Thursday, September 5, 2024
Maggie's Meals
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Brenda's Easter Visit
Winter Trees
Monday, March 11, 2024
Little Carry's Birthday
A Loaf of Bread
''A little girl named Lucy was shopping with her grandmother.
'' 'Oh, look,' said Lucy, 'look at the tiny loaf of bread.'
''Now the loaf of bread would have smiled, only loaves of bread can't smile and if they should laugh they would crumble, so the loaf of bread kept a perfectly straight face.
'' 'I thought I'd be noticed by a child,' said the small loaf of bread.
'' 'You won't last as long as we will,' said a larger loaf of bread
'' 'Oh, who cares about the size,' said the small loaf.
'' 'Of course you don't,' said another larger loaf.
'' 'Now, now,' said the small loaf, 'don't be mean and unkind to your little friend and relative, the small loaf of bread. I'm the only small one here, though I heard the baker say if folks liked me the size I am and if mothers bought me for their children he'd make a lot like me.'
'''We didn't mean to be unkind or mean,' said the larger loaves, 'only we are a little envious. We've been the same size always. We have to follow our relatives who are baked ahead of us and are sold ahead of us. We always have to follow their example.
'' 'But you have been made differently. You have been made a small size. You're cunning and different. You are just like us in taste and shape and kind, but smaller in size and that makes you very interesting.'
'''Hush,'' said the small loaf of bread, ''I am being bought. Hush!'' And off went the little tiny loaf, in a paper bag, carried by Lucy. Just as soon as it got home, having been carried all the way, for Lucy knew it couldn't walk or run home, a nice fat crust was cut off and Lucy ate it with joy.
'' 'My nice little baby loaf of bread,' she said, 'you are so cunning and so good to eat!'' And the loaf of bread was glad it had been made so tiny and cunning and yet so good.''
Sunday, December 10, 2023
The Christmas Dog
''A little girl named Peggy,'' said daddy, ''wrote a letter to Santa Claus, and this is what she said:
''Dear Santa Claus:
Saturday, August 12, 2023
The Snow House
" 'Well, well, well,' he said as he saw a snow house and a snow fort and a snow man, 'this is fine. They appreciate me. They know what handsome things I can make. This is really gorgeous.
" 'Look, Prince Icicle, isn't this fine?'
"Prince Icicle appeared with a number of the other princes and princesses who hung down from the roof of the snow house and the top of the snow fort and from the shoulders of the snow man. Prince Icicle himself took a very fine place over the doorway of the snow house.
" 'Isn't this handsome?' asked Old Man Snow. 'Our fine king will be delighted and his royal majesty will be honored.'
"As Old Man Snow said these words along came King Snow. He wore a most beautiful crown of snow and he showed the Icicle family the compliment of wearing icicles from his beard and his crown and his locks of snow and from his hanging snowy sleeves.
" 'They stopped me as I went by the brook,' said King Snow, 'and begged me to have some of their jeweled icicles. Don't they sparkle beautifully? Yes, they asked me to have them, and the brook, which
was beginning to freeze around the edges, begged me to listen to its story.
'It had so much to tell of its travels, how it ran down a long and winding hill and how it couldn't help trickling and laughing all the time with the jokes and merry tales it kept hearing.'
"So Old Man Snow, King Snow, Prince Icicle and the other princes and princesses talked all through the night and told wonderful stories as they sat in the children's snow house."
Craft and Color More Snow:
- Cutting snowflakes and drawing snowman... - Read all about Wilson Bentley too...
- See how we made a snow house for our Christmas display!
- Young people can craft a snowman from a paint stirring stick
Baby Bears
"In the winter, at the start of the new year," said daddy, "when Mother Bear was sleeping and dozing and dreaming in her home back in the hole of a big rock, the little bears arrived. She taught them about the berries they must eat and about the things which would make them feel well and strong. She also told them of the bad things they must not touch - the things which would make their little tummies feel very miserable indeed and which would make them quite, quite sick.
''And when, at last, they went out of the cave, and saw the real world, the trees and the forest paths, they wanted to start off at once for adventures, for the world looked so mysterious and wondrous.
" 'Do you want to leave your old mother?' the black bear asked.
" 'We love you, mother, but we want to see the world,' they said.
" 'Bang,' suddenly went a gun and Mother Bear received a slight wound.
''The baby bears were around her in a flash, but mother bear was safe, for the man with the gun had hurriedly gone when he had seen how near the old bear was. And he had seen her teeth and had almost
been able to feel them!
''And the babies knew their teeth would never have done. They, too, had had a glimpse of their mother's anger and their mother's strength.
''And as they licked the wound they said,
" 'We won't leave you, Mother Bear. We don't know the world as yet.'
''And Mother Black Bear groaned with the hurt from the slight wound in her shoulder, but still more she grunted with pleasure, for her babies had seen that they still needed their mother.''
More Bears To Color:
Friday, August 11, 2023
The Rhyming Years
Then New Year recited this verse:
A New Year's Party
Monday, August 7, 2023
The Brave Little Sister
The Bravery Medal
Friday, July 28, 2023
The Pet Monkey
More About Silly Monkeys:
The Pink Cockatoo
The Selfish Oyster Crabs
Naughty Wind
"The Clothespins on the line," said daddy, "were having a very jolly time."
"I'll blow those clothes away," said the North Wind.
"Oh, no you won't' said the Clothespins in chorus.
"You are only little wooden things,' said the Wind. 'I am strong and powerful and can do just exactly as I like.'
''Now the Fairies saw that the Clothespins were doing their work so well that they thought they would like to help them, so they all perched on the line and began to sing: