Story Extras
Delve deeper into the world of Sparkle Stories with Story Extras. From character spotlights to cheat sheets, story calendars, and more, uncover bonus content and behind-the-scenes insights to enhance your storytelling experience.
Read Aloud Bedtime Stories for Kids: 3 Printable Scripts
We’ve gathered three of our all-time favorite Sleepytime stories and transcribed them for your reading pleasure. You’ll find the free downloadable story scripts for each below, so that you can bring some Sparkle to your read-aloud moments!
The August Audio Story Calendar
Our handy August calendar will sparkle up your month with delight, whether you're soaking up your last summer days or gearing up for school. It's all loads of fun with Sparkle Stories!
The Thebes Quiz
Are you ready for a fun and engaging quiz? We've put together a fantastic quiz inspired by the thrilling story "Episode 13: Thebes." It's designed to test your knowledge and spark your imagination. Let the "Thebes" quiz begin!
The June Story Calendar Is Here!
In this free printable you will find a featured story for each week, a playlist of associated stories to dig deeper, and a special craft, tutorial, or recipe highlighted each week; PLUS a story script for you to read at home with your little ones (so you can try out all the voices and characters just like we do).
Let's Find Your Superpowers! Printables & Activities
We've pulled some of the best exercises from our original How To Be Super course to help you and your children become super!
The July Story Calendar Is Here!
In this free printable you will find a featured story for each week, a playlist of associated stories to dig deeper, and a special craft, tutorial, or recipe highlighted each week; PLUS a story script for you to read at home with your little ones (so you can try out all the voices and characters just like we do).
Our Favorite Sparkle Moms and Why We Love Them
In Sparkle Land, we love to honor mothers and all of those who “mother” us in our hearts, even if they aren’t strictly related to us. These Sparkle mothers have inspired us to do the best we can in our lives — and we hope you receive that encouragement from them too!
The Castlechanter Fairy Printable Advent Calendar
Take a peek at our printable Castlechanter Fairy Advent Calendar. The fairies and elves here at Sparkle have been hard at work creating this Sparkle Audio Advent Calendar. Each day, starting from December 1 through 25, listen to a story a day and open a door to go along.
Meet "Libby & Dish"
We've created three sweet stories to introduce the characters in their urban world. Would you like to have a taste?
Meet the How To Be Super Characters!
There are now five How To Be Super collections in our library and each one is a giant adventure! Many characters thread throughout all of them. We've made a list so you can keep track.
Meet Martin & Sylvia!
We've gathered some fun facts about Martin and Sylvia to help your get to know them a little better.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "Weathering the Storm"
Our Dry Gables friends show us how to live in community with compassion, gratitude, and love.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "For the People"
In this post, we are focusing on the story “For the People.” Below you will see how the three main characters illustrate three unique ways to live in community.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - “This is Our Moment”
The stories in this collection, Dry Gables: Good Neighbors, give us insights into how we resolve conflict and strive to get our needs met — and what we do when they are not met.
Sparkle Weekly Wondering: Dry Gables - Good Neighbors
Today we launch a third Dry Gables collection: “Good Neighbors.”
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "Get It Done!"
The Enneagram is a complex and meaningful model of human personality. It offers us a road map in helping us to identify who we are at our best and what blocks us from a place of happiness and greater ease. Here we explore it through one of our own Sparkle Stories collections.
Dry Gables: The Stories and How to Use Them
Dry Gables is a unique series of stories centered around the people who live and work in a Victorian era small town in South Dakota. Each of the nine characters embodies a way of being in the world — with unique behaviors, motivations, and fears.
FIFTY Study Page: West Virginia "Follow Your Own Noon"
This story from the FIFTY collection uses historical fiction to explore the history of Coal and Electric Power in the Appalachian part of the country.
May Tips for Creating a Day of Rest
The carpe diem spirit that comes with the spring can be a glorious thing, full of possibility and joy and long-awaited plans. But with it can also be found a shadow side of stinginess, a desperate clinging to the opportunities that come with fine weather and a determination to pursue one’s own vision of a perfect spring day at all costs.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "All In"
Greetings, Sparkle Friends! Glad you are here to get comfortable with me while we spend some time with Dry Gables’ baker, Marta Bauer.
