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Join Sir Sipsalot in a playful retelling of the nursery rhyme "I’m a Little Teapot." When he wakes up alone in Eva’s play kitchen, he rolls off to find his teacup friends, meets playful pretend foods and stuffies, and follows songs and clues until they all reunite for a joyful afternoon tea. The episode ends with a cozy tea party, singing the teapot song together, and a simple extension activity suggesting a make-believe tea party at home with decorated cups or herbal teas with an adult.

Season 2 opens with a playful retelling of Snow White who lives with seven adorable animal friends. When the jealous queen sends Snow White away, a kind huntsman helps them hide in a cottage where they play, work, and learn together. The story focuses on sharing feelings, kindness, and communication, ending with a warm resolution and a fun charades activity for listeners to try.

Join Zebra Zane at Shelly’s Beach as he learns to surf with Sea Turtle Sarah, practices playful tricks from the Spectacular Surfers, and proves that practice and determination can make anything possible. This energetic episode invites listeners to move along with the story through fun actions and ends with a balance challenge to try at home.

Join Once Upon a Story for a playful retelling of The Tortoise and the Hare — The Turtle and the Rabbit — full of interactive motions, sounds, and a heartwarming lesson about slowing down and enjoying the journey. Kids will laugh, move along with Rabbit and Turtle, and try a fun fast-and-slow game at the end to practice pacing, patience, and kindness.

Join the Once Upon a Story podcast for a playful retelling of Cinderella, where a kind girl with a big imagination designs magical, ultra-comfortable shoes that change her life. With fun movements, a helpful fairy godmother, and a prince who notices her creativity, Cinderella turns her dream into a shoe business. This short episode celebrates kindness, forgiveness, and creative dreaming—perfect for young listeners and anyone who loves a fresh spin on a classic tale.

Part two of our nursery rhyme adventures features playful, interactive retellings of "Jack and Jill" and "Hey Diddle Diddle." Kids join in with movements, imaginative games, and a silly story about a royal mud feast after a hill-side mishap. The episode also follows a magic wand that brings toys and kitchenware to life, ending with simple extension activities: go play outside, collect nature to make art, and create your own magic wand for more pretend play.

In this episode of Once Upon a Story, classic nursery rhymes Humpty Dumpty and Little Bo Peep are turned into playful, movement-filled stories for kids. Listeners join Humpty on his morning run and surprising transformation, meet Bo Peep and her dancing sheep, and are invited to try simple extension activities like a protective egg drop experiment and a sharing-and-compromise challenge.

In this episode of Once Upon a Story, traveler Oliver arrives in a small town where people keep to themselves. To feed the hungry villagers, he makes “stone soup,” encouraging everyone to add ingredients from their homes until there is enough for all. The story teaches the value of sharing and community and invites listeners to reenact the tale by pretending to make their own stone soup.

In this short, playful episode, the Easter Bunny falls ill right before delivery day. Her friend Squirrel steps in, painting acorns and turning them into colorful, surprise-filled treasures so every child still gets an Easter treat. The story is interactive and full of sound effects and movements for kids to join, followed by a fun acorn-hunt activity to spark creativity.

Join Jack as he trades a cow for magic beans, climbs a towering beanstalk to a cloud castle, and befriends a kind giant while discovering a golden chicken that lays precious eggs. This playful retelling includes movement prompts and a fun hide-and-seek activity, highlighting kindness, cooperation, and imaginative play.

Join the Once Upon a Story podcast for a playful episode about migration, told as three movement stories. Kids become red crabs on Christmas Island, thundering wildebeest across the African plains, and soaring wandering albatross over the ocean. This short episode teaches why animals migrate, highlights how they travel and stay safe, and includes fun movement activities like crab-walking, galloping, swimming, and the albatross dance.

Join the children of Snowington in this whimsical episode of Once Upon a Story as magical snow from the North Pole keeps changing — pizza-scented flakes, bouncy trampoline snow, singing clouds, rainbow footprints, cotton-candy puffs, animal-shaped flakes, and giant bubbles — before settling into a cozy, ordinary snow day. The episode ends with hot cocoa and two simple activities: make fake snow with baking soda and shaving cream, or imagine and act out your own version of magic snow.

