colors!
Rain Cloud: A rain cloud gets so full of water that the drops come tumbling down as rain!
Snowflake: Every single snowflake has six sides, and no two are ever exactly the same!
Sun: The sun is a giant star so far away, yet it still keeps us warm and bright!
Tornado: A tornado is a spinning funnel of wind that twirls round and round!
Wind: Wind is moving air you can't see, but you can feel it push the leaves around!
Cactus: A cactus stores water inside to live in the dry desert, and it is covered in prickles!
Clover: A clover has three little leaves, and a lucky one has four!
Daisy: A daisy has white petals all around a sunny yellow middle!
Dandelion: A dandelion turns into a fluffy white puffball that flies away when you blow it!
Fern: A fern has feathery green leaves that uncurl from a tiny coil!
Mushroom: A mushroom pops up after the rain with a little cap like an umbrella!
Rose: A rose is a pretty flower that smells sweet, but its stem has little thorns!
Sprout: A sprout is a brand-new baby plant just poking up from its seed!
Sunflower: A sunflower grows tall and bright, and it turns to follow the sun across the sky!
Tulip: A tulip is a cup-shaped flower that pops up in spring in lots of colors!
Venus Flytrap: A venus flytrap has snappy leaves that close shut to catch a buggy snack!
Water Lily: A water lily floats on top of a pond like a pretty little raft!
Dragon: In stories, a dragon is a giant friendly lizard with wings that can puff out little flames!
Fairy: A fairy is a tiny make-believe sprite with shimmery wings and a sprinkle of magic!
Friendly Monster: This make-believe monster has lots of fuzzy fur and teeth, but only wants to give big hugs!
Genie: In old tales, a genie pops out of a magic lamp to grant happy wishes!
Gnome: In garden tales, a gnome is a little bearded helper who wears a pointy red hat!
Griffin: A griffin is a make-believe creature with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion!
Mermaid: In fairy tales, a mermaid is half person and half fish, swimming deep in the sea!
Pegasus: Pegasus is a magical horse from old stories that soars through the sky on big white wings!
Phoenix: In old legends, a phoenix is a magical bird that glows like fire and is born again and again!
Sea Serpent: In sailor stories, a sea serpent is a giant friendly snake that loops through the waves!
Unicorn: A unicorn is a magical make-believe horse with a single sparkly horn on its head!
Yeti: The yeti is a big, fuzzy, make-believe snow creature said to live high in the mountains!
Anchor: An anchor is a heavy hook that drops down to hold a ship in one place!
Compass: A compass always points north to help a pirate find the way!
Gold Coin: A shiny gold coin is pirate treasure, also called a doubloon!
Pirate Flag: A pirate flag flaps in the wind to show whose ship is sailing by!
Message in a Bottle: A message in a bottle floats across the sea carrying a secret note!
Pirate Ship: A pirate ship has big sails and a flag, and it rocks across the rolling waves!
Pirate: A friendly pirate sails the seas saying "arrr!" and hunting for buried treasure!
Ship's Wheel: A ship's wheel is the big wooden wheel a pirate spins to steer the ship!
Spyglass: A spyglass is a little telescope a pirate uses to spot land far away!
Treasure Chest: A treasure chest is a wooden box packed full of shiny gold and sparkly jewels!
Treasure Island: A treasure island is a sandy spot with palm trees where treasure is buried!
Treasure Map: A treasure map has a big X that marks the spot where the treasure is hidden!
Castle: A castle is a giant stone home with tall towers and a drawbridge!
Crown: A crown is a golden hat with sparkly jewels, worn by a king or queen!
Drawbridge: A drawbridge is a bridge that lifts up and down over the castle's moat!
Jester: A jester is the castle's silly clown, juggling and telling jokes to make everyone laugh!
King: A king wears a golden crown and a fancy robe to help rule the kingdom!
Knight: A knight wears shiny armor and rides a horse to help protect the castle!
Princess: A princess lives in the castle and loves to explore the whole kingdom!
Queen: A queen wears a sparkly crown and helps rule the land!
Royal Banner: A royal banner is a colorful flag that flies high on the castle towers!
Royal Guard: A royal guard stands very still and tall to keep the castle safe!
Shield: A shield is a strong cover a knight holds to stay safe and brave!
Wizard: A wizard has a tall, pointy hat and waves a wand to make sparkly magic!
Bubble Bath: A bubbly bath gets you squeaky clean and is so much fun to splash in!
Comb: A comb glides through your hair to smooth out all the tangles!
Hand Sanitizer: A little squirt of hand sanitizer zaps germs when there is no sink nearby!
Nail Clippers: Nail clippers snip your nails nice and short so they stay neat and clean!
Potty: Using the potty is a big-kid skill, and washing your hands after keeps you healthy!
Shampoo: Shampoo makes your hair all sudsy and clean, then rinses away with water!
Soap: Soap makes lots of slippery bubbles that wash the germs right off your hands!
Tissue: A tissue is just right for blowing your nose to keep the sniffles away!
Toothbrush: A toothbrush scrubs your teeth in tiny circles to chase away the sugar bugs!
Toothpaste: A little squeeze of minty toothpaste helps your toothbrush get your teeth super clean!
Towel: A fluffy towel dries you off and wraps you up cozy after a bath!
Washcloth: A soft washcloth scrubs you clean, even behind your ears and between your toes!
Woof: A dog says WOOF WOOF! Can you woof like a puppy?
Bacon: Wavy bacon strips sizzle in the pan and curl up all crispy and wiggly!
Cereal: Crunchy cereal Os go for a swim in cold milk and say snap, crackle, splash!
French Toast: French toast wears a snowy dusting of sugar and loves a hug of sweet syrup!
Fried Egg: A sunny fried egg has a wobbly white and a bright yellow yolk in the middle!
Muffin: A blueberry muffin has a puffy top full of little juicy purple berries!
Oatmeal: Warm oatmeal is creamy and cozy, topped with sweet berries that go pop!
Orange Juice: A glass of orange juice is sweet and sunny, squeezed from juicy round oranges!
Pancakes: Fluffy pancakes love a river of warm syrup and a melty pat of butter on top!
Scrambled Eggs: Scrambled eggs are soft and fluffy yellow pillows you can scoop with a fork!
Toast: Warm toast pops up golden and crunchy, all ready for a smear of jam!
Waffle: A waffle has lots of little squares that catch tiny puddles of sweet syrup!
Yogurt Cup: A creamy yogurt cup has a swirly white top that tastes cool and sweet!
Allosaurus: Allosaurus had little bumpy horns over its eyes, like tiny eyebrows made of bone!
Baryonyx: Baryonyx had a long, croc-like snout and a giant thumb claw for scooping fish out of rivers!
Carnotaurus: Carnotaurus had two little horns on its head like a bull, and arms even tinier than a T. rex's!
Compsognathus: Compsognathus was only about the size of a chicken, one of the tiniest dinosaurs of all!
Deinonychus: Deinonychus had one big curved claw on each foot that it held up high so it stayed nice and sharp!
Dilophosaurus: Dilophosaurus wore two thin crests on its head like a pair of curvy party hats!
Gallimimus: Gallimimus looked like a giant ostrich and could run super fast on its long, skinny legs!
Iguanodon: Iguanodon had a pointy spike instead of a thumb, perfect for poking leaves off tall plants!
Kentrosaurus: Kentrosaurus had little plates on its neck that turned into pairs of long pointy spikes down its tail!
Oviraptor: Oviraptor was a caring parent that sat on its nest to keep its eggs warm, just like a bird!
Styracosaurus: Styracosaurus wore a big bony frill ringed with long spikes, like a spiky crown on its head!
Therizinosaurus: Therizinosaurus had claws longer than your arm, but it only used them to pull down leafy branches!
Archelon: Archelon was the biggest sea turtle ever — as long as a car — and instead of a hard shell it had a soft, bumpy, leathery back!
Dunkleosteus: Dunkleosteus had no teeth at all — instead it had sharp bony plates for a mouth, and it could snap them shut super fast!
Elasmosaurus: Elasmosaurus had the longest neck of any sea reptile, with more than seventy bones in it — that's way more than a giraffe!
Helicoprion: Helicoprion had a swirly spiral of teeth in its mouth that looked just like a round buzz-saw — no other animal has ever had one!
Ichthyosaur: The ichthyosaur looked just like a dolphin, and it had the biggest eyes of any animal ever — as big as dinner plates!
Kronosaurus: Kronosaurus had teeth as long as bananas, and its huge flippers worked like wings to push it through the sea super fast!
Liopleurodon: Liopleurodon had a head as long as a whole door, and it could smell its dinner in the water with each nostril one at a time!
Megalodon: Megalodon was the biggest shark ever, and just one of its teeth was as big as your whole hand!
Mosasaurus: Mosasaurus was a giant swimming lizard, and it had a second row of teeth on the roof of its mouth to hold slippery fish!
Nothosaurus: Nothosaurus swam like a seal and rested on the beach like one too, using its webbed feet to paddle and catch slippery fish!
Plesiosaur: The plesiosaur had a super long neck and four big flippers, and it flew through the water like a penguin or a sea turtle!
Tylosaurus: Tylosaurus had a hard, pointy snout it used to bonk its dinner, and its tail had a little paddle to push it through the waves!
Angelfish: An angelfish is so tall and flat it can turn sideways and slip through skinny cracks in the coral to find a snack!
Butterflyfish: A butterflyfish has a big dark spot near its tail that looks like an eye, so sneaky hunters can't tell which way it will dash!
Giant Clam: A giant clam can grow as big as a bathtub, and it makes its own food using tiny helpers that soak up the sunshine!
Coral: Coral looks like a colorful plant, but it is really made of thousands of tiny living animals all working together!
Damselfish: A tiny blue damselfish is super brave and will zoom out to shoo away fish ten times its size to protect its little garden!
Lionfish: A lionfish wears a fancy fan of feathery fins like a fluffy crown, and it spreads them out to look extra big and brave!
Manta Ray: A manta ray flaps its huge wings like a giant underwater bird, and it is so gentle it only eats tiny floating specks!
Moray Eel: A moray eel hides in a cozy coral hole and opens its mouth over and over, but it is only breathing, not being grumpy!
Parrotfish: A parrotfish nibbles hard coral with its beaky mouth, and the bits it makes turn into soft white sand for the beach!
Reef Shark: A reef shark has to keep swimming to breathe, so it glides around the coral all day long like it is never tired!
Sea Anemone: A sea anemone waves its squishy arms in the water, and little clownfish snuggle right inside them to stay safe!
Sea Urchin: A sea urchin looks like a spiky purple ball, but it slowly walks along the reef on hundreds of tiny squishy feet!
Basset Hound: A Basset Hound has the longest, floppiest ears, and it uses them to sweep up smells off the ground!
Bernese Mountain Dog: A Bernese Mountain Dog is so big and strong it can pull a little cart full of toys behind it!
Boston Terrier: A Boston Terrier has white fur that looks just like a little tuxedo, so people call it a gentleman dog!
Boxer: A Boxer wiggles its whole back end when it is happy, because its tail is too short to wag alone!
Collie: A Collie is so smart it can learn to herd sheep and keep the whole flock together all day!
Doberman: A Doberman can run super fast and is one of the speediest dogs of all, like a furry race car!
Great Dane: A Great Dane is so tall that when it stands up it can be bigger than a grown-up person!
Labrador: A Labrador loves to swim, and its toes have little webs to help it paddle in the water!
Pomeranian: A Pomeranian is a tiny puffball, but it thinks it is a great big dog and barks like one!
Rottweiler: A Rottweiler is strong and brave, and it loves to carry things in its mouth for the people it loves!
Saint Bernard: A Saint Bernard is a big, gentle helper that finds people lost in the snowy mountains!
Samoyed: A Samoyed has a fluffy white smile that curls up at the corners, so people call it the smiling dog!
American Shorthair: An American Shorthair has swirly stripes on its sides that look just like a big target!
Balinese: A Balinese cat has a long silky tail like a feathery plume that swishes when it walks!
Birman: A Birman cat has four little white paws that look just like soft snowy mittens!
Burmese: A Burmese cat has a shiny chocolate-brown coat and big golden eyes that sparkle like sunshine!
Cornish Rex: A Cornish Rex has soft wavy fur like tiny ocean ripples, and it loves to zoom around fast!
Devon Rex: A Devon Rex has giant ears and soft curly fur, so people call it the little pixie cat!
Himalayan: A Himalayan cat is fluffy and cream with a dark little face and bright blue eyes!
Manx: A Manx cat is born with no tail at all, and it hops a little like a bunny rabbit!
Norwegian Forest Cat: A Norwegian Forest Cat has a thick fluffy coat that keeps it warm and toasty in the snow!
Ocicat: An Ocicat is covered in spots shaped like little thumbprints, so it looks like a wild jungle cat!
Savannah: A Savannah cat has super tall ears and long legs, and it loves to leap high in the air!
Turkish Angora: A Turkish Angora cat can have one blue eye and one orange eye, like two different sparkly gems!
Bottle Rocket: A bottle rocket is a teeny rocket on a stick that whistles WHEEE as it zooms way up into the sky!
Flag Bunting: Flag bunting is a string of pretty red, white, and blue fans that hang up to make everything look like a party!
Firecracker: A firecracker is a tiny paper tube with a curly fuse, and when it lights up it goes snap-crackle-POP!
Firework: A firework zooms up into the dark sky and goes POP into a giant flower of sparkly light!
Fireworks Burst: On the Fourth of July the whole sky lights up with bursts of red, white, and blue that pop and crackle and sparkle!
Liberty Bell: The Liberty Bell is a big old golden bell that rings out ding-dong to say hooray for freedom!
Marching Drum: A marching drum goes rat-a-tat-tat in the parade, and the drummer taps it to keep everybody marching in time!
Parade Float: A parade float is a big decorated wagon that rolls down the street covered in flowers, flags, and waving people!
Patriotic Pinwheel: A pinwheel has colorful little wings, and when you blow on it or run with it, it spins round and round!
Sparkler: A sparkler is a little stick you hold that fizzes with bright dancing sparks, like a tiny star in your hand!
Star Balloon: A star balloon is a big shiny star full of air that floats up high and bobs and wiggles on its string!
American Flag: The American flag has thirteen stripes and fifty bright stars, and it waves and flutters whenever the wind blows!
Dragon Dance: A dragon dance can be longer than a school bus, with lots of people lifting poles to make it ripple and fly!
Gold Ingot: A gold ingot is a shiny little boat made of gold that people show off for good luck and lots of riches!
Koi Banner: A koi banner is a fish-shaped flag that flips and swims in the wind to wish everyone strength and good luck!
Lion Dance: The lion dance lion blinks its big eyes and chomps its mouth to bring good luck and scare bad luck away!
Lucky Knot: A lucky knot is one long red cord tied into a fancy loop with no ends, so good luck never stops coming!
Lucky Tangerine: Tangerines are a lucky golden treat at new year, and the word for them sounds just like the word for luck!
Firecracker String: A long string of firecrackers goes pop-pop-pop to make a happy, noisy bang that welcomes the brand new year!
Paper Fan: A folding paper fan opens up wide like a peacock's tail and waves a cool, happy breeze on a warm day!
Paper Lantern: People hang red paper lanterns to light up the night and chase worries away, glowing warm and bright!
Plum Blossom: Plum blossoms are brave little flowers that bloom in the cold winter to say spring and the new year are coming!
Red Envelope: A red envelope holds lucky money inside, and grown-ups give them to kids to wish them a happy new year!
Sky Lantern: A sky lantern is warm inside, so it floats up into the night sky carrying your wishes to the stars!
Cleanup Glove: Pop on a cleanup glove and pick up litter at the park to keep our world tidy and safe for animals!
Compost Bin: A compost bin turns old apple cores and banana peels into rich dirt that helps new plants grow!
Happy Earth: Our Earth is the only planet we know with oceans, trees, and animals, so we take good care of it!
Planted Tree: Planting a tree gives birds a home and makes fresh air for us all to breathe!
Recycle Bin: A recycle bin keeps old bottles and paper from going to waste so they can become something brand new!
Recycling Arrows: The three chasing arrows mean make, use, and recycle, so things get a happy second life!
Reusable Bag: A reusable bag goes shopping again and again, so you never need a brand new one each time!
Sapling: A tiny sapling drinks sunshine and water until one day it grows into a great big tree!
Seed Sprout: A little seed wakes up underground and pushes a curly green sprout up toward the warm sun!
Solar Panel: A solar panel catches sunlight and turns it into electricity to light up your home, no smoke at all!
Water Drop: Every water drop is precious, so turning off the tap while you brush helps save it for everyone!
Wind Turbine: A wind turbine spins in the breeze and makes clean electricity, no smoke, just wind!
Barcode Scanner: A barcode scanner shines a red light on the stripes and beeps to know what you bought!
Checkout Counter: At the checkout counter the drawer pops open with a cha-ching when you pay for your food!
Conveyor Belt: The conveyor belt is a moving floor that carries your groceries right up to the cashier!
Freezer Aisle: The freezer aisle is super cold and frosty, and it keeps the ice cream nice and frozen!
Grocery Bag: A grocery bag holds all your food so you can carry it home and fill up the kitchen!
Grocery Scale: A grocery scale weighs your fruit, and the little needle wiggles to show how heavy it is!
Milk Carton: A milk carton keeps the milk cold and fresh so you can pour a yummy glass to drink!
Price Tag: A price tag tells you how much money something costs before you take it home!
Produce Stand: A produce stand is piled high with bright apples, oranges, and crunchy carrots to eat!
Shopping Basket: A shopping basket has a handle so you can carry just a few yummy things in your hand!
Shopping Cart: A shopping cart carries all your food while it rolls along on four little wheels!
Shopping List: A shopping list helps you remember everything you need, and you check off each one you find!
Booth: A cozy booth has big squishy seats where your whole family can sit and eat together!
Chef's Special: The chef's special is the extra-yummy dish the cook is most proud to make today!
Menu: A menu shows all the yummy foods you can choose for dinner!
Order Bell: Ding! The order bell rings to tell the cook that hot, tasty food is ready to serve!
Order Pad: The order pad is where the waiter writes down every yummy thing you want to eat!
Pepper Grinder: Twist the top and the pepper grinder sprinkles tiny spicy specks all over your food!
Reserved Sign: A reserved sign saves a special table just for you so it is ready when you arrive!
Serving Tray: A serving tray carries plates of food balanced way up high to your table!
Table Setting: A table setting puts your plate, fork, spoon, and cup in just the right spots before you eat!
Tip Jar: A tip jar holds the coins we give to say a big thank you for great service!
To-Go Box: A to-go box tucks away your leftover food so you can take the yummy parts home!
Water Pitcher: A water pitcher pours cool, splashy water to fill up everybody's cup at the table!
Bicycle: A bicycle has two wheels and pedals, and you push the pedals with your feet to zoom along — ring ring!
BMX Bike: A BMX bike is a small, tough bike with little pegs on the wheels for doing jumps and cool tricks — whoosh!
Chopper: A chopper is a long, low motorcycle with a stretched-out front wheel way out in front — rumble rumble!
Dirt Bike: A dirt bike has big bumpy tires that grip the mud, so it can jump over hills and splash through puddles — braap!
Electric Scooter: An electric scooter has a quiet battery motor, so you just press the button and it zips along all by itself — zzzip!
Moped: A moped is a little motorbike with pedals too, so it can putter along nice and slow around town — putt putt!
Motorcycle: A motorcycle has a roaring engine that makes it go super fast on just two wheels — vroom vroom!
Mountain Bike: A mountain bike has bumpy fat tires and squishy springs, so it can ride up rocky hills and bumpy trails — bumpy bump!
Scooter: A kick scooter has a long board to stand on, and you push the ground with one foot to glide and glide — wheee!
Tandem Bike: A tandem bike has two seats so two friends can pedal together at the same time — ring ring, here we go!
Training-Wheel Bike: A training-wheel bike has two tiny extra wheels on the sides to help you stay up while you learn to ride — ring ring!
Tricycle: A tricycle has three wheels, so it never tips over and helps little kids learn to pedal — ring ring!
Amber: Amber is sticky tree goo that turned to stone, and sometimes it has a tiny bug trapped inside from long, long ago!
Ammonite: An ammonite is a curly spiral shell from a sea animal that lived in the ocean back when dinosaurs walked the land!
Digging Brush: A digging brush has soft bristles that gently sweep away the dust so the fossil underneath is not scratched at all!
Dino Bone: A dino bone can turn to stone over millions of years, and that's how it becomes a fossil we can dig up!
Dino Footprint: A dino footprint pressed into soft mud can turn to stone, and it shows us exactly where a dinosaur once stomped!
Dino Skull: A dino skull tells us so much, like how big its eyes were and how many sharp teeth it had for lunch!
Dino Tooth: A T. rex tooth was as big as a banana with bumpy edges like a steak knife, perfect for crunching its dinner!
Fossil Egg: A fossil egg is a real dinosaur egg turned to stone, and some still have a tiny baby dino curled up inside!
Fossil Fern: A fossil fern is the print of a leaf from millions of years ago, pressed into stone so we can still see every tiny vein!
Pickaxe: A pickaxe has a sharp metal point that taps hard rock to crack it open and find the treasures hiding inside!
Sifting Screen: A sifting screen is a mesh tray that diggers shake, so the loose dirt falls through and the little fossils stay on top!
Trilobite: A trilobite was a tiny ocean bug with a hard ribbed shell, and it could roll up into a ball just like a pill bug!
Hero Cape: A hero's cape flutters in the wind as they zoom in to help a friend!
Force Field: A force field makes a shiny bubble that keeps friends cozy and safe inside!
Hero Badge: A hero badge gleams gold to say thank you for being brave and kind!
Power Bolt: A power bolt crackles with happy energy and zips faster than a blink to lend a hand!
Hero Jetpack: A hero straps on a jetpack and whoosh — up they zoom to help from the sky!
Hero Mask: A hero pops on a mask and feels brave enough to help anyone in need!
Hero Shield: A hero raises a shiny shield to stand in front of a friend and keep them safe!
Power Ring: A power ring glows bright and makes a beam of light to help a hero see in the dark!
Super Cat: A super cat wears a tiny mask and leaps from rooftop to rooftop to save the day!
Super Kid: A super kid puts their hand to the sky and flies off to help anyone who needs them!
Super Pup: A super pup wears a tiny cape and sniffs out friends who need a helping paw!
Super Star: A super star spins and twinkles to cheer up a friend and light up the whole sky!
Bobsled: A bobsled is a speedy pod that races down a slippery ice track faster than a car on the highway!
Curling Stone: A curling stone is a heavy chunk of granite with a handle, and players sweep the ice to steer it!
Figure Skate: A figure skate has little teeth at the front called a toe pick that help skaters jump and spin!
Hockey Stick: A hockey stick has a flat blade that smacks the puck so it zips fast across the slippery ice!
Ice Skates: Ice skates have thin sharp blades that glide across smooth ice like magic!
Ski Jump: A ski jumper zooms down a giant ramp and flies through the air like a bird before landing softly!
Ski Poles: Ski poles help you push, balance, and turn, and the little baskets stop them sinking in the snow!
Skis: Skis are long and smooth so you can slide super fast down a snowy hill!
Sled: A sled zooms down snowy hills on smooth runners, and the steeper the hill the faster you go!
Snow Tube: A snow tube is a big round cushion of air that spins you in circles as you slide down the hill!
Snowboard: A snowboard is one wide board that lets you swoosh and jump down the mountain sideways!
Snowshoes: Snowshoes are big and flat so you can walk on top of fluffy snow without sinking right in!
Duck Duck Goose: Let's play Duck Duck Goose! Tap each head and say duck, duck... then yell GOOSE and run!
Follow the Leader: Let's play Follow the Leader! March behind the leader and copy everything they do!
Freeze Dance: Let's play Freeze Dance! Wiggle and dance while the music plays, then FREEZE like a statue!
Hide and Seek: Let's play Hide and Seek! Cover your eyes, count to ten, then go find your friends!
Leapfrog: Let's play Leapfrog! Put your hands on a friend's back and hop right over, like a leaping frog!
Marco Polo: Let's play Marco Polo! Close your eyes and call Marco, then listen for everyone to answer Polo!
Musical Chairs: Let's play Musical Chairs! Walk around while the music plays, then grab a seat when it stops!
Red Light Green Light: Let's play Red Light Green Light! Run on green light, then FREEZE on red light. Don't move!
Ring Around the Rosie: Let's play Ring Around the Rosie! Hold hands, walk in a circle, then we all fall down!
Simon Says: Let's play Simon Says! Only do it if I say Simon says first. Simon says touch your head!
Tag: Let's play Tag! Run fast, tag a friend, then zoom away before they catch you!
Tug of War: Let's play Tug of War! Grab the rope, lean way back, and pull as hard as you can!
Australia: Australia's flag shows the Southern Cross, a group of stars you can see in its night sky!
Brazil: Brazil's flag has a blue ball of stars, and the green and yellow stand for its forests and gold!
Canada: Canada's flag shows a red maple leaf, the tree its yummy sweet syrup comes from!
France: France's flag has three stripes of blue, white, and red, and people call it the tricolor!
Germany: Germany's flag has three stripes of black, red, and gold stacked one on top of another!
India: India's flag has a blue wheel with twenty-four spokes that stands for always moving forward!
Italy: Italy's flag has green, white, and red stripes, and Italy is shaped just like a boot on the map!
Japan: Japan's flag has a big red circle for the rising sun, and people call Japan the land of the rising sun!
Kenya: Kenya's flag has a Maasai shield and two spears in the middle to stand for protecting the land!
Mexico: Mexico's flag shows an eagle perched on a cactus, from an old story about where to build a city!
United Kingdom: The United Kingdom's flag is called the Union Jack, and it blends three crosses into one!
