Warm or cold? Soft or hard? Could you eat it for supper? In Why Bread Turned Into Stone, a folktale from Poland, a hardworking mama of five meets the richest farmer in the village on a cold, hungry road… and his bag smells like fresh-baked bread. One tiny fib later, the farmer is about to learn that words can be a whole lot heavier than they sound. What happens when the thing you said starts to come true?

Story artists, grab your crayons! Today we travel to a village near the Bsea for a story about honesty, sharing, and a mama who stands tall no matter what. Kids will knead dough, make a big CLUNK! and draw along through four music-filled drawing breaks.

🎨 What You’ll Draw Today (4 Drawing Prompts):

1. The mama and her five children in their little house, or the mama hard at work at the mill or the bakery
2. The rich farmer and his big, bulging sack, meeting the mama on the road
3. A loaf of bread that has turned to STONE (crust and all!)
4. A cozy, surprising supper scene (no spoilers!)

📦 Supplies You’ll Need:

• 4 pieces of drawing paper
• Your favorite coloring materials (crayons, markers, colored pencils)
• A brown and a grey crayon or marker will come in extra handy!

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• 🌱 Loved this one? Listen next to The Run Away Bun, a story about bread (and how fast it can run!)

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Slow, slow… quick, quick… LOUD. Young Ayo just got his very first drum, and he practices every single day, which is great news for Ayo and VERY bad news for Auntie's terrible toothache. In The Gaga Monster, a folktale that traveled from the Yoruba people to the African American community of the Appalachian Mountains, Ayo is sent to pick strawberries in the deepest, darkest part of the forest, right where the googly-eyed Gaga Monster is said to gulp people up in one big gulp. Ayo has a quick, clever mind and a drum full of rhythms… but can one little drumbeat really outsmart a monster?

Recorded live at Buunni Coffee in Inwood, New York City, with West African drummer Lamin Thiam bringing every beat to life. Kids, get ready to drum, chant and shout along: "Googly, oogly, GAGA, OOOOO!"

🎨 What You'll Draw Today (3 Drawing Prompts):

1. Ayo in the deepest, darkest part of the forest with his strawberry basket and his drum
2. The googly, oogly Gaga Monster spinning around and around as Ayo plays
3. A BIG surprise moment for the Gaga Monster and Ayo's whole family (no spoilers!)

📦 Supplies You'll Need:

• 3 pieces of drawing paper
• Your favorite coloring materials (crayons, markers, colored pencils, anything that adds a little pizzazz!)

📚 Story Source: Rachael learned this folktale from Boo-Tickle Tales: Not-So-Scary Stories for Ages 4–9 by Lyn Ford and Sherry Norfolk, shared here with Lyn's kind encouragement. Find more tales like this one in their book → https://www.parkhurstbrothers.com/boo-tickle-tales.html

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• 🐘 Loved this one? Listen next to Aran Aung and the Elephants, also recorded LIVE at Buunni Coffee, where a giant sneezes a whole herd of lost elephants out of his nose!

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What's inside a pumpkin? Seeds? Ooey, gooey, stringy goop? In today's draw along folktale from Iran, The Pumpkin Child, a farmer's wife wishes for a daughter so hard that she rocks a freshly picked pumpkin back and forth like a baby… and then something VERY surprising happens. Now there's a round, orange, bumpy girl with a green top rolling bumpity-bump through the village, and not everyone is kind about it. But this pumpkin girl has a brave, adventurous heart and a secret she only shares with people who love her just as she is. So who will be the one to see what's truly inside?

What You'll Draw Today :

1. The pumpkin baby in her cradle, and Mama's face when she first sees her
2. The pumpkin girl having fun in the village, the meadows, or the hills (in one of her twirly dresses!)
3. The ring with the round stone that gets left behind
4. The pumpkin girl reaching out her hand as the whole town watches

Supplies You'll Need:

• 4 pieces of drawing paper
• Your favorite coloring materials (crayons, markers, colored pencils, anything that adds a little pizzazz!)

Links & Resources:

• 📬 Join the Fairy Snail Art Cart Club: a monthly old-school envelope full of a bonus episode, art projects, stickers, stationery & more
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• 🧥 Love this one? Listen next to Joha and the Sleeve, another folktale about not judging people by their appearance

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