Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!

Periwinkle was a cloud, but not just any cloud. She was a grumpy cloud. All the other clouds floated around, happily making gentle rain that helped the flowers grow. Periwinkle, however, wanted to rain something special. She wanted to rain confetti. Shimmering, colorful, wonderful confetti.

The other clouds would shake their fluffy heads at her. "You can't rain confetti, Periwinkle," they'd say. "It's not what clouds do." But Periwinkle didn't care. She tried to collect glitter from the stars and bits of rainbow from the sky, but all she ever managed to produce was a few sad sprinkles of drizzle. She was so frustrated that her grumbles sounded like thunder.

One day, a little bird with a bright blue feather named Pip flew up to her. He looked sad. "What's wrong, little bird?" Periwinkle grumbled.

"My nest is so boring," Pip chirped. "I wish it had more color."

Periwinkle looked down at the tiny nest. It was just a few twigs and some grass. She thought for a moment. She couldn't rain confetti, she knew that now. But she could do something else. She took a deep breath, and with a mighty huff and puff, she released all the colorful bits she had collected. It wasn't confetti, but it was the next best thing.

Out of Periwinkle, not raindrops, but little bits of brightly colored flowers, leaves, and tiny specks of rainbow dust drifted down. The little bird's nest was transformed into a beautiful, vibrant masterpiece. Pip chirped with joy. Periwinkle wasn't a confetti cloud, but she was a helpful, creative, and very kind cloud. She realized that even though she couldn't do exactly what she wanted, she could still use her unique grumpy-cloud powers to make someone else happy. From that day on, Periwinkle learned to love being a cloud who rained little bits of colorful wonder, and she was a little less grumpy, too.