United States: The United States flag has stars for its states and stripes for the first states that started it!
Art Smock: An art smock keeps your clothes clean, so you can get as paint-splattered and messy as you want!
Canvas: A canvas is a special cloth that waits, all blank and ready, for you to fill it with color!
Clay: Clay is squishy and soft, so you can squeeze it into any shape you can dream up!
Colored Pencils: Colored pencils come in every color, so you can draw a whole rainbow without ever stopping!
Easel: An easel holds your painting up nice and tall so you can paint standing up!
Finished Painting: A finished painting is your very own masterpiece, ready to hang up for everyone to see!
Paint Tube: When you squeeze a paint tube, a fat squiggly blob of color comes squishing out the top!
Paintbrush: A paintbrush has lots of soft hairs called bristles that soak up paint and swish it onto the page!
Paint Palette: A paint palette holds lots of colors so you can mix them into brand-new ones!
Pottery Wheel: A pottery wheel spins round and round while your hands shape soft clay into a bowl or a cup!
Sketchpad: A sketchpad gives you a fresh page every time, so you can draw a hundred new ideas!
Watercolors: Watercolors get bright and runny when you dip your brush in water, then they swirl across the page!
Barnacle: A barnacle glues itself headfirst to a rock and kicks out feathery feet to catch tiny snacks floating by!
Blue Crab: A blue crab has flat paddle-shaped back legs that let it swim sideways through the water like a tiny oar boat!
Crawfish: A crawfish looks like a tiny lobster, but it lives in fresh creeks and ponds instead of the salty sea!
Fiddler Crab: A boy fiddler crab has one claw that is HUGE and one that is tiny, and he waves the big one to say hello!
Hermit Crab: A hermit crab borrows an empty seashell to wear as its very own cozy house, and trades up when it grows!
King Crab: A giant king crab can stretch its spiky legs wider than a grown-up's arms reach across!
Krill: Krill are teeny-tiny critters that can light up and glow in the dark, and giant whales gobble up millions of them!
Lobster: A lobster wears its skeleton on the outside like a suit of armor, and grows a brand new one when it gets too big!
Prawn: A prawn has super long feelers, even longer than its whole body, to help it feel its way around in the dark!
Shrimp: A little shrimp can zoom backward super fast by flicking its curly tail in a flash!
Snow Crab: A snow crab lives in the icy-cold deep sea where the water is so chilly it never freezes solid!
Spider Crab: A giant spider crab has the longest legs of any crab, so long it could give a grown-up a great big leg-hug!
Atlas Moth: The atlas moth is one of the biggest moths in the world, with wings as wide as a grown-up's open hand!
Blue Morpho: A blue morpho's wings flash bright blue when it flies and hide plain brown when it rests, so it can disappear like magic!
Cabbage White: The cabbage white is one of the most common butterflies you'll see in a garden, fluttering low over the flowers and veggies!
Comma Butterfly: The comma butterfly has wavy, ragged wing edges so it looks just like a crinkly dead leaf when it folds them shut!
Emperor Moth: An emperor moth has a big eyespot on each wing that looks like a giant owl's eye, which scares away hungry birds!
Hawk Moth: A hawk moth can hover in the air like a tiny hummingbird and sip nectar through a long curly straw called a proboscis!
Painted Lady: The painted lady butterfly flies across whole oceans and deserts, one of the longest journeys any butterfly makes!
Ringlet: The ringlet butterfly is named for the tiny ring-shaped spots on its wings, and it happily flutters about even on cloudy, rainy days!
Sulphur Butterfly: A sulphur butterfly is bright lemon-yellow like sunshine, and big groups of them love to sip water from muddy puddles!
Swallowtail: A swallowtail butterfly has long tails on its back wings that look like a bird's tail, so it's named after the swallow!
Tiger Moth: A tiger moth can click sounds with its body to tell hungry bats it tastes bad, so the bats fly away!
Viceroy: The viceroy butterfly copies the monarch's orange-and-black pattern so birds think it tastes yucky and leave it alone!
Bullfrog: A bullfrog has the deepest voice of any frog and its jug-o-rum croak can be heard from far across the pond!
Cane Toad: A cane toad is one of the biggest toads in the world and its dry bumpy skin is covered in little warts!
Common Toad: A common toad would rather take a slow crawly walk than hop, and it gobbles up garden bugs all night long!
Fire-Belly Toad: A fire-belly toad flips over to flash its bright orange tummy, warning hungry animals to stay far away!
Glass Frog: A glass frog has see-through skin on its tummy, so you can peek right at its tiny beating heart!
Leopard Frog: A leopard frog is covered in dark round spots, just like a leopard, that help it hide in grassy meadows!
Marsh Frog: A marsh frog puffs two little sacs on the sides of its mouth and croaks a chuckly song that sounds like laughing!
Pacman Frog: A Pacman frog is shaped like a round ball with a giant mouth, and it gobbles up almost anything that wanders by!
Pixie Frog: A pixie frog is a giant African bullfrog and the dad guards his tadpoles like a brave bodyguard until they grow up!
Red-Eyed Tree Frog: A red-eyed tree frog flashes its big red eyes to surprise hungry birds away so it can hop to safety!
Spring Peeper: A spring peeper is a teeny tan tree frog whose loud peep-peep tells everyone that spring has finally arrived!
Wood Frog: A wood frog can freeze almost solid all winter and then thaw out and hop away when spring warms it up again!
Bird Spider: A bird spider is one of the biggest, fuzziest spiders, and it mostly just munches bugs like a gentle giant!
Crab Spider: A crab spider can slowly change color to match its flower, like a tiny petal in disguise!
Fishing Spider: A fishing spider can walk right on top of the water and even dive for a snack, like a tiny scuba diver!
Funnel Weaver: A funnel weaver builds a cozy silk tunnel and zooms out super fast to catch its lunch, like a little rocket!
Garden Spider: A garden spider stitches a fancy zig-zag of silk down the middle of her web like a name tag!
Grass Spider: A grass spider weaves a flat sheet of silk over the lawn and feels every wiggle with its toes, like a bouncy trampoline!
Huntsman Spider: A huntsman spider is super speedy and gobbles up pesky bugs, like a friendly house helper!
Jumping Spider: A jumping spider can leap many times its own length, like a tiny furry acrobat!
Lynx Spider: A lynx spider has spiky legs and pounces on bugs like a tiny green cat on the prowl!
Orb Weaver: An orb weaver spins a brand-new spiral web almost every night, like a tiny silk artist!
Trapdoor Spider: A trapdoor spider builds a tiny door of silk and dirt and waits underneath like a cozy surprise!
Wolf Spider: A mama wolf spider carries her babies on her back like a fuzzy piggyback bus!
Baby Seal: A baby seal is born with soft white fur and a big squeaky voice so its mama can always find it!
Dugong: A dugong has a tail like a dolphin and grazes on sea grass, so sailors long ago called it a mermaid!
Elephant Seal: A male elephant seal has a big floppy nose he can puff up to make a loud, rumbly trumpet sound!
Fur Seal: A fur seal has the thickest, fuzziest coat of all and can spin and twirl underwater like a swimmer!
Harbor Seal: A harbor seal has spots like no other and can nap floating straight up with just its nose in the air!
Leopard Seal: A leopard seal has spots like a leopard and a great big smiley mouth, and it zooms through icy water super fast!
Manatee: A manatee is a gentle sea cow that munches sea grass all day and gives its friends flipper hugs!
Monk Seal: A monk seal loves warm sunny beaches and rolls onto the sand for a cozy nap after a big swim!
Otter Pup: An otter pup is so fluffy it can't sink, so it bobs like a cork while its mama goes diving for snacks!
Ringed Seal: A ringed seal has little rings on its coat and digs cozy snow caves to keep its babies warm and safe!
Sea Lion: A sea lion can clap and balance a ball on its nose, and it barks just like a happy puppy!
Sea Otter: A sea otter holds hands with its friends while it sleeps so it won't float away!
Blarney Stone: The Blarney Stone is a famous lucky rock, and a kiss is said to make you a great talker!
Clover Crown: A clover crown is a ring of green clovers you can wear on your head for fun!
Four-Leaf Clover: A four-leaf clover is super rare, so finding one means a little extra luck!
Green Balloon: A green balloon floats up high and is just right for a lucky St. Patrick's party!
Lucky Horseshoe: A lucky horseshoe is hung with its ends up so all the good luck stays inside!
Irish Harp: An Irish harp has golden strings that play soft, happy music when you pluck them!
Leprechaun Hat: A leprechaun hat is tall and green with a shiny gold buckle right in front!
Leprechaun: A leprechaun is a tiny lucky fellow who loves to hide his shiny gold!
Lucky Coin: A lucky coin is shiny and gold, and a clover on it brings happy good luck!
Lucky Rainbow: A lucky rainbow arches across the sky, and gold may be waiting at its end!
Pot of Gold: A pot of gold waits at the end of the rainbow, full of shiny lucky coins!
Shamrock: A shamrock has three little leaves and is a happy lucky sign of Ireland!
Dreidel: A dreidel is a little spinning top with four sides, and kids play a fun game with it on Hanukkah!
Gelt: Gelt are shiny gold coins made of yummy chocolate, and kids win them playing the dreidel game!
Hanukkah Candle: A Hanukkah candle has a tiny flame that flickers and glows, lighting up the room a little more each night!
Hanukkah Gift: On Hanukkah, families share gifts wrapped in pretty paper, and it is so exciting to open them!
Latke: A latke is a crispy potato pancake fried in oil, and it tastes yummy with applesauce on Hanukkah!
Menorah: A menorah holds nine candles, and families light one more each night until the whole Hanukkah menorah glows!
Oil Jar: Long ago a tiny jar of oil kept the lamp burning for eight whole nights, and that is why we celebrate Hanukkah!
Shamash Candle: The shamash is the special helper candle that lights all the other candles on the menorah!
Star of David: The Star of David has six points and is a special shape that many people see during Hanukkah!
Sufganiyot: Sufganiyot are puffy jelly doughnuts dusted with sugar, and they are a sweet Hanukkah treat!
Clay Pot: A clay pot is painted with bright patterns and filled with water to bless a happy Diwali!
Diwali Lantern: A Diwali lantern is a glowing paper star that hangs up high and lights the street with color!
Sparkler: A sparkler is a little wand that fizzes with bright golden stars you can wave at Diwali!
Diya Lamp: A diya is a little clay lamp with a glowing flame that lights up Diwali night!
Gift Box: A gift box is wrapped with a shiny bow and given to people you love during Diwali!
Lotus Flower: A lotus is a pink flower that floats on water and opens its petals wide for Diwali!
Marigold: A marigold is a bright orange flower strung into garlands that decorate homes for Diwali!
Oil Lamp: An oil lamp burns golden oil to make a steady, happy flame that glows all evening!
Peacock Lamp: A peacock lamp glows with a jeweled fan of feathers, just like a peacock showing off for Diwali!
Rangoli: A rangoli is a colorful flower pattern drawn on the floor to welcome friends for Diwali!
String Lights: String lights hang in a happy row and twinkle in many colors to brighten Diwali!
Sweets Box: A sweets box is full of yummy treats that families share with friends during Diwali!
Bucket: A bucket holds a big sloshy pool of soapy water so the mop can take a sudsy dip!
Dust Cloth: A dust cloth wipes round and round in big circles to buff the table to a happy shine!
Dustpan: A dustpan opens its wide mouth so the broom can sweep a little pile of crumbs right in!
Feather Duster: A feather duster tickles the shelves with soft fluffy plumes to whisk the dust away!
Mop: A mop swishes soapy water across the floor to wipe up sticky spills and make it shine!
Rubber Gloves: Rubber gloves keep your hands cozy and dry so they don't get all wet and wrinkly in the suds!
Scrub Brush: A scrub brush rubs its stiff little bristles back and forth to scour off the grimy stuck-on stuff!
Sponge: A sponge soaks up water and squeezes out fluffy bubbles to scrub the dishes clean!
Spray Bottle: A spray bottle squirts a misty fan of cleaner so you can wipe windows squeaky clean!
Squeegee: A squeegee glides its smooth rubber blade across the glass to push the water off in one big swipe!
Trash Can: A trash can flips open its lid and gulps down the wrappers and junk to keep the room tidy!
Vacuum: A vacuum slurps up crumbs and dust off the rug with a big whooshy gulp!
Bath Mat: A bath mat is a soft fluffy rug that catches drippy feet so you do not slip!
Bath Toy: A bath toy floats and bobs in the water and gives a happy squeak when you squeeze it!
Bathtub: A bathtub fills with warm bubbly water for a cozy, splashy bath!
Faucet: A faucet turns on to pour fresh water out and turns off when you twist the handle!
Hand Towel: A soft hand towel hangs on its bar and dries your wet hands all warm and fluffy!
Plunger: A plunger pushes and pulls with a big squishy cup to whoosh a clog right away!
Shower Curtain: A shower curtain slides shut on its rings to keep the splashy water inside the tub!
Shower: A shower rains down warm water from up high to rinse you squeaky clean!
Sink: A sink holds water so you can wash your hands and splash your face clean!
Soap Dish: A soap dish is a tiny tray that holds the soap and catches the drippy drops underneath!
Toilet Paper: A roll of toilet paper spins to unroll a soft sheet that helps you wipe clean!
Toilet: A toilet flushes the water round and round to whoosh everything away clean!
Air Mail: Air mail puts on tiny wings and flies high in an airplane to reach friends across the whole world!
Envelope: An envelope keeps your secret message snug and safe until it reaches the right friend!
Ink Stamp: An ink stamp goes thump and leaves a bright mark so everyone knows the mail was sent!
Letter: A letter travels far away to surprise someone with happy words written just for them!
Mail Cart: A mail cart rolls down the hallway on squeaky wheels, carrying piles of letters and boxes to sort!
Mail Bag: A mail bag is a big stuffed sack that carries hundreds of letters off to every house in town!
Package: A package is a happy box full of presents that rides a truck right up to your front door!
Parcel: A parcel is a bundle wrapped in brown paper and tied with string, hugging a surprise inside!
PO Box: A PO box is your own tiny locked door at the post office where letters wait just for you!
Postal Scale: A postal scale weighs your package to see how heavy it is so it gets the right stamps!
Postcard: A postcard shows a sunny picture from a faraway place so you can say hello while you explore!
Stamp: A stamp is a tiny sticky picture you press on mail so it can ride all the way to a friend!
Bendy Bus: A bendy bus is two buses joined by a squishy accordion middle, so it can hold a big crowd and still turn around corners!
Cable Car: A cable car climbs steep hills by gripping a moving cable that runs in a slot under the street!
City Bus: A city bus carries lots of people along the same streets all day, stopping at little signs to let riders hop on and off!
Double-Decker Bus: A double-decker bus has two floors stacked on top of each other, so riders upstairs get a tall view over the whole street!
Light Rail: A light rail train runs on its own track beside the road, zipping past traffic so riders never get stuck in a jam!
Minibus: A minibus is a tiny bus that fits down narrow streets, carrying a small group of riders that a big bus is too large for!
Park Shuttle: A park shuttle is an open little train with a sunshade roof that carries visitors around a zoo or park so nobody's feet get tired!
Shuttle Bus: A shuttle bus drives the same short loop over and over, carrying people between places like the airport and the parking lot!
Streetcar: An old-fashioned streetcar rings a clanging bell to say hello as it rolls down the rails through downtown!
Taxi Cab: A taxi cab lights up its roof sign when it is empty, telling people on the sidewalk they can wave it down for a ride!
Tram: A tram glides on metal rails set right into the street, sharing the road with cars and people!
Trolleybus: A trolleybus runs on rubber tires but gets its power from two poles that reach up and touch electric wires above the street!
Baler: A baler scoops up loose hay, squishes it tight, and ties it into neat square bales with a thump!
Combine Harvester: A combine harvester gobbles up rows of wheat and spits out the grain to make our bread!
Crop Sprayer: A crop sprayer stretches out long arms and gives the plants a fine misty shower to keep them healthy!
Cultivator: A cultivator combs through the dirt with bouncy curved teeth to pull out weeds and let air reach the roots!
Farm Tractor: A farm tractor is super strong and pulls all the other machines around the busy farm!
Grain Cart: A grain cart catches all the grain from the combine and pours it into trucks with its long spout!
Hay Rake: A hay rake spins its sparkly wheels to sweep loose hay into long fluffy rows for the baler to scoop up!
Hay Wagon: A hay wagon carries big stacks of hay across the farm to feed the cows and horses all winter!
Manure Spreader: A manure spreader flings smelly muck across the field so it turns into yummy food for the plants!
Plow: A plow slices through the dirt and flips it over so seeds have soft, fresh soil to grow in!
Seed Drill: A seed drill plants tiny seeds in tidy rows and tucks each one into the soil at just the right depth!
Silage Cutter: A silage cutter chomps tall green grass into tiny bits and blows them up a chute to store for the cows!
Abalone: An abalone shell sparkles with rainbow colors inside, like a tiny ocean treasure chest!
Auger Shell: An auger shell is long and pointy like a tiny screw, and it twists right down into the sand!
Clam Shell: A clam can squeeze its two shells shut tight to stay safe and snug inside like a little hug!
Cockle: A cockle shell is shaped like a little heart and it can hop in the sand by springing its foot!
Conch: Hold a conch shell to your ear and you'll hear a sound just like ocean waves whooshing!
Cowrie: A cowrie shell is so smooth and shiny that people once used them as shiny money long ago!
Nautilus: A nautilus shell coils in a perfect spiral with little rooms inside that help it float and dive!
Sand Dollar: A sand dollar has a pretty flower-star pattern on its back made of five little petals!
Scallop: A scallop has dozens of tiny blue eyes along the edge of its shell to watch for friends!
Spiral Shell: A spiral shell grows round and round in a curl that gets bigger as the little snail grows!
Triton's Trumpet: A triton's trumpet is a giant shell so big that people can blow into it to make a loud TOOT!
Whelk: A whelk has a tall, pointy, twisty top and lays its eggs in a bumpy little papery bundle!
Blizzard: A blizzard is a big snowstorm with swirling wind that piles up fluffy white snow everywhere!
Drizzle: Drizzle is the lightest, softest rain, with teeny-tiny drops that float down so gently you can barely feel them!
Dust Devil: A dust devil is a little spinning whirl of warm air that twirls dust and leaves up into a dancing column!
Frost: Frost is tiny sparkly ice that grows on cold mornings, painting white feathery patterns on windows!
Gale: A gale is a very strong wind that bends the trees and pushes the waves into big white-capped rollers!
Heat Wave: A heat wave is many warm sunny days in a row, so we drink lots of water and find some cool shade!
Hurricane: A hurricane is a giant swirling storm with a calm, quiet circle right in the middle called the eye!
Monsoon: A monsoon is a season of warm winds and heavy rain that gives plants a great big drink of water!
Sandstorm: A sandstorm is a strong wind in the desert that picks up sand and rolls it across the dunes!
Sleet: Sleet is rain that freezes into tiny icy balls on the way down, so they go tap-tap-tap when they land!
Thundercloud: A thundercloud is a tall, puffy cloud that grows up high and holds the rain and the rumbly thunder inside!
Thunderstorm: A thunderstorm brings rain, a bright flash of lightning, and a big rumbly boom called thunder!
Baker's Bun: A baker's bun is a sweet swirly bun with juicy raisins and a sticky shiny glaze!
Bread Loaf: A bread loaf is baked soft and warm inside with a crispy golden crust on top!
Bread Roll: A bread roll is a little round bun that is soft and pillowy and just right for one bite!
Cinnamon Roll: A cinnamon roll is a swirly bun with sweet, gooey cinnamon hiding inside!
Cream Puff: A cream puff is a puffy golden ball that pops open with a cloud of sweet cream inside!
Danish Pastry: A Danish pastry is flaky and buttery with a sweet fruity jam puddle in the middle!
Éclair: An éclair is a long, soft pastry filled with fluffy cream and dipped in chocolate!
Fruit Pie: A fruit pie is bubbly and sweet inside, baked under a cozy criss-cross crust!
Fruit Tart: A fruit tart is a buttery cup of cream topped with shiny, colorful fruit!
Macaron: A macaron is two tiny round cookies giving a sweet, squishy cream a big hug!
Scone: A scone is a crumbly little cake that loves a dollop of jam and cream on top!
Sourdough: A sourdough loaf is a round, crackly bread with a big airy belly full of bubbles!
Bubbling Cauldron: A bubbling cauldron hums a happy tune and burps glowing green bubbles when the magic is just right!
Crystal Ball: A crystal ball swirls with sparkly mist and shows you a tiny picture of a wonderful surprise!
Enchanted Key: An enchanted key wiggles in your pocket when it gets close to the one door it was made to open!
Magic Broom: A magic broom loves to zoom around the room, sweeping up sparkles and tickling the ceiling!
Magic Mirror: A magic mirror loves to chat, and it always tells you that you have the silliest, happiest smile!
Magic Portal: A magic portal spins like a sparkly donut, and if you wave, a friend on the other side waves back!
Magic Scroll: A magic scroll unrolls all by itself, and its golden words glow and wiggle as they read aloud!
Potion: A magic potion fizzes pink and purple bubbles, and one tiny sip makes you giggle for an hour!
Spellbook: A spellbook giggles and flips its own pages when it finds a brand-new spell to share!
Wizard Hat: A wizard hat is so full of magic that little stars keep tumbling out the pointy tip!
Wizard Staff: A wizard staff taps the ground one time and lights up the whole room with a friendly blue glow!
Wizard Wand: A wizard wand draws shiny sparkly squiggles in the air whenever it wants to say hello!
Baboon: A baboon has a long snout like a dog and can carry a whole cheekful of snacks for later!
Bonobo: A bonobo is a gentle ape that loves to share food and make friends with a big warm hug!
Chimpanzee: A chimpanzee uses a little stick like a tool to fish tasty ants out of their nest!
Langur: A langur has a long leafy lunch every day and a super long tail to balance high in the trees!
Lemur: A ring-tailed lemur holds its stripey tail straight up like a flag so its friends can follow it!
Macaque: A snow macaque keeps cozy in winter by soaking in warm bubbly hot springs like a bathtub!
Mandrill: A mandrill has a bright blue and red face, the most colorful face of any animal in the world!
Marmoset: A marmoset is so tiny it can sit in your hand, and it has fluffy white tufts beside its ears!
Proboscis Monkey: A proboscis monkey has a great big droopy nose that helps it honk loud calls across the trees!
Spider Monkey: A spider monkey hangs by its tail like it's a fifth hand and can grab fruit with the tip!
Squirrel Monkey: A squirrel monkey is small and quick, and zips through the treetops in a big bouncy troop!
Tamarin: A golden lion tamarin has a fluffy orange mane around its face just like a tiny lion!
Bald Eagle: A bald eagle builds the biggest nest of any bird, as wide as a kiddie pool!
Buzzard: A buzzard loves to circle round and round on warm air, calling out a long, mewing meee-oo!
Condor: A condor has wings wider than a grown-up is tall, so it can glide for hours and hours!
Falcon: A falcon can spot a tiny mouse from way up high, like having super-zoom eyes!
Golden Eagle: A golden eagle has golden feathers on its neck that shine like sunshine in the light!
Harrier: A harrier flies low over the grass and listens for mice with its round, owl-like face!
Hawk: A hawk can ride warm air like an invisible elevator and float without flapping!
Kestrel: A kestrel can hover in one spot in the air, flapping fast like a feathery helicopter!
Osprey: An osprey dives feet-first into the water to grab fish with its bumpy, grippy toes!
Peregrine Falcon: A peregrine falcon is the fastest animal alive, diving faster than a race car on the highway!
Red-Tailed Hawk: A red-tailed hawk has a bright rusty-red tail, and its big screech is the sound in lots of movies!
Vulture: A vulture has a bald head so it stays clean and tidy while it helps keep nature fresh!
Alebrije: An alebrije is a magical rainbow animal painted with happy swirly patterns and bright dots!
Calavera: A calavera is a smiling skull that reminds us to laugh and remember happy times!
Candle: A candle's warm glow helps light the way so our loved ones can find their way home!
Catrina: La Catrina is an elegant smiling lady in a big flowery hat who loves to dance and celebrate!
Decorated Skull: A decorated skull is painted with swirls and dots and a happy flower crown of bright colors!
Marigold Arch: A marigold arch is a flowery doorway of bright blooms that happily welcomes everyone in!
Marigold: A marigold is a bright orange flower whose happy smell helps welcome loved ones home!
Ofrenda: An ofrenda is a special table full of flowers and treats to welcome the ones we love!
Pan de Muerto: Pan de muerto is a sweet sugary bread we bake and share to celebrate happy memories!
Papel Picado: Papel picado is paper cut with pretty patterns that flutters happily in the breeze!
Paper Banner: A paper banner is a happy string of colorful flags that ripples in the breeze at a party!
Sugar Skull: A sugar skull is decorated with bright frosting flowers to celebrate happy memories!
Ball Drop: The big sparkly ball slides slowly down the pole until it reaches midnight!
Balloon Drop: A balloon drop lets hundreds of balloons tumble down on the cheering crowd!
Confetti Cannon: A confetti cannon goes WHOOSH and blasts a rainbow of confetti across the room!
Countdown Clock: A countdown clock ticks down ten, nine, eight all the way to midnight!
Disco Ball: A disco ball spins around and sprinkles dancing light all over the party!
Fireworks Finale: The fireworks finale fills the night sky with booming bursts of sparkly color!
New Year Hat: A new year hat is a pointy party cone you wear to ring in the brand new year!
Noisemaker: A noisemaker unrolls with a loud happy toot to celebrate the brand new year!
Party Popper: A party popper goes POP and shoots streamers and confetti high in the air!
