Stories

Current Stories Available from The Little Storytelling Company

Ultimate Aliens

A story for older children (7yrs and upwards). We blast off to study a planet of aliens. The aliens have different adaptations to help them survive on the planet. The performance is designed to teach children about evolution, natural selection and inheritance in a fun way!

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The Story of Mary Anning

A story for older children (5yrs and upwards) about the most famous fossil hunter who ever lived. The children get to discover how fossils are made, go fossil hunting on a beach and discover a huge ichthyosaurus fossil! We find out how Mary’s finds influenced Charles Darwin’s ‘Theory of Evolution’.

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My career working with DNA

The story of a trainee sorcerer who is not very good. He tries to speed up a task with disastrous consequences! The performance includes lots of magic and a real bubbling cauldron. The experiments include ‘rainbow milk’ (exploiting the use of surface tension to make a rainbow), the use of magnets to collect some escaped birds, ‘lava lamps’ and colour changing liquids (acids and alkalis) (suitable for 3 – 9 years).

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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The story of a trainee sorcerer who is not very good. He tries to speed up a task with disastrous consequences! The performance includes lots of magic and a real bubbling cauldron. The experiments include ‘rainbow milk’ (exploiting the use of surface tension to make a rainbow), the use of magnets to collect some escaped birds, ‘lava lamps’ and colour changing liquids (acids and alkalis) (suitable for 3 – 9 years).

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The Story of the Easter Bunny

The story of where the Easter Bunny comes from. There are some great costumes and characters for the children to play, lots of experiments with eggs and of course a basket of chocolate eggs for the children to eat at the end. The experiments include floating eggs, using air pressure to suck an egg into a flask and a fold up egg created using vinegar (suitable for 3 – 9 years).

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The Story of the Tooth Fairy

A story designed to encourage children to look after their teeth. There is a trip to tooth fairy land to see the jobs the fairies do, a yeast and sugar experiment to demonstrate the effect sugar has on creating an acid which attacks the teeth, a flying fairy and a tooth brushing song with a mouth puppet (suitable for 2 – 9 years).

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A Pirate Adventure

The story starts with the discovery of a treasure map. There is a pirate ship, a gang plank, lots of songs to join in with and a number mental, physical and numerical challenges the children have to complete to find the treasure. The science in this story includes the use of colour changing liquids (acids/alkalis), electricity, magnets and floating/sinking to solve the clues (suitable for 2 – 10 years).

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The Little Christmas Tree

The magical story of the little fir tree who wants to know what it is like to be a real Christmas Tree. Includes lots of sparkly lights, mugs of hot chocolate, watching snow being made, an experiment to change Rudolf’s nose red and decorating a Christmas tree (suitable for 2 – 9 years).

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Hansel and Gretel

This is the classic tale and involves a house made of sweets, a witch and birds which eat the bread trail set by the children. There are fantastic experiments including invisible writing, a foaming pumpkin and a fizzing eyeball (suitable for 3 – 9 years).

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The Nutcracker

A really fantastic story of Clara and the Nutcracker. It will include a battle of the mouse king, a trip to the land of sweets and a very special dance from the Sugar Plum fairy. Also an experiment to make tinsel, watching snow being made and turning Rudolf’s nose red (suitable for 2 – 9 years).

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A Rainy Day

A story about a child who goes out in the rain and makes some amazing discoveries! Including splashing in puddles, watching wilted flowers come alive, lots of action songs, a rainbow, snail racing, singing birds, worms and a cloud in a bottle experiment (suitable for 2 – 8 years).

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The Gingerbread Man

A gorgeous puppet show where the children help the old lady cook a gingerbread man. The children meet the different characters as the Gingerbread man tries to run away and join in his ‘run, run as fast as you can’ song (suitable for 2 – 7 years).

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On the Seashore (Maximum 12 children)

A lovely summer story about a hermit crab and a rock pool. The children create their own rock pools as the story proceeds with a hermit crab, fish, seaweed and shells. They also get to meet a puppet hermit crab and feed him some mussel shells (suitable for 2 – 8 years).

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Aha Aho Tracks in the Snow

A story based on the Gruffalo’s child. The children see snow being made as they venture into the deep dark wood. They meet strange creatures and encounter the big bad mouse! Lots of fantastic interactive songs to join in with, a walk in the woods and lots of fun in this action packed adventure! (suitable for 3 – 9 yrs)

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The Light House Keeper and his lunch

A story based on a light house keeper who is having a problem getting his lunch because of the seagulls. The children help make his sandwiches and help solve the problem. Lots of songs, interaction, rockets, hot air balloons and pulleys (suitable for 3yrs – 8yrs).

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