Cricket Media

07/21/2025

! 🫐 Did you know that it's fun and easy to make your own fruit leather? It makes a perfect hiking snack! Try this awesome recipe from SPIDER Magazine with your family!

07/20/2025

Happy ! 🍦This fun poem from SPIDER Magazine, written by Genevieve Petrillo and illustrated by Susan Eaddy, is just right for summer!

07/17/2025

Happy ! 🤪🥳 Can you fill in the words that we replaced with emojis in this poem from BABYBUG Magazine?

Which emoji best fits your moon on this lovely Thursday?

07/17/2025

! In July 1990, CRICKET Magazine celebrated its 200th issue! Imagine how big that cake would have to be today, 35 years later! 🎂

07/16/2025

Exciting news! 🎉Cricket Media has been included in the 2025 MENTOR National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll! This list recognizes those American corporations that offer support of and investment in mentoring opportunities to spur young peoples’ personal and professional growth!

Learn more about our virtual mentoring program, CricketTogether, and get involved: https://tinyurl.com/43rbpzc9

We're honored to announce that Cricket Media is part of the MENTOR 2025 National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll!

We’re dedicated to connecting, supporting, and sustaining 1:1 eMentoring relationships that empower every child to unlock their full personal and academic potential. Join us in celebrating this achievement!

Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/43rbpzc9

07/15/2025

How's your summer going? ☀️ We hope you're making lots of special memories! Revel in the season with this fun poem from SPIDER Magazine!

07/14/2025

🚨ATTENTION: Today is ! 🦈🦈🦈

Are you aware that sharks:

- Have been around since before the dinosaurs
- Can live to be over 250 years old (Greenland sharks, specifically!)
- Have skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone
- Can lose up to 30,000 teeth in a lifetime
- Have been found with items in their stomachs as bizarre as a suit of armor, a fur coat, a cannonball, and a porcupine!

Well, now you're aware!

🎨 Artwork by Christine Schneider!

07/14/2025

! 🐦The latest issue of CRICKET Magazine is about birds of all shapes, sizes, and colors! Create your own beautiful hanging bird decoration with this cool paper craft.

To discover more hands-on activities for all ages, check out Sensical makers!

07/12/2025

Did you know that July is National Ice Cream Month? 🍦Here are some of our most creative ideas for ways to celebrate this super cool holiday!

👇 Check the comments below to read the blog post!

07/10/2025

🐉 ! Watch out! Hot air balloons might not be the only source of hot air in the sky!

🎨 This July 1985 cover was created by Pauline Baynes. She illustrated over 200 books in her lengthy career, many of them children's media. Most famously, she illustrated the works of J.R.R Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Chronicles of Narnia.

07/09/2025

📚The benefits of reading for pleasure are clear, but recent studies report a troubling drop in the number of kids who say they love to read. In 2023, only 14 percent of 13-year-olds reported that they read for pleasure “almost every day.”

How can we help kids fall in love with reading without making it seem like a chore? Here are a few suggestions to start them down the path to becoming lifelong readers!

07/08/2025

The latest issue of CRICKET Magazine is for the birds-- in the best way! Get ready for flocks of seagulls, oilbirds, birds of paradise, nightingales, loons, and, you guessed it, PEACOCKS! 🦚🦚🦚

This poem makes a great creative writing prompt for kids. Read them the poem without showing them the title or the illustration and see if they can guess what it's about. Then let that inspire them to write their own poems about their favorite birds! How would they describe that bird to someone who's never seen one before?