Party Streamers: Party streamers are long curly ribbons we toss to make the room look festive!
Sparkling Cider: Sparkling cider is a bubbly golden drink we raise to toast the happy new year!
Year Banner: A year banner hangs across the room shouting Happy New Year to everyone!
Clothes Iron: A clothes iron presses hot and smooth to flatten every wrinkle right out of your shirt!
Clothesline: A clothesline hangs your wet clothes outside so the sun and wind dry them all by themselves!
Clothespin: A clothespin pinches tight to hold your clothes on the line so the wind can't blow them away!
Detergent Bottle: A detergent bottle pours just a capful of soap to scrub all the dirt out of your clothes!
Dryer Ball: A dryer ball bounces around inside the dryer to fluff your towels and dry them faster!
Dryer: A dryer tumbles your wet clothes in warm spinning air until they're cozy and dry!
Hanger: A hanger holds your shirts up high so they stay smooth and wrinkle-free in the closet!
Ironing Board: An ironing board gives you a flat, padded table to press your clothes nice and smooth!
Laundry Basket: A laundry basket carries all your dirty clothes in one big armful to the washer!
Laundry Soap: A little laundry soap pod melts away in the water and makes loads of cleaning bubbles!
Lint Roller: A lint roller's sticky tape grabs up all the fuzz and pet hair off your favorite sweater!
Washer: A washer spins your clothes in sudsy water until they're squeaky clean!
Beanbag: A beanbag is a squishy puff of a chair that hugs your back when you flop right in!
Bedroom Rug: A bedroom rug is a soft fuzzy circle that keeps your toes warm when you hop out of bed!
Bookcase: A bookcase holds rows and rows of books so all your favorite stories sit ready to read!
Bunk Bed: A bunk bed stacks two beds so you can sleep up high like a cozy tree house!
Closet: A closet has two doors that open wide to show all your clothes hanging in a row!
Desk: A desk gives you a flat tabletop where you can draw, write, and dream up big ideas!
Dresser: A dresser has roomy drawers that keep your socks and shirts all folded and snug!
Growth Chart: A growth chart hangs on the wall to measure how much taller you grow each year!
Nightstand: A nightstand sits right by your bed to hold a lamp and your favorite bedtime book!
Poster: A poster is a big colorful picture you tape on your wall to make your room your own!
Toy Box: A toy box opens its big lid to gobble up all your toys and keep your room tidy!
Wall Clock: A wall clock ticks all day with two hands that point to tell you what time it is!
ATM: Tap your secret numbers on the ATM and it counts out your cash and hands it right to you!
Calculator: Press the buttons on a calculator and it adds up the numbers faster than you can blink!
Crosswalk Button: Press the crosswalk button and it tells the light to turn so you can safely walk across!
Elevator: Press the elevator button and it lights up to call the elevator to your floor!
Game Buzzer: Slap the game buzzer when you know the answer and it lights up so everyone hears you first!
Garage Opener: Press the garage opener and the big garage door rumbles open all by itself!
Jukebox: Press a song button on the jukebox and its lights swirl while your favorite music starts to play!
Keypad: Tap the secret numbers on a keypad and the lock blinks green to let you in!
Light Switch: Flip the light switch up and it turns the room bright, then flip it down to make it dark!
Microwave: Press start on the microwave and it spins your food in a warm glow, then dings when it is hot!
Remote Control: Press a button on the remote control and it sends an invisible beam to turn the TV on!
Vending Machine: Pop in your coins and press a button, and the vending machine drops a snack right down to you!
Backbend: Let's do a backbend! Reach your arms way back and arch like a rainbow. Bendy, bendy, look at you go!
Cartwheel: Let's do a cartwheel! Reach for the sky, put your hands down, and over you go like a spinning star!
Handstand: Let's do a handstand! Put your hands flat on the floor and kick your feet up to the sky. Hold steady!
Leap: Let's leap! Run a little, then jump forward with your legs stretched out long. Fly like a graceful deer!
Pirouette: Let's do a pirouette! Stand tall on your tiptoes, round your arms, and spin around and around. Twirl!
Plié: Let's do a plié! Toes pointing out, bend your knees down nice and slow, then float back up. Bend and rise!
Ribbon Twirl: Let's twirl a ribbon! Hold the stick high and wave your arm in big circles. Watch the ribbon dance!
Somersault: Let's do a somersault! Tuck into a tiny ball, chin to your chest, and roll all the way over. Whee!
Split Jump: Let's do a split jump! Jump up high and stretch one leg in front and one behind. Big air, big smile!
Tap Dance: Let's tap dance! Tap your toes and heels — tappa-tappa-tap! Listen to your shiny shoes make music!
Tumble: Let's tumble! Bounce and roll across the soft mat, head over heels. Tumble, tumble, all the way!
Twirl: Let's twirl! Hold your arms out and spin round and round. Watch your skirt swish like a swirly flower!
Boat Pose: Let's try Boat Pose! Sit down, lift your legs up, reach your arms forward, and balance like a little boat rocking on calm water!
Bridge Pose: Let's try Bridge Pose! Lie on your back, bend your knees, and lift your tummy up high to make a little bridge for cars to drive under!
Butterfly Pose: Let's try Butterfly Pose! Sit down, press your feet together, and flap your knees softly like butterfly wings!
Cat Pose: Let's try Cat Pose! Get on your hands and knees and round your back up high, like a sleepy cat having a big stretch!
Child's Pose: Let's try Child's Pose! Fold up small and cozy, stretch your arms out in front, and rest your head down for a calm, quiet breath!
Cobra Pose: Let's try Cobra Pose! Lie on your tummy, press your hands down, and lift your chest up tall with a slow, happy breath!
Downward Dog: Let's try Downward Dog! Put your hands and feet on the floor and lift your bottom up high, making a big mountain shape!
Lotus Pose: Let's try Lotus Pose! Sit criss-cross, rest your hands on your knees, close your eyes, and take a slow, peaceful breath!
Mountain Pose: Let's try Mountain Pose! Stand up nice and tall, feet together, arms by your sides, and breathe steady and strong like a big mountain!
Namaste: Let's try Namaste! Press your hands together at your heart, close your eyes, and bow your head with a kind, happy thank-you!
Tree Pose: Let's try Tree Pose! Stand tall, lift one foot to your knee, and sway like a tree in the gentle breeze!
Warrior Pose: Let's try Warrior Pose! Step one foot way out, bend your knee, and reach your arms out wide and strong like a brave, calm hero!
Bodyboard: A bodyboard is a short, soft board you lie on to ride a wave all the way to the sand!
Diving Mask: A diving mask keeps water out of your eyes so you can see clearly all around under the sea!
Inner Tube: An inner tube is a big round float you sit inside to bob and bounce down a lazy river!
Jet Ski: A jet ski is a little speedy boat you sit on, and it shoots a stream of water to zoom ahead!
Paddleboard: A paddleboard is a long, flat board you stand on and push through calm water with a paddle!
Racing Kayak: A racing kayak is a long, skinny boat you sit in and zoom forward with a paddle on both ends!
Snorkel: A snorkel lets you breathe with your face in the water so you can watch the fish swim by!
Surfboard: A surfboard floats on top of the water so you can ride a wave all the way to the beach!
Swim Fins: Swim fins are big flippers for your feet that help you kick faster through the water like a fish!
Wakeboard: A wakeboard lets you ride the bumpy wave a boat leaves behind and hop high into the air!
Water Ski: Water skis let a boat pull you across the lake while you glide on top of the splashy water!
Windsurfer: A windsurfer is a board with a big sail that catches the wind to push you across the water!
Blueberry: A blueberry is tiny and round with a little star on top, and it can stain your fingers blue!
Cherry: Cherries grow in twos on a single stem, like two little friends holding hands!
Coconut: A coconut has a hairy brown shell and sweet white milk that splashes inside!
Kiwi: A kiwi is fuzzy and brown outside but bright green with tiny black seeds inside!
Lemon: A lemon is so sour it can make your lips pucker, but it smells bright and sunny!
Lime: A lime is a little green cousin of the lemon, and its juice is zingy and tart!
Mango: A mango is soft and juicy with a sunset of orange, red, and gold on its skin!
Peach: A peach has soft fuzzy skin and a little crease down the middle, like a sweet smile!
Pear: A pear is skinny on top and round on the bottom, like a little green bell!
Pineapple: A pineapple wears a spiky green crown and hides sweet golden fruit inside!
Pomegranate: A pomegranate wears a little crown and is packed with hundreds of shiny ruby seeds!
Raspberry: A raspberry is made of many tiny juicy bumps all hugging together in one little berry!
Bell Pepper: A bell pepper is crunchy and sweet, and it can be red, yellow, orange, or green!
Cauliflower: Cauliflower is a bumpy white veggie made of tiny flower buds all bunched together!
Celery: Celery is a long green stalk that makes a loud crunch when you take a big bite!
Cucumber: A cucumber is cool, crunchy, and full of water, and pickles are made from cucumbers!
Eggplant: An eggplant is shiny and deep purple, and it tastes soft and yummy when it is cooked!
Lettuce: Lettuce has crunchy green leaves and is the cool, crisp part of a yummy salad!
Onion: An onion has lots of layers, and cutting one can make your eyes water with happy tears!
Potato: A potato grows underground and can become fries, mash, or crispy chips!
Pumpkin: A pumpkin is a big orange squash you can carve at Halloween or bake into yummy pie!
Radish: A radish is small, red, and round, and it has a peppery zing when you crunch it!
Sweet Potato: A sweet potato is orange inside and tastes sweet, and it grows down under the ground!
Zucchini: A zucchini is a long green summer squash that you can grill, bake, or grate into bread!
Aurora: An aurora paints the night sky with swirly ribbons of green and pink light!
Blue Sky: The blue sky looks blue because air scatters the sun's blue light all around us!
Daytime Moon: Sometimes you can spot the pale moon in the daytime sky, even while the sun is up!
Fluffy Cloud: A fluffy cloud is made of tiny water droplets floating high in the sky!
Jet Trail: A jet trail is a fluffy white line of frozen cloud that a high-flying plane leaves behind!
Night Sky: The night sky is full of sparkling stars and a glowing moon that light up the dark!
Sky Rainbow: A sky rainbow appears when sunlight shines through raindrops and splits into colors!
Sunrise: A sunrise brings the morning light as the sun peeks up to start a brand new day!
Sunset: A sunset turns the evening sky orange and pink as the sun dips down to rest!
Sunshine: Sunshine warms the whole world and gives us bright, cheerful daylight!
Twinkling Stars: Twinkling stars are faraway suns whose light flickers as it travels through our air!
Weather Balloon: A weather balloon floats way up high to measure the wind, clouds, and temperature for us!
Big Dipper: The Big Dipper looks like a giant soup ladle made of seven bright stars in the night sky!
Cassiopeia: Cassiopeia is a constellation of five bright stars that make a big zigzag shaped like the letter W!
Comet Trail: A comet is a giant snowball of ice and dust that grows a long glowing tail as it zooms near the Sun!
Little Dipper: The Little Dipper is like the Big Dipper's tiny cousin, and the Pole Star sits right on the end of its handle!
Observatory: An observatory is a round building with a giant telescope inside that watches the stars all night!
Orion: Orion has three bright stars in a perfect row that make up his shiny belt!
Planetarium: A planetarium is a cozy dome theater where a special projector paints a whole sky full of stars on the ceiling!
Pole Star: The Pole Star stays still in the sky all night long and helps travelers find their way north!
Star Chart: A star chart is a special map that shows where all the stars and constellations live in the sky!
Star Cluster: A star cluster is a big family of hundreds of stars that were all born together in the same cloud!
Star Map: A star map is a round wheel you can spin to find which stars are shining above you tonight!
Telescope: A telescope makes faraway stars and planets look big and close, like having super eyes!
Conch Horn: A conch horn is a big spiral seashell you blow like a trumpet to call all the mermaids home for supper!
Coral Throne: A coral throne is a chair that grows from branchy pink coral where the merfolk king tells happy sea stories!
Mermaid Princess: A mermaid princess sings sweet bubbly songs and swishes her sparkly tail through the magical sea!
Mermaid Tail: A mermaid tail is covered in shiny rainbow scales and swishes back and forth to zoom through the water super fast!
Merman: A merman is a friendly sea king with a shimmery fish tail who waves hello to every passing fish!
Pearl Throne: A pearl throne is a giant clamshell chair with a glowing pearl where the mermaid queen sits to rule the sea!
Sea Castle: A sea castle is a sparkly palace made of coral and shells where the mermaid royals live deep down below!
Sea Fairy: A sea fairy is a tiny sprite with shimmery fin-wings who sprinkles glittery bubble magic all over the reef!
Sea Pony: A sea pony is a magical horse with a curly fish tail that the mermaids ride like a bouncy bubble-pony!
Shell Crown: A shell crown is a sparkly tiara made of pink seashells and pearls that a mermaid princess wears!
Treasure Grotto: A treasure grotto is a secret sea cave stuffed with gold coins, shiny gems, and pearls the mermaids collect!
Trident: A trident is a magical golden fork with three points that the sea king waves to make sparkly waves!
Africa: Africa is a huge continent with lions, elephants, and the giant Sahara desert!
Antarctica: Antarctica is the coldest continent, covered in ice where penguins waddle and slide!
Asia: Asia is the biggest continent of all, with the tallest mountain and giant pandas!
Australia: Australia is a sunny island continent with hopping kangaroos and cuddly koalas!
Compass Globe: A compass globe helps explorers find north, south, east, and west all around the world!
Europe: Europe has fairytale castles, snowy Alps, and lots of countries close together!
North America: North America has snowy mountains, the Grand Canyon, and big cities full of people!
Planet Earth: Planet Earth is our home in space, a big blue ball of oceans, land, and clouds!
Seven Seas: The Seven Seas are all the big oceans of the world, full of waves, fish, and whales!
South America: South America has the giant Amazon rainforest, tall Andes mountains, and playful monkeys!
Bagpipes: Bagpipes have a puffy air bag you squeeze, and tall pipes that hum one long, droning sound!
Banjo: A banjo has a round, drum-like body that makes its strings sound bright and twangy!
Bongos: Bongos are two little drums joined together, one big and one small, that you tap with your fingers!
Castanets: Castanets are little wooden shells you clack together in your hand to make a quick click-clack beat!
Didgeridoo: A didgeridoo is a long wooden tube from Australia that makes a deep, humming drone when you buzz your lips!
Djembe: A djembe is a goblet-shaped drum from West Africa that you play with your bare hands!
Harp: A harp has many strings stretched on a tall frame, and brushing them makes a soft, sparkly sound!
Ocarina: An ocarina is a little egg-shaped clay flute, and covering its holes makes sweet, whistly notes!
Pan Flute: A pan flute is a row of hollow pipes, and blowing across the tops makes soft, whistly notes!
Sitar: A sitar is a long-necked instrument from India with strings that buzz and bend into curvy melodies!
Steel Drum: A steel drum is played by tapping dents in a shiny metal barrel to make bright, bouncy notes!
Ukulele: A ukulele is a tiny guitar with four strings that make a happy, plinky sound when you strum!
Fiesta Cactus: A fiesta cactus is a friendly desert plant that wears a little sombrero and dances at the party!
Chili Pepper: A chili pepper is a shiny red veggie that tastes spicy and hot — it can make your mouth go whoosh!
Churro: A churro is a crispy, twisty fried treat rolled in sweet cinnamon sugar — yum, yum, yum!
Fan Dancer: A fan dancer twirls in a big ruffly dress and waves a colorful fan as she dances to the music!
Fiesta Banner: A fiesta banner is a string of bright paper flags called papel picado that flutter and flap above a party!
Fiesta Flowers: Fiesta flowers are big, bright paper blooms that decorate the party in red, pink, and gold!
Fiesta Piñata: A piñata is a colorful star full of treats that you tap with a stick until the goodies tumble out!
Maraca: Maracas are shaky rattles that go ch-ch-ch to the beat of happy fiesta music!
Mariachi Guitar: A mariachi guitar goes strum-strum to play cheerful songs while the band marches and sings!
Salsa Bowl: Salsa is a yummy red dip made from tomatoes that tastes great scooped up on a crunchy chip!
Sombrero: A sombrero is a big, wide hat that keeps the sunshine off your face on a hot fiesta day!
Tres Leches Cake: Tres leches is a super soft cake soaked in three kinds of milk, topped with fluffy cream and a cherry!
Chairlift: A chairlift carries skiers up the hill on a comfy open bench that swings gently in the cold air!
Gondola Lift: A gondola lift is a cozy enclosed cabin that glides high over the snowy valley on a strong cable!
Ice Resurfacer: An ice resurfacer shaves the bumpy rink and lays down warm water so the ice freezes smooth and shiny!
Rescue Sled: A rescue sled glides down the slope on smooth runners so ski patrol can bring a hurt skier safely home!
Ski Lift: A ski lift hangs from a moving cable and carries skiers high up the snowy mountain!
Snow Blower: A snow blower scoops up snow with a spinning screw and shoots it far away through a tall chute!
Snow Bus: A snow bus rolls over glaciers on giant balloon tires so everyone can ride out onto the ice and snow!
Snow Groomer: A snow groomer drags a big tiller behind it to comb the ski slope into neat snowy stripes!
Snow Tractor: A snow tractor rides on wide tracks to haul heavy supplies across the icy ground near the South Pole!
Snowcat: A snowcat crawls over deep mountain snow on two wide rubber tracks that never sink in!
Snowmobile: A snowmobile zooms over deep snow on a bumpy spinning track instead of wheels!
Snowplow: A snowplow pushes a giant blade along the road to clear the snow so cars can drive safely!
Balance Scale: A balance scale tips toward the heavier side, so it can tell you which weighs more!
Catapult: A catapult is a long arm that springs up fast to fling things flying through the air!
Crank: A crank is a handle you turn in a circle to spin a wheel and do work with ease!
Gear: A gear is a wheel with teeth that grabs another gear to turn it round and round!
Lever: A lever is a stiff bar that tips on a point, so a tiny push can lift a big load!
Pulley: A pulley uses a wheel and a rope to lift heavy things up high with ease!
Ramp: A ramp is a slanted path that makes it easier to move things up to a higher place!
Screw: A screw is a ramp wrapped around a pole, so spinning it pulls things tightly together!
Spring: A spring is a coil that squishes down and bounces back, storing push and zip!
Wedge: A wedge is shaped like a triangle that splits, lifts, or cuts things apart!
Wheel & Axle: A wheel turns on a rod called an axle, so heavy loads can roll instead of drag!
Winch: A winch winds its rope around a spinning drum to reel heavy things up close!
Battery: A battery stores up energy so your toys can buzz, beep, and light up!
Dam: A dam holds back a whole lake of water, then lets it rush through to spin power machines!
Electric Meter: An electric meter counts every bit of electricity your house uses, like a scorekeeper!
Fuel Pump: A fuel pump fills cars with gas, like a giant juice box that gives them energy to drive!
Generator: A generator has a little engine inside that spins and spins to make its own electricity!
Light Bulb: A light bulb turns electricity into a warm glow so you can see in the dark!
Power Line: Power lines are long wires on tall poles that carry electricity all the way to your house!
Power Plug: A plug pushes its little metal prongs into the wall to grab electricity for your lamp!
Power Tower: A power tower is a giant metal giraffe that carries big electric wires safely over the land!
Solar Cell: A solar cell drinks up sunshine and turns it straight into electricity, no smoke at all!
Water Wheel: A water wheel lets a splashy stream push its paddles around and around to do real work!
Windmill: A windmill catches the wind with its big blades and spins them to make clean energy!
Beanstalk: A giant beanstalk twists up and up past the clouds, all the way to a castle floating high in the sky!
Enchanted Rose: An enchanted rose glows under a glass dome and never wilts, holding its magic spell as long as one petal remains!
Gingerbread House: A gingerbread house is built from warm cookie walls, with a frosting roof and gumdrops you could nibble right off the door!
Glass Slipper: A magic glass slipper fits only one special foot in the whole kingdom, and it sparkles like a thousand tiny stars!
Golden Egg: A magic goose lays a shiny golden egg, and every single egg is worth more than a whole pile of treasure!
Golden Harp: A magic golden harp plays sweet, sleepy songs all by itself, with no fingers to pluck its shimmering strings!
Magic Beans: Plant magic beans in the ground and overnight a giant beanstalk grows all the way up to the clouds!
Magic Lamp: Give a magic lamp three gentle rubs and a friendly genie puffs out in a cloud of sparkles to grant your wishes!
Red Riding Hood: A little girl in a bright red hood skips through the woods with a basket of treats to visit her grandma!
Spinning Wheel: A magic spinning wheel can twirl ordinary straw round and round until it turns into shiny golden thread!
Talking Mirror: A magic talking mirror knows the answer to every question, and it speaks back to you in a soft, shimmery voice!
Wishing Well: Toss a shiny coin into a wishing well, make a secret wish, and watch the ripples carry your wish down to the magic below!
Finish Line: A finish line is the stripe runners race to reach, and the first one there wins!
Flame Cauldron: A flame cauldron is a giant bowl that holds a big fire glowing all through the games!
Gold Medal: A gold medal is the shiny prize you win for finishing in first place!
Hurdle: A hurdle is a little gate that runners leap over as fast as they can!
Javelin: A javelin is a long pole that athletes throw to see how far it can fly!
Olympic Rings: Five friendly rings link together to show people from all around the world playing as friends!
Olympic Torch: An Olympic torch carries a friendly flame that runners pass along to start the games!
Podium: A podium has three steps where the top winners stand to wave and smile!
Relay Baton: A relay baton is a little tube that runners pass to a teammate to keep going fast!
Scoreboard: A scoreboard is a big bright board that shows everyone who is winning the game!
Starting Block: A starting block gives runners a strong place to push off and zoom away fast!
Stopwatch: A stopwatch counts the seconds to see how fast the runners can go!
Bowing Mat: Students bow at the dojo door to say thank you, which means showing respect every time you arrive!
Breaking Board: Karate students break special soft pine boards to practice aim and focus, never to hurt anyone!
Dojo Mat: Soft training mats give a gentle bounce so practicing rolls and falls feels safe and fun!
Focus Mitts: A coach holds round focus mitts so you can practice quick, accurate taps right where they point!
Headgear: Soft padded headgear cushions the head so practice partners can train and still feel cozy and safe!
Karate Belt: In many dojos a black belt does not mean the end, it means you are ready to keep learning forever!
Karate Gi: The white karate uniform is called a gi, and students learn to fold it neatly to show care and respect!
Karate Trophy: Trophies celebrate how hard you practiced, because in martial arts trying your best is the real win!
Kicking Pad: A kicking paddle makes a loud snap so you can hear when your kick lands right on target!
Ranking Belts: Belt colors often go from white to black to show how a student grows step by step with practice!
Sparring Pad: A padded body shield lets training partners practice gently and keep each other safe and smiling!
Wooden Dummy: A wooden practice dummy has little arm pegs so you can rehearse smooth moves slowly and patiently!
Bubble Tea: Bubble tea is full of chewy little balls called boba that you slurp up through a big fat straw!
Coconut Water: Coconut water is the clear, sweet juice that sloshes around inside a fresh green coconut!
Fruit Punch: Fruit punch gets its bright red color and sweet taste from mixing lots of different fruit juices together!
Hot Cocoa: Hot cocoa is made from cocoa beans that grow inside big pods on chocolate trees!
Iced Tea: Iced tea is just warm tea poured over lots of ice cubes to make it cold and refreshing!
Juice Box: A juice box has a tiny pointy straw that pokes right through the silver dot on top!
Lemonade: Lemonade gets its zippy, sour taste from squeezing real lemons into cold, sweet water!
Milk: Milk is full of calcium, which helps your bones and teeth grow big and strong!
Milkshake: A milkshake is so thick and creamy that you have to suck really hard to slurp it up the straw!
Smoothie: A smoothie spins fruit around so fast that it turns into a cold, thick drink you can slurp!
Soda Pop: The fizzy bubbles in soda pop are full of a gas that tickles your nose when you take a sip!
Water Glass: More than half of your body is made of water, so drinking it helps every part of you work!
Afternoon: Afternoon is the time after noon, when the sun starts to slide down the sky toward evening!
Evening: Evening is the time when the sun sets, the sky turns pink and purple, and the day winds down!
Half Past: Half past means the minute hand points down to the 6, so we are halfway through the hour at thirty minutes!
Hour Hand: The hour hand is the short, slow hand on a clock that points to the hour, like 3 o'clock!
Lunchtime: Lunchtime is usually around noon, the middle of the day, when we stop to eat a tasty meal!
Midnight: Midnight is twelve o'clock at night, the moment one day ends and a brand-new day begins!
Minute Hand: The minute hand is the long hand that moves faster, taking a whole hour to travel all the way around!
Morning: Morning is the early part of the day when we wake up, eat breakfast, and the sun climbs up the sky!
Noon: Noon is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day, when the sun is highest in the sky!
O'Clock: When the long minute hand points straight up to the 12, the time is exactly on the hour, like 4 o'clock!
Quarter Past: Quarter past means the minute hand points to the 3, so fifteen minutes, one quarter of an hour, have gone by!
Sunrise Time: Sunrise is the moment in the early morning when the sun peeks over the horizon and the sky lights up!
Capsule: A capsule is a cylinder with a rounded dome on each end, just like a vitamin pill or a comfy bean-bag pillow!
Cone: A cone has one round face and rises to a single pointy tip, just like an ice cream cone or a party hat!
Cube: A cube has six square faces, twelve edges, and eight corners, just like a dice or a sugar cube!
Cuboid: A cuboid is a stretched-out box with six rectangle faces, just like a brick, a cereal box, or a phone!
Cylinder: A cylinder has two round flat faces and a smooth curved side, just like a soup can or a drinking glass!
