Storybox Playlist: How To Have a Screen Light Summer

“Screen Free” and “Screen Light” are new phrases to the modern family lexicon. Before phones, watches, cars and music players all added screens to the interface, a screen was located in a particular place and used at a particular time. Now that they are everywhere we go, families are deciding how much “Screen time” is appropriate. Here are some stories that can help children put the screens away and do something else!

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Martin & Sylvia: Day of Rest

Month Eight: Sharing the Day

The family suddenly have an opportunity to share their Day of Rest with friends who are genuinely interested in what they are creating.

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23 MINUTES

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Martin & Sylvia: Saturdays!

Three Little Fairy Houses

Inspired by the “Three Little Pigs” story, Martin and Sylvia try to make different kinds of fairy houses to weather a storm.

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19 MINUTES

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By Thistle By Thimble

Times Gone By

Michael, a history teacher, loves the Old American West, and decides to take his daughter Linny on a trip to “times gone by”…

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29 MINUTES

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How to Be Super: The Violet Crown (Book One)

Part Six: The Message Boards

Dante finally connects with one of his new friends and learns about the mysterious “Old Ones”, along with some history about the Violet…

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27 MINUTES

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At Home with Martin & Sylvia

Backyard Water Park

Martin & Sylvia create their own backyard water park to cool off from the heat.

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18 MINUTES

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  • David Sewell McCann

    David Sewell McCann

    Story Spinner

    David Sewell McCann fell in love with spinning stories in first grade – the day a storyteller came to his class and captured his mind and imagination. He has been engaged in storytelling all of his adult life through painting, film-making, teaching and performing. Out of his experience as a Waldorf elementary class teacher and parent, he has developed a four step method of intuitive storytelling, which he now shares through workshops and through this website.