Storytelling, Crafts and Kids!

A Rose and an Amaranth blossomed side by side in a garden. One day the Amaranth said to her neighbor, "How I envy you your beauty a...

 "Can you or I or anyone know, how oats, peas, beans and barley grow?" This month's story is actually an old folk song but l...

Androcles and the Lion It happened in the old days at Rome that a slave named Androcles escaped from his master and fled into the forest, an...

 (After you finish this story, ask the children what popular fairy tale it reminds them of.) Once upon a time there was a merchant who tra...

Folks traveling the Oregon Trail looking for a new life left almost everything behind them when they made the 2000 mile journey in thei...

Fairy Gifts (this story is a little longer than most of the tales I've put up but it is well worth telling. It might be a good story t...

The Two Frogs Once upon a time in the country of Japan there lived two frogs, one of whom made his home in a ditch near the town of Osaka, o...

Once upon a time there was a miller who was poor, but who had a beautiful daughter. Now it happened that he got into a conversation with the...

Once upon a time there were three goslings who were greatly afraid of the wolf, for if he found them he would eat them. One day the largest ...

Once upon a time there was a little boy named Anders, who had a new cap. And a prettier cap you never have seen, for mother herself had kn...

A Christmas tale from Italian Folklore retold by La La Befana was an old woman who lived in a small village in Italy. She was known througho...

On Christmas eve, a long time ago, a gentle mother was busily cleaning the house for the most wonderful day of the year... Christmas day, th...