Dome: A dome is a smooth rounded roof shaped like the top of a ball, just like an igloo, a stadium roof, or a snow globe!
Hemisphere: A hemisphere is exactly half of a sphere with one flat round face and one curved dome, like half an orange or a bowl flipped over!
Octahedron: An octahedron has eight triangle faces and looks like two pyramids stuck bottom-to-bottom, just like a shiny diamond gem!
Prism: A triangular prism has two triangle ends and three rectangle sides, just like a camping tent or a chocolate bar!
Pyramid: A square pyramid has a square bottom and four triangle sides that meet at one point on top, like the great pyramids of Egypt!
Sphere: A sphere is round all over, with no edges and no corners, just like a bouncy ball or a juicy orange!
Torus: A torus is a ring with a hole in the middle, just like a yummy donut, a bagel, or a swim tube!
Feel: I can feel! Hug something soft and cozy close to you. Does it feel warm and snuggly?
Hear: I can hear! Cup your hand behind your ear. What sounds can you hear right now?
Listen: I can listen! Hold very still and quiet. Close your eyes. What tiny sounds can you hear?
Look: I can look! Make a flat hand over your eyes and look far away. What can you find?
See: I can see! Open your eyes wide. What colorful things do your eyes spy right now?
Smell: I can smell! Lean in close to a flower and breathe in slow. What does it smell like?
Sniff: I can sniff! Take a big quick sniff through your nose. Sniff sniff! What do you smell?
Taste: I can taste! Pretend to taste something yummy. Is it sweet, sour, or salty?
Touch: I can touch! Reach out one finger and gently touch something. Is it soft or bumpy?
Watch: I can watch! Follow something moving with just your eyes. Can you watch it go by?
Eleven: Eleven! That is all ten of your fingers and one more, like a wiggly toe!
Twelve: Twelve! That is ten and two more, and it is how many months make a whole year!
Thirteen: Thirteen! That is ten and three more, and it is the very first teen number!
Fourteen: Fourteen! That is ten and four more, and it is how many days are in two whole weeks!
Fifteen: Fifteen! That is ten and five more, like both of your hands and one more thumb!
Sixteen: Sixteen! That is ten and six more, and it makes a neat square of four rows of four!
Seventeen: Seventeen! That is ten and seven more, all your fingers plus a whole handful again!
Eighteen: Eighteen! That is ten and eight more, and it splits perfectly into two rows of nine!
Nineteen: Nineteen! That is ten and nine more, and it is the very last teen before twenty!
Twenty: Twenty! That is all ten of your fingers and all ten of your toes counted together!
The Acropolis: The Acropolis stands high on a rocky hill above Athens, Greece, where the temple called the Parthenon rests on tall marble columns!
Burj Khalifa: The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest building in the whole world, so tall its tippy-top pokes into the clouds!
Chichén Itzá: Chichén Itzá in Mexico is a huge stepped stone pyramid built long ago by the Maya, with steep staircases on every side!
Christ the Redeemer: Christ the Redeemer is a giant stone statue standing high on a mountain over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with its arms stretched out wide!
London Eye: The London Eye is a giant wheel beside the river in London, England, with little glass pods that lift you high above the city!
Moai Statue: The Moai are giant friendly stone heads on Easter Island, carved long ago and standing in a row looking out over the sea!
Mount Fuji: Mount Fuji in Japan is the country's tallest mountain, a quiet volcano with a snowy white cap on top!
Neuschwanstein Castle: Neuschwanstein is a white fairy-tale castle in the mountains of Germany, with tall blue towers that look just like a storybook!
Petra: Petra in Jordan is a whole temple carved right into a tall rose-pink cliff, hidden between rocky canyon walls!
Space Needle: The Space Needle in Seattle is a tall tower with a flying-saucer top, where you can ride an elevator up for a view of the whole city!
The Sphinx: The Great Sphinx in Egypt is a giant statue with a lion's body and a person's face, resting in the sand near the pyramids!
Stonehenge: Stonehenge in England is a ring of giant standing stones that people set up thousands and thousands of years ago!
Barber: A barber trims and styles hair so everybody looks neat and feels great!
Coach: A coach teaches the team how to play, blows the whistle, and cheers everybody on!
Electrician: An electrician fixes wires so our lights turn on and our homes stay bright!
Fisherman: A fisherman sails out on the water and catches fresh fish for everyone to eat!
Florist: A florist arranges beautiful flowers into bouquets that make people smile!
Gardener: A gardener plants seeds and waters them so they grow into beautiful flowers and tasty vegetables!
House Painter: A house painter rolls bright colors onto walls to make rooms look fresh and new!
Jeweler: A jeweler shines sparkly gems and fixes rings so they twinkle like tiny stars!
Judge: A judge listens carefully to everyone and helps make fair choices for the whole community!
Tailor: A tailor measures and sews cloth to make clothes that fit you just right!
Train Conductor: A train conductor waves the lantern and helps the train carry people safely down the tracks!
Waiter: A waiter brings tasty food to your table and makes sure your meal is just right!
Bored: Bored is that slow, sighing, nothing-to-do feeling, and it can be the start of a great new idea!
Brave: Brave is feeling a little scared but doing the hard thing anyway, one big breath at a time!
Confused: Confused is the puzzled feeling when something doesn't quite make sense yet, and asking helps it click!
Cozy: Cozy is that warm, snuggly, safe-and-comfy feeling like being wrapped in your favorite blanket!
Curious: Curious is that itchy, wonderful urge to find out how things work and ask lots of questions!
Embarrassed: Embarrassed is that warm, blushy feeling when everyone is looking, and it always passes!
Frustrated: Frustrated is when something is tricky and you feel like puffing up, and taking a big breath helps!
Hopeful: Hopeful is that bright, looking-forward feeling that good things are on their way!
Jealous: Jealous is when you wish you had what someone else has, and that feeling is okay to notice!
Lonely: Lonely is missing someone to be with, and reaching out to a friend or grown-up can help it shrink!
Nervous: Nervous is that fluttery, butterflies-in-your-tummy feeling you get before something new!
Thankful: Thankful is the warm, full-up feeling you get when you notice all the good things and people around you!
Android: An android is a robot built to look like a person, with a head, two arms, and a friendly smile!
Bubble Bot: This round little robot blows shimmering bubbles, and the biggest ones can be taller than a grown-up!
Claw Bot: A claw robot has a gentle pincer hand that can pick up a toy, a tool, or even a single tiny bolt!
Cook Bot: A cooking robot can stir, flip, and chop a whole dinner, then wash up without making a single mess!
Factory Bot: A factory robot arm can build the very same part thousands of times a day and never get tired!
Humanoid: A humanoid robot walks on two legs and keeps its balance the same way you do when you stand up tall!
Music Bot: A music robot can keep a perfect beat forever and mix a brand new song that nobody has ever heard!
Nano Bot: A nano robot is so tiny that thousands could fit on the tip of a pin, helping doctors inside the body!
Rover Bot: A rover robot rolls across faraway planets to explore rocks no person has ever touched!
Snake Bot: A snake robot bends and slithers to wiggle through tiny pipes and rubble where no other robot can fit!
Soccer Bot: Soccer-playing robots have their very own World Cup, dribbling and scoring goals all by themselves!
Space Bot: A space robot floats with no up or down, puffing tiny thruster jets to steer among the stars!
Diving Beetle: A diving beetle carries a tiny bubble of air tucked under its wings so it can breathe while it swims deep underwater!
Heron: A heron stands very, very still on its long legs and then snaps its beak down super fast to catch a fish!
Koi Fish: A koi fish can live for many, many years and grows whiskers called barbels to taste its food!
Mallard Duck: A mallard duck has a shiny green head, and its feathers are so waterproof that it stays totally dry when it swims!
Dragonfly: A dragonfly can fly forward, backward, and even hover in one spot, and it has giant eyes that see almost all around it!
Pond Frog: A frog can leap many times longer than its own body, and it blinks its big eyes to help push food down when it swallows!
Minnow: A minnow is a teeny silver fish that swims in a big group called a school, all turning and darting together!
Newt: A newt can grow back a brand-new leg or tail if it ever loses one, like a little superpower!
Pond Snail: A pond snail carries its swirly shell on its back like a cozy house, and its eyes sit on the tips of wiggly stalks!
Pond Turtle: A pond turtle loves to bask in the warm sun on a log, then slides into the water and swims with webbed feet!
Water Boatman: A water boatman swims upside down and uses its long back legs like a pair of oars to row across the pond!
Water Skater: A water skater is so light that it walks right on top of the water without ever sinking in!
Baby Tooth: When a wobbly baby tooth falls out, a brand new grown-up tooth grows in to take its place!
Dental Chair: The dentist chair leans back so you can lie down comfy while your teeth get a checkup!
Dental Light: The bright lamp shines like a little sun so the dentist can see every shiny tooth!
Dental Mirror: The dentist uses a tiny round mirror to peek at the back of your teeth where you cannot see!
Floss: Floss is a thin string that sneaks between your teeth to sweep away bits of food!
Molar: Your big back teeth are called molars, and they are champions at chewing your food!
Retainer: A retainer is a comfy little piece that helps your teeth stay in their perfect spot!
Rinse Cup: After a checkup you swish water in the little cup and spit to feel fresh and clean!
Reward Sticker: When you do a great job at the dentist, you get a shiny gold star sticker to wear proudly!
Tooth Fairy: The tooth fairy loves collecting baby teeth and leaving a little surprise under your pillow!
Brushing Timer: This little timer runs for two whole minutes, just long enough to brush every tooth squeaky clean!
Happy Tooth: Brushing your teeth twice a day keeps them sparkly clean and super strong!
Barber Chair: A barber chair can spin all the way around so the stylist can reach every bit of your hair!
Blow Dryer: A blow dryer puffs out warm air to dry wet hair super fast!
Clippers: Electric clippers buzz with tiny teeth that zip back and forth to trim hair short and neat!
Curling Iron: A curling iron wraps a warm wand with hair to turn it into bouncy, springy curls!
Hair Brush: A hair brush has lots of soft bristles that smooth your hair and make it shiny!
Comb: A comb has rows of little teeth that slide through your hair to take out all the tangles!
Hair Roller: A hair roller is a soft tube you wind your hair around to make big bouncy curls!
Salon Cape: A salon cape snaps around your neck to catch all the little hair clippings so they do not tickle!
Salon Mirror: A salon mirror lets you peek at the back of your new haircut without turning your head around!
Spray Bottle: A spray bottle mists tiny water droplets to dampen your hair so it is easy to comb and style!
Shampoo Bottle: Shampoo turns into fluffy bubbles that scrub away dirt and leave your hair squeaky clean!
Styling Scissors: Styling scissors snip with two sharp blades that slide past each other to cut hair just right!
Barn Door: A big barn door slides sideways on a rolling track so the farmer can lead tractors and animals inside!
Barn: A big red barn keeps hay, tractors, and farm animals warm and dry all year long!
Chicken Coop: A chicken coop is a cozy little house where hens sleep safe at night and lay their eggs in soft straw!
Scarecrow: A scarecrow stands tall in the field and gently flaps to remind the birds to find their snacks somewhere else!
Farm Fence: A wooden farm fence keeps the animals safely in their field so they can graze all day!
Grain Sack: A grain sack is a chubby burlap bag full of tasty feed that keeps the farm animals strong and happy!
Hay Bale: A hay bale is a tidy block of dried grass tied with string so it is easy to stack and feed all winter!
Haystack: A haystack is a big golden pile of dried grass that farm animals love to munch and snuggle in!
Pitchfork: A pitchfork has long pointy prongs that help a farmer scoop and toss fluffy hay to the animals!
Silo: A silo is a tall tower that keeps grain dry and safe to feed the animals all winter long!
Water Trough: A water trough is a long tub of cool, fresh water where thirsty farm animals come for a big drink!
Weather Vane: A weather vane spins on the roof and points its rooster nose in whatever way the wind is blowing!
Baggage Cart: A baggage cart is a tiny train of wagons that carries everyone's suitcases out to the plane!
Baggage Tag: A baggage tag is a little card that gets looped onto your bag so it always finds its way to the right plane!
Boarding Pass: A boarding pass is your special ticket that shows your seat and lets you climb aboard the plane!
Control Tower: A control tower is where helpers watch the sky and tell each plane when it is safe to fly!
Departure Board: A departure board flips and flickers to tell everyone which planes are leaving and when!
Fuel Truck: A fuel truck rolls up to give thirsty airplanes a big drink of fuel before they fly!
Jet Bridge: A jet bridge is a stretchy hallway that reaches right up to the plane so you can walk aboard without going outside!
Luggage Carousel: A luggage carousel is a spinning belt that brings your suitcase right back to you after a flight!
Passport: A passport is a little book that says who you are so you can travel to faraway countries!
Runway: A runway is a long flat road where airplanes speed up and lift off into the sky!
Suitcase: A rolling suitcase has little wheels so you can zoom your clothes through the airport without carrying them!
Windsock: A windsock is a striped cloth tube that puffs out to show pilots which way the wind is blowing!
Button Mushroom: A button mushroom is small, white, and round like a little dome, and it is the most common mushroom of all!
Chanterelle: A chanterelle is golden-yellow and shaped like a little trumpet, with wavy frilly edges that ripple like a skirt!
Enoki: Enoki mushrooms grow in a bunch of long skinny white stems with teeny tiny caps, like a little bouquet!
Fairy Ring: A fairy ring is a circle of little mushrooms that pops up in the grass, and old stories say fairies dance there!
Fly Agaric: The fly agaric is the famous red toadstool with white spots you see in fairy tales, but it is not for eating!
Morel: A morel has a pointy cap full of little dents and ridges, so it looks just like a tiny honeycomb sponge!
Oyster Mushroom: An oyster mushroom grows in soft pale fans that stack on the side of a tree, like little shelves!
Portobello: A portobello is a great big brown mushroom with a wide flat cap and feathery gills hiding underneath!
Puffball: A puffball mushroom is round like a ball and puffs out a cloud of dusty spores when it is ready!
Shiitake: A shiitake has a flat brown cap with a cracked, crinkly top, and it loves to grow on old fallen logs!
Toadstool: A toadstool is the storybook mushroom with a bright red cap and tiny white spots, like a little fairy umbrella!
Truffle: A truffle is a bumpy fungus that grows hidden underground near tree roots, and dogs and pigs sniff it out!
Bay: A bay is a wide curve of sea that scoops into the land, making calm water where boats love to rest!
Creek: A creek is a small bubbly stream that splashes and gurgles as it tumbles over smooth round rocks!
Gulf: A gulf is a giant arm of the sea that reaches deep into the land, so big that ships sail across it for days!
Harbor: A harbor is a calm, protected spot of water where boats park safely and tie up to the dock to rest!
Lagoon: A lagoon is a shallow pool of warm, clear water tucked behind a coral reef, sparkling bright turquoise!
Lake: A lake is a big pool of fresh water with land all around it, perfect for ducks to paddle and fish to swim!
Marsh: A marsh is a soggy grassland of shallow water and tall reeds, a cozy home for frogs, herons, and turtles!
Oasis: An oasis is a surprise pool of cool water in the hot desert, shaded by palm trees where tired travelers rest!
Pond: A pond is a small, still pool of water where frogs hop on lily pads and tiny tadpoles wiggle around!
Reservoir: A reservoir is a giant lake held back by a strong dam wall, saving fresh water for whole towns to drink!
Stream: A stream is a thin ribbon of water that winds along the ground, always flowing toward a bigger river!
Tide Pool: A tide pool is a tiny puddle of seawater left in the rocks when the tide goes out, full of starfish and crabs!
Bait Bucket: A bait bucket keeps wiggly worms cool and comfy in damp soil until a hungry fish comes to say hi!
Bobber: A bobber floats on top of the water and dips down to say a fish is nibbling the bait!
Cooler: A cooler is packed with ice so your snacks and drinks stay frosty cold all day by the water!
Fish Bucket: A fish bucket holds cool water so a caught fish can swim and breathe before you gently set it free again!
Fish Hook: A fish hook curves in a gentle J shape, and grown-ups always handle the pointy tip so little hands stay safe!
Fishing Hat: A fishing hat has a wide floppy brim that shades your eyes, and anglers pin their favorite lures right on it!
Fishing Net: A fishing net scoops a fish up gently so you can say hello and set it free again, all wet and happy!
Fishing Reel: A fishing reel spins round and round to wind the line back in, clicking happily the whole way!
Fishing Rod: A fishing rod bends way over when a fish tugs, like a springy arm helping you reel it in!
Life Vest: A life vest is puffy and floaty, so you always wear one near the water to stay safe and bob like a cork!
Lure: A lure is shiny and wobbles like a tiny fish, sparkling underwater to say hello to a curious fish!
Tackle Box: A tackle box has little trays inside that keep all your hooks and lures sorted and easy to find!
Bingo Card: In bingo you mark off the numbers as they are called, and you shout BINGO when a whole line is full!
Checkers: In checkers you slide your round pieces and hop over the other player to capture them!
Chess Knight: The knight is the horse in chess, and it is the only piece that can jump in an L-shape over the others!
Dice: A dice has six sides with one to six dots, and you roll it to see how many spaces to move!
Dominoes: Dominoes are tiles with dots, and you match the ends together or stand them up to topple in a row!
Game Board: A game board has a winding path of spaces, and you hop your piece along it to reach the finish!
Game Pawn: A pawn is your little playing piece, and you move it from space to space to race to the end!
Jigsaw Piece: A jigsaw piece has bumps and notches, and you fit lots of them together to make one big picture!
Marble: A marble is a tiny glass ball you roll and flick to bump other marbles in lots of games!
Playing Cards: A deck of playing cards has hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades, and you shuffle and deal them to play!
Sand Timer: When you flip a sand timer the sand pours down, and you must take your turn before it runs out!
Game Spinner: You flick the arrow and let it spin, then it points to the color or number for your turn!
Cheer Bow: Cheerleaders wear big sparkly bows in their hair so the whole team matches and shines together!
Cheer Flag: Cheerleaders wave big spirit flags so fans way up in the bleachers can join the cheer!
Cheer Mascot: A cheerleader leaps and shouts with a giant smile to fill everybody with team spirit!
Cheer Sign: Cheerleaders pump cheer signs up high to get everybody clapping and cheering along!
Cheer Trophy: Cheer squads win shiny trophies when their whole team works together at a competition!
Cheer Uniform: A cheer uniform matches the whole squad so they look like one happy team out on the floor!
Megaphone: A megaphone makes your cheer extra loud so the whole stadium can hear you shout!
Pom-Pom: Cheerleaders shake fluffy pom-poms to make a big burst of color and fire up the crowd!
Spirit Banner: Cheerleaders hold up spirit banners so everyone knows it is time to cheer for the team!
Spirit Ribbon: Twirly spirit ribbons swish through the air to make pretty swirls while the team cheers!
Spirit Stick: The spirit stick is a happy award passed to the squad that shows the most teamwork and joy!
Victory Pennant: Fans wave pointy victory pennants to celebrate their team and show off their school colors!
Burger: A burger stacks juicy beef, cheese, and veggies between two soft buns into one happy tower!
Chicken Nuggets: Chicken nuggets are little crispy bites that taste even yummier when you dip them in sauce!
Corn Dog: A corn dog is a sausage dipped in sweet cornbread batter and fried golden, all on a handy stick!
Fountain Soda: Fountain soda gets its fizzy bubbles from gas, so every sip tickles and pops on your tongue!
Fries: French fries are potato sticks fried until golden and crispy, perfect for dipping in ketchup!
Hot Dog: A hot dog is a warm sausage tucked into a soft bun and topped with a wiggly squiggle of mustard!
Ketchup Bottle: Ketchup is a sweet tomato sauce, and giving the bottle a friendly squeeze makes it squirt right out!
Nachos: Nachos are crunchy tortilla chips covered in warm, gooey, stretchy melted cheese!
Onion Rings: Onion rings are slices of onion dipped in crunchy batter and fried into golden, crispy circles!
Slushie: A slushie is a drink made from crushed ice and sweet syrup that can turn your tongue bright blue!
Soft Pretzel: A soft pretzel is warm, chewy bread twisted into a friendly knot and sprinkled with big salt crystals!
Soft Serve: Soft serve ice cream is swirled into a tall curly tower right on top of a crunchy cone!
Bumpy: Bumpy! Run your fingers over something bumpy — how many little bumps can you feel?
Fuzzy: Fuzzy! Can you find something warm and fuzzy, like a teddy bear, to give a snuggle?
Hard: Hard! Can you knock on something hard and solid — what sound does it make?
Prickly: Prickly! Can you spot something prickly and pointy, like a pinecone — gentle, those points are sharp!
Rough: Rough! Run your hand over something rough and gritty — what bumpy edges can you feel?
Scratchy: Scratchy! Can you find something scratchy, like a scrubby sponge — what scritchy sound does it make?
Silky: Silky! Can you find something silky and smooth, like a ribbon, to slide softly across your cheek?
Slippery: Slippery! Can you find something slippery and slidey — be careful, does it slip away?
Smooth: Smooth! Can you find something smooth and glassy to glide your hand across?
Soft: Soft! Can you find something soft and squishy to give a gentle, cozy squeeze?
Squishy: Squishy! Can you find something squishy and bouncy to give a gentle squeeze?
Sticky: Sticky! Can you find something sticky like honey or tape — does it cling to your fingers?
Atlas: An atlas is a big book full of maps that takes you all around the world page by page!
Compass Rose: A compass rose is the pretty star on a map that points the way to North, South, East, and West!
Trail Map: A trail map shows the path through the woods so hikers always know which way to walk!
Map Key: A map key is a little box that tells you what all the tiny symbols on a map really mean!
Map Pin: A map pin drops down to mark the exact spot where something special is!
Map Scroll: A map scroll is an old map rolled up like a tube that you unroll to see where to go!
Road Map: A road map shows all the roads and highways so cars can find their way to new places!
Terrain Globe: A terrain globe has bumpy mountains and valleys you can feel with your fingers!
Treasure Map: A treasure map has a big red X to show the secret spot where the gold is buried!
Weather Map: A weather map uses suns and clouds to show if it will be sunny or rainy where you live!
World Globe: A world globe is a round map of our whole planet that you can spin to find any place!
World Map: A world map shows every land and sea spread out flat so you can see the whole Earth at once!
Camera Flash: A camera flash makes a quick burst of bright light so you can take a clear photo even in the dark!
Camera Lens: A camera lens has curved glass inside that bends light to make pictures sharp and clear!
Camera: A camera catches a moment and saves it as a photo so you can remember it forever!
Film Roll: A roll of film holds a long strip that captures lots of pictures, one tiny frame at a time!
Instant Photo: When an instant photo first pops out it looks blank, then the picture slowly appears like magic!
Memory Card: A memory card is a tiny chip that can hold thousands of photos, all smaller than a cookie!
Photo Album: A photo album keeps your favorite pictures safe in one book so you can flip through happy memories!
Photo Print: A photo print puts a moment on real paper, so you can hang your favorite picture right on the wall!
Polaroid Camera: An instant camera prints your photo right away, so you can hold the picture in your hands in seconds!
Selfie Stick: A selfie stick holds your phone far away so everyone can fit in the picture all at once!
Tripod: A tripod has three legs that hold a camera perfectly still so your photos never come out blurry!
Vintage Camera: Old cameras had a stretchy folding part called a bellows that squeezed in and out to focus the picture!
Cuttlefish: A cuttlefish can change its skin color in a blink to hide against the sand or a rock!
Flounder: A flounder is a flat fish with both eyes on top, and it can speckle its skin to match the sandy sea floor!
Ghost Mantis: A ghost mantis has leafy bumps all over its body so it looks just like a dead, crinkly leaf!
Katydid: A katydid has bright green wings shaped exactly like leaves, with little veins and all!
Leaf Insect: A leaf insect looks so much like a real leaf that it even has pretend nibble marks on its edges!
Leaf-Tailed Gecko: A leaf-tailed gecko has a flat, leaf-shaped tail and bark-colored skin, so it vanishes against a tree!
Leafy Seadragon: A leafy seadragon grows leaf-shaped flaps all over so it looks just like a piece of floating seaweed!
Mimic Octopus: A mimic octopus can twist its body and arms to copy other sea animals, like a flat fish or a sea snake!
Panther Chameleon: A panther chameleon can change to amazing colors, and each eye can swivel and look in a different direction!
Peppered Moth: A peppered moth has speckled wings that blend right into a bumpy, spotty tree trunk!
Snowshoe Hare: A snowshoe hare turns snowy white in winter and brown in summer so it always matches the ground!
Stick Insect: A stick insect looks just like a twig, so hungry birds walk right past it!
Amargasaurus: Amargasaurus had two rows of tall spikes running down its neck and back, making it one of the spikiest long-necks ever!
Corythosaurus: Corythosaurus had a tall round crest like a helmet, full of hollow tubes that may have let it honk loud songs to its friends!
Edmontosaurus: Edmontosaurus was a big duckbill with hundreds of tiny teeth packed together, perfect for grinding up tough leaves!
Giganotosaurus: Giganotosaurus was even longer than T. rex, one of the biggest meat-eaters ever to stomp across the land!
Lambeosaurus: Lambeosaurus wore a crest shaped like a hatchet on its head, and scientists think it helped this duckbill make loud honking calls!
Maiasaura: Maiasaura means good mother lizard, because this duckbill built cozy nests and looked after its babies until they grew big!
Microraptor: Microraptor was a tiny dinosaur with feathers on all four legs, like having two pairs of wings to glide between trees!
Nigersaurus: Nigersaurus had a super-wide mouth lined with hundreds of tiny teeth, so it could mow ferns like a leafy vacuum cleaner!
