Introduction

Preschool is an incredibly important tool for your child’s development – not just in terms of pure educational value, but also for teaching your kids integral life skills like independence, effective cooperation in a team environment, and following instructions. This is the time you should teach your child random fun facts about earth, space, great inventions and even the human body, this is how they can know more about the universe in general.

Fun facts for kids to know about animals-

1. Birds can sleep with one eye open

Birds can sleep with one eye open and one eye shut to watch out for other animals that may want to eat them. When they do this, half their brain is asleep, and half awake.

2. Listen to chirping crickets

If you want to know what the temperature is like outside, listen for chirping crickets. The warmer the air, the more crickets chirp. Crickets don''t chirp much when it''s cold.

3. Pelicans carry live fish

Pelicans carry live fish around in a big bag of skin under their beak until they''re ready to eat them.

4. Deer mouse is without collarbone

A kind of mouse called a deer mouse has no collarbone, so it can make itself as flat as a pancake to squeeze under a door.

5. Magic of Tarantula

Tarantula spiders can survive 2 1/2 years without food.

6. Plug your nose if you go near a fulmar. 

It''s a bird that scares off enemies by spitting out stinky oil.

7. Moles dig tunnels with their teeth. 

In one night they can dig a tunnel that’s 100 feet long – that''s about half as long as your block.

8. Hippos hear through ears

When hippos are out of the water they hear through their ears, just like us. When they go underwater, their ears shut, but they can still hear – through their jawbones.

9. The biggest nest is bald eagle’s

The biggest nest in the world belongs to the bald eagle. It''s made of twigs and branches but can weigh as much as a car. Bald eagles use the same nest year after year.

Fun facts for kids to know about human body-

1. Your body has more than 600 muscles in it. 

That includes your heart and your tongue and the muscles that help you hold your pee inside.

2. Skin gets dried up

One of the fun facts for kids is that every day a little bit of your skin dries up and falls off, becoming dust. Around 70 percent of house dust is dead skin. You''re always growing new skin to replace it.

Do you know why your eyes blink so often?

One of the fun facts for kids is that your eyes blink all day long to keep them clean.

1. Finger Bones

Each of your hands has 14 finger bones.

2. People start shrinking

After about age 30, people start shrinking – they get a bit shorter every year.

3. People without drinking water can survive for long

People can go without drinking water for as long as a week without dying. They can go without food for about a month.

Fun facts for kids to know about Great inventions

1. The first toothbrush ever was a stick

Yes and it is called a chewing stick. Toothbrushes with bristles were invented in China about 400 years ago. At first, they were made from hog hair!

2. Man behind the bread slicing machine

In 1928, a man who had been a jeweler invented a bread-slicing machine.

3. Big machines to extract salt

One of the fun facts for kids is that in some places, there are big machines that take the salt out of water from the ocean so you can drink it.

4. The first ever paper drinking straws

One of the fun facts for kids is the first paper drinking straws were made 120 years ago. Before that, people used hollow rye grass to sip their drinks.

5. The explorers who invented eating the watermelon

Early explorers who traveled the earth long before plastic was invented would eat out the inside of a watermelon and then use it to store water.

6. Invention of washing machine

One of the fun facts for kids is that electric washing machines were invented about 100 years ago. Before this, people had to wash clothes with their hands.

7. The ketchup story

The first ketchup in the world wasn''t made of tomatoes but of pickled fish, mushrooms, and herbs. It was a sauce called ke-tsiap that was popular in China about 400 years ago.

Fun facts for kids to know about earth and space

1. How often does lightning strike earth?

Lightning strikes Earth about 100 times a second.

2. Same amount of water as it was ages before

There''s the same amount of water on Earth today as when dinosaurs lived. It''s still all the same water, too.

3. Dead sea is a lake

The Dead Sea isn''t a sea at all. It''s a lake.

4. When do bodies stretch?

When people go into outer space, their bodies stretch. Astronauts come back from space a couple of inches taller than when they left.

5. Meteor story

A meteor from space hit the ground in Arizona so hard that it left a crater nearly a mile across.

6. Saturn floats like a ball

If you could put the planet Saturn in a gigantic pool of water, it would float like a ball. Earth and the moon would sink.

Some quotes to teach your child-

1. Albert Einstein

“PEACE CANNOT BE KEPT BY FORCE; IT CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED BY UNDERSTANDING”.

2. Margaret Mead

“NEVER BELIEVE THAT A FEW CARING PEOPLE CAN’T CHANGE THE WORLD. FOR, INDEED, THAT’S ALL WHO EVER HAVE”.

3. John Steinbeck

“YOU CAN ONLY UNDERSTAND PEOPLE IF YOU FEEL THEM IN YOURSELF.”

4. Arundhati Ray

“EMPATHY MAY BE THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT QUALITY THAT MUST BE NURTURED TO GIVE PEACE A FIGHTING CHANCE.”

5. Plato

“BE KIND, FOR EVERYONE YOU MEET IS FIGHTING A HARDER BATTLE.”

6. Dalai Lama

BE KIND WHENEVER POSSIBLE. IT IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE.

7. Booker T. Washington

IF YOU WANT TO LIFT YOURSELF UP, LIFT SOMEONE ELSE UP.

Takeaway-

Quotes and fun facts for kids are important to be taught to a child. These fun facts for kids and quotes make them know more about their surroundings and make them more aware.We hope you are having a fab time with your kids. These fun facts for kids and meaningful quotes are of great use to your child and his future. And so if you are  looking out for more such fun facts and meaningful quotes, then don’t forget to check our website