Once Upon A Story

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.