Plateosaurus: Plateosaurus was one of the very first big dinosaurs, and it could stand up on two legs to reach tasty high-up leaves!
Saltasaurus: Saltasaurus was a long-necked giant with bony armor bumps all over its back, like a built-in shield of pebbles!
Troodon: Troodon had really big eyes and one of the biggest brains for its size, so it was a clever little night-time hunter!
Utahraptor: Utahraptor was a giant raptor as big as a bear, with a huge curved claw on each foot for holding on tight!
Baby Elephant: A baby elephant is called a calf, and it can hold its mother's tail with its trunk so it never gets lost!
Baby Giraffe: A baby giraffe can stand up and walk within an hour of being born, even though it is already taller than you!
Baby Hedgehog: A baby hedgehog is called a hoglet, and it is born with tiny soft spines that grow pointier as it gets bigger!
Baby Panda: A baby panda is born tiny and pink, about the size of a stick of butter, before it turns fuzzy and black-and-white!
Baby Zebra: A baby zebra is called a foal, and its stripes are brown and fuzzy at first before turning black and white!
Cygnet: A baby swan is called a cygnet, and it loves to ride on its mother's soft, fluffy back!
Baby Goat: A baby goat is called a kid, and it can hop and bounce around almost as soon as it is born!
Baby Hare: A baby hare is called a leveret, and it is born with soft fur and open eyes, ready to wiggle its long ears!
Lion Cub: A baby lion is called a cub, and it is born with cute spots that fade away as it grows up!
Penguin Chick: A fuzzy grey penguin chick keeps warm by snuggling on its parent's feet, away from the cold ice!
Seal Pup: A baby seal is born with a fluffy white coat to keep it cozy and warm on the cold, snowy ice!
Wolf Pup: A baby wolf is called a pup, and the whole family helps look after it until it learns to howl!
Blue Jay: A blue jay can copy the scream of a hawk to scare other birds away from its food!
Bluebird: A bluebird can spot a tiny bug in the grass from a high perch and swoop straight down to grab it!
Chickadee: A chickadee says its own name, chick-a-dee-dee, and adds more dees when it spots something exciting!
Goldfinch: A goldfinch flies in bouncy swoops while singing a song that sounds like po-ta-to-chip!
Junco: A junco flashes the white feathers on the sides of its tail like little blinking lights as it flies!
Mockingbird: A mockingbird can learn over 100 different songs and even copy car alarms and squeaky gates!
Mourning Dove: A mourning dove's wings make a soft whistling sound when it flies up into the air!
Nuthatch: A nuthatch can walk straight down a tree trunk headfirst, like it has tiny gravity boots!
Oriole: An oriole loves fruit so much it will sip orange halves and grape jelly right off your feeder!
Sparrow: A house sparrow loves to take dust baths, wiggling in dry dirt to keep its feathers clean!
Titmouse: A tufted titmouse whistles a clear peter-peter-peter song and wears a pointy gray hat of feathers!
Wren: A tiny wren can sing a song so loud and bubbly it seems too big to fit in such a little bird!
Akita: An Akita has a fluffy tail that curls up over its back like a soft cinnamon bun!
Bloodhound: A Bloodhound has the best nose of any dog and can follow a smell trail for miles and miles!
Cavalier Spaniel: A Cavalier Spaniel has big round eyes and long wavy ears, and it loves to cuddle in your lap all day!
Chow Chow: A Chow Chow has a fluffy lion-like mane and a funny blue-purple tongue, just like a teddy bear come to life!
Greyhound: A Greyhound is the fastest dog of all, and it can run as fast as a car on the highway!
Mastiff: A Mastiff is one of the biggest, heaviest dogs of all, and it can weigh more than a grown-up person!
Papillon: A Papillon is named after butterflies because its big fringed ears look just like butterfly wings!
Schnauzer: A Schnauzer has a big bushy beard and fluffy eyebrows, so it always looks like a wise little professor!
Shih Tzu: A Shih Tzu has long silky hair, and people sometimes tie a little topknot on its head so it can see!
Vizsla: A Vizsla is a coppery-gold dog that loves to be near you, so it is nicknamed the velcro dog!
Weimaraner: A Weimaraner has a shiny silvery-grey coat and sparkly eyes, so people call it the grey ghost!
Whippet: A Whippet is a little speedster that can leap and zoom around the yard in a happy zigzag!
Book Cart: A book cart rolls around the library on little wheels, helping return every book to its cozy shelf!
Stack of Books: A tall stack of books is a tower of adventures, and you get to choose which story to read first!
Book: A book holds a whole story inside, waiting just for you to open it up and read!
Bookmark: A bookmark saves your exact spot so you always know right where to keep reading next time!
Card Catalog: A card catalog has tiny drawers full of cards that help you find exactly which book you want!
Date Stamp: A date stamp goes thunk and prints the day your library book is due back, so you never forget!
Library Card: A library card is your special pass to borrow any book you like and take it home to read!
Bookshelf: A bookshelf keeps all your favorite stories lined up in a row, ready to pick whenever you want to read!
Picture Book: A picture book tells its story with big colorful pictures, so you can read it just by looking at the art!
Reading Lamp: A reading lamp pours warm light onto your page so you can read your book even after the sun goes down!
Reading Nook: A reading nook is a soft, snug little corner where you can curl up with a blanket and read for hours!
Story Time: At story time a book opens wide and the words come alive, taking you on a wonderful adventure!
Analog Clock: An analog clock has a short hand for hours and a long hand for minutes that go round and round!
Cuckoo Clock: A cuckoo clock has a little wooden bird that pops out of a door to say cuckoo on the hour!
Digital Clock: A digital clock shows the time in glowing numbers instead of hands, and the dots blink every second!
Egg Timer: An egg timer is shaped like an egg and rings a little bell when your egg is boiled just right!
Grandfather Clock: A grandfather clock is so tall it stands on the floor, and a long pendulum swings inside to keep the time!
Hourglass: An hourglass measures time as sand trickles grain by grain from the top to the bottom!
Kitchen Timer: A kitchen timer is a clock you twist to set, and it dings out loud when your cookies are done baking!
Pocket Watch: A pocket watch hangs from a chain and tucks into your pocket, and you flip its lid open to read the time!
Alarm Clock: An alarm clock has two little bells on top and a tiny hammer that rings them to wake you up!
Smartwatch: A smartwatch has a tiny touchscreen that shows the time, counts your steps, and even buzzes on your wrist!
Sundial: A sundial tells time with no hands at all, just a shadow that moves as the sun travels across the sky!
Wristwatch: A wristwatch is a tiny clock you wear on your arm so you can check the time anywhere you go!
Airship: An airship is a giant balloon shaped like a sausage, filled with light gas so it floats up high!
Crop Duster: A crop duster flies low over farm fields and sprinkles a fine mist to help the plants grow!
Jet Plane: A jet plane has pointy swept-back wings that help it slice through the air super fast!
Jumbo Jet: A jumbo jet is so big it can carry hundreds of people, with a bump on top like a hump!
Passenger Jet: A passenger jet has a long row of little windows so everyone can peek down at the clouds!
Private Jet: A private jet is a small fancy plane with engines on the back, built for just a few lucky travelers!
Propeller Plane: A propeller plane has a spinning blade up front that pulls it through the sky like a fan!
Rescue Helicopter: A rescue helicopter can hover still in the sky and lower a basket to lift people to safety!
Sailplane: A sailplane has no engine at all, so it rides on rising warm air and glides as quiet as a bird!
Stunt Plane: A stunt plane can fly loop-the-loops and even zoom upside down, trailing a ribbon of smoke!
Twin-Prop Plane: A twin-prop plane has two spinning propellers, one on each wing, so it has extra pulling power!
Water Bomber: A water bomber scoops up a whole bellyful of water and drops it to splash out forest fires!
Big Wheels: Big Wheels has the most enormous tires of all, so big that the little cab looks like a hat sitting on top — whoa!
Bounce Buggy: Bounce Buggy has the springiest suspension ever, so it boings up and down like a happy beach ball — boing boing!
Crash Truck: Crash Truck has a super strong roll cage, so it can tumble and crash and bounce right back up smiling — kaboom!
Crusher: Crusher has tires taller than a grown-up, so it can roll right over a whole row of cars — squish!
Dirt Digger: Dirt Digger has a big scoop on the front that digs up dirt and flings it high into the sky — dig dig dig!
Flame Truck: Flame Truck has fiery flames painted right on its side, so it looks super fast even when it's standing still — whoosh!
Mud Rider: Mud Rider loves the gooiest, splashiest mud pits and comes out covered head to wheel in brown goo — splat!
Ramp Racer: Ramp Racer zooms up a giant ramp and flies through the air like a rocket before landing on its big tires — zoom!
Roar Truck: Roar Truck revs its engine so loudly that everybody covers their ears and giggles — VROOOM!
Smash Truck: Smash Truck loves to charge straight at a tall stack of junk and smash right through it — crash!
Stomper: Stomper jumps way up high and STOMPS back down so hard that the whole crowd feels it shake — boom!
Turbo Truck: Turbo Truck has a turbo scoop on its hood that gulps air and makes it go faster and faster — turbo power!
Alien Egg: An alien egg wiggles and cracks open, and out pops a brand new baby alien ready for its first hug!
Antenna Alien: An antenna alien catches happy radio songs from outer space with the wiggly bulbs on top of its head!
Blob Alien: A blob alien is squishy like jelly, so it can squeeze under doors and bounce right back into shape!
Green Alien: A friendly green alien travels across the whole galaxy just to say a giant hello!
Mothership: A mothership is a humongous space house so big that hundreds of little alien friends ride inside it together!
Ray Zapper: A friendly ray zapper does not zap at all, it just shoots out sparkly rainbow bubbles for fun!
Flying Saucer: A flying saucer spins like a frisbee so fast that it can turn in any direction in a blink!
Space Buddy: A space buddy wears a bubbly helmet so it can float and wave hello to every star it meets!
Star Pet: A star pet is a cuddly little space critter that purrs in twinkles and bounces whenever it gets a tickle!
Tentacle Alien: A tentacle alien has wiggly arms that can wave hello, give high fives, and tickle all at once!
Three-Eye Alien: A three-eye alien can watch the left, the right, and straight up at the stars all at the very same time!
UFO: A UFO is a flying saucer that zips across the sky, and its name means we are not quite sure what it is!
Fluffy Beast: This fluffy beast is one big cloud of cozy fluff, perfect for snuggling on a sleepy afternoon!
Fuzzy Monster: This fuzzy monster looks big and silly, but it only wants a giggly tickle and a great big hug!
Googly Blob: This googly blob has two wibbly-wobbly eyes that bounce around when it laughs, which is basically all the time!
Horned Monster: This horned monster looks tough with two little bumpy horns, but it really uses them to balance a stack of yummy pancakes!
One-Eye Monster: This one-eyed monster has just one giant eye, so it gives you the biggest, friendliest wink in the whole world!
Polka Monster: This polka monster is covered in colorful dots, and every single dot is a tiny tickle waiting to giggle!
Puff Monster: This puff monster puffs up like a round little balloon when it's happy, then floats down with the softest poof!
Slime Monster: This slime monster is squishy and drippy and giggly, and a high-five feels like the squelchiest, happiest jelly!
Snaggletooth: This little monster has one funny snaggletooth that pokes out when it smiles, and it makes the silliest grin ever!
Spotty Monster: This spotty monster has big soft spots all over, and it loves to count them with you before bedtime!
Striped Monster: This striped monster wears bright stripes like a cozy sweater, and it loves to wiggle so the stripes dance!
Wiggle Monster: This wiggle monster is so wobbly it jiggles like jelly, and it can wiggle-dance for a whole entire day!
Captain Armband: The team captain wears a special armband with a big C to show they are the leader on the field!
Cleats: Cleats have little bumpy studs on the bottom that grip the grass so players never slip!
Corner Flag: A bright flag stands at each corner of the field, and it flaps and wobbles whenever the wind blows!
Goalie Gloves: The goalie is the only player allowed to use their hands, and big grippy gloves help them catch the ball!
Soccer Ball: A soccer ball is kicked, headed, and dribbled all over the field, but never touched with the hands!
Whistle: When the referee blows the whistle, every player stops and listens right away!
Shin Guards: Shin guards are hard pads that tuck into your socks to keep your legs safe from bumps and kicks!
Goal: When the ball crosses the line into the net, the whole crowd jumps up and yells GOAL!
Jersey: Every player wears a jersey with their own number so the crowd always knows who scored!
Scoreboard: The scoreboard counts every goal so everyone can see which team is winning the game!
Soccer Trophy: The winning team lifts the shiny trophy high in the air so everybody can see they were the champions!
Water Bottle: Players squeeze their water bottle for a big gulp to stay cool and strong during the game!
Backboard: The little square on the backboard helps you bank the ball right into the hoop!
Basketball: A basketball has bumpy little dots all over so your hands can grip it tight!
Jersey: Every basketball jersey has a big number so the crowd knows exactly who you are!
Net: When the ball drops straight through the net it makes a happy swish sound!
Basketball Shoes: Basketball shoes have bouncy soles that go squeak-squeak when you stop super fast!
Trophy: The winning team lifts a shiny golden trophy high up over their heads!
Gym Floor: A basketball court floor is made of smooth wooden planks polished super shiny!
Hoop: A basketball hoop floats way up high, ten feet above the gym floor!
Jump Ball: Every game starts with a jump ball, where the ref tosses it up for two players to tap!
Referee Whistle: A referee blows the whistle to stop the game and keep everybody playing fair!
Shot Clock: The shot clock counts down so a team has to try a shot before time runs out!
Team Bench: Teammates sit on the bench cheering loud until the coach sends them in to play!
Baseball: A baseball is wrapped in white leather and stitched with exactly 108 red stitches by hand!
Base: A base is a soft white pillow on the field, and you are safe the moment you touch it!
Bat: A baseball bat is carved from one solid piece of wood, and a good hit makes a loud crack!
Baseball Cap: A baseball cap has a curved brim that shades your eyes so you never lose the ball in the sunshine!
Glove: A catcher's mitt has extra padding so it can snatch a speedy pitch with a big leathery thump!
Trophy: A shiny gold trophy is the prize the winning team gets to lift high after a big game!
Batting Helmet: A batting helmet has a hard shell and one ear flap to keep your head safe at the plate!
Catcher's Mask: A catcher's mask has a strong metal cage so foul balls bounce right off and never touch your face!
Foam Finger: Fans wear a giant foam finger and wave it high to cheer that their team is number one!
Home Plate: Home plate has five sides, and touching it after running the bases is how you score a run!
Pitching Mound: The pitcher stands on a little dirt hill called the mound so every throw comes in a bit downhill!
Tee-Ball Tee: In tee-ball the ball sits still on a stand, so every player gets to whack it right off the tee!
Banana Split: A banana split tucks three scoops of ice cream inside a banana sliced right down the middle!
Gelato: Gelato is Italian ice cream churned slow and soft, so every spoonful tastes silky and smooth!
Ice Cream Cone: The crunchy waffle cone was invented so you can eat your bowl after the ice cream is gone!
Ice Cream Sandwich: An ice cream sandwich hides a cold creamy middle between two soft, chewy chocolate cookies!
Ice Cream Scoop: An ice cream scoop has a rounded metal cup that carves out a perfect ball every single time!
Ice Pop: An ice pop is frozen juice on a little wooden stick, so your fingers stay clean while you slurp!
Rocket Pop: A rocket pop has three frozen stripes — red, white, and blue — stacked into a pointy little tip!
Snow Cone: A snow cone is a fluffy mound of crushed ice splashed with sweet, colorful, fruity syrup!
Sorbet Cup: Sorbet is a frosty frozen treat made from fruit and water, with no milk in it at all!
Sprinkles: Tiny rainbow sprinkles are little sugar candies that turn any scoop into a party!
Sundae: A sundae is a tower of ice cream piled with sauce, whipped cream, and a bright cherry on top!
Waffle Cone: A waffle cone is baked flat and hot, then quickly rolled into a crunchy point before it cools!
Baa Baa Black Sheep: Baa Baa Black Sheep has three full bags of wool to share in this happy little rhyme!
Hey Diddle Diddle: In Hey Diddle Diddle the cow jumps right over the moon while the little dog laughs to see such fun!
Hickory Dickory Dock: Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse ran up the clock, the clock struck one and down the mouse did run!
Hot Cross Buns: Hot Cross Buns are sweet little buns with a cross of icing on top, one a penny, two a penny in the rhyme!
Humpty Dumpty: Humpty Dumpty is a round little egg who sits up high on a wall in a famous bouncy rhyme!
Itsy Bitsy Spider: The Itsy Bitsy Spider climbs up the waterspout, and the sun dries up all the rain so it can climb again!
Jack and Jill: Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water in this bouncy old rhyme!
Little Boy Blue: Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, the sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn!
Mary's Little Lamb: Mary had a little lamb with fleece as white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go!
Little Miss Muffet: Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey when a friendly spider came to say hello!
Pat-a-Cake: Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man, bake me a cake and mark it with a B as fast as you can!
Twinkle Twinkle Star: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star wonders how a star shines way up high like a tiny diamond in the sky!
One Hundred: One hundred is ten groups of ten — the biggest, roundest counting-by-tens number of all!
Thirty: Thirty is three groups of ten — like ten fingers, ten toes, and ten more!
Forty: Forty is four groups of ten — that's all your fingers and toes counted four times!
Fifty: Fifty is five groups of ten — half of a hundred, and a high five for every ten!
Sixty: Sixty is six groups of ten — and sixty seconds make one whole minute!
Seventy: Seventy is seven groups of ten — count by tens and you'll get there in just seven hops!
Eighty: Eighty is eight groups of ten — like counting all your fingers and toes eight whole times!
Ninety: Ninety is nine groups of ten — just one more group of ten makes a whole hundred!
Architect: An architect draws the plans for houses, bridges, and skyscrapers before anyone builds them!
Ballet Dancer: A ballet dancer spins and leaps on the very tips of their toes, light as a floating feather!
Game Designer: A game designer dreams up video game worlds and decides how every jump, level, and power-up works!
Pilot: A jet pilot zooms across the sky faster than a race car and can even fly above the clouds!
Scientist: A scientist mixes colorful liquids in beakers and discovers brand-new things nobody has ever seen!
Marine Biologist: A marine biologist dives deep into the ocean to study whales, fish, and glowing sea creatures!
News Reporter: A news reporter holds a microphone and tells everyone the exciting things happening around the world!
Paleontologist: A paleontologist digs up dinosaur bones that have been buried for millions and millions of years!
Park Ranger: A park ranger protects the forests and animals and knows every trail, tree, and hidden waterfall!
Race Car Driver: A race car driver zooms around the track so fast that the whole world becomes a colorful blur!
Veterinarian: A veterinarian is an animal doctor who listens to a puppy's heartbeat and helps every pet feel better!
Zookeeper: A zookeeper feeds giraffes, lions, and penguins, and knows exactly what snack every animal loves!
African Grey: An African grey parrot is so smart it can learn hundreds of words and use them to ask for things!
Amazon Parrot: A yellow-headed Amazon parrot loves to sing so much it will burst into song when it hears music!
Budgie: A budgie is a tiny parakeet that can learn to whistle tunes and even say little words!
Cockatiel: A cockatiel has round orange cheeks and can learn to whistle whole songs back to you!
Cockatoo: A cockatoo can raise the big feather crest on its head like a fan when it gets excited!
Conure: A sun conure glows like a sunset in orange and yellow and gives the loudest happy screech!
Eclectus: Eclectus parrots are so colorful that the bright green males and red females look like totally different birds!
Kakapo: A kakapo is a chubby green parrot that cannot fly but climbs trees and only comes out at night!
Lorikeet: A rainbow lorikeet has a special brushy tongue it uses to lap up sweet flower nectar!
Lovebird: Lovebirds like to sit so close to their best friend that they look like they are cuddling!
Rosella: A crimson rosella has a scaly-looking back where every feather is edged like a tiny painted tile!
Macaw: A macaw is a giant rainbow-colored parrot that can crack open hard nuts with its strong curved beak!
Blue Blubber Jelly: A blue blubber jelly has a round, bouncy bell and stubby little arms that look like fluffy cauliflower!
Box Jelly: A box jelly has a see-through body shaped like a little cube, and it can zip through the water faster than most jellies!
Cannonball Jelly: A cannonball jelly is shaped like a round, smooth ball and tumbles through the water like a bouncy bubble!
Comb Jelly: A comb jelly has rows of tiny paddles that catch the light and sparkle like a moving rainbow!
Crystal Jelly: A crystal jelly is so see-through you can look right through it, and it can light up with a soft green glow!
Flower Hat Jelly: A flower hat jelly wears a stripey little cap with bright, curly tentacles that look like a fancy flower bonnet!
Fried Egg Jelly: A fried egg jelly really does look like a sunny-side-up egg, with a round yellow blob right in the middle!
Lion's Mane Jelly: A lion's mane jelly can grow a tangly mane of tentacles longer than a school bus!
Mauve Stinger: A mauve stinger is dotted with tiny spots that twinkle and glow when the dark sea water moves around it!
Moon Jelly: A moon jelly drifts along with the ocean current and glows a soft, pretty blue in the dark water!
Sea Nettle: A sea nettle has long, lacy, ruffly arms that trail behind it like ribbons in a slow ocean dance!
Upside-Down Jelly: An upside-down jelly likes to lie on its back on the sandy floor and wiggle its frilly arms up toward the sunlight!
Black-Footed Cat: The black-footed cat is one of the tiniest wild cats, small enough to nap inside an old burrow!
Fishing Cat: A fishing cat loves to swim and scoops fish right out of the water with its paws!
Geoffroy's Cat: Geoffroy's cat is covered in tidy little black spots and can stand up on its back legs like a meerkat to peek around!
Jaguarundi: A jaguarundi looks a little like an otter and makes more than a dozen different sounds, even a happy chirp!
Jungle Cat: A jungle cat has little tufts on its ears and loves to splash through tall reeds by the water!
Kodkod: The kodkod is the smallest wild cat in the Americas and it is a brilliant tree climber!
Leopard Cat: A leopard cat is about the size of a house cat but wears a coat of bold spots just like a real leopard!
Marbled Cat: A marbled cat has a tail as long as its whole body to help it balance high up in the treetops!
Margay: A margay is a little spotted cat that can hang upside down from a branch by its back paws!
Oncilla: An oncilla is a tiny tiger cat with ring-shaped spots, and it tiptoes through the forest at night!
Pallas's Cat: A Pallas's cat has the fluffiest fur of any wild cat to stay toasty on cold mountains!
Rusty-Spotted Cat: The rusty-spotted cat may be the smallest cat on Earth, light enough to fit in your two hands!
African Wild Dog: Every African wild dog has its own splotchy paint-spot coat, so no two pups in the pack look alike!
Bat-Eared Fox: A bat-eared fox uses its enormous ears like radar dishes to hear bugs wiggling under the ground!
Coyote: A coyote can make eleven different sounds, from yips to howls, to chat with its family across the hills!
Dhole: A dhole is a whistling wild dog that talks to its pack with chirps and squeaks like a bird!
Fennec Fox: A fennec fox has giant ears that work like fans to keep it cool in the hot desert sun!
Gray Fox: A gray fox can climb right up a tree like a cat, hooking its claws into the bark to reach a snooze spot!
Jackal: A jackal mom and dad stay together for life and take turns guarding their sleepy puppies!
Kit Fox: A kit fox is the tiniest fox in North America and digs cozy underground rooms to nap away the desert heat!
Maned Wolf: A maned wolf has super long stilt-like legs that help it peek over tall grass to spot its dinner!
Raccoon Dog: A raccoon dog is the only dog that curls up and sleeps all winter long, just like a cozy bear!
Red Fox: A red fox has a big bushy tail it wraps around itself like a warm scarf when it sleeps in the snow!
Swift Fox: A swift fox is named for how fast it runs and can zoom across the prairie at the speed of a car on the highway!
Angora Rabbit: An angora rabbit grows wool so long and fluffy that it looks like a giant ball of cotton candy!
Brown Hare: A brown hare has super long legs and can run faster than almost any other animal in the field!
Californian Rabbit: A Californian rabbit is snowy white with dark ears, nose, and feet, like it dipped its tips in paint!
Cottontail: A cottontail rabbit has a fluffy little tail that looks just like a puff of cotton when it hops away!
Dutch Rabbit: A Dutch rabbit wears a tidy white band around its middle, like it put on its very own little tuxedo!
Flemish Giant: A Flemish giant is one of the biggest rabbits in the world, and it can grow as long as a small dog!
Harlequin Rabbit: A harlequin rabbit has patches of orange and black, sometimes split right down the middle like a costume!
Himalayan Rabbit: A Himalayan rabbit is born all white, and its ears and nose slowly turn dark as it grows up!
Jersey Wooly: A jersey wooly is a tiny rabbit with a soft woolly coat, and people lovingly call it the no-kick bunny!
Lionhead Rabbit: A lionhead rabbit has a fluffy ring of fur around its face that makes it look like a tiny brave lion!
Lop Rabbit: A lop rabbit has long floppy ears that hang down by its cheeks like soft pigtails!
Mini Rex: A mini rex rabbit has short velvety fur that feels just like soft plush when you give it a gentle pet!
Caribou: Caribou are the only deer where the mamas grow big antlers too, not just the papas!
Chital Deer: A chital deer keeps its pretty white spots its whole life, even after it grows all the way up!
Elk: A bull elk can sing a loud whistly call called a bugle that echoes all across the mountains!
Fallow Deer: A fallow deer has wide flat antlers shaped like open hands and a coat dotted with creamy white spots!
Moose: A moose is the biggest deer of all, with huge flat antlers as wide as a grown-up's arms can stretch!
Mule Deer: A mule deer has giant ears like a mule, and it can bounce away on all four feet at once like a pogo stick!
