The Monkey and the Ice Skates/Tissues (feat. Paul Scheer)

Illustration by Camilla Franklin

Illustration by Camilla Franklin

Podcast Bonus

The story “Tissues” is based on a poem by an 8-year-old named Noah from Massachusetts. Writing a poem is fun because you can get extremely weird and creative about how you use words. In this week’s bonus activity, creators can write their own poems and describe something in an unexpected way.

Listen to the episode then scroll down for activities!

Creator Club Coloring

Our incredible designer, Camilla Franklin, illustrates one of the stories from each podcast episode. This week, we wanted to provide Creator Club members with a coloring activity based on her illustration for "Tissues!" Hopefully, this will provide a fun bonus activity for your creators to enjoy while listening to the episode! 

Beautiful Trash

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The story “Tissues” is based on a poem by an 8-year-old named Noah from Massachusetts (Click the picture of the original poem to view the full-size image). Writing a poem is fun because you can get extremely weird and creative about how you use words. In Noah's poem, there is a character (a tissue) who loves something that most people find gross: the trash! As Noah wrote: "I want to be in the beautiful trash."

"Beautiful trash!" That's the kind of unexpected word combo that poems were made for! In this week's activity, creators can write their own poems and describe something in an unexpected way.

Grownups, scroll down to share your creators’ poems via the form below!

Fun Crazy Weird Hair Store/The Mountain Fart (feat. Robin Lord Taylor)

Illustration by Camilla Franklin

Illustration by Camilla Franklin

Podcast Bonus

“Fun Crazy Weird Hair Store” is a song about silly options for hairstyles adapted from a story by 9-year-old Sylvia from New Jersey. We want Creator Club Members to help us picture what these hairstyles look like!

Listen to the episode then scroll down for Creator Club exclusive activities!

Creator Club Coloring

Our incredible designer, Camilla Franklin, illustrates one of the stories from each podcast episode. This week, we wanted to provide Creator Club members with a coloring activity based on her illustration for "Fun Crazy Weird Hair Store!" Hopefully, this will provide a fun bonus activity for your creators to enjoy while listening to the episode! 

Word Salon Menu

In the song “Fun Crazy Weird Hair Store,” based on a story by a kid named Sylvia from New Jersey, there is a salon with a menu of options for hairstyles that are all super silly. It sounds like a place we definitely want to go, but we can’t picture what the hairstyles look like! Download the activity sheet to help us be even more descriptive with a Word Salon Menu! Grownups can share wacky hairstyle creations via the form below!

Humming/Time Trap

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Podcast Bonus

In “Humming/Time Trap,” the Story Pirates adapted two new stories: “Humming,” a song about a simple habit that snowballs into a worldwide trend, by Emily, an 11 year old from Texas, and “Time Trap,” a story about two siblings who travel to some very surprising epochs, by an 8 year old from Oregon named Jaeger.

Listen to the episode then scroll down for Creator Club exclusive activities based on the stories!

Creator Club Coloring

Our incredible designer, Camilla Franklin, illustrates one of the stories from each podcast episode. This week, we wanted to provide Creator Club members with a coloring activity based on her illustration for "Humming!" Hopefully, this will provide a fun bonus activity for your creators to enjoy while listening to the episode! 

Invent a Time Machine

In the story "Time Trap," by Jaeger, two kids discover a time portal in their closet, and use it to travel to the past and the future.

If you could travel through time, how do YOU imagine it would happen? Would you find something mysterious and unexpected, like a portal in a closet? Would you invent a vehicle to travel in, that looks a like a car, or a spaceship? Maybe you'd invent a big machine with lots of dials and levers and gadgets attached? Or would you prefer something extremely weird that nobody has thought of before? Could it be an animal, or plant, or imaginary creature that helps you travel through time? Could it be a donut???

When you get an idea, draw it and label the most important features! Find an example in the activity sheet, and parents can submit creations in the form below!