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.