Muntjac: The little muntjac is so small it barks like a dog to say hello, so people call it the barking deer!
Pronghorn: A pronghorn is the fastest runner in all of North America, zooming faster than a car on the highway!
Red Deer: A red deer stag roars so loud and deep that you can hear him from way across the valley!
Roe Deer: A baby roe deer is born tiny and spotty and curls up so still in the grass that it almost disappears!
Sika Deer: A sika deer can make more than ten different sounds, from soft squeaks all the way to a loud whistle!
White-Tailed Deer: When a white-tailed deer is scared it flips up its fluffy white tail like a little flag to warn its friends!
Fairy Door: A fairy door is a teeny door at the bottom of a tree, and if you knock softly a fairy might just peek out!
Fairy Dust: Fairy dust is sprinkled glitter so magical that a single pinch can make you float right off the ground!
Fairy House: A fairy house is carved from a toadstool, with a round little door and a window that glows warm at night!
Fairy Wand: A fairy wand has a twinkling star on top, and one happy wave sends magic sparkles flying everywhere!
Flower Fairy: A flower fairy is no bigger than a petal, and she helps the garden blossoms open in the morning sun!
Forest Sprite: A forest sprite is a tiny woodland spirit who hides under ferns and helps lost acorns find a place to grow!
Garden Fairy: A garden fairy wears a dress of green leaves and whispers to the seeds so they grow into tall, happy plants!
Moon Fairy: A moon fairy sprinkles silver stardust over sleepy children so they drift into the sweetest dreams of all!
Pixie: A pixie is a tiny, cheeky sprite who loves to play tricks and dance in rings on the grass!
Snow Fairy: A snow fairy paints frost on the windows and twirls down with every snowflake on a chilly winter morning!
Toadstool Seat: A toadstool seat is the perfect little stool where a tired fairy can rest her wings after a long flight!
Water Fairy: A water fairy skates across the pond on dewdrop wings and keeps every stream sparkling clean and cool!
Bo Staff: A bo staff is a long wooden stick that a ninja twirls to practice balance and steady hands!
Climbing Claws: Climbing claws are grippy mitts that help a ninja hold onto a wall and climb up nice and slow!
Foam Star: A foam star is a soft and squishy toy that spins through the air and lands without a bump!
Grappling Hook: A grappling hook catches a high ledge with its rope so a ninja can climb up like a friendly spider!
Ninja Belt: A ninja ties a belt around the waist, and earning a new color shows how much practice they have done!
Ninja Headband: A ninja headband keeps your hair out of your eyes so you can stay focused on every step!
Ninja Mask: A ninja mask wraps softly around the face so only your friendly eyes peek out to say hello!
Ninja Pose: A ninja balances on one foot and holds super still, which takes lots of focus and steady breathing!
Ninja Sandals: A ninja wears soft split-toe sandals so each step lands quietly and tiptoes without a sound!
Ninja Scroll: A ninja scroll holds secret lessons written down, so a ninja can study its tricks and learn new skills!
Ninja: A ninja moves so quietly and quickly that it can tiptoe right past you without making a single sound!
Smoke Poof: A ninja can drop a puff of smoke and tiptoe away, so it looks like they vanished into thin air!
Elbow Pads: Elbow pads wrap around your arm with a tough plastic cap, so your elbows are protected when you fall!
Grind Rail: A grind rail is a smooth metal bar, and skaters slide along the top of it on their board!
Half-Pipe: A half-pipe is shaped like a giant letter U, and skaters swoosh from one side up to the other!
Kick Scooter: A kick scooter has tall handlebars to hold, and you push the ground with one foot to glide along!
Knee Pads: Knee pads have a hard cap with soft padding inside, so your knees stay safe if you tumble!
Longboard: A longboard is longer than a skateboard, so it rolls smooth and steady when you cruise downhill!
Skateboard: A skateboard rolls on four little wheels, and you push with one foot to zoom along the sidewalk!
Skate Deck: A skate deck is the wooden board you stand on, and it is painted with cool art on the bottom!
Skate Helmet: A skate helmet covers your whole head with hard foam, so always buckle it on before you ride!
Skate Ramp: A skate ramp is a smooth curved slope, and skaters roll up it fast to fly into the air!
Skate Shoes: Skate shoes have flat, grippy soles that stick to your board, so your feet do not slip while you roll!
Wrist Guards: Wrist guards have a hard splint that keeps your wrists straight, so they do not bend the wrong way if you fall!
Ball Return: The ball return is a clever machine that rolls your ball back up to you so you never have to chase it!
Bowling Bag: A bowling bag is round and padded inside so your heavy ball rides safely all the way to the alley!
Bowling Lane: A bowling lane is made of long wooden boards and is oiled so the ball can glide smoothly toward the pins!
Bowling Pin: A bowling pin has two red stripes around its neck so you can spot it all the way down the lane!
Score Screen: The score screen shows an X when you knock down all ten pins, because that big X means a strike!
Bowling Shoes: Bowling shoes have special smooth soles so you can slide as you swing your arm to roll the ball!
Foul Line: The foul line is the line you must not cross when you roll, or your turn does not count that time!
Bowling Ball: A bowling ball has three holes so you can hold it with your thumb and two fingers before you roll!
Lane Bumper: Lane bumpers pop up over the gutters so your ball bounces back and rolls right to the pins!
Pin Rack: The pins stand in a triangle of ten, set up in four neat rows waiting for your ball to knock them down!
Shoe Rack: At the alley a shoe rack holds rows of rental shoes in every size, so there is a pair just right for you!
Ten Pin: A single ten pin is named for the ten pins in a frame, and you aim to knock down every one of them!
Calzone: A calzone is a pizza folded in half into a pocket, stuffed with cheese and baked until golden and puffy!
Cheesy Slice: A cheesy slice is loaded with melted mozzarella that stretches into long, gooey strings when you pull it!
Garlic Knots: Garlic knots are little ropes of dough tied in a knot and brushed with buttery, garlicky goodness!
Mushroom Topping: A mushroom topping is a soft, earthy slice that adds a savory, woodsy flavor to every cheesy bite!
Pepperoni: Pepperoni is a spicy round slice of sausage that curls up at the edges when it bakes on a pizza!
Pizza Box: A pizza box is a flat cardboard square that keeps a hot pizza warm and safe on its trip to your door!
Pizza Cutter: A pizza cutter is a sharp rolling wheel that slices straight through a pizza in one smooth push!
Pizza Dough: Pizza dough is a soft, stretchy ball that bakers toss high in the air to spin it round and flat!
Pizza Oven: A pizza oven is a hot brick dome where a roaring fire bakes pizza fast until the crust is crispy!
Pizza Peel: A pizza peel is a big flat paddle with a long handle that slides pizza into the hot oven and back out!
Pizza Slice: A pizza slice is a cheesy triangle with a stretchy, gooey bite that pulls into long strings!
Whole Pizza: A whole pizza is a big round pie cut into slices so everyone gets a cheesy piece to share!
BBQ Grill: A BBQ grill cooks food over hot coals or flames, giving burgers and veggies a tasty smoky flavor outside!
Friendly Ant: A friendly little ant is super strong and can carry a crumb many times bigger than its own body back to its nest!
Fruit Bowl: A fruit bowl holds a rainbow of sweet, healthy fruit like apples, oranges, and grapes for everyone to share!
Grilled Burger: A grilled burger is a juicy patty tucked inside a soft bun with cheese, lettuce, and tomato all stacked up!
Corn on the Cob: Corn on the cob is sweet and juicy, and each ear is covered in hundreds of little yellow kernels in neat rows!
Lemonade Jug: A lemonade jug is full of cold, sweet, and tangy lemonade that helps you cool off on a hot sunny day!
Roasted Marshmallow: A roasted marshmallow turns golden and gooey over a campfire, making it warm and sweet to eat outside at night!
Paper Plate: A paper plate is light and easy to carry, so it's perfect for serving snacks at a picnic in the park!
Picnic Blanket: A picnic blanket is a soft checkered cloth you spread on the grass so you can sit and eat lunch outside!
Picnic Basket: A picnic basket is packed with yummy snacks so you can eat outside on a blanket in the sunshine!
Picnic Table: A picnic table has benches built right onto the sides so a whole family can sit together and eat outdoors!
Watermelon Slice: A watermelon slice is cool, pink, and super juicy because watermelon is almost all water inside!
Heart: Your heart is a strong muscle that squeezes all day and all night to pump blood everywhere your body needs it!
Blood Cell: Your red blood cells are tiny round helpers that float through you carrying fresh air to every part of your body!
Brain: Your brain is the busy boss of your body that helps you think, dream, and remember everything you learn!
Eardrum: Your eardrum is a tiny stretchy drum deep in your ear that wiggles when sounds reach it so you can hear the world!
Funny Bone: Your funny bone is really a ticklish nerve by your elbow, and bumping it gives you a silly tingly buzz!
Kidneys: Your two kidneys are tiny bean-shaped cleaners that wash your blood and tidy it up to keep you healthy!
Lungs: Your two lungs fill up like soft balloons every time you breathe in, so your body can drink up the air it loves!
Muscle: Your muscles squeeze and stretch like soft springs to help you run, jump, hug, and lift things all day long!
Rib Cage: Your rib cage is a cozy basket of curved bones that keeps your heart and lungs safe and snug inside you!
Spine: Your spine is a bendy stack of little bones that holds you up tall and lets you twist, turn, and touch your toes!
Stomach: Your stomach is a stretchy bag that gently squishes your food into a soft mush so your body can use it for energy!
Taste Buds: Your tongue is covered in tiny taste buds that let you enjoy sweet, salty, sour, and yummy flavors in your food!
Ash Cloud: An ash cloud is a big fluffy puff of tiny gray rock dust that a volcano sneezes high up into the sky!
Crater: A crater is the big round bowl at the top of a volcano, shaped like a giant scoop was taken out of the rock!
Volcano: A volcano is a mountain with a fiery tummy, and sometimes it puffs out steam and glowing orange lava!
Fault Line: A fault line is a giant crack in the ground where two pieces of Earth meet and slowly slide past each other!
Lava Bomb: A lava bomb is a glob of glowing lava that a volcano tosses up high, and it cools into rock as it flies through the air!
Lava Flow: A lava flow is a slow glowing river of melted rock that creeps downhill and cools into brand new stone!
Lava: Lava is melted rock so hot it glows bright orange, and it oozes along very slowly like thick warm goo!
Magma: Magma is the melted rock hiding deep underground, and when it sneaks up to the top we call it lava!
Seismograph: A seismograph is a clever machine with a wiggly pen that draws zigzag lines whenever the ground shakes!
Tectonic Plate: A tectonic plate is a giant puzzle piece of Earth's crust, and they drift so slowly you can never feel them move!
Tremor: A tremor is a little shake of the ground, like the Earth wiggling for just a moment before going still again!
Volcanic Rock: Volcanic rock is bumpy and full of tiny holes because it was once bubbly lava that cooled down and got hard!
Coffee Mug: A coffee mug has a handle that stays cool so you can hold a warm drink without burning your hand!
Desk Calendar: A desk calendar shows one day at a time, and you flip the page each morning to start a fresh new day!
Filing Cabinet: A filing cabinet keeps important papers tucked into folders in tall drawers so they stay neat and safe!
Hole Punch: A hole punch presses down hard to poke neat round holes so your pages can slip into a binder!
Desk: A desk gives you a flat, steady place to write, draw, and stack your work so nothing slides off!
Telephone: A desk telephone rings to say someone wants to talk, and you lift the handset to your ear to chat!
Paper Clip: A paper clip is one bent loop of springy wire that hugs your pages together without poking a hole!
Printer: A printer whirs and rolls ink onto a blank page to make copies of your words and pictures!
Stapler: A stapler bites down with a click to pin sheets of paper together so they never get lost!
Sticky Note: A sticky note has a strip of light glue on the back so it can stick almost anywhere and peel right off!
Swivel Chair: A swivel chair spins all the way around on a hidden post so you can turn to face any desk!
Tape Dispenser: A tape dispenser holds a roll of sticky tape and a little metal edge that snips off just the right piece!
Ballast Tank: A ballast tank fills up with water to make a submarine sink, then blows the water out with air to float it back up!
Deep-Sea Sub: A deep-sea submarine has super thick walls to handle the crushing weight of water way down in the darkest deep!
Diving Bell: A diving bell is a big bell-shaped room lowered on a cable so people can work way down under the sea!
Submarine: A submarine can dive deep under the sea and travel for weeks without ever coming up for air!
Mini Sub: A mini sub is a tiny submarine with a clear bubble window so just one or two explorers can zip around underwater!
Periscope: A periscope is a tube with mirrors inside so a submarine can peek above the water while staying hidden below!
Research Sub: A research submarine carries scientists deep down with bright lights and grabber arms to study creatures no one has ever seen!
ROV Robot Sub: An ROV is a little robot submarine on a long cable that explorers steer to film the deep dark ocean!
Sonar: Sonar sends out a sound that bounces off things underwater and echoes back so a submarine can see in the dark with sound!
Sub Hatch: A submarine hatch is a thick round door with a spinning wheel that seals tight so no water can sneak inside!
Sub Propeller: A submarine propeller is a big curved screw that spins to push water backward and shove the whole sub forward!
Yellow Sub: A bright yellow submarine is easy to spot in the deep blue sea so other boats always know it is there!
Bongo: A pair of bongos are two little drums you tap with your fingers to make a fast, happy beat!
Conga: A conga is a tall drum you play standing up, slapping the top with your hands for a warm, deep beat!
Cowbell: A cowbell is a metal bell with no clapper inside, so you tap it with a stick for a bright clonk!
Cymbal: A cymbal is a round golden plate you crash to make a bright, shimmery splash of sound!
Tambourine: A tambourine is a little hoop with metal jingles all around that shimmer when you shake or tap it!
Shaker: An egg shaker is filled with tiny seeds or beads that swish around to make a soft, sandy sound!
Snare Drum: A snare drum has springy wires underneath that buzz and rattle to make its sharp, snappy sound!
Tongue Drum: A tongue drum is a round steel drum with cut-out tongues that each ring a soft, glowing note when tapped!
Talking Drum: A talking drum is shaped like an hourglass, and squeezing its cords bends the pitch so it almost talks!
Timpani: A timpani is a huge copper kettle drum, and a pedal stretches its skin to change the note it booms!
Xylophone: A xylophone has wooden bars of different sizes, and longer bars make lower notes when you tap them!
Woodblock: A woodblock is a small hollow piece of wood that makes a short, dry click when you tap it!
Betta Fish: A betta fish can gulp air right from the surface, so it can breathe like us as well as with its gills!
Button Quail: A button quail is so small it fits in your palm, and its fuzzy chicks are no bigger than a bumblebee when they hatch!
Chinchilla: A chinchilla has the softest, fluffiest fur of any animal and keeps clean by taking rolling baths in fine dust!
Degu: A degu chatters in over a dozen different little sounds to chat with its family all day long!
Dwarf Hamster: A dwarf hamster can tuck a whole pile of seeds into stretchy cheek pouches that reach back to its shoulders!
Guppy: A guppy mother gives birth to dozens of tiny live babies that can swim and hide all by themselves right away!
Fancy Mouse: A fancy mouse sings tiny love songs too high for our ears, squeaking faster than we could ever hear!
Fancy Rat: A fancy rat is so smart it can learn its own name and giggles with happy chirps when you tickle it!
Gerbil: A gerbil thumps its back feet on the ground to send drumming signals to its friends!
Hermit Crab: A hermit crab borrows an empty snail shell as a cozy home and trades up to a bigger one as it grows!
Pygmy Hedgehog: A pygmy hedgehog can curl into a tiny prickly ball, with around five thousand soft spines on its back!
Winter White Hamster: A winter white hamster changes its grey coat to snowy white in winter so it can hide in the snow!
Click Beetle: If a click beetle lands on its back, it snaps its body with a loud click and flips itself into the air!
Darkling Beetle: Some darkling beetles do a handstand in the desert so morning fog drips down into their mouths for a drink!
Goliath Beetle: The goliath beetle is one of the heaviest insects on Earth, about as heavy as a small apple!
Hercules Beetle: A hercules beetle is so strong it can lift things many times heavier than its own body!
Jewel Beetle: A jewel beetle's shell shines like a rainbow, and the colors come from tiny ridges that bend the light!
June Bug: June bugs are clumsy fliers that bump into windows and lights on warm summer nights!
Ladybird Beetle: A ladybird beetle is a friendly garden helper that gobbles up tiny aphids to keep plants healthy!
Leaf Beetle: A leaf beetle is a tiny rounded beetle that munches leaves and is often as colorful as a shiny bead!
Longhorn Beetle: A longhorn beetle has antennae that can be longer than its whole body!
Scarab Beetle: A scarab beetle rolls a ball bigger than itself and can steer by looking up at the stars!
Tiger Beetle: The tiger beetle runs so fast that the world blurs and it has to stop to see where it is going!
Weevil: A weevil has a long snout like a tiny elephant trunk, with its mouth right at the very tip!
American Curl: An American Curl is born with straight ears that slowly curl backward, like tiny party-blower hats!
Chartreux: The Chartreux has a mouth that curves up at the corners, so it always looks like it is smiling!
Egyptian Mau: The Egyptian Mau is the fastest pet cat and can run as quick as a galloping pony!
Havana Brown: The Havana Brown is the only cat with whiskers that are brown to match its shiny chocolate coat!
Japanese Bobtail: A Japanese Bobtail has a short fluffy tail like a little bunny pom-pom, and no two tails curl the same way!
Korat: In Thailand the Korat is called the good-luck cat, and giving one to a friend is thought to bring happiness!
Peterbald: A Peterbald cat is almost completely bald, so it feels as warm and smooth as a soft peach!
Selkirk Rex: A Selkirk Rex is so soft and curly that people call it the cat in sheep's clothing!
Singapura: The Singapura is the smallest cat breed in the world, light enough to curl up in a coffee mug!
Tonkinese: A Tonkinese cat loves people so much that it will follow you around the house all day like a little shadow!
Toyger: A Toyger is a house cat bred to look just like a tiny tiger, with bold orange-and-black stripes!
Turkish Van: A Turkish Van loves water so much that it will happily splash and paddle in a shallow puddle!
Bowhead Whale: A bowhead whale lives in the icy Arctic and can live more than two hundred years, making it one of the oldest animals on the whole planet!
Bryde's Whale: A Bryde's whale has three little ridges on top of its head, and it gulps a whole giant mouthful of tiny fish in one big lunge!
Commerson's Dolphin: A Commerson's dolphin is colored like a tiny panda of the sea, and it zips and tumbles through the water faster than you can blink!
Dusky Dolphin: A dusky dolphin is a super acrobat that does flips and somersaults in the air, and a whole pack leaps together just for the fun of it!
False Killer Whale: A false killer whale is really a big friendly dolphin, and it sometimes shares its fish dinner with its swimming pals!
Hourglass Dolphin: An hourglass dolphin has a black-and-white pattern that looks like a tipped-over hourglass, and it loves to surf the waves of cold southern seas!
Melon-Headed Whale: A melon-headed whale has a smooth pointy head shaped like a melon, and hundreds of them zoom through the ocean together in one giant happy crowd!
Porpoise: A porpoise is a chubby cousin of the dolphin with a tiny triangle fin and little spade-shaped teeth, and it breathes with a soft puffing sound!
Risso's Dolphin: A Risso's dolphin gets more and more white scratches as it grows up, so the oldest ones look almost completely white like swimming snowballs!
River Dolphin: A pink river dolphin lives in muddy Amazon rivers and can turn its bendy neck to peek around, using clicks to 'see' with sound in the cloudy water!
Sei Whale: A sei whale is one of the fastest big whales in the sea and can zoom along almost as quick as a speedboat!
Vaquita: A vaquita is the tiniest little porpoise in the whole world, with dark rings around its eyes like it is wearing cozy goggles!
Chiton: A chiton wears a suit of eight armor plates so it can curl up like a roly-poly when a wave hits!
Limpet: A limpet grips a rock so tightly that crashing waves can never wash it away!
Mussel: A mussel spins super-strong silky threads to tie itself to a rock so the waves can't tug it loose!
Periwinkle Snail: A periwinkle snail scrapes tiny green algae off the rocks with a tongue covered in thousands of teeth!
Barnacle: A barnacle glues its head to a rock and kicks out feathery legs to grab snacks from the water!
Sea Cucumber: A sea cucumber breathes through its bottom and gobbles sand to clean the floor of the tide pool!
Sea Slug: A sea slug wears the brightest rainbow colors to warn everyone that it tastes yucky!
Sea Star: A sea star can grow a brand-new arm if it ever loses one in the splashy tide pool!
Sea Anemone: A sea anemone waves its squishy tentacles to catch dinner floating by in the tide pool!
Tide Pool Crab: A tide pool crab scuttles sideways and can pinch with claws strong enough to crack a snail shell!
Tide Pool Sculpin: A tide pool sculpin can change its colors to match the rocks and hide from hungry seagulls!
Sea Urchin: A sea urchin walks across the tide pool on hundreds of tiny see-through tube feet!
Crescent & Star: A crescent moon next to a star is a happy symbol you can see on flags and decorations during Ramadan and Eid!
Dates: Many families break their Ramadan fast by eating sweet dates, just as has been done for a very long time!
Eid Cookies: Families bake soft, sugar-dusted cookies called maamoul to share with friends and neighbors when Eid arrives!
Eid Gift: When Ramadan ends, families celebrate Eid by giving children gifts, treats, and lots of hugs!
Fanous Lantern: A fanous is a pretty lantern that families light to fill their homes with a warm glow during Ramadan!
Henna: Before Eid, many people paint beautiful henna flowers and swirls on their hands that gently fade away after a while!
Iftar Plate: Iftar is the happy evening meal where families gather to break their fast together after sunset during Ramadan!
Mosque: A mosque is a special building where Muslims gather to pray together, especially in the evenings of Ramadan!
Prayer Mat: A prayer mat is a clean, soft rug that many Muslims kneel on when they pray during Ramadan and all year!
Ramadan Drum: In some places a drummer walks the streets before dawn, beating a drum to gently wake families for their early Ramadan meal!
Crescent Moon: Seeing a thin crescent moon in the sky tells families that the month of Ramadan is about to begin!
Star Lantern: Glowing star-shaped lanterns are hung in windows and streets to brighten the long, happy nights of Ramadan!
Color Burst: When a handful of powder flies up, it bursts into a sparkling star of every color at once!
Color Cloud: When everyone throws powder at once, the whole sky fills with a giant cloud of rainbow colors!
Color Handprint: Friends dip their hands in color and gently press them on each other to share happy Holi handprints!
Color Powder: At Holi, friends toss clouds of rainbow color powder and everyone ends up painted head to toe!
Color Splash: A color splash is what happens when colored water lands on you and bursts into a bright happy splat!
Gulal Bowl: Gulal is the special bright powder kept in bowls so friends can grab a handful and share the colors!
Water Balloon: Holi water balloons are filled with colored water and splash open with a big happy splat!
Bonfire: The night before Holi, families gather around a big bonfire to sing songs and celebrate together!
Holi Drum: People play the dholak drum at Holi so everyone can sing and dance to the happy beat!
Pichkari Squirter: A pichkari is a big water squirter that shoots colored water far across the Holi crowd!
Sweets Plate: At Holi, families share yummy sweets like gujiya so every visitor gets a tasty treat!
Water Bucket: People fill big buckets with colored water at Holi so they can refill their squirters and balloons!
Doubloon: A doubloon is a shiny coin that Mardi Gras riders throw to the crowd as a fun parade treasure!
Feather Mask: Some Mardi Gras masks have tall feathers on top that wave and bounce when you dance!
Fleur-de-Lis: The fleur-de-lis is a pretty lily symbol you see all over New Orleans during Mardi Gras!
Jester Hat: A jester's hat has floppy points with little bells that jingle when the wearer moves their head!
King Cake: A Mardi Gras king cake is a ring of sweet bread with purple, green, and gold sugar on top!
Beads: At a Mardi Gras parade, riders on big floats toss shiny bead necklaces to the cheering crowd!
Confetti: Confetti is tiny bits of colorful paper that flutter through the air to make a party feel extra fun!
Parade Float: A Mardi Gras float is a big decorated wagon that rolls down the street while riders wave to everyone!
Mardi Gras Mask: People wear fancy masks at Mardi Gras so everyone can dress up and have fun together!
Masquerade Fan: People at fancy masquerade parties wave pretty folding fans to stay cool while they dance!
Parade Banner: Parade groups carry big banners at the front so everyone can see who is marching by!
Parade Trumpet: Brass bands play loud, happy trumpets so the whole street can dance along with the parade!
Craft Scissors: Kid scissors have rounded tips to keep you safe, and two sharp edges cross to snip paper in a clean line!
Fabric: Fabric is made by weaving lots of skinny threads over and under each other to make one big soft sheet of cloth!
Felt Square: Felt is made by squishing wool fibers together until they stick, so it never frays when you cut it for crafts!
Glue Bottle: Craft glue is sticky and wet, but when it dries it turns hard and clear and holds your art together!
Knitting Needles: Knitting needles loop one long piece of yarn over and over to build a stretchy, warm fabric row by row!
Needle & Thread: A needle has a tiny hole called an eye, and you push thread through it to sew two pieces of cloth together!
Pin Cushion: A pin cushion is a soft little pillow that holds your sharp pins safely so you never lose them or get poked!
Ribbon Spool: Ribbon is a long, smooth strip of cloth you can tie into a pretty bow on a present or a present-wrapped gift!
Sewing Machine: A sewing machine moves its needle up and down super fast to stitch cloth way quicker than you could by hand!
Tape Measure: A soft tape measure is a bendy ruler you wrap around things to find out exactly how big they are!
