Let’s celebrate this festive treat! You may think of gingerbread houses as a winter delight, but you can make them at any point in the year. The first recipe recorded for gingerbread was actually found in Greece, estimated to be around 2400 B.C. Gingerbread was also found in Chinese records …
Let’s celebrate this tasty treat with some fun facts! Currently, Oreos are the best-selling cookie of the 20th and 21st centuries. Christmas cookies have origins tracing back to medieval Europe. The first-ever recorded cookie was only the size of a quarter! Download this handout to color in the cookies and …
Let’s celebrate national candle day with some interesting facts about these cool light sources! Candles have been are since 500 B.C Poland is the world’s biggest candle producer A candlemaker is known as a chandler! Download this handout to color in the candles and learn how to write! Click here …
Happy national camp day from us at ASI! Be sure to enjoy the great outdoors with some cool, fun facts. In 2017, campers in the US alone spent $3 billion on camping equipment. In the United States, 1 million new families start camping each year. The most frequent campers in …
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is a Black composer who was born in 1875 in Holborn, England. He was named after Samuel. Taylor Coleridge, a poet who inspired his compositions. Through his compositions, Coleridge-Taylor was a political activist who fought against racial injustices and prejudices. Coleridge-Taylor learned the violin from his father at …
Scott Joplin is an African-American piano composer known as the “King of Ragtime.” You might have heard this famous piece, The Entertainer, which you can listen to here! Scott Joplin was born in Sedalia, Missouri, in the late 1860s, though he has no confirmed date of birth. Joplin’s father was a …
Juana Medina is an author and illustrator born and raised in Colombia and now lives in the United States. She writes children’s books, including “Juana and Lucas,” and illustrates many other children’s books. Today, make an illustration inspired by Juana Medina’s illustration series “Lettuce Have Fun.” In this series, she …
Los Tres Grandes, or The Big Three, were three Mexican men who were very important to Mexican Muralism, an art movement in Mexico in the 1920s. Mexican Muralism began after the Mexican Revolution when the people of Mexico fought back against dictator Porfirio Diaz. The rules of the latter were …
