DrawMe A Story Series

DrawMe A Story Series

A "Fine Arts" approach to reading and literature. Painters, artists, sketchers, and crafters use their unique talents to bring color and motion to a fascinating collection of familiar children's stories from around the world. Draw Me A Story is being used in primary classrooms across the nation. Encourage your child to draw a story. They can add words as their literacy progresses.
200712 épisodes7+
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  1. S. 1 ÉP. 1 - The Three Little Pigs

    1 janvier 2007
    8 min
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    Voice-over narration, thematic music and the artist's hand combine to bring this classic tale to colorful life. Max wants to play ball with his father, but his father has to finish his work first. To teach Max that he should never put off until tomorrow what he can do today, he tells him the classic story of the Three Little Pigs. Moral of the story: sloth never pays off. (Watercolors)
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  2. S. 1 ÉP. 2 - Cinderella

    1 janvier 2007
    8 min
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    Voice-over narration, thematic music and the artist's hand combine to bring this classic tale to colorful life. Poor Cinderella is treated like a maid by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters. One day her Fairy Godmother appears and with a wave of her magic wand allows Cinderella to go to the ball where she meets the Prince. Spoiler alert- all's well that ends well. (Mixed Media)
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  3. S. 1 ÉP. 3 - The Brave Little Tailor

    1 janvier 2007
    8 min
    7+
    Voice-over narration, thematic music and the artist's hand combine to bring this classic tale to colorful life. A tailor who kills seven flies with one stroke outwits the king, winning half the kingdom and the king's daughter's hand in marriage. He proves that to become a king it is more important to be smart than strong. Colored Chalk)
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  4. S. 1 ÉP. 4 - The Great Race

    1 janvier 2007
    8 min
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    Voice-over narration, thematic music and the artist's hand combine to bring this classic tale to colorful life. Based on Aesop's popular fable The Tortoise and the Hare, Pepa the turtle, annoyed by the mocking tone of the ill-mannered hare, challenges her to a race. In the end the arrogant hare pays for the mistake of being overly confident and loses the race. (Watercolors)
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  5. S. 1 ÉP. 5 - Goldilocks

    1 janvier 2007
    7 min
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    Voice-over narration, thematic music and the artist's hand combine to bring this classic tale to colorful life. Goldilocks goes out for a walk in the forest and comes across a pretty cabin. Being a curious young girl, she enters the house and makes herself right at home, but she is in for quite a surprise when the three bears return home and find her sleeping in Baby Bear's bed. (Oil & Ink)
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  6. S. 1 ÉP. 6 - Tiny Tom

    1 janvier 2007
    8 min
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    Voice-over narration, thematic music and the artist's hand combine to bring this classic tale to colorful life. Tiny Tom, who was as tiny as a grain of rice, always sang to avoid being stepped on. One day he took his father's lunch to him at work. Tom was soon swallowed alive by a hungry cow. Not to worry. He'd soon fly out safe and sound as the cow passed gas. (Construction Paper Cut-outs)
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  7. S. 1 ÉP. 7 - The Pied Piper Of Hamelin

    1 janvier 2007
    7 min
    NC
    Voice-over narration, thematic music and the artist's hand combine to bring this classic tale to colorful life. The Pied Piper is hired to rid a town of rodents. He plays a magical, sad tune on his pipes and leads all the rats into the river. But the Mayor refuses to pay, so now the Piper plays a very cheerful tune on his pipes luring away all the boys and girls. (Color Transparencies)
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  8. S. 1 ÉP. 8 - The Tin Soldier

    1 janvier 2007
    8 min
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    Voice-over narration, thematic music and the artist's hand combine to bring this classic tale to colorful life. For Christmas Margaret's Granddad gives her the figures of a ballerina and a one-legged tin soldier joined together on a base shaped like a heart and tells her the story of how they became united forever. It is a story of love and bravery. (Molding Clay)
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  9. S. 1 ÉP. 9 - The Emperor's New Clothes

    1 janvier 2007
    8 min
    NC
    Voice-over narration, thematic music and the artist's hand combine to bring this classic tale to colorful life. The Emperor of a far-off kingdom had a reputation for being very vain. "Famous" tailors make him a suit from the most beautiful cloth in the world, which is invisible to the eyes of the stupid. Two sincere children show the king he had been miserably duped. (Paints & Watercolors)
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  10. S. 1 ÉP. 10 - Little Red Riding Hood

    1 janvier 2007
    7 min
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    Voice-over narration and the artist's hand combine to bring this classic tale to colorful life. Little Red Riding Hood goes off to take cakes and honey to her grandmother. A hunter must save her after a wolf tricks her and then eats her. Little Red Riding Hood promises never to talk to strangers again. (Mixed Media)
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  11. S. 1 ÉP. 11 - The Little Fir Tree

    1 janvier 2007
    9 min
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    Voice-over narration and the artist's hand combine to bring this classic tale to colorful life. The tall fir tree standing in Sergi's yard is all decorated for Christmas. When Sergi's ball gets stuck in the top branches of the tree, the tree comes to life and tells the children the story of how when he was only five, his dream came true: he became a Christmas tree. (Colored Ink & Pen)
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  12. S. 1 ÉP. 12 - Caroline And The Yule Log

    1 janvier 2007
    8 min
    NC
    Voice-over narration and the artist's hand combine to bring this classic tale to colorful life. In this story, curious Caroline creeps inside the hollow Yule Log intent on finding out the mystery of where Christmas presents come from and gets herself into trouble for going where she shouldn't. There she befriends another prisoner, the ogre Ot, and together they make their escape. (Mixed Crafts)
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