Hello everyone and welcome back to the once upon a story podcast where all great adventures begin with once upon a story for today's adventure you might be feeling a little hungry because we're going to be doing a retelling of the story the gingerbread man so as always feel free to move around to the story. You can move in your seat, around the room, whatever feels good for you, or just sit back, relax, and enjoy the story. Let's get started. Once upon a story, because all great stories start with once upon a story, a mother and her two children, Sally and Sam, were busy in the kitchen making gingerbread. First, they pulled out the bowl. Pull out that big mixing bowl, everyone. Nice on the counter. They had to measure. So let's use our measuring cups to put in the ingredients. Pour in the ingredients in the big bowl and get ready to mix. Hold the bowl with one hand and mix with the other. Mix, mix, mix. Use your muscles. Blend it all in. When it was ready, they had a big ball of dough. So take out that ball of dough, place it down flat, and get your rolling pins. We're going to hold on to the sides of each side of the rolling pin. Place the dough flat down and roll it out. Push forward and back. Forward and back. Do one more big roll. Perfect. The dough is nice and flat and ready for that special gingerbread cookie cutter. Sally went and got the cookie cutter and placed it right on top of the dough. Push down, and the gingerbread man's shape was ready. All right, so now we have to put on the eyes. Let's put on two eyes. Can you use your fingers to pretend to put little candy eyes down and go boop, boop? The gingerbread man also needs a nose. Let's put a little candy nose on. And what else does he need? Hmm. Oh, I know. He needs a mouth. Let's use your pointer finger to draw a smile in the air. Smile for mouth. And let's add three little buttons. Here we go. Let's do three boops. Boop, boop, boop. Oh, your gingerbread man looks so cute. Now let's take our man and put him inside the oven. Careful, it's hot. Now, the recipe says we have to wait 15 minutes. Do not peek until that timer goes off. All right, we can't. No more, no less. 15 minutes. Here we go. We have to wait for it to cook. We'll take a big smell. Oh, it smells so yummy. Do you know what? Sally thought it smelled so delicious, she couldn't wait anymore, so she cracked open the oven. Let's crack open the oven and take a peek. All of a sudden, the gingerbread man jumped to life and came out of the oven because Sally opened it too early. He jumped up and did a cute little dance in front of them, hopping from one foot to the other. Can you hop from one foot to the other? Here we go. Hop, hop, hop, left and right and left and right. And as the gingerbread man hopped, he sang a little song. I'm the gingerbread man as fast as can be. You better run, run, run. I bet you can't catch me. Then he leaped out the window and ran outside. All together, everyone, how far can you leap? Step on one foot and leap with the other and leap. Oh my goodness, that was a big, giant leap. All right, now let's run in place and see how fast you can run in place. Here we go. Run, run, run, run. Fast feet, fast feet, fast feet, fast feet, fast feet. Well, as the gingerbread man was running outside, mom raced to the door and opened it. Creak! And she decided to chase that gingerbread man outside as fast as she could go. So let me see your fast feet. pretend to be mom and go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Mom chased after that gingerbread man and he called out, run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm a gingerbread man. Then he leaped out the window and ran outside. All together, everyone, how far can you leap? Step on one foot and leap with the other and leap. Oh my goodness, that was a big, giant leap. All right, now let's run in place and see how fast you can run in place. Here we go. Run, run, run, run. Fast feet, fast feet, fast feet, fast feet, fast feet. Well, as the gingerbread man was running outside, mom raced to the door and opened it. Creak! And she decided to chase that gingerbread man outside as fast as she could go. So let me see your fast feet. pretend to be mom and go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Mom chased after that gingerbread man and he called out, run, run as fast as you can. I bet you can't catch me. Then he leaped out the window and ran outside. All together, everyone, how far can you leap? Step on one foot and leap with the other and leap. Oh my goodness, that was a big, giant leap. All right, now let's run in place and see how fast you can run in place. Here we go. Run, run, run, run. Fast feet, fast feet, fast feet, fast feet, fast feet. Well, as the gingerbread man was running outside, mom raced to the door and opened it. Creak! And she decided to chase that gingerbread man outside as fast as she could go. So let me see your fast feet. pretend to be mom and go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Mom chased after that gingerbread man and he called out, run, run as fast as you can. You can't catch me. I'm a gingerbread man. All right, everyone. Now hear that special part. We're going to do that a few times in the story. You're going to help me. So when I say run, run as fast as you can, we all move our arms and pretend to run run run run run as fast as we can and you can run in place then all together we're all gonna say you can't catch me i'm the