Thimble: A thimble is a little cap you wear on your finger so the needle does not poke you while you push it through cloth!
Yarn Ball: A ball of yarn unrolls into one long, soft thread that you can knit into a warm scarf or a cozy hat!
Applause: When you love a show you clap your hands together, and that happy sound is called applause!
Director's Chair: The director sits in this tall canvas chair and shouts "Action!" to tell everyone the show can start!
Marquee: A marquee is the big sign out front, edged with rows of light bulbs that twinkle to say a show is on tonight!
Playbill: A playbill is the little booklet that tells you the name of the show and who all the actors are!
Prop Trunk: A prop trunk is a big chest packed with hats, swords, and costumes the actors use to put on the show!
Ticket: A ticket is your special paper pass that lets you walk in and find your very own seat at the show!
Spotlight: A spotlight is a super-bright lamp that follows the star around so everyone can see them shine!
Stage Curtain: When the big red stage curtain swooshes open, the show is finally about to begin!
Stage Light: Stage lights can glow red, blue, or green to paint the whole show in any color you can imagine!
Microphone: A microphone listens to your voice and makes it big and loud so everyone in the back row can hear you sing!
Stage: A stage is the special raised floor where actors and dancers stand up high so the whole crowd can watch!
Theater Masks: Two happy theater masks are a famous sign that means a fun play or show is happening here!
Cave Bat: A cave bat sleeps hanging upside down all day and uses sound to find its way around in the dark!
Cave Column: When a stalactite from the ceiling and a stalagmite from the floor grow long enough to touch, they join into one tall cave column!
Cave Crystal: Crystals grow inside dark caves over thousands of years and can sparkle in bright shiny colors!
Echo: An echo is your own voice bouncing off the cave walls and coming back to you a moment later!
Cave Entrance: A cave entrance is the doorway into a hidden world of rocky tunnels and rooms underground!
Cave Lantern: Cave explorers carry a lantern to light the way, because deep inside a cave it is so dark you cannot see your own hand!
Cave Pearl: A cave pearl is a tiny round ball of stone that grows in a little pool as dripping water rolls it round and round for years!
Flowstone: Flowstone forms when water flows down cave walls and slowly leaves behind smooth, drapey sheets of stone like a frozen waterfall!
Glowworm: Glowworms hang from cave ceilings and make their own soft blue-green light, turning the roof into a sky full of tiny stars!
Stalactite: A stalactite hangs from a cave ceiling and grows just a tiny bit longer every year, one drip at a time!
Stalagmite: A stalagmite grows up from the cave floor as drips of water land in the same spot and leave tiny bits of rock behind!
Underground Pool: Deep inside caves there are quiet pools of water so clear and still you can see all the way to the bottom!
AB Pattern: An AB pattern goes red, blue, red, blue — can you guess what color comes next!
ABC Pattern: An ABC pattern uses three colors in a row that repeat again and again — green, yellow, purple!
Big & Small Sort: Sorting big and small puts all the big things in one group and all the little things in another!
Color Sort: Sorting by color means putting all the same colors together in their own groups!
Growing Pattern: A growing pattern gets bigger every step — one dot, then two, then three, then more!
Matching Pairs: Matching pairs means finding two things that are exactly the same and putting them together!
Odd One Out: The odd one out is the one thing that is different from all the others — can you spot it!
Repeat Pattern: A repeat pattern says the same little part over and over, like a song that keeps going!
Shape Pattern: A shape pattern can go circle, square, circle, square — the shapes take turns again and again!
Size Sort: Sorting by size lines things up from the smallest all the way to the biggest!
Sorting Bins: Sorting bins help you tidy up by dropping each thing into the bin where it belongs!
What Comes Next: Look at how the pattern goes, then think really hard about what comes next!
Heptagon: A heptagon has seven straight sides and seven pointy corners, the same as the days in a week!
Kite Shape: A kite shape has four sides in two matching pairs, just like the kite you fly up in the sky!
Mosaic Tile: A mosaic is made of lots of tiny tiles placed side by side, and from far away they turn into one big picture!
Nonagon: A nonagon has nine straight sides and nine corners, so the bigger the number of sides the rounder it looks!
Parallelogram: A parallelogram is a slanted box whose opposite sides are parallel and the very same length!
Pattern Block: Pattern blocks are flat shapes in special colors that snap together to fill a whole picture with no gaps!
Hexagon Tile: A hexagon has six sides, and hexagons fit together with no gaps, which is why bees build honeycombs out of them!
Rhombus: A rhombus is a tilted diamond with four sides that are all exactly the same length!
Right Triangle: A right triangle has three sides and one perfectly square corner, the same square corner as a piece of paper!
Tangram: A tangram is a square cut into seven shapes you can slide around to make a cat, a boat, or a bird!
Tessellation: A tessellation is a pattern of shapes that fit together perfectly with no gaps and no overlaps, going on forever!
Trapezoid: A trapezoid has four sides, and just two of them are parallel like the top and bottom of a slide!
Honey Pot: A honey pot holds sweet, sticky honey that bees made, and you drizzle a little into your tea!
Milk Jug: A milk jug pours a splash of cool milk into your tea to make it soft and creamy!
Sugar Cube: A sugar cube is a little block of sugar that plops into tea and melts away to make it sweet!
Tea Biscuit: A tea biscuit is a crunchy little cookie that is perfect for dunking in warm tea at the party!
Kettle: A kettle heats water until it is hot, and many kettles whistle to say the water is ready!
Teapot: A teapot holds warm tea and tips its spout to pour a cozy cupful for everyone at the party!
Saucer: A saucer is a little plate that sits under your teacup to catch any drips and hold a spoon!
Scone: A scone is a soft little bread you eat at tea time, often with sweet jam and creamy butter on top!
Tea Strainer: A tea strainer is a little mesh cup that catches tea leaves so only smooth tea drips into your cup!
Tea Tray: A tea tray has two handles so you can carry cups and treats together without spilling a drop!
Teacup: A teacup is a small cup with a little handle you hold so warm tea never burns your fingers!
Tiered Stand: A tiered stand has three little plates stacked up high to show off treats and cakes at a tea party!
Adobe House: An adobe house is built from bricks of clay and straw dried hard in the sun, and its thick earthen walls stay cool all day in the hot desert Southwest!
Houseboat: A houseboat is a real home that floats on the water, and on canals in places like Amsterdam whole families live aboard them tied right to the street!
Grass Hut: A grass hut is built in warm, tropical places from dried grass and palm leaves that keep the rain out while letting cool air drift through!
Igloo: An igloo is a cozy dome built from blocks of packed snow that traps body heat and stays warm inside even in the freezing Arctic cold!
Log Cabin: A log cabin is built from whole tree trunks stacked and notched together, and the thick logs hold in heat so it stays toasty during snowy mountain winters!
Pagoda: A pagoda is a tower built across East Asia with stacked curved roofs, and its central wooden pillar helps it gently sway instead of cracking in an earthquake!
Stilt House: A stilt house stands on tall wooden legs above the water or wet ground so floods and high tides can rush by underneath without soaking the home!
Teepee: A teepee is a cone-shaped tent of poles and hide used by some Plains Native American peoples because it could be packed up quickly and carried to a new camp!
Thatched Cottage: A thatched cottage has a thick roof woven from dried straw or reeds, and in the English countryside that springy layer keeps the rain out and the warmth in!
Treehouse: A treehouse is a little home built up among the branches of a sturdy tree, and a rope ladder lets you climb up to your own cozy lookout in the leaves!
Windmill Home: A windmill home in the Dutch countryside used its big spinning sails to grind grain and pump water, and the miller and family lived in the round tower below!
Yurt: A yurt is a round tent of felt stretched over a wooden frame used by nomads on the grasslands of Mongolia because it can be folded up and moved with the herds!
Acorn: An acorn is the seed of an oak tree, and squirrels bury so many in fall that the forgotten ones grow into brand new oaks!
Beach Day: On a summer beach day the sand can feel hot under your toes because it soaks up the sun, but the ocean stays cool and splashy!
Fall: In fall the weather cools and leaves turn red, orange, and gold before they let go and flutter to the ground!
Falling Leaves: Leaves turn red and gold in fall because the green hides away, and then they twirl as they fall to make the ground crunchy!
Snowfall: Every snowflake has six sides and no two are exactly alike, so each one that lands on your mitten is a tiny work of art!
Spring Blossom: A cherry blossom blooms for just a week or two each spring, then its soft pink petals float away like falling snow!
Spring Rain: Spring rain gives thirsty seeds a big drink, and that water helps tiny sprouts push up through the soil into the sunshine!
Spring: In spring, the world wakes up warm and green as flowers bloom, trees grow new leaves, and baby animals are born!
Summer: Summer is the warmest season with the longest days, so the sun shines high and there is lots of time to play outside!
Summer Sun: Our summer sun is a giant ball of glowing gas so far away that its warm light takes about eight minutes to reach you!
Mittens: Mittens keep your hands warmer than gloves because your fingers snuggle together and share their cozy heat in winter!
Winter: Winter is the coldest season with the shortest days, when snow can fall and many animals curl up to sleep until spring!
A: Make a fist with your thumb resting up the side, not tucked in — that is the letter A in sign language. Can you try?
B: Hold your hand flat with four fingers straight up and together, then fold your thumb across your palm — that is the letter B! Can you try?
C: Curve your fingers and thumb like you are holding a cup, leaving a round gap — that makes the letter C! Can you try?
Hello: Hold a flat hand up by your forehead like a little salute, then swing it outward — that says Hello! Can you try?
L: Point your index finger up and stick your thumb out sideways, with the other fingers folded down — that makes an L! Can you try?
I Love You: Hold up your thumb, your pointer finger, and your pinky all at once, with the middle two folded down — that says I Love You! Can you try?
More: Make both hands into little pinched O shapes and tap your fingertips together a couple of times — that asks for More! Can you try?
O: Curve all your fingertips down to touch your thumb in a round circle — that makes the letter O! Can you try?
Please: Lay a flat hand on your chest and rub it in a little circle — that says Please! Can you try?
Thank You: Touch the fingertips of a flat hand to your chin, then move your hand forward and down toward someone — that says Thank You! Can you try?
Y: Stick out your thumb and your pinky while folding the middle three fingers down — that surfer shaka makes the letter Y! Can you try?
Yes: Make a fist and bob it up and down at the wrist, like a little head nodding — that says Yes! Can you try?
Foxglove: Foxglove has pretty speckled bells that are not for tasting and can give us a sore tummy. We admire it with our eyes and tell a grown-up.
Holly Berries: Holly has shiny red berries that can give us a sore tummy if eaten. We never taste them and we tell a grown-up.
Lily of the Valley: Lily of the valley has tiny white bells that can give us a sore tummy if tasted. We admire it with our eyes and tell a grown-up.
Mistletoe: Mistletoe has little white berries that can give us a sore tummy if eaten. We look with our eyes and tell a grown-up.
Nightshade: Nightshade has shiny dark berries that can give us a sore tummy. We never taste wild berries and we tell a grown-up.
Oleander: Oleander is a bush with pretty pink flowers that can give us a sore tummy if tasted. We look with our eyes and tell a grown-up.
Poison Hemlock: Poison hemlock has lacy white flowers that are not for tasting and can give us a sore tummy. We look with our eyes and tell a grown-up.
Poison Ivy: Poison ivy can make our skin itchy if we touch it. Leaves of three, let it be, and we tell a grown-up.
Poison Oak: Poison oak has three lobed leaves that can make our skin itchy. We look with our eyes and tell a grown-up.
Pokeweed: Pokeweed has dark berries on a pink stem that can give us a sore tummy if eaten. We never taste them and we tell a grown-up.
Stinging Nettle: Stinging nettle has tiny hairs that can make our skin itchy if we brush it. We look, not touch, and tell a grown-up.
Wild Mushroom: A wild mushroom found outside can give us a sore tummy if eaten. We never taste one and we tell a grown-up.
Beaver: A beaver's front teeth never stop growing, so it gnaws on trees to build cozy dams and keep its teeth just right!
Chipmunk: A chipmunk has stretchy cheek pouches and can stuff them with so many seeds its little head looks twice as big!
Dormouse: A dormouse loves to sleep so much it can snooze curled in a ball for more than half the whole year!
Ermine: An ermine turns snowy white in winter to hide in the snow, but keeps the very tip of its tail black all year!
Fox Squirrel: A fox squirrel is the biggest tree squirrel and can leap from branch to branch using its bushy tail to steer!
Pine Marten: A pine marten is such a nimble climber it can race through the treetops and even leap between branches like a furry acrobat!
Squirrel: A squirrel can hide thousands of nuts in fall and remember where many of them are buried all winter long!
Tree Shrew: A tree shrew is a busy little forest animal that darts along branches all day hunting for bugs and ripe fruit!
Weasel: A weasel is so slinky and quick it can chase a mouse right down into its tunnel and pounce in a flash!
Wood Vole: A wood vole makes little hidden paths through the grass and nibbles on roots and seeds along the way!
Woodchuck: A woodchuck digs big underground burrows with lots of rooms, and even has a special tunnel just for its bathroom!
Hedgehog: When a hedgehog feels worried it curls into a prickly little ball so its soft tummy stays safe inside!
Alligator: An alligator's wide, round snout is shaped like the letter U, perfect for a great big friendly chomp!
American Alligator: American alligators sometimes bellow so loudly that the water above their backs dances and sprinkles into the air!
Baby Croc: A baby crocodile makes a tiny peeping chirp to call its mama, even before it has fully hatched from the egg!
Caiman: A caiman has a bony ridge over its eyes like little built-in sunglasses, and it loves to float quietly in warm rivers!
Croc Hatchling: A baby crocodile uses a tiny tooth on its nose, called an egg tooth, to crack its shell open and say hello to the world!
Dwarf Crocodile: The dwarf crocodile is the smallest crocodile in the world, only about as long as your bed, and it loves to hide in cozy burrows!
Crocodile: A crocodile can grow a brand-new tooth whenever an old one falls out, so it never runs out of smiles!
Gharial: A gharial is a gentle crocodile with a long, skinny snout that's perfect for snatching slippery fish!
Mugger Croc: The mugger crocodile loves to bask in the warm sun with its mouth wide open, which is just its clever way of cooling down!
Nile Crocodile: A mother Nile crocodile gently carries her babies in her mouth like a soft pocket to keep them safe!
Saltwater Croc: The saltwater crocodile is the biggest reptile on Earth, and it can even swim in the salty ocean between islands!
Spectacled Caiman: The spectacled caiman gets its name from a bony bridge between its eyes that looks just like a tiny pair of glasses!
Blue-Ringed Octopus: The tiny blue-ringed octopus flashes glowing blue rings all over its body to warn everyone to keep their distance!
Bobtail Squid: The bobtail squid is no bigger than your thumb and keeps tiny glowing bacteria in its tummy to light up like a little night-light!
Nautilus: A nautilus lives inside a beautiful spiral shell and has lived in the sea, almost unchanged, since before the dinosaurs!
Coconut Octopus: The clever coconut octopus carries two coconut shells around to snap shut and hide inside, like a cozy little armored house!
Colossal Squid: The colossal squid is the biggest invertebrate on Earth, with eyes as big as dinner plates to spot light deep in the dark sea!
Octopus: An octopus has eight wiggly arms and can squeeze its squishy body through a hole no bigger than its eye!
Flapjack Octopus: The flapjack octopus is a flat, bright pink ball with two little ear-fins it flaps like Dumbo to swim along!
Glass Squid: The glass squid is so see-through you can look right through its body, and its round tummy can puff up like a balloon!
Humboldt Squid: A Humboldt squid can flash its skin bright red and white like a blinking light to talk with its friends!
Market Squid: Market squid gather in huge swirling schools of thousands and zoom backwards by squirting water out like a little jet engine!
Paper Nautilus: The paper nautilus is really an octopus, and the mom makes her own thin, papery shell with her arms to keep her eggs safe!
Reef Squid: The reef squid can ripple rainbow waves of color across its skin and hover in place by gently rippling the fins along its sides!
Christmas Elf: Santa's elves are busy toymakers who build and paint presents all year in the workshop!
Stocking: Children hang a stocking by the fireplace so Santa can fill it with little treats and toys!
Gingerbread Man: A gingerbread man is a cookie shaped like a person, with icing buttons and a big sweet smile!
Wreath: A wreath is a ring of green leaves and red berries that people hang on the door to say welcome!
Mrs. Claus: Mrs. Claus bakes cookies and helps run the workshop, keeping everyone cozy at the North Pole!
North Pole Sign: The North Pole sign marks Santa's home at the very top of the world, where it is snowy all year!
Candy Cane: A candy cane is a sweet peppermint treat shaped like a hook so you can hang it on the tree!
Santa Claus: Santa wears a warm red suit and laughs ho-ho-ho as he delivers presents on Christmas Eve!
Santa's Sleigh: Santa's sleigh is pulled by reindeer and zooms across the night sky to deliver presents!
Toy Sack: Santa carries a giant sack stuffed with toys, and it never seems to run empty on Christmas night!
Workshop Bell: A jingle bell rings with a happy ting when it swings, telling everyone the workshop is busy!
Wrapped Present: A wrapped present hides a surprise inside, and shaking it gives you a tiny clue about what it is!
Leaf: Leaves are tiny green kitchens that catch sunlight and turn it into food for the whole plant!
Bud: A flower bud is a flower folded up tight like a sleeping bag, getting ready to open into colorful petals!
Bloom: When a flower blooms, it opens its bright petals wide to say hello to busy bees and butterflies!
Sprout: A tiny seed drinks water and sunshine until a little green sprout pokes up through the soil!
Seed: A tiny seed is a sleepy little plant packed with a snack inside, waiting for water to wake it up!
Stem: The stem is the plant's busy straw, carrying water and food all the way up from the roots to the leaves!
Fruit: After the flower fades, a juicy fruit grows in its place, keeping new baby seeds safe and sweet inside!
Seed Pod: A seed pod dries, pops open, and sends its tiny seeds flying off on the wind to grow brand-new plants!
Seedling: A seedling unfolds its very first baby leaves and uses them like tiny green hands to catch sunlight!
Sunshine: The sun shines warm light on green leaves, giving plants the energy they need to make their own food!
Root: Roots dig down deep into the dark soil to drink water and hold the whole plant up like strong little anchors!
Watering Can: A watering can gives thirsty plants a long, cool drink so their roots can sip and grow big and strong!
End Zone: When a player carries the ball into the painted end zone, it's a touchdown worth six whole points!
Pylon: Four soft orange pylons mark the corners of the end zone so everyone can see exactly where a touchdown counts!
Cleats: Football cleats have little spikes on the bottom that grip the grass so players can run and cut without slipping!
Helmet: A football helmet has a squishy foam pillow inside to keep a player's head safe and snug!
Jersey: Every football jersey has a big number on the back so fans can spot their favorite player from way up high!
Scoreboard: The big scoreboard counts every point and ticks down the clock so the whole stadium knows who's winning!
Goalpost: When a kicked football sails between the goalpost's tall yellow arms, the crowd cheers for three points!
Kicking Tee: A kicking tee props the football up off the ground so a kicker can boot it high and far!
Football: A football is shaped like a pointy oval so it spins through the air in a perfect spiral!
Penalty Flag: When a rule is broken, the referee throws a bright yellow flag in the air so everybody knows a penalty happened!
Shoulder Pads: Hard plastic shoulder pads spread out big bumps so a football player's shoulders stay comfy and safe!
Touchdown Ball: After a touchdown, a player spikes the ball straight down so hard it bounces way up high to celebrate!
Face-Off Circle: The face-off circle is where two players line up and a puck is dropped to start the play!
Goal Light: When a team scores, a big red light flashes so everyone in the rink knows it is a goal!
Goalie Mask: A goalie mask has a strong metal cage so the goalie can watch the puck and stay safe!
Glove: A goalie's catching glove can snatch a flying puck right out of the air super fast!
Helmet: A hockey helmet has a soft cushy inside that keeps your head cozy and safe on the ice!
Jersey: A hockey jersey is called a sweater, and every team picks its own bright colors and number!
Net: The hockey net has a red frame and a soft mesh that hugs the puck when you score a goal!
Rink: A hockey rink is a giant sheet of smooth ice with bright red and blue lines painted underneath!
Ice Skates: Ice skates have a thin sharp blade that cuts the ice so you can glide super smooth!
Stick: A hockey stick is bent at the bottom so it can scoop and zoom the puck right where you want!
Puck: A hockey puck is frozen before a game so it slides fast and does not bounce around!
Zamboni: A Zamboni is a chunky machine that drives around to clean and smooth the ice between periods!
Badminton Racket: A badminton racket is feather-light, so you can swat the little birdie super fast through the air!
Ball Hopper: A ball hopper is a basket with a grabby bottom that scoops up loose tennis balls when you roll it over them!
Tennis Ball: A tennis ball is covered in fuzzy fur that helps it grip the air and bounce just right!
Ping-Pong Paddle: A ping-pong paddle has a squishy rubber face that puts spin on the tiny ball so it zooms and curves!
Racket Press: Long ago a wooden racket press squeezed rackets flat so they stayed perfectly straight and never warped!
Shuttlecock: A shuttlecock has a skirt of feathers that always flips it nose-first so it floats down like a tiny parachute!
Sweatband: A sweatband is a stretchy terry-cloth loop that soaks up sweat so it never drips into a player's eyes!
Ping-Pong Ball: A ping-pong ball is so light and hollow that it hops across the table with a tiny tick-tick-tick!
Tennis Court: A tennis court has crisp white lines that tell players exactly where the ball is allowed to land!
Tennis Net: The tennis net stretches right across the middle of the court, lower in the center for tricky shots!
Tennis Racket: A tennis racket has a web of tight strings that flings the ball back super fast when you swing!
Scoreboard: Tennis has a funny way of counting points: fifteen, thirty, forty, and then game, and zero is called love!
Bento Box: A bento box is a lunchbox with little rooms inside, each holding a different yummy snack!
Chopsticks: Chopsticks are two little sticks that work together like a team to pick up food!
Edamame: Edamame are little green soybeans that live snug inside a fuzzy pod like peas in a pocket!
Miso Soup: Miso soup is a warm, cozy soup with floaty bits of tofu and seaweed bobbing inside!
Mochi: Mochi is a soft, chewy treat made from pounded sticky rice, squishy like a little pillow!
Nigiri: Nigiri is a little pillow of rice with a yummy topping resting gently on top!
Onigiri: Onigiri is a squishy rice ball shaped like a triangle, perfect for tiny hands to hold!
Ramen: Ramen is a warm bowl of squiggly noodles swimming in tasty soup!
Soy Sauce: Soy sauce is a salty splash made from soybeans that makes food taste extra yummy!
Sushi Roll: A sushi roll is wrapped in seaweed, which is a yummy plant that grows in the ocean!
Tempura: Tempura is shrimp and veggies dipped in batter and fried until they are super crispy!
Wasabi: Wasabi is a bright green paste that is so spicy it can give your nose a tiny tickle!
Bear Claw: A bear claw is a flaky pastry with little slits cut in one side that fan out to look just like a bear's toes!
Chocolate Donut: Chocolate frosting comes from cocoa beans that grow inside big pods on trees in warm, sunny places!
Cruller: A French cruller has fancy twisty ridges and is so light and airy that it is mostly fluffy little air pockets!
Donut Box: A donut box has a window or a lid so you can peek at all the yummy donuts before you pick your favorite!
Donut Holes: Donut holes are made from the little dough circle punched out of the middle of a donut, so nothing is wasted!
Frosted Donut: Frosting is whipped with air to make it smooth and glossy, and a shiny top means a donut is extra fresh!
Glazed Donut: A glazed donut gets its shiny coat from a sweet sugar bath that dries into a smooth, crackly shell!
Jelly Donut: A jelly donut has no hole in the middle because that is where the squishy fruit jelly hides inside!
Maple Bar: A maple bar is topped with real maple syrup, which is sweet sap that trickles out of maple trees in spring!
Powdered Donut: A powdered donut is dusted with sugar so fine and fluffy it puffs into a little cloud when you take a bite!
Sprinkle Donut: Tiny rainbow sprinkles are made of sugar, and bakers shake them on while the frosting is still soft so they stick!
Strawberry Donut: Strawberry frosting turns pink from real strawberries, and a strawberry wears its tiny seeds on the outside!
Centaur: In old Greek stories, a centaur is a friendly being that is half person and half horse, and loves to gallop through the woods!
Phoenix: In old Greek stories, the Phoenix is a beautiful glowing bird with feathers of warm flame!
Golden Fleece: In old Greek stories, the Golden Fleece is a magical sheep's wool that glows bright and sunny gold!
Cyclops: In old Greek stories, a Cyclops is a big gentle giant with one round eye right in the middle of his face!
Sphinx: In old Greek stories, the Sphinx has a lion's body, gentle wings, and loves to ask playful riddles!
Hydra: In old Greek stories, the Hydra is a friendly water creature with many wiggly necks and smiley heads!
Medusa: In old Greek stories, Medusa has hair made of tiny wiggly snakes instead of curls!
Minotaur: In old Greek stories, the Minotaur is a big friendly fellow with a bull's head and little curvy horns!
Satyr: In old Greek stories, a satyr is a happy woodland friend with goat legs who loves to dance and play pipes!
Trojan Horse: In old Greek stories, the Trojan Horse is a giant wooden horse on wheels, big enough to hide friends inside!
Pegasus: In old Greek stories, Pegasus is a magical white horse with big feathery wings for flying high in the sky!
Winged Sandals: In old Greek stories, the winged sandals have tiny feathery wings that let the wearer zip through the air!
Add Up: When we add up, we stack all the pieces together to find how many in all!
