Sparkle Stories Blog

In the *Martin & Sylvia: Saturdays!* story “Sock Puppets,” Martin and Sylvia’s babysitter Ellie has a great idea for what to do with a bunch of old single socks - sock puppets!

Here's a fun printable project page for summer! This sand castle is for you to color and decorate with your own ideas. (We’ve added some suggestions along the edge!)

Do you want to rearrange your room? Make a map of the kitchen? Create your own tent tiny house? Use this printable to guide you. Here is the tent drawing our Sparkle Characters created, along with other possible blueprint maps that you could draw.

If you can do a basic braid, you can make a wildflower braid too! Pick flowers with long stems. Just follow the directions from this fun 'Saturdays!' Printable.

Here is a page to help you plan your own story performance — whether it is in your downtown park or your kitchen!

Free Printable Project Page! If you would like to create your own team name and uniform, start with something that delights you. Then use the template above to design your own logo.

Kids can use this printable to plan a fun playdate that combines all their favorite ideas to make a "Let's Do Everything!" map.

This fun printable is inspired by the Martin & Sylvia story, "Explorer Pig". Draw your own cartoon of “Explorer Pig” in the printable boxes. What adventures does your little piglet go on?

Here are some of the vegetables in Martin and Sylvia’s “rainbow kabobs”. Color them, and them draw your own colorful fruits and vegetables!

Download this printable to help identify a few plants you can find in your own backyard that you can use to make pretend healing teas and tinctures from plants.