TIME for Kids
Zack’ys Mission: Zacky Muñoz, 13, is an advocate for kids with food allergies.

Heavy Lifting: Eleven-year-old JoJo Zager ran a food drive to stock local food banks.

Play It Cool: With extreme heat in mind, schools are redesigning play areas.

Pals with Paws: Hayden Roland, 12, started a youth group to help animals.

Book Support: Rohan lost his books to wildfire. Now he’s helping others in the same situation.

Oyster Duty: Meet a Mississippi teen who’s doing her part to help restore the local oyster population.

Safer Streets: Ten-year-old William Miller, of Arizona, asked his town’s leaders to protect pedestrians.

Class Act: Audrey Brown, 12, led a project to help her community stay healthy.

Positively Kind: Lena Ford, 15, spreads kindness and good cheer.

Crafty Kid: Nine-year-old Christian Ramos found a creative way to raise money for a good cause.

Feeding Others: Elaina Johnson, 9, fights food insecurity in her Colorado community.

Green Teen: Mateo Lange, 15, is helping reduce plastic pollution in his community.

Sibling Story: Haili and Brooke Smith want kids to have access to diverse books.

A Place to Play: Kason Creed, 9, wants kids of all abilities to be able to play together.

Special Delivery: Jordyn Perez, 15, brings smiles to kids at a Texas children’s hospital.

Lunch Money: Fifteen-year-old DeJuan Strickland is doing his part to make sure no child goes hungry.

Girls Skate!: Ethiopian Girl Skaters, in Africa, is teaching girls to skateboard. It’s also breaking gender stereotypes.

Musical Nature: Terje Isungset makes instruments out of ice. He plays them at Ice Music Festival Norway.

The Art of Work: A new mural celebrates the American worker. To make it, artist Ellen Griesedieck had help from thousands of students.

Spreading Joy: Teachers and students in California created a public art project for their community. Its positive message has attracted a global audience.

War in Ukraine: Russian forces have invaded Ukraine. Here’s what you need to know about the crisis.

A Good Goal: Kids are raising money for sports programs for young refugees

On this Land: A growing movement seeks to honor American Indians and their connection to the land

Saving Monarchs: The Western monarch butterfly population has dropped 99% since the 1980s. California hopes 30,000 new milkweed plants will save the species

Sweet Success: A Pennsylvania cookie company helps refugee women and their families start a new life in the United States

Walking is Awesome: A new study says “awe walks” can do wonders for our well-being

Handwashing Helper: Billions of people are without running water and soap. Tippy taps can help them wash their hands

For the Birds: Millions of birds are killed each year by flying into glass. People can protect them with bird-friendly building design

Building Green: In Africa, recycled plastic trash is being turned into classrooms

Holding On to Hope: What happens when migrants arrive at the U.S.–Mexico border?

Ready to Learn: Q&A with Estefanía Rebellón, founder of Yes We Can World Foundation school, in Tijuana, Mexico

Tough Choices: Why are people from Central America leaving their homeland for the United States?

Faces of Honduras: Young people in Honduras tell TIME for Kids about their lives

Meet the 2019 National Teacher of the Year: Rodney Robinson teaches at Virgie Binford Education Center, a juvenile detention facility in Richmond, Virginia.

American Flavor: An interview with Gabrielle Langholtz, author of United Tastes of America: An Atlas of Food Facts & Recipes from Every State!

Do-Good Dog: A rescue dog named Foxtrot is the World Food Programme’s unofficial mascot

Visiting Day: A special program in California connects kids with their incarcerated parents

Safe in School: Education brings new hope to Rohingya refugees

Painting Their Story: Harnessing the power of art to help Rohingya refugees

Family Connection: A California summer camp helps families stay close while a parent is in prison

Live from Kakuma: Kakuma refugee camp, in Kenya, is the site of TEDxKakumaCamp. It is the first event if its kind to take place at a refugee camp

Kids of Kakuma: TFK travels to Kenya to learn what life is like for children at a refugee camp

Water Works: The nonprofit group Water Is Life is doing its part to provide safe drinking water to communities around the world [PDF]

Under the Sea: Sylvia Earle is on a mission to protect the world’s oceans [PDF]

Chapters in Time: A forest is growing in Norway. In 99 years, it will be turned into pages for an unusual book [PDF]

Helping Turtles: Last year, more sea turtles than usual washed up on Massachusetts beaches. People stepped up to help [PDF]

Feathered Friends: A New York City group helps birds and other wildlife [PDF]

Saving the Nautilus: The chambered nautilus is one of Earth’s oldest animals. Now, scientists say it may be in danger [PDF]

Wild Things: Dutch artist Theo Jansen mixes science and art to create magical moving creatures [PDF]

I Am an Art Conservator [PDF]: TFK meets Margo Delidow of the Museum of Modern Art

Goodbye, Books?: A school in Massachusetts has gotten rid of most of its library books. Now the collection is online. School leaders say it’s the way of the future [PDF]

Nature’s Way: Freight trains rumbled above the streets of Manhattan, in New York City, for nearly 50 years. When the tracks were abandoned, nature took over. Now, the High Line is about to become a public park [PDF]

Take a Deep Breath: Kids learn ways to calm the mind [PDF]

Books
How to Survive in the Age of Knights (National Geographic Kids, 2026)

My Kid Reporter Journal: An Interactive Book of Writing Prompts for Junior Journalists (Penguin Young Readers, 2025

Toe Tagged: True Stories from the Morgue (24/7 Science Behind the Scenes: Forensics; Scholastic/Franklin Watts, 2007)

Bullet Proof: The Evidence That Guns Leave Behind (24/7 Science Behind the Scenes: Forensics; Scholastic/Franklin Watts, 2007)