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. 

This episode is part of January's storytelling prompt featured online at Tulip Tree Tales. 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.

A children's story about an unlikely friendship between a busy, fast-growing root and a seemingly unmovable rock. This story is part of a storytelling series published each month at www.tuliptreetales.com.