Tulip Tree Tales - Storytelling Podcast for Children

As we all turned inwards this season, hunkering down in our homes, searching for hope, spring came anyway. This month’s nature story is centered around those creatures that survive because they work together as one beating, buzzing heart to protect each other as they dream of the sweetest colors. Don't forget that this story is short, simple, and meant to be retold in your own words! All you need is a patch of flowers and your imagination. Young children love to craft props but small stones, seeds, and hand motions work too. Check out my blog at www.tuliptreetales.com for a full storytelling guide with links to activities on my Pinterest Board, my hand-picked book list, creativity prompts, and more! I so appreciate our listeners and would love to hear from you with any questions or comments about this first season of the podcast.

Allow yourself to become lost in a storm with this month's nature story. Close your eyes, open your imagination and fly on the spring wind with a leaf as it meets many creatures along a woodland creek. This story is inspired by one I often tell with my child outdoors. The story always begins with a leaf that has fallen from a tree and continues with the journey it takes to get back home.  This nature story is part of a monthly series published on my blog at www.tuliptreetales.com. Each episode comes with a storytelling guide for nature study, book lists, prompts for writing and discussion, and extension activities. My nature stories are designed to be re-told in the outdoors or with nature props. For this one, all you need is a leaf and your imagination to tell your very own stories. Send in your child's short nature story at www.tuliptreetales.com, and I'll do my best to publish it on the next podcast.

This episode of tulip tree tales is all about investigating the budding adventures of spring. Find out what happens when a woolly bear caterpillar meets a rhododendron bud. Sometimes friends can bring on the best kinds of transformations. Celebrate spring equinox and the first days of spring this year by telling stories about buds and flowers in your local ecosystems and their connections with other creatures in nature.

The animals of the Sonoran Desert valley are in a panic over Jackrabbit's painful mistake. Find out how he recovers from a "prickly" situation. And don't forget to visit www.tuliptreetales.com for a complete desert storytelling guide.

This episode is part of January's storytelling prompt featured online at http://tuliptreetales.com/ Each nature-themed storytelling prompt includes a brand new nature story, nature activities, storytelling props and activities, discussion questions/writing prompts, and a hand-picked book list. These stories and prompts are perfect for families who enjoy sharing the art of storytelling.