gingerbread man all right let's practice ready run run as fast as you can now everyone all together you can't catch me i'm the gingerbread man. Excellent. So mom was still chasing that gingerbread man around the yard when their dog was watching this silly show. He licked his lips because that gingerbread man smelled delicious. He decided he was going to catch him and eat him for himself. So let's run like the dog using both our hands and our feet. Here we go. Go, go, go, go, go, go. But as that dog ran, he heard that gingerbread man call out. All right, everyone, are you ready? He said, run, run as fast as you can. All together now. You can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man. Mom, the dog, both chased the gingerbread man down the road when Duck came by and saw the spectacle. He took a big sniff and he also wanted to eat that delicious smelling gingerbread man. So he decided to waddle after them. Can you guys give me a big waddle? Here we go. Waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle. And as he waddled, he heard that gingerbread man call out. Here we go, everyone. Run, run, run, as fast as you can, all together. You can't catch me, I'm a gingerbread man. Well now, Mom, Dog, Duck, and little Liam raced after him down the road when little Liam down the street saw, them doing all of this while he was riding his bike. And he said, hmm, I'm fast when I ride my bike. I bet I can catch him. Come on, everyone. Let's get on our bikes and we'll pedal after them. Ready? Pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal. Ride your bike, ride your bike, ride your bike. Pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal. But Liam was no match for that gingerbread man and he heard him call out, Run, run, as fast as you can, all together now. You can't catch me, I'm a gingerbread man. Now mom, dog, duck, and little Liam continued to chase after him down the road into the field where horse was. Horse was grazing, so let's bend our neck and pretend to eat the grass in the field. Hum, hum, hum, hum, hum. Um, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch. When the gingerbread man flew by, the horse took a really big sniff. Give me a big... Oh, that gingerbread man smelled delicious. I'm super fast. I can absolutely catch him. So, we'll gallop like the horse. Here we go. Gallop, gallop, gallop, gallop, gallop, gallop, gallop. Whoa! Oh, he was still no match for that gingerbread man. And he called out. Run, run, as fast as you can, all together. You can't catch me, I'm a gingerbread man. Now, Mom, Dog, Duck, Lamb, and Horse all raced as fast as they could to catch them, but they were still not fast enough. Just as they crossed a bridge leading into the forest, they passed by sweet Amelia. She was riding her new scooter. I bet I can catch that gingerbread man, she said. I'm super fast on my scooter. Quick, everyone, let's put on our helmets. Put it on, protect those cute little noggins. Click, click. All right, hold up your hands on those scooter bars in front of you. Place one foot on the board and use the other foot to scoot. Here we go. Scoot, scoot, scoot, scoot, race. Go, go, go, go. Scoot, scoot, scoot, scoot, scoot, scoot. We still can't catch the gingerbread man. So the gingerbread man calls out. Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the... Gingerbread man. Meanwhile, back at the house, Sally and Sam had a better idea. Instead of chasing that pesky, fast gingerbread man through the forest, they thought they had to give him a reason to stop running. They thought long and hard and used their brains to think of a solution. Hmm. Hmm. Sam stood up and said, I got it. Come on, let's get to work. Together, we'll pull out another big bowl. And we'll measure. Take out those measuring cups. Let's pour it in and get ready to mix. Mix, mix, mix, mix. And roll out some fresh dough. Grab those rolling pins. Let's push. Forward and back. Forward, back, and roll. All right. Now open up the oven and place it inside. This time we'll wait the full 15 minutes and not peak. Here we go. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Ding! 15 minutes went by. Time is up. Sally and Sam gathered up their surprise from the oven and put it in their arms and took a shortcut and went through the woods. Here we go. Can we take a little walk? Can you hold your big bundle of surprise in your arms? Take a walk, walk, walk, walk. When they finally found a shady spot in the. Gingerbread friend and beautiful gingerbread house down on the ground. Oh my goodness, what a great idea. They made a little gingerbread friend and the cutest little house. Then they hid behind a tree. Come on, let's tiptoe.

Grayson struggles to find the perfect Valentine until he creates unique cards that match each classmate’s favorite things, turning a classroom activity into a celebration of individuality and friendship. The episode is interactive and playful, featuring movement prompts and ends with a simple craft idea: make a card for someone you love to show you notice and care about what makes them special.

Join Marvin and Martha in a playful retelling of "The Elves and the Shoemaker," where tiny elves craft a rainbow of magical shoes that make the wearers skip, kick, jump, spin, skate, walk backwards, dance, and go wild. This interactive episode invites listeners to move along with each color’s special action and ends with a fun memory game to match colors to movements.