Youth Activity Archive

The week after Taffy and her Daddy, Tegumai, made their picture-letter mistake, they went back to the river to fish. While Tegumai scratched marks on birch bark with a shark’s tooth, Taffy had a new idea. She wanted to make a “secret surprise” using noises.

Once upon a very early time, people lived in caves. There was a man named Tegumai. He was a man who never hurried. There was a woman named Teshumai. She was a lady who asked many questions. And there was a little girl named Taffy. She was a small person who sometimes forgot her manners.

Long ago there lived a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and a Slow-Solid Tortoise. They lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon river. There also lived a Painted Jaguar. He was young, beautiful, and very hungry.

Long ago, the Kangaroo was not as we see him now. He was a different animal with four short legs. He was grey, he was woolly, and he was very, very proud.

In the High and Far-Off Times, the Elephant, had no trunk. He only had a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side. He couldn’t pick anything up with it.

In the days when the world was brand new, the Leopard lived in a place called the High Veldt. The Leopard was the sandiest-yellowest-brownest cat you ever did see. He matched the rocks and the grass so well that he could hide just by sitting still.

Once upon a time, on a lonely island, there lived a baker who wore a very shiny hat. One day, he made a giant, wonderful cake… But just as he was about to take a bite, a Rhinoceros with very bad manners came out of the jungle.

A long time ago, when the world was brand new, the animals were just starting to work with the people. But there was one Camel who was very lazy.

Long ago, the Whale ate everything he could find in the sea. He ate the big fish and the small fish.