Count On: Counting on means we start at a number and hop up one at a time!
Double: To double a number we add it to itself to make twice as much!
Equals Sign: An equals sign means both sides are exactly the same amount!
Greater Than: The greater than sign is a hungry mouth that always gobbles the bigger number!
Less Than: The less than sign points its little tip at the smaller number every time!
Make Ten: Make ten is a friendly trick: find two numbers that group up to ten!
Sum: The sum is the happy answer we get when we add all the numbers together!
Minus Sign: A minus sign means we take some away to make a smaller number!
Number Bond: A number bond shows two little parts that join to make one whole!
Plus Sign: A plus sign means we put groups together to make a bigger number!
Take Away: Take away means we remove some from the group and count what is left!
Ask First: Before I take a toy, I ask first. Can I have a turn, please?
Calm Body: I make my body calm and still, soft like a sleepy kitten. Ahh!
Calm Corner: When I need a break, I can rest in my calm corner. Want to take a cozy minute with me?
Gentle with Pets: We pet animals soft and slow, so they feel safe. Gentle hands!
Hands to Myself: I keep my hands to myself so everyone feels safe and happy!
Inside Voice: Shhh, let's use our inside voice, soft and quiet. Can you whisper with me?
Soft Touch: Let's use a soft touch, gentle as a feather. Pat, pat, pat!
Stop and Think: When I feel big feelings, I stop and think first. What is a kind thing to do?
Take a Breath: Let's take a slow breath in, and a big breath out. Doesn't that feel calm?
Teeth Are for Food: Teeth are for chewing yummy food, not for biting friends!
Use My Words: When I feel upset, I can use my words. Can you tell me how you feel?
Walking Feet: We use walking feet inside, nice and slow. Walk, don't run!
Bassoon: The bassoon is a long folded wooden tube taller than you, and its deep funny voice can sound like a sleepy grandpa!
Cello: The cello is a big violin you hug between your knees, and it sings low and warm like a friendly voice!
Clarinet: The clarinet has a little reed that buzzes when you blow, and that wiggly buzz turns into its sweet woody toot!
Conductor: The conductor never makes a sound, but their waving hands tell the whole orchestra when to play loud, soft, fast, or slow!
Double Bass: The double bass is so tall that players stand up or sit on a high stool just to reach all of its strings!
French Horn: The French horn is one long curly tube, and if you uncoiled it, it would be longer than a school bus!
Glockenspiel: The glockenspiel has little metal bars you tap with a mallet, and they ring out bright and twinkly like tiny bells!
Music Stand: A music stand holds the songbook up high so players can read the notes and watch the conductor at the same time!
Oboe: Before a concert, every player listens to the oboe and tunes their instrument to its one special note!
Piccolo: The piccolo is the tiniest flute, and it sings the highest notes in the whole orchestra, like a happy little bird!
Trombone: The trombone has no buttons at all, so you slide its long arm to find every note, like a musical telescope!
Viola: The viola looks like a violin but is a little bigger, so it sings in a warmer, mellower voice!
Angkor Wat: Angkor Wat is a giant stone temple with towers shaped like flower buds, and it is the biggest temple in the whole world!
Brandenburg Gate: The Brandenburg Gate stands on tall stone columns and wears a statue of four horses pulling a chariot on top!
Golden Gate Bridge: The Golden Gate Bridge is painted bright orange-red so ships and planes can spot it through the foggy mist!
Grand Canyon: The Grand Canyon is a giant gorge with red and orange rocky layers, carved over millions of years by a winding river!
Hagia Sophia: Hagia Sophia has a giant dome that seems to float on a ring of windows, glowing with sunlight from above!
Machu Picchu: Machu Picchu is a stone city high up in the mountains, built so long ago that fluffy clouds float right past it!
Mont-Saint-Michel: Mont-Saint-Michel is a little island town with a pointy abbey on top, and at high tide the sea wraps all the way around it!
Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls is so big that the rushing water roars and tosses up a misty rainbow into the sky!
Sagrada Familia: The Sagrada Familia has tall pointy towers covered in shapes like leaves and fruit, and builders are still finishing it today!
St. Basil's Cathedral: St. Basil's Cathedral has bright swirly onion domes, each painted a different color like a row of candy!
Uluru: Uluru is a giant red rock in the Australian desert that seems to glow bright orange when the sun goes down!
Victoria Falls: Victoria Falls pours down so far and so loud that people call it the smoke that thunders!
Fire Alarm: A fire alarm makes a loud sound to tell everyone to walk outside and stay safe!
Fire Bell: Long ago a shiny brass bell would ding to tell the firefighters it was time to go help!
Fire Boots: Firefighters keep their big boots ready so they can jump in and stomp off to help in a flash!
Fire Extinguisher: A fire extinguisher sprays out a big puff of foam to make little fires go out fast!
Fire Helmet: A firefighter's helmet is hard and strong to keep their head safe and dry!
Fire Hose: A fire hose is rolled up tight so it is ready to stretch out long and spray water on a fire!
Fire Hydrant: A fire hydrant holds lots of water so firefighters can hook up their hose and put out a fire!
Fire Ladder: A fire truck has a long ladder that reaches way up high to help people get down safely!
Hose Nozzle: The nozzle is the shiny tip on the hose, and it can blast water far away to reach a high fire!
Fire Pole: Firefighters slide down a shiny pole to get to their truck super fast when the bell rings!
Firehouse Dog: A spotty Dalmatian is the firehouse dog, and it loves to ride along and keep the firefighters company!
Firefighter: Firefighters are brave helpers who rush to the rescue and keep everyone safe!
Burger Truck: A burger truck cooks juicy patties on a hot grill until they sizzle and smell delicious!
Churro Cart: A churro cart fries long sticks of dough until they are crispy, then rolls them in sweet sugar!
Coffee Cart: A coffee cart heats water until it steams, then makes warm drinks that smell so good!
Hot Dog Cart: A hot dog cart rolls down the sidewalk and pops a warm hot dog into a soft, fluffy bun!
Ice Cream Van: An ice cream van plays a happy jingle so you know it is time for a cold, sweet treat!
Lemonade Stand: A lemonade stand squeezes sour lemons with sweet sugar to make a cool drink on a hot day!
Pizza Truck: A pizza truck bakes round pizzas in a hot oven until the cheese melts and bubbles!
Popcorn Cart: A popcorn cart heats little corn kernels until they POP into fluffy white puffs!
Pretzel Cart: A pretzel cart twists soft dough into a knot, then bakes it warm and sprinkles it with salt!
Shaved Ice Truck: A shaved ice truck scoops fluffy ice into a cup and pours sweet rainbow syrup on top!
Smoothie Truck: A smoothie truck blends fruit and ice round and round until it is cold, smooth, and yummy!
Taco Truck: A taco truck folds a warm tortilla around yummy fillings and hands it right out the window!
Baby Bat: A baby bat is called a pup, and it snuggles upside down with its mama all day!
Flying Fox: A flying fox is one of the biggest bats and glides across the sky like a furry kite!
Free-Tailed Bat: A free-tailed bat zooms faster than any other animal, racing through the night sky!
Vampire Bat: A vampire bat shares its dinner with hungry bat friends who missed a meal!
Fruit Bat: A fruit bat snacks on sweet, juicy fruit and helps plant new trees with the seeds!
Hoary Bat: A hoary bat has frosty silver-tipped fur that looks like it rolled in sparkly snow!
Horseshoe Bat: A horseshoe bat has a nose shaped like a tiny horseshoe that helps it find bugs!
Leaf-Nosed Bat: A leaf-nosed bat has a little leaf on its nose that helps it aim its squeaky calls!
Brown Bat: A little brown bat can gobble up hundreds of buzzing bugs in just one night!
Megabat: A megabat is so big its wings can stretch wider than a grown-up's arms reach!
Pipistrelle: A pipistrelle is so tiny it could curl up and fit inside a matchbox!
Spotted Bat: A spotted bat has three big white spots and the biggest ears of any bat in America!
Basilisk: A basilisk lizard can run so fast it zips right across the top of the water like magic!
Frilled Lizard: A frilled lizard pops out a big collar around its neck to look extra fancy and brave!
Gila Monster: A Gila monster has bumpy black and orange beads all over its skin, like a beaded bracelet!
Anole: A little green anole can puff out a bright pink fan under its chin to say hello!
Iguana: A green iguana loves to lie in the warm sun all day to keep its body toasty and happy!
Horned Lizard: A horned lizard is round and flat like a pancake, with little spikes all around its head!
Komodo Dragon: A Komodo dragon is the biggest lizard in the whole world and flicks its long yellow tongue to smell!
Marine Iguana: A marine iguana dives deep into the ocean to munch on seaweed, then sneezes out the salty water!
Monitor Lizard: A monitor lizard has a long forked tongue it flicks out to taste the air and find its dinner!
Skink: A blue-tongued skink shows off its big bright blue tongue to surprise anyone who comes too close!
Tegu: A tegu is a big smart lizard that loves to nap in the warm sun and even gets cozy like a puppy!
Thorny Devil: A thorny devil is covered in pointy spikes and can drink water with its skin when dew lands on it!
Capybara: A capybara is the biggest rodent in the whole world, and it loves to wade and relax in cool water all day!
Coypu: A coypu has bright orange front teeth and webbed back feet that help it paddle through the river!
Platypus: A platypus has a soft duck bill, a beaver tail, and webbed feet, and it lays eggs like a bird!
Giant Otter: A giant otter is as long as a grown-up is tall, and it loves to splash and play with its whole big family!
Kingfisher: A kingfisher sits very still, then dives like an arrow straight into the water to catch a tiny fish!
Muskrat: A muskrat can swim and even nibble underwater plants while holding its breath for a long, long time!
Sea Otter: A sea otter floats on its back and holds hands with its friends so they don't drift apart while they nap!
Mink: A mink has soft shiny fur and a long, low body that helps it prowl quietly along the riverbank!
River Otter: A river otter has a sleek waterproof coat and can hold its breath for a long swim underwater!
Water Rat: A water rat can scurry along the riverbank and dive in for a swim whenever it needs a snack!
Water Shrew: A water shrew is so tiny and quick that it can dart underwater and trap silvery air bubbles in its fur!
Water Vole: A water vole loves to sit by the river and nibble juicy green reeds with its little front paws!
Baby Bee: A baby bee grows up cozy inside a tiny honeycomb room, sipping honey until its wings are ready to fly!
Beehive: Thousands of bees live together inside one cozy beehive, all working as one big happy family!
Bumblebee: A bumblebee is so big and fuzzy that warm pollen sticks all over her like a cozy yellow coat!
Carpenter Bee: A carpenter bee drills a smooth round tunnel in soft wood to make a snug little home for her babies!
Drone Bee: A drone bee has gigantic eyes that wrap all the way around his head so he can see almost everything!
Honeybee: A honeybee does a wiggly little dance to tell her friends where the flowers are!
Honey Pot: Honey is so sweet and special that it never goes bad, even after a hundred years in the jar!
Honeycomb: Bees build honeycomb out of perfect little six-sided rooms, and they fill them up with sweet honey!
Leafcutter Bee: A leafcutter bee snips tidy little circles out of leaves and wraps them around her nest like a blanket!
Mason Bee: A mason bee gathers tiny balls of mud and builds neat little walls to keep her baby bees safe!
Queen Bee: The queen bee is the biggest bee in the whole hive, and every other bee helps take care of her!
Worker Bee: A worker bee packs bright pollen into little baskets on her legs and carries it home for the hive!
Baby Turtle: A baby sea turtle is so small it could fit right in the palm of your hand, but one day it grows huge!
Flatback: A flatback turtle has a flat shell with curled-up edges, and it lives only near the warm coasts of Australia!
Green Sea Turtle: A green sea turtle eats so much sea grass that the fat inside its body turns a leafy green color!
Hawksbill: A hawksbill has a sharp pointy beak like a bird, just right for poking sponges out of coral cracks!
Kemp's Ridley: Kemp's ridley is the smallest sea turtle in the whole world, with a shell almost perfectly round like a plate!
Leatherback: A leatherback is the biggest turtle of all and can dive deeper than a whale to gulp squishy jellyfish!
Loggerhead: A loggerhead has such a huge, strong head that it can crunch open hard crab and clam shells for lunch!
Olive Ridley: Thousands of olive ridley turtles all swim to the same beach on the very same night to lay their eggs!
Turtle Egg: A sea turtle egg feels soft and squishy like a ping-pong ball, and it wobbles when the baby starts to hatch!
Turtle Nest: A mother sea turtle digs a cozy sandy nest and tucks in a hundred round eggs to keep them warm and safe!
Swimming Turtle: A sea turtle flaps its big front flippers just like wings, so it looks like it is flying through the water!
Hatchling: A tiny sea turtle hatchling scrambles across the sand the very moment it hatches, racing for the safe sea!
Boiling: When water gets really hot it boils, making lots of bubbles that pop into steam!
Freezing: When water gets super cold it freezes, turning soft liquid into hard, solid ice!
Frost: Frost is tiny bits of ice that grow on cold leaves and windows like sparkly white lace!
Gas: A gas has no shape at all, so it floats and spreads everywhere to fill up all the space!
Ice Cube: An ice cube is water that got so cold it turned hard and solid, all chilly and frosty!
Liquid: A liquid flows and pours to fill any cup or bowl, like water, milk, or juice!
Melting: When ice gets warm it melts, turning from hard ice into runny liquid water!
Snow Crystal: A snow crystal is frozen water with six sparkly arms, and every single one is different!
Solid: A solid keeps its own shape and stays put, like a block, a rock, or a wooden toy!
Steam: Steam is hot water turned into a misty cloud that floats up, up, up into the air!
Water Drop: A water drop is a tiny bit of liquid water that can drip, splash, and roll around!
Water Vapor: Water vapor is water hiding in the air as invisible gas that gently rises up high!
Candle: A candle flame dances and flickers because tiny puffs of air keep bumping into it!
Prism: A prism is a special glass shape that splits plain white light into every rainbow color!
Glow Stick: When you bend a glow stick, two special liquids mix inside and make it shine all night long!
Light Bulb: A light bulb glows when electricity zips through a tiny wire inside and makes it shine!
Flashlight: A flashlight makes its own light, so you can find your way even when the room is dark!
Mirror: A mirror bounces light right back at you, which is how you see your own smiling face!
Lantern: A lantern keeps its little light safe inside the glass so the wind can't blow it out!
Rainbow: A rainbow appears when sunshine peeks through raindrops and bends into a curve of colors!
Shadow Puppet: You can make shadow puppets by holding your hands in front of a light and wiggling your fingers!
Shadow: When you stand in the sunshine, your shadow copies every move you make on the ground!
Spotlight: A spotlight points one big circle of light so everyone can see the star on the stage!
Sunbeam: Sunbeams travel all the way from the sun to warm your face and help plants grow big!
Bubble Gum: Bubble gum is chewy candy you can blow into a big round bubble that gets bigger and bigger until it pops!
Candy Buttons: Candy buttons are tiny sweet dots stuck on a paper strip, and you peel each colorful one off to eat it!
Ribbon Candy: Ribbon candy is a thin sheet of candy folded into wavy ribbons, and the pretty stripes ripple like a flag!
Chocolate Bar: A chocolate bar is made of little squares so you can snap off just one piece to share with a friend!
Gummy Bear: A gummy bear is soft and chewy and squishy, and it wobbles like jelly when you give it a poke!
Jawbreaker: A jawbreaker is a huge round candy made of many layers, so it slowly changes color as you suck it!
Licorice: Licorice is a long bendy rope of chewy candy that you can twist and curl into any wiggly shape you like!
Peppermint: A peppermint candy has red and white stripes that swirl together, and it tastes cool and minty fresh!
Rock Candy: Rock candy is made of big sugar crystals that grow on a stick, and they sparkle just like little gems!
Taffy: Taffy is super chewy candy that you can pull and stretch long and thin, and it goes soft and gooey when warm!
Sour Worm: A sour worm is a wiggly gummy candy rolled in sugar, and it makes your mouth pucker because it is so sour!
Lollipop: A lollipop is a sweet ball of candy on a stick so your fingers stay clean while you lick it!
Fettuccine: Fettuccine are wide, flat noodle ribbons that ripple and wave like little flags!
Lasagna: Lasagna is stacked up in cozy layers of noodles, sauce, and gooey melty cheese!
Mac & Cheese: Mac and cheese is little curvy noodles hugged by warm, melty, gooey cheese!
Noodle Bowl: A bowl of noodles is so slurpy that slurping them up is a tasty kind of music!
Pad Thai: Pad thai noodles get tossed and flipped in a hot pan until they are perfectly tasty!
Penne: Penne are little pasta tubes cut on a slant, perfect for scooping up tasty sauce!
Dumpling: A dumpling is a little pillow of dough wrapped around a yummy surprise inside!
Ravioli: Ravioli is a tiny pasta pillow with a yummy surprise tucked snug inside!
Spaghetti & Meatballs: Round meatballs love to roll across a nest of saucy spaghetti noodles!
Spaghetti: Spaghetti is so long and slurpy that twirling it on your fork is half the fun!
Tortellini: Tortellini is a tiny pasta folded into a ring, like a little edible belly button!
Udon: Udon are thick, chewy noodles so fat and bouncy they are extra fun to slurp!
Golf Ball: A golf ball is covered in tiny little dents called dimples, and they help it fly straight and far!
Driving Range: At the driving range you get a big bucket of balls and practice launching them as far as you can!
Flag Hole: The flag stands in the tiny hole on the green so players can see exactly where to aim their ball!
Golf Bag: A golf bag carries all of your clubs on your back so you can take the right one for every shot!
Golf Cart: A golf cart is a tiny car that drives players and their clubs all around the big grassy course!
Golf Club: A golf club has a long handle and a flat head, and you swing it to send the ball flying far away!
Golf Glove: A golf glove fits snug on one hand so the club never slips, even when your hands get warm and sweaty!
Tee: A tee is a tiny peg you push into the grass to hold your ball up high before your very first swing!
Visor: A visor shades your eyes from the bright sun so you can watch your ball soar across the green!
Putter: A putter is the gentle club you use on the smooth green to softly tap the ball into the hole!
Putting Green: The putting green is the smoothest, softest grass on the whole course, so the ball can roll nice and true!
Sand Trap: A sand trap is a pit full of soft sand, and hitting your ball out of it makes a big puffy cloud!
Arm Sleeve: An arm sleeve stretches snug over a player's arm to keep it warm and ready for the next big bump!
Beach Volleyball: A beach volleyball is a little bigger and softer so it floats nicely through the warm ocean air!
Volleyball: In volleyball you bump the ball up with your arms so it never touches the ground!
Net Pole: A net pole stands strong on each side of the court to hold the net up nice and tight!
Sand Court: A beach volleyball court is filled with soft sand, so falling down feels like landing on a giant pillow!
Court: An indoor volleyball court has bright painted lines that show players exactly where to stand!
Jersey: Every volleyball player wears a numbered jersey so teammates can spot each other across the court!
Knee Pads: Knee pads have squishy foam inside so players can dive for the ball and land soft on the floor!
Net: The volleyball net hangs high in the middle so each team has to send the ball right over the top!
Scoreboard: The scoreboard flips to a new number every time a team wins a point, all the way up to the win!
Shoes: Volleyball shoes have grippy bottoms and springy soles that help players jump way up to spike the ball!
Whistle: The referee blows a whistle to start each play, and everyone listens for that happy little toot!
Ankh: The ankh is a golden looped cross that ancient Egyptians used as a happy sign for life!
Camel: A camel can walk across the hot desert for days because its hump stores fat for energy!
Egyptian Cat: Ancient Egyptians loved cats so much that they made gold jewelry and statues to honor them!
Mummy: A mummy is wrapped in soft cloth bandages to keep it cozy for a very, very long sleep!
Golden Mask: A pharaoh's golden mask was made of shiny gold and bright blue stones to sparkle for thousands of years!
Pyramid: The Great Pyramid is so old and so big that it took thousands of helpers to build it!
Hieroglyphs: Hieroglyphs are picture writing, where tiny drawings of birds and eyes stand for sounds and words!
Papyrus: Papyrus was the very first kind of paper, made by pressing reeds that grew along the Nile river!
Pharaoh: A pharaoh was the king of ancient Egypt and wore a striped headdress with a golden snake on top!
Sarcophagus: A sarcophagus is a fancy painted case shaped like a person that kept a mummy safe and snug!
Scarab: A scarab is a shiny beetle, and ancient Egyptians made pretty charms shaped like it for good luck!
Sphinx: The Great Sphinx has the body of a lion and a friendly human face carved from one giant rock!
Big: Something big takes up lots of space, like a big bouncy beach ball!
Heavy: Something heavy weighs a lot and is hard to lift, like a big round rock!
Light: Something light weighs almost nothing and floats so easily, like a fluffy feather!
Long: Something long goes on and on from end to end, like a wiggly garden hose!
Measuring Cup: A measuring cup tells you just how much to pour, like one cup of milk for pancakes!
Ruler: A ruler helps you measure how long or how tall something is!
Measuring Tape: A measuring tape pulls out long and bendy to measure all the way around things!
Short: Something short is low to the ground and not very tall, like a little step stool!
Small: Something small is teeny and takes up only a little space, like a sweet little pea!
Tall: Something tall reaches way up high, like a giraffe or a tall green tree!
Scale: A scale tips down on the side that is heavier to show you how much something weighs!
Wide: Something wide stretches out far from side to side, like a big wide bus!
Equal Parts: Equal parts are pieces that are all exactly the same size, so everyone gets a fair share!
Fraction Bar: A fraction bar is a rectangle split into equal pieces, like a chocolate bar you can break to share!
Half Circle: A half circle is what you get when you split a round circle straight across the middle!
Eighth: An eighth is one of eight equal pieces, a tiny slice of a pizza cut into eight!
Half: One half is when you split something into two fair, equal pieces, like sharing a cookie with a friend!
Quarter: A quarter is one of four equal pieces, like one slice of a pizza cut into four!
Third: One third is one of three equal pieces, like sharing an orange fairly with two friends!
Three Quarters: Three quarters is three of four equal pieces, almost the whole thing with just one slice left!
Two Halves: Two halves make one whole, because two equal pieces fit perfectly back together!
Whole: A whole is the complete thing, all of it together, like one full pie with no slices missing!
Bandage: A bandage gives your ouch a cozy hug and keeps it clean while it heals!
Arm Cast: An arm cast is a cozy hard hug that holds a bonked bone still, and your friends can sign their names on it!
X-Ray: An X-ray takes a magic picture of your bones, and it does not hurt one tiny bit!
Thermometer: An ear thermometer takes a quick warm peek and beeps to tell how toasty you are!
First Aid Kit: A first aid kit opens up with bandages and helpers to fix a little ouch quick as a wink!
Hospital Bed: A hospital bed can raise its head with a button so you can sit up cozy and watch cartoons!
Crutches: Crutches are two helpful sticks that lean on your arms so a sore leg can take a rest!
Nurse: A nurse helps you feel better and gives the bravest patients a shiny sticker!
Wheelchair: A wheelchair gives you a comfy seat with wheels so you can zoom around and rest your legs!
IV Drip: An IV drip gives your body a slow, gentle drink of water to help you feel strong again!
Medicine: You give the medicine bottle a little shake, and a tiny spoonful helps chase the yucky feeling away!
Stethoscope: A stethoscope lets the doctor listen to your heart go thump-thump!
Boom Lift: A boom lift can extend its bendy arm way out sideways to reach spots a ladder never could!
Hoist: A hoist uses a strong chain wrapped around a wheel to pull heavy things straight up with ease!
Cherry Picker: A cherry picker lifts a worker in a little basket so they can reach lights and treetops up high!
Crawler Crane: A crawler crane rolls on big rubber tracks so it can hoist heavy loads even on bumpy dirt!
Wrecking Ball: A wrecking ball is a giant heavy ball that swings on a chain to gently knock down old buildings!
Floating Crane: A floating crane sits on a giant boat so it can lift huge things right out of the deep blue sea!
Mobile Crane: A mobile crane drives right up on its own wheels, then swings its long arm around to lift things!
Overhead Crane: An overhead crane glides along rails near the factory ceiling to carry parts across the whole room!
Pulley: A pulley is a spinning wheel with a rope, and it makes heavy loads feel light when you pull down!
Scissor Lift: A scissor lift has criss-cross legs that fold open like real scissors to make its platform rise!
Tower Crane: A tower crane is so tall it can lift heavy beams all the way to the top of a skyscraper!
Forklift: A forklift slides its strong metal forks under a heavy pallet and raises it up like magic!
Fortune Teller: A paper fortune teller has hidden numbers and colors, and you snap it open to find a fun message inside!
Paper Butterfly: A paper butterfly has wings folded just alike on each side, so it looks the same in a mirror!
Paper Fan: A paper fan is folded back and forth like an accordion, and waving it makes a cool little breeze!
Paper Fox: A paper fox is one of the easiest to fold, with just a few folds making two pointy ears!
Paper Frog: A paper jumping frog really leaps when you press on its folded back and let it spring free!
Paper Heart: A folded paper heart makes a sweet little gift you can give to someone you love!
Paper Plane: A paper plane has no engine at all, but a good throw lets it glide a long, long way!
Paper Star: A lucky paper star is folded from one tiny strip of paper, then puffed out into a chubby little star!
Paper Boat: A paper boat can really float and sail in a puddle until the water soaks it through!
Paper Crane: A paper crane is made by folding one square of paper many times, with no cutting at all!
Paper Flower: A paper flower never wilts, so you can fold one and it stays pretty forever!
Paper Hat: A folded paper hat is so big you can pop it right on your head and wear it like a sailor!
Monster Truck: A monster truck stands as tall as a giraffe on tires nearly six feet across — and the big ones can